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

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

OK, so you are saying that non-AGA members must pay $79 at the door, and 
this includes AGA membership.  Identical to registering today.

You are the treasurer and the one doing the budget, so I will defer to you 
on this issue.  I will also make sure to let the people doing the 
registration know to tell disgruntled people that "at least we didn't add 
a $20 late fee", and that perhaps will help smooth things over.

Issue closed.

   - Erik


On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, S. Hieber wrote:

> 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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