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

[Elizabeth Sarah Quirk Goodman]

Dear all,
Having spent too much of my childhood playing with numbers and too
much of my adulthood watching people say them not too clearly:  When
you're doing these calculations, life could be made a LOT easier by
the fact that the dues for a whole year are $960, as in almost $1000.
Thus it might be better to state percentage proposals in annual terms.

So an actual 2% per year is just under $20 ($19.20), which is what we
thought Jason meant at the meeting.  This proposal gives an average of
11% savings, as in the mean of 0, 2, 4, ..., 22.  So that should be
less than $110 off (in fact $96+$9.60=$105.60) but you can do it in
your head.  It actually sounds not bad at all to me now.

Enjoy,
Quirk
P.S. I realize I'm lecturing; I hope you are not annoyed but if you
are, please tell me offlist.

2010/6/16, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com>:
>   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.
>
> --
> Jason Dusek
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