Re: [AGA-sc] noise pain n suffering reim question

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>]

S. Hieber wrote:
>  From a financial and accounting standpoint, the one doesn't follow from 
> the other.
>  
> The discount isn't a cost of the DVD; if the discount was offered, as 
> I'm now guessing, as a convention benefit, then it's a cost of the 
> convention. But this doesn't have to get complicated. Any reasonable 
> estimate is worthy, approximate value times estimated number of persons 
> that will acutally use the discount.

If one does not follow from the other then how can it track backward? 
I'm going to be bone-headed here and say that I still don't think this 
should be an AGA2K6 expense.

>  
> I missunderstood that the discount was a noise compensation. I 
> understand now that it is not.

Yes, we have already offered 10% discount on the DVD. I was suggesting 
offering an additional 5% discount as a noise compensation.

>  
> Have we offered the convention discount in prior years. I don't remember.

Sort of. In 2004, we pre-sold convention DVDs at the convention. The 
pre-sold DVDs got, I think the same "Special Convention Price!" as the 
other DVDs. We tend to knock $5 off everything at the convention for the 
"Special Convention Price!" For a $30 DVD, that's about 15%. This time 
we just offered a 10% discount incentive because pre-selling was more 
trouble than it was worth this year.

So while the discount is a perk for convention-goers, I wouldn't call it 
a convention expense. That just doesn't make sense to me.

Cheryl
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