Now that I had a chance to look up in my archive of money files at home, I've determined that my original off-the-cuff estimate of the overheads was very low. The actual overheads for the last full year, on an allocated basis, are much higher, over $3 per one year TAG membership, or about $0.80 per issue based on 2005. So I revised the spreadsheet, cleaned up a few things, and added a couple columns to show the impact of the allcoated overheads and the 1-year pricing, actual and recommended. So, I'd recomend dropping about $5 per year off of the Foreign membership and adding $3 to the local. That doesn't quite balance things but it's much closer. sh S. Hieber wrote: > Try the attached done in Excel version 5 > > > I don't have a special problem with th$800 number. I think its a soft number > and I don't have any means tofirm it up so I addressed it only to say I > wasn't addressing it. How that for Friday morning tap dance ? ;-) > > > My feeling is that an item should pay its way, especially if it is the > mainstay heart and core product of the business. I'd rather we could just > lower prices all around. But I think the same fairness that says, lower the > foreign prices, says to raise the locals up to carrying their own weight. > We'v e been living high off the foreign members and the locals have been > sucking up some of that largesse. Time to button up the blouse, so to speak. > > I share your reluctance but I must follow where my propeller takes me, it > being atached an all. > > sh > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> > To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com> > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:33:00 PM > Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships > > > S. Hieber wrote: >> This is only a 1st draft and maybe I flubbed a cell reference > > I have an ancient version of Excel. Can you e-mail me one saved as an > older version or as a csv or something? > >> I'm not sure how the $800 per year number was derived > > Ummmm... guessing. Assumming that all the foreigners were on one-year > memberships and calculating the difference and rounding up. > >> It's been a few years since we increased, hasn't it? >> > > Since I started as membership chair in, say, January of 2003. > > I really *don't want* to increase the US membership prices. I'm not > adamantly against it, just reluctant. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc
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