Re: Gomberg agreement

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

As far as I'm concerned, the time for discussion on this is past.  I agree
that if we were going to do this at all, we are better off with all of them
in our hands.  But one way or another, it's done now.

I think another sales source that we have not utilized is Lee Finley.  He is
at ALL the bigger east coast conventions, and also travels to other areas.
He is well known as a source of aquatic literature.  I am suspect he would
happily sell them on a consignment basis for us.

This does a couple of things it gets them into the hands of general
aquarists who might very well have never heard of PAM, AGA or APD.  And
there is an ad for AGA in almost every issue.  I think in the long run, this
is a good investment for us AND for the hobby.

Karen

----- Original Message -----
From: "David VillaSunscape" <davidlass@villasunscape.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Gomberg agreement


> Besides -- I did not want a situation where Dave was left with PAMs that
he
> would then have to try and sell in competition with AGA.
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
> To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Gomberg agreement
>
>
> > I wrote:
> > > >> Woah, how many is that?  I thought he printed like 1000-2000 copies
> of
> > > >> each?  Did we just agree to give him $10,000 or so?
> >
> > David wrote:
> > > >By the time we get done with getting PAMs for each 3 months of AGA
> > > >membership we give his unexpired subscribers there should be around
> 3,000
> > > >PAMs left.
> >
> > Neil wrote:
> > > Like Erik, I am concerned about getting the large number of PAMs. I am
> > > definitely not confident that we will be able to sell 3,000 extra
PAMS.
> > > Even though we have the money in the treasury, I do not support making
> this
> > > $6K investment. This is in addition to a loss of AGA dues income of at
> > > least $1K because of the arrangement to extend memberships.
> > >
> > > Let's review the original Nov 19 motion:
> > ....
> > > purchase
> > > additional copies of PAM, up to a total number of 2000 inclusive of
the
> > > exchange copies, for a per issue price not to exceed $2
> >
> > Actually, I'm OK with David's response.  I don't see much difference
> > between 2000 and 3000 extra copies ($4k vs. $6k).  I was more worried
that
> > we'd have something like $10-15k and 7000 copies sitting in someone's
> > garage. And of course, we only really need to sell about 1200 PAMs to
> > break even for the 3000 we are purchasing.  I'm not going to quibble
about
> > an additional $2000 here.  Hopefully we are going to get the remaining
60
> > copies of Issue 2 so we can sell all eight as a set to the first 60
lucky
> > buyers... (see, that's 400 right there, 1/3 of our break-even).
> >
> >    - Erik
> >
> > --
> > Erik Olson
> > erik at thekrib dot com
> >
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