Re: RC: who pays?

["Glenda R. Snodgrass" <grs@TheNetEffect.com>]

> The options I can see are: increase rider fees for the fifty milers, and/
> or charge juniors.  I am adament about juniors riding free or at least at a
> substantial discount(plus $20 bucks or so isn't going to matter too much)
> so I will probably choose increasing rider fees.  Now who, I ask, is 
> paying more? Why the 50 milers who are already AERC members!!!  The non
> members aren't paying more, they are STAYING HOME!  So it is you and I, the
> 50 mile AERC members, who will end up paying more.  Something isn't making
> sense here....

No one should ride for free.  No such thing as a free lunch.  The things
in life that are important to you are the things you work & pay for.  
Give juniors a discount, absolutely, but they need to pay a fee.  They
need to learn the value of money, they need to learn to work for the
things they care about.  I don't know how many juniors you have nor
whether this would offset the cost of non-member fees for LD or whatever
... I'm just stating a principle in which I believe most firmly.

And you might try a little marketing finesse and learn how to quote fees
so that it sounds like there's a discount for AERC members, rather than an
extra fee for non-members. <VBEG>

Glenda & Lakota
Mobile, AL
AERC # M18819 & H27310
SE Region


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