Re: Foreign Memberships

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

What about----- pinning up a notice in a lfs or two?  in Harwich I mean

SH
--- "harwich8.freeserve.co.uk" <johnb@harwich8.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Karen, I'm from a place called Harwich on the north east cost of
> Essex in
> the uk ( about 70 miles north east of London) and would certainly
> like to
> support any initiative to get a subscription service going for the
> AGA
> magazines. Unfortunately, i dont know of any other hobbyists in my
> locality
> who might also wish to subscribe but i'm definitely interested.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>
> To: <aga-member@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 1:10 PM
> Subject: Foreign Memberships
> 
> 
> > I have been corresponding with one of our members in India who sent
> me a
> > bunch of photos on CD which he donated to the AGA.  He has a group
> of
> > friends in
> > Bangalore who are all interested in planted tanks.  He was not
> really
> > complaining, but telling me of the difficulties getting good
> information,
> > and up until recently, getting PAM and TAG.  (I guess that until
> recently,
> > the
> > Indian government had some strange law that you couldn't use credit
> cards
> > for subscriptions)
> >
> > Anyway, I was wondering if it made sense to offer some sort of deal
> to
> > groups in foreign countries, where if we could ship a certain
> number of
> > magazines to the same address, that we could offer them at a
> discounted
> > rate. (our current rate outside the U.S. has to be much higher
> because of
> > the added postage costs)
> >   I would think we'd save quite a bit on shipping that way, and we
> > could just pass the savings on to the members.
> >
> > It might be a "reason" for hobbyists in other areas of the world to
> become
> a
> > little more organized and develop more of a community as well.
> >
> > What do all you think?  Are some of the people on this list from
> outside
> the
> > U.S.?  Would you have enough people in your area interested in
> doing this?
> >
> > Karen
> >
> >
> >
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