[urq] I wish we had more members...

[Ed Kellock]

I fear that AoA is mistaking club members for enthusiasts... they are not
necessarily the same thing.  Those swelled membership numbers were likely a
function of new owners who were all charged up from the sales experience,
who lost interest by the time the first annual renewal came around and just
tossed it in the round file, hence the significant drop in numbers.  

I've come to accept that there will be no corporate-enthusiast link anywhere
near that which exists for Porsche, BMW, or Mercedes.

Ed
 


-----Original Message-----
From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf
Of Peter
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:55 AM
To: Todd Phenneger
Cc: URQ
Subject: Re: [urq] I wish we had more members...


Sorry, I could not resist chiming in. The "inside" word about what the
$70,000 was/is for was to push membership from 10,000 to 13,000. Instead,
the "inside" word is that membership has now fallen to under 7,500. As AOA
was at the Frank Beddor national event; entry was free in order to make sure
there was a good showing for AOA. That had to cost ACNA at least $15,000.
/Peter

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Todd Phenneger
<tquattroguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thats interesting Steve,
> Where does the $70k go?  I'm have no clue what goes on outside the 
> PNW, I know here the local University Audi dealer sometimes sponsors 
> track days, etc but I thought that was something the dealer did out of 
> their own pocket, not from AofA.
>
> Just curious to know.
> Thanks
>
> --- On Tue, 2/16/10, urq <urq at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > From: urq <urq at pacbell.net>
> > Subject: Re: [urq] I wish we had more members...
> > To: "'URQ'" <urq at audifans.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 3:21 PM
>  > ... poking through the minutes, it
> > appears that AoA is supporting "our" club
> > to the tune of at least $70K last year.  Reading the article about 
> > the Viper club it sounds as though the transfer was intended as a
> > means by which the
> > Viper club can fund itself at minimal cost impact to the
> > manufacturer.  I
> > doubt that "our" club would be interested in getting into
> > the parts business
> > ...
> >
> > It seems to me the opportunity exists to convince AoA that there may 
> > be better choices they could make ... but alas, are there any
> > contenders?
> >
> > Steve Buchholz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > ...and Audi would care more about us as a group.  Look
> > what the Viper Club
> > was able to do:
> >
> >
> http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2010/02/viper-club-buys-parts-tooling-
> from-d
> > odge/
> >
> > I can dream, can't I ?  Oh, and that holds for V8
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