Re: [AGA-mcm] AGA Contest Fee

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Good stuff. I been trying for quate a while to edit my post
by the friggin site keeps going out.


grrrrrrrr

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> 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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