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Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA Contest Fee
Sure, I can answer this! We use the money for a variety of things:
1. 25 ribbons, CD-ROMs, the packaging to mail them, and the postage
itself... costs money. It costs even more to send stuff to Brazil and
Ukrane. At 70 entries, it barely breaks even.
2. Website hosting. The contest uses a boatload of bandwidth, far more
than the AGA site itself. And your entry STAYS on the website
indefinitely. We've still got the 2000 contest results up there, and
intend to keep it! This costs money as well. The entry fees help pay for
this.
3. Special unforseen circumstances. Last year we had Mr. Amano as a
judge, and probably will again in a future year. Mr. Amano did not wish
to judge the entries on the Internet, but insisted on
photographs. Well, *WE* think that it's better to see the entries "our"
way, with five photographs and reasonable size, instead of one 4x6" print,
so I spent a bit of effort creating glossy inkjet-printed
landscape letter pages with all five photos collaged (with the main one
splashed across 10" wide!). It cost us about $150 to print and mail this
to Japan.
These aren't reasons necessarily why we charge money, but they're kinda
relevant:
4. The contest is open to non-AGA members. We don't bug people to join.
5. The entry fee is pitifully small.
6. If you can't pay the entry fee (either by hardship, or because PayPal
won't talk to your country), there are a dozen
volunteers willing to pay the fee for you.
7. Not a cent of this goes to the hours spent on preparing the site,
programming, creating graphics, PR work, scanning and hand-typing the
ones that came in through the mail, correcting mistakes, cropping photos,
retyping plant names, etc etc.
- Erik
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
ScottMorris on The Planted Tank forum wants to know why you have to pay to
enter our contest. I think that's a fair question, but no one has answered. I
will be happy to answer, but I don't know what to tell him.
Cheryl
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