[Noisebridge-discuss] Proposal: Discounted full-year dues
jim
jim at well.com
Wed Jun 16 17:16:11 UTC 2010
(seems like a discussion of policy.)
per the proposal and the points:
* how much to discount for a one year pre-payment seems
the difficult part: too little and no one goes for it;
too big and we miss out on possible income; variable
(maybe within some limits, hoping for generosity) may
work....
* if we don't have a "real accounting system", as long
as we can track payments with respect to members, this
seems a non-issue. for example, i pay by the quarter
and haven't had any problems. if a payment is recorded
as income for the current month, is there a tax
implication?
* we should certainly try to help our current cash
crunch"; the overall downward trend scares me.
* grabbing a year's supply of money may help the
initially excited retain their interest over a longer
time period, which seems an additional value.
* i'm not convinced of your arithmetic, but certainly
money today is worth a fair amount more than money
some later day, especially if there's some question
about getting money on those later days. a real
answer to this might help settle the discount problem.
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:49 -0700, Shannon Lee wrote:
> Hi All,
> This idea has been brought up at several meetings now and no
> satisfactory resolution reached, so obviously it's time to expand the
> conversation!
> The specific proposal brought up last night was this:
> If you pay your dues a year at a time, you can knock $20 off. Or one
> month's dues off. Or some amount of money.
> Many perspectives were voiced on this. I think it's a good idea;
> others disagreed, primarily because, as we do not have a real
> accounting system, this amounts to counting a year's dues as this
> month's revenue.
> Again, I think this is a good idea, for the following reasons:
> * it could help with our current cash cruch
> * it means that people who get very excited about noisebridge for just
> long enough to be members and then never show up again have the
> opportunity to pay a whole year's membership upfront
> * the economic value of a bird in one's hand is double that of a bird
> in a bush
> Thoughts?
> --
> Shannon Lee
> (503) 539-3700
>
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