Convention pay off

[Mike McCoy]

Hi Richard!

 That would be a wonderful thing....if you can come up with a method to manage this let us all know. It would at a minimum require a special badge for each person doing something unique and then the manpower to manage it. Putting a Convention together is a TON of work as it is, volunteer work that is.
 I'm not opposed to trying it some year but it takes a lot of trust and personally I do trust everyone not to take advantage until they show me otherwise.

Mike


Mike McCoy RPT
Chapters 170 & 190 PTG
Langhorne, Pa
mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:13 AM
Subject: Convention pay off


> I believe the Guild is loosing money by not charging slidding fees for
> convention attendees.  The Guild is short $50 dollars at least because
> I could not go through the exhibit hall for one afternoon.  That was
> DC in 2000.  Now I get a Journal issue that states they must raise
> dues to make up for the amount they spent over what they took in in
> 2001.
> 
> If they would have daily rates for the Convention I think $1,000 to
> $10,000  extra  could be generated over the "one fee for everyone,
> whether they attend 4 days or not."
> 
>                     000ric
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carol R. Beigel <crbrpt@bellatlantic.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Convention
> 
> 
> | The Convention web site is on www.ptg.org   I believe it said that
> family
> | members could attend classes at the member rate.  This is certainly
> a much
> | better deal than the Mid Atlantic Conference in Pennsylvania next
> week.   I
> | would have had to pay an extra $100 on top of the member price for
> my
> | daughter to attend some classes - the non PTG member technician
> rate!!!
> |
> | I really think family members should get a break.  Often, a spouse
> is part
> | of running the piano service business.  And there comes a time when
> your
> | kids grow up enough to get interested.  I think a member benefit of
> PTG
> | should be a discount rate for your family to attend classes - at
> least until
> | they decided they want to become members in their own right.
> |
> | In my mind, their is a HUGE difference between family members of PTG
> and
> | those technicians who steadfastly refuse to join the organization
> and earn a
> | living tuning pianos.  In my kid's case, she spent years folding and
> | stamping PTG newsletters, helping with PTG publicity events, etc.
> and now,
> | at least in PA, the PTG wants to charge her an unfair price to
> attend her
> | first seminar.  That is certainly no way "to grow your own"!!!
> |
> | Carol Beigel
> |
> | >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> | > Hi list,
> | >  I am thinking of taking my wife to the national >in Chicago.If
> she wanted
> | to
> | >attend a class or two with me,would she have to >pay non-member
> fees?,what
> | is
> | i>ncluded in an auxillary pass.
> | >Thanks,
> | >Hazen Bannister
> |
> |
>