Re: [AGA-sc] proposal for walk-in rate

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

What about charging them the $20 walk-in fee, but allowing them to put it 
toward membership... either new or renewal?  That only costs us the marginal 
cost of shipping TAG to them for a year. (assuming that we are still at a 
point that we are printing more mags than we actually use)

It seems to me that it would avoid some disgruntlement if it appears that 
theya re getting something for their money, and they MIGHT just remain 
members once they've been to a convention AND received TAG for a year.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] proposal for walk-in rate


> I'm a little confused by your reply, please clarify.
>
> You're saying you think we should drop the late fee entirely -- but do you
> mean online reg late fee after October 12, or walk-in fee?
>
> What about the idea of charging an extra $20 for walk-ins but dropping the
> membership requirement on the walk-ins?  i.e., it's basically the same
> deal, but it doesn't look like it from the walk-in's perspective.
>
>   - Erik
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, S. Hieber wrote:
>
>> Got it; we don't want to disuade or surprise the locals from these other 
>> clubs.
>>
>> I don't have a problem not charging extra and I don't even have a 
>> problem, in general, not requiring membership. Both will tend to reduce 
>> attendance some marginal amount and there isn't any clear boost in 
>> membership when we have the requirement -- membership hangs in there 
>> around 700-800, convention or no.
>>
>> As we've previously discussed, since we have been requiring membership 
>> for this convention, we can stop now. And since all regs have to be 
>> members, I don't see how treating some of them diff is fair. Imo, either 
>> everyone that is late (past the yet to be established cutoff date) is 
>> charged a late fee or no one is.
>>
>>
>> We haven't had a late charge posted - we could just skip it this year --  
>> or we could post it now and hope two or three weeks was enough for folks 
>> not to be unreasonably surprised.
>>
>>
>> I say forget the late charge -- it's too late, too complicated and we're 
>> hoping everyone avoids it anyhow.
>>
>> sh
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
>> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 6, 2006 10:22:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] proposal for walk-in rate
>>
>>
>> My concern is that this convention will have a higher ratio of walk-ins
>> from neighboring clubs than previous years.  I don't have THAT good a
>> connection with these clubs.  So far, they're all probably thinking they
>> can just walk in based on the info that has been relayed.
>>
>> This is different from the SFBAAPS guys who have been TOLD about (and
>> groused about) the requirements since day 1.
>>
>> What about if we raise it by $20 for walk-ins off the street and $10 for
>> walk-in AGA members?
>>
>> This is different from the auction and other stuff, because we have not
>> published ANYTHING about walk-in rates.  I'm also a little queasy about
>> raising the rates spontaneously on the site on the 12th, because again, 
>> no
>> warning.
>>
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