Re: [AGA SC] T-Shirts

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Thing is, we didn't offer the books to the general membership like we're
planning to do with the T-shirts.  The books were designed as a
convention-only thing, available only on the convention page, and
delivered TO the convention.  

What I hear being suggested here is having the T-shirts available to the
general membership for $15 (which sounds great), but then ALSO being used
as a convention draw by offering them cheaper as part of convention
registrations (which I don't really understand -- they're not really
convention shirts, are they?).  I also have a problem with us (the board)
making decisions that are essentially part of the convention process, as
opposed to being in a support position.  Seems wrong to me. 

  - Erik

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, S. Hieber wrote:

> Simple is good. But if you'll indulge my wandering mind a
> little bit longer. . .
> 
> Putting aside the timing issue re early regs that Cheryl
> brought up, tshirts sales don't have to be any more
> complicated than buying a field trip along with reg. Or are
> you thinking that the books were a terrible pain last year.
> Seemed the biggest pain with those was trying to work to
> specific sized lots/cases, which shouldn't be an issue
> here.
> 
> Another way to go is to have thshirts for sale at the
> convention. AGA2K4 buys the shirts from AGA at cost
> (including any shipping) for the ones sold. The costs and
> revs of the shirts sold becomes part of convention net
> split with AGA. While we split revs on the shirts sold, we
> also split costs and it could boost thsirt sales. It's just
> working the product cross-marketing the other way around.
> 
> GWPA would have to be willing to set up a cashier for it.
> 
> 
> Any unsold shirts taken to AGA2K4 I could bring back and
> I'd be willing to ship those out as they are sold -- I'm
> betting it won't be as many as Ann will have to deal with.
> 
> Or, going back to simpler (possibly). What if we offer the
> shirts to AGA2K4 at cost, they do what they want with them
> and we're out of it except insofar as it affects the AGA2K4
> net?
> 
> Btw, I think GWAPA wants to do autographed copies of
> _Ecology. . ._  but they will handle the physical logistics
> without us.
> 
> sh
> 
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, S. Hieber wrote:
> > 
> > Paypal doesn't allow partial refunds.
> > 
> > Folks, let's just keep this simple!  I actually think we
> > should keep this 
> > completely apart from the convention regs.
> > 
> 
> 
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> S. Hieber
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