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

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

I don't think we should drop the membership requirement for AGA2K6 because 
we've had a membership requirement thus far for AGA2K6.

I don't want to charge a fee based on how a person arrives at the convention, 
walking, rickshaw, limo, goodyear blimp, whatever.

If we charge a late fee, we should charge it to everyone that is late. If you 
want the cutoff date to be Nov 9, that's fine. If you want to shut off the web 
registration on Nov 10, that's fine.

If we don't charge a late fee, that's fine too, so long as we don't charge it 
to everyone.

In any event we should not end or drop or reduce the registration fee for 
AGA2K6 from $59.

RE cutoffs oand reasons for them, the hotel has a cutoff date for banq count -- 
but it's reductions that are harder to deal with there than addtions.

sh

----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Friday, October 6, 2006 11:37:28 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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