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

[Shannon Lee]

I would like to pay my membership 50 months in advance please kthnks

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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
> Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/
>



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Shannon Lee
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