Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: [AGA-sc] Dave & PAM (fwd)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Larry Lampert wrote:

> part of our mission, I think giving Gomberg life
> status cheapens what has been done for Neil and
> Dorothy. I would not have a problem with not charging
> him dues but the "life member" status should be
> reserved for those who truly gave of themselves not
> for those who .....

Very interesting point.  This is why I want the discussions on this 
list!!!

That said, I'm not sure that it's quite the same thing.  In voting 
Neil and Dorothy as life members, it's something we will (I'm sure) 
mention in TAG and possibly on the website, as was mentioned when Jare was 
made a fellow right before he passed away.

If we view a life membership for Gomberg as a similar honorary thing, 
then in my opinion, Larry's analysis seems dead-on.  It's not appropriate.

Hmm, so OK, an alternative is to examine it as isntead a strictly 
financial decision, a life membership to a business in exchange for goods 
or services.  How much equivalent cash is it worth?  Maybe $200-300? 
Would we offer Dave $300 for all rights to PAM?  Would that help us sell 
$300 more in PAMs in our stock?  A suggestion I made (alas in that other 
more private list) was that if a deal were struck to have "free reign", 
one result, perhaps the ONLY result, might be bundling the two 
out-of-print issues as a CD along with the six remaining printed issues. 
To give an idea of scale, we sold around $1000 worth of PAM stuff last 
year, and maybe $1500 worth in 2003.  Would the addition of the two other 
issues in electronic form (one of which is already free on Gomberg's 
website) boost sales?  I don't really know.

  - Erik

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