Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships

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

The original thinking (keeping Canadian and Mexican rates the same as those 
for US members) was that we had about the same amount of US & Canadian 
involvement in the very beginning, and it didn't seem fair to charge the 
Canadians more, just because the decision was made to print/mail TAG from 
the U.S.  Somehow, Mexicao go included at the same time, though the 
reasoning behind that is lost on me at this point.<g>  The cast difference 
between mailing to the U.S., Canada & Mexico was all close enough that even 
though Canada & Mexico were a LITTLE more, the extra was still easily 
covered by dues when we were publishing in B&W.  Mailing to countries beyond 
those three clearly brought the costs higher than what normal dues would 
cover, which is why those rates were set higher.

I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other on what we should do, but 
thought you young'uns should know the history.

Karen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships


> Normally, I'd say move up the Mexico & Canada rates and drop the foreign 
> rates to bring everything more in line with actual costs. However, since 
> the numbers of Mexican and Candian members is small, for ease and 
> convenience of accounting, lets leave them as caharged as locals.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:22:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships
>
>
> Perhaps one can view the Mexico/Canada thing similar to how I view
> international DVD sales.  I don't charge any foreign shipping.  Period.
> To mail a domestic DVD, it costs me 87 cents now.  Foreign, usually about
> $2.70.  But I don't want to bother with all the different rates, so the US
> sales subsidise/bring in a little more.  It all works out fine in the end.
>
> I think the foreign rates were set so that we didn't lose money, and
> that's all.  I think at the time we were concerned with recent issues over
> Bookstore rates, which WERE losing us money on each sale.  So we made sure
> we were covered, but that's all.
>
> I'm OK with dropping the foreign rates, as long as we don't have to raise
> *both* of them back up in the next year or so.  Or should we raise the
> US/Canada/Mexico rates up by a buck or so?  I'm cool either way.
>
>   - Erik
>
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
>
>> You didn't really misunderstand, because I didn't bring that part up
>> before. I was ignoring the Mexicans and Canadians because they are
>> charged the same as US members, but the mailing cost is figured as
>> foreign. Since it's not itemized by country, there's really no way for
>> me to figure that out. So I ignored it.
>>
>> I guess I have to give my propeller back. :-(
>>
>> Cheryl
>>
>>
>>
>> Karen Randall wrote:
>>> I misunderstood.  I thought you said we were making SOME money on all of
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com>
>>> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships
>>>
>>>
>>>> One more interesting point to note that if we don't ignore the 
>>>> Canadians
>>>> and the Mexicans, we are LOSING $0.27 on each one-year membership, and
>>>> more on discounted multi-year memberships.
>>>>
>>>> Which is fine with me as long as overall, TAG is holding its own.
>>>>
>>>> Cheryl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> S. Hieber wrote:
>>>>> Wel that's the kind of cracker jack financial analysis we pay that 
>>>>> darn
>>>>> treasurer for.
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