Re: RC: Convention Trade Show

[jlong@mti.net (Joe Long)]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:50:47 EST, Zaronica@aol.com wrote:

>OK guys help me out here as I must be missing something big.  We (AERC) is 
>paying $2500 to rent the Pavilion.  Quoting the last paragraph from Doyle "If 
>these aren't compelling enough reasons, consider we're paying $2500 to rent 
>the trade show facility and don't want to pass this along to vendors alone."  
>(I thought this $5.00 was for trails, not offsetting cost of pavilion)  There 
>are 137 booth spaces on my sheet these booths rent for $325 single and $250 
>for additional booths.  Now my calculator says that if 60 of those booths are 
>singles that is $19,500 if the other 77 are all second booths that is an 
>additional $19,250 for a total of $38,750 now if I subtract $2500 from that I 
>come up with $36,250. I always figured the trade show paid for itself.  So 
>what am I missing?  Lovell

The same kind of double-shuffle was used in the discussions over the
non-member fees.  It was claimed the non-members were costing the AERC
money to process, that the non-member feee was needed as a
"bookkeeping fee."  But the figures I ran showed that the normal
per-rider sanction fee MORE than covered the cost to the AERC office
of processing the ride results.  The non-member fee is pure gravy,
paying for member services (or Doyle's salary?).

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