If I may add a bit to Erik's remark re donated harware. As a practical matter,
the only thing we can do with donated products is get them shipped to the convention
and then auction them off, usually at a terrifically steep discount, which makes
their donated value rather insigificant. As a practical matter, any donated items
are not going to be mailed or shipped by the AGA to anyone because of the cost and
because, when the time comes, AGA will be very hard pressed to find anyone that
wants to handle the logistics -- and then there are the compalints that the package
didn't arrive or arrived damaged, or the delivery company required a signature and
no one was home, etc. The amount of follow-up can be significant -- more than any
can be provided by any volunteer.
The big exception here is all the plants that a certain company has graciously
donated to each of the last several conventions; those are not only valuable to
us but critical to the success of the convention auction.
But giving us hardware turns out to be like giving us buckets of sand.
sh
----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 11:26:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-Contest] Anyone want to run this year's contest?
Please no donations if possible. That was nothing but a headache. And
hopefully we'll be hitting the manufacturers up for a spring 2010 convention.
- Erik
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Phil Edwards wrote:
Bailin,
Are you looking for sponsors for the contest only or sponsors/donations
for something else as
well?
~Phil
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