Re: [AGA-sc] Fw: [AGA-conheads] Projections

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Folks that were SFBAAPS members didn't have to become AGA members to reg for 
the convention. This policy was the same as prior conventions. But we didn't 
want folks signing up with SFBAAPS just to get a cheap membership and reg for 
the convention, so there was a cut off date, after which and AGA membership is 
required to reg. The suggestion being made by Jim is that we allow newer 
members at SFBAAPS to reg without becoming AGA members. 

Actually, it could make sense for AGA short-term financially, as would dropping 
the membership requirement altogether for that matter. However, and it's a big 
however, some folks already got AGA members because they had to for the 
convention -- so there are refunds to consider and how do we adjudicate who 
merits a refund? It is possible that refunds could exceed the value of the 
additional regs we get -- who knows since there's no way to discern the 
appropriate amount of refudns. And another big however is that our policy on 
the membership requirement wasn't short-term financially based, so the 
arguments about possible short-term financial gains might not be particularly 
relevent.

I have to wonder if, $20 is a signifiant break point in the demand for 
convention regs -- undoubtedly the market is price sensitive. But if we wanted 
to use price sentitivity to increase regs it would probalby make more sense to 
drop the reg price to say $34 and still require membership rather than drop the 
cost for new SFBAAPS members only.

sh

----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 9:49:56 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Fw: [AGA-conheads] Projections


This is what I don't get. What is he talking about. SFBAAPS members were 
already grandfathered.

Cheryl

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