Show me the money

["Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

To a degree, you're right, but it doesn't seem to have been a problem with
the QClub's discounts, and I doubt that QCUSA mails them a cross-referenced
mailing list every year either.

To be honest, all I'm saying is that while charging is reasonable, I'm not
sure that charging for the "first contact", i.e. for the list itself, is
going to help membership. Charging for the extras that come along later
(whether that's discounts, archives, bumper stickers or whatever) makes more
practical sense to me.

Geoff

> When you say "negotiate membership discounts for _only_ those with IDs"
> I'm assuming you mean with all the nice vendors we deal with.  GPR, Linda,
> Blau, TPC etc.
>
> I don't see how well that would work.  So I pay, and I'm valid this year,
but
> what about next year when I don't?  I can't see those various vendors
keeping
> track of which numbers are valid.  At that point, it almost becomes too
much
> overhead on their part to help us out by offering a discount (& help
> themselves out with more business).
>
> Just thinking...
> -S

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