Re: AGA Bookstore reply

[Diana Walstad <dwalstad@bellsouth.net>]

> Dear AGAers,

    This is in response to my earlier letter about the bookstore.    Erik, I 
think what
you put on the web page is very funny.  It's perfect by me!
    As to the CD-ROMs, hey, I never thought to use them as coasters.  Not a bad 
idea.

Erik wrote earlier:

> Wow, so U didnt find them KOOL???!!
>
> (I must confess, the two that I managed to snag from Jan Bastmeier in New
> Jersey have basically sat unopened as coasters, waiting for when I have
> some time to play with them.  Jan thought they were nice.)
>
>     - Erik
>

Paul wrote:

> I am trying to think of reasons why AGA shouldn't sell books to nonmenbers
> even if nonmembers pay more than members.  The only one I can think of is
> that allowing nonmembers to purchase books might increase the workload on
> Diana Walstad, who is volunteering, of course, the time and effort.
> According to this argument, hard-to-get volunteer effort should be spent on
> members, not nonmembers.  Question:  If nonmembers were allowed to purchase
> books, would the frequency of orders go up a lot?

***I have been selling to non-members all along, because that was what Dave was 
doing.
What I did was use the old website formula (where non-members pay an extra $5) 
when I
asked Mary to update the TAG bookstore page.  Now I see that Dave must have 
made the
non-member offering on the website but not in TAG.  That makes sense since most 
people
that get TAG are already members.  Except for making the non-member offer in 
TAG, I just
went along with what he was doing.  Thus, if the AGA stops selling to 
non-members it will
be changing the policy that Dave operated on and which I have followed.
    Since we've been selling to non-members all along, my work load would not 
be increased
whatever the AGA decides.  However, once again, I would advocate that we 
promote aquatic
plants by making these books available to non-members.
    Paul, I must say I appreciate your concern for the workload being too much! 
 Thanks.

Diana


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