Re: [AGA SC] Fwd: Reg Fees -- change horses?

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

Well, I didn't mean the LAST last minute... But probably as close as you can
get and still get reasonable palne fares.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA SC] Fwd: Reg Fees -- change horses?


> I think that's a very insightful assessment.
>
> With what we have so far, I'm very confident we will draw
> at least well and probably much better than last year. So
> I'm confident that we'll break even financially. So I thin
> we should let the price go up to $59 at 50.
>
> Btw, Those waiting for the last minute (actually the last
> week and a half) to register will have to pay $20 extra
> this year. And they might not get to buy  a Banq after Oct
> 31.
>
>
> sh
>
>
>
> --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> > I suspect that after an initial surge, registrations are
> > going to slow way
> > down.  Hopefully they will continue to trickle in over
> > the next few months.
> > But the fast response so far only means to me that these
> > people were already
> > waiting there, money in hand, for registrations to open
> > up.  Most of them
> > are not only NOT new members, but they are people who
> > have attended previous
> > concentions.  IOW, we're preaching to the choir.
> >
> > OTOH, I feel SLIGHTLY bad (not much, but slightly<g>)
> > that in all
> > likelihood, there are people who have not yet even seen
> > the notice that
> > registration is opne, who could miss their chance on the
> > discount.
> >
> > I guess I could easily be convinced not to extend the
> > discount at all.  BUT
> > if we did want to extend it, in the hopes of feeling a
> > little MORE secure by
> > getting the numbers as high as possible as early as
> > possible, you could do a
> > middle-of-the road thing, by extending it not by a
> > certain number of people,
> > but to a certain date. (say April 15, just for argument
> > sake)
> >
> > I do think that one thing tha will happen once the
> > discount period is over
> > is taht people will have NO incentive to register early,
> > and might,
> > therefore wait until the last minute.  Which probably
> > isn't the end of the
> > world... it has happened in the past.  But it makes for
> > more nervousness
> > among convention planners.<g>
> >
> > Karen
> >
>
>
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> S. Hieber
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