Re: [AlpacaTalk] Let them eat cake.
Heather,
What are the costs at an AOBA show that can be directly tied to AOBA?? By that I mean, of all the gross revenue at an AOBA show, how much goes back to AOBA or what fees are set by AOBA?
Elden Harms
Token Creek Alpacas
Sun Prairie WI
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From: Heather Zeleny <alpacatalk@westwind
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Sent: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 5:12 pm
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Let them eat cake.
Hi Libby,
I really didn't set out to say anything about any farm or someone's
marketing program. I was talking about the high cost of showing our
alpacas in AOBA certified shows. ALSA shows generally cost us a
fraction of AOBA certified shows. I don't think there's a real, valid
reason for that.
I think AOBA is giving its members less and less for their dues. I just
got a call from someone who was a $1500 benefactor a few years ago, and
said that even those benefits weren't worth it. She said she received
outdated databases, with some addresses that she knew were at least two
years out of date, even as shown in the membership directory.
She mentioned that there is no limit to number of pens one may purchase
at Nationals. I didn't read that far. But that just further puts the
little guy at a disadvantage. Those of us who can't afford to buy pens
for nationals before the holiday season will be stalled out in the
boonies, in the darkest least travelled corners of the facilities.
She told me about a large farm who had rows of stalls at Nationals when
they were in Portland last time, who also brought an air-conditioned
semi-trailer full of alpacas for sale in addition to their animals
inside in the stalls, brought potential buyers outside to look at the
animals. Wow, I thought it was prohibited to house one's alpacas in
trailers in the parking lot.
I'm very sorry that people find my words inflammatory and maybe bitter.
The things I'm speaking out against are real.
Heather
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