Hi Carol, On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:18:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally got a hold of Amy. Thanks for volunteering! I'm replying on-list because your message brought up a few points that might need some clarification here... > At first she was quite resistant to the idea of paying the $5.00 > administration fee. It think she had a confused idea regarding what > it would mean/do if she officially "joined." I think I got that > better straightened out in her mind. Her major concerns seem to be > time and convenience. I've been thinking about this recently. The main problem I'm seeing is that even through a few people have paid their $5 membership fee, nobody has taken the time to call one person on the SignUpList to tell them about the buying club. This is important, since these people specifically requested information, and we have provided nothing. So, a few of us are working hard on organizing these orders, and the rest are just coasting along without helping. John Shears warned me about this early on, and encouraged me to set up incentives to get people to participate. So, I'm thinking about changing terms to cost + 5% for paid members who have volunteered some time (at least calling *one* other person who doesn't email for the current order), and cost + 10% for everyone else. In other words, if you don't pay your $5 to join *and* help in some way, then you at least contribute more by increasing the capital we have to work with. I'm also thinking we might be able to swing a patronage refund target of 5% for active members, like REI which has always returned about 10% to it's members. (Thus, active members would actually get things at cost in the end, plus have a built-in method of monitoring the financial health of the organization.) > She seemed to be very leery of the internet connection. She does > have e-mail, but I didn't get her address. I told her about the > really cool wikki wikki pages that you have set up for us and that I > was finding the process of placing my order on line much more > convenient than trying to reach people by phone, etc. Thanks! > She wanted to pick up her own catalog from you and should be giving > you a call to check when you'll be in. I tried to discuss the idea > of you giving her the $5.00 catalog back so that she could put it > towards the admin fee. She's cool with the $5.00 going towards the > admin fee, but didn't really follow why you couldn't just put it > there for her. Yeah, it's confusing. The idea is that people have to have PayPal setup to be official members. I guess that's a third requirement. > By the end of the conversation she came across as someone who would > be great to have in the club. She's very committed to organics and > buys a lot. Great! > I've got to dash. I hope this was helpful. Thanks for the offer of > the wholesale catalog. I'd like to take you up on it. Now I'll > just need to find a time to get over to pick it up. If it ever > becomes inconvenient for you to share Karinn's I'll be happy to > return it. I want to add some items to the order, but as usual am > behind on time. Any idea when the orders will be submitted? No problem. Again, we don't have a deadline set for the order yet, because we don't have enough $ committed to place it yet anyway. As soon as we do, then we'll set and deadline and announce it. (I think this FAQ should be added to the order page soon ;-) Thanks! -jeb > > Anyway, if you could volunteer to get in touch with her and either get > > $5 cash back to her and I'll PayPal you, or get me an email address I > > can pay her directly, I would be happy to give you my copy of the > > wholesale catalog, (since Karinn has another copy I can use). > > Amy's phone # is 747-1759 > >
