[Noisebridge-discuss] Proposal: Discounted full-year dues

[Jason Dusek]

  The specific discount plan that I would like to see:

    A discount of x% for each month in advance that dues are
    paid.

  I like the idea that you can buy a little for a little savings
  or buy a lot and save a lot. This saves us from having to
  choose bucket sizes well. Maybe 4 months turns out to be the
  right balance for most of our members -- who can say?

  What would this work out to in practice? Say it's 2% and
  someone were enmembered today and wished to pay a year up
  front. Then they'd have these discounts for the months of that
  year:

    00% 02% 04%  06% 08% 10%  12% 14% 16%  18% 20% 22%

  Thus they'd pay:

    80.0 78.4 76.8 75.2 73.6 72.0 70.4 68.8 67.2 65.6 64.0 62.4

  The sum is 854.4 USD, a savings of 11%.

  I am not totally set on 2%; maybe 2.5% or even 3% is better.
  The important thing is a structure which scrupulously rewards
  buying up front, modulo the restriction that the price of a
  month's membership never drop below 40 USD.

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Jason Dusek
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