Re: Credit Card Charges

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

As I understood Bob's message though, the problem is that with under 15
transactions per month, they're clamping it at $15 minimum, right? Which
would seem to imply that we're paying a flat fee of $15 per month to have
the privelige of the Visa account whether we use it or not.  It might be
good to see (as opposed to percentages) actual numbers of our visa
expenditures.

If this is the case, then it would seem that further limiting credit card
purchases doesn't really solve any problems.  If we're under 15 credit
card memberships per month, it's as though 15 people used them.  Once we
go over 15 per month, we pay a dollar more for every person.  It sounds
like from what Bob was saying that we're getting about 4-5 people using
the service each month.  I guess what I'm saying is that you should look
at: 1) do you think these 4-5 people won't join if we take out the
service? 2) Are these 4-5 people allowing the society to break even on the
service + printing, etc?

Just some ideas..

  - Erik


On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Neil Frank wrote:

> I think it is very important to make it easy for  aquatic gardeners outside
> North America to pay dues in US dollars.
> If legal, I suggest we limit credit card purchases to members outside North
> America. This would not include US and Canada. I think that the higher
> membership fee for other countries adequately covers our expenses.
> 
> Neil
> 

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Erik D. Olson
erik at thekrib.com