I agree that it makes sense to see what we can clear out by giving them away before throwing them away. I also agree that we should throw out the oldest ones first. As far as a Diana replacement, does anyone have any ideas other than Lee? Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@dustyuniverse.com> To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: no room for anymore TAGs] > Erik Olson wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Karen Randall wrote: >> >>> Do we know how many she actually has? Is she just whining, or are there >>> enormous quantities. (I recently saw an e-mail saying she was out of >>> something, so I thought we WERE eventually going through them) > > I have tried very hard to accommodate her every request. If she is > getting too many TAGs, it is because she asked for them and forgot that > she asked for them. In 2006, she requested more and more and more TAGs. > She was getting 50. She asked for more, I bumped it up to 80. She asked > for more, I bumped it up to 100. In 2007, she asked for less, I bumped > it down to 75. She claimed she had asked for 25. I called her on it. Now > she asked for zero and is THREATENING to mail them BACK if I send her > any. So once again I am going to accommodate her request and send her > zero. This is the last request I will accommodate from Diana. > >> >> I was working out a plan where instead of trying to conserve every issue, >> she would preferentially send out the oldest ones with the combos. That >> way, we'd end up being able to close out a full year, and start shipping >> them as part of the electronic archive. >> >> Problem is that we've got so darned many extras since we went color, > > The other problem is that Diana is unwilling to participate in any plan > that she did not come up with. > > Earlier this year she asked me to send her a box of TAGs, and then > complained when she got them two weeks later! > > that >> the only ones she's sold out of on this new approach are Volume 15, and >> the SECOND half of volume 16... plus one issue volume 18, and two issues >> of volume 19. > > We're not actually sold out of Volumes 19-1 and 19-2. I'm just refusing > to send them to her because I'm ticked. > >> We will probably NEVER sell out of some of these. > > She has ALL of the remaining 15's, 16's, 17's and most of the 18's. > > All I have left is the following, guestimated: > 18-2 15 > 18-3 40 > 19-1 20 > 19-2 100 > 19-3 50 > 19-4 100 > 20-2 100 > 20-3 100 > > Which means that we probably have too many of 2006 - 2007, but they ARE > the most recent issues. So I think Erik's plan is working reasonably well. > > I would rather offer the extra 19s free to local clubs before we resort > to recycling. And I don't think we should start recycling the color > issues until they are a couple of years old. > > Cheryl > _______________________________________________ > AGA-sc mailing list > AGA-sc@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc > _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc