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

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Reasonable.

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Karen Randall wrote:

> 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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