Re: Foreign Memberships

[Steven Olson <stevenkentolson@yahoo.com>]

I think it would be great to send bundles to other
countries with a group of subscribers.  Overseas rates
are so high and many countries have a far lower per
capita income than NorthAm.   If we can figure out a
way to deliver them cheaper it would be great to pass
that on in hopes more might be able to subscribe.

Steve Olson
USA
--- Karen Randall <krandall@world.std.com> wrote:
> 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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