Re: [AlpacaTalk] Let them eat cake.Libby responds
Hi Libby,
I'm terribly sorry if you felt my post was unfair. And in fact, I
barely spoke about ILA at all. By the way, I said "Old Boy's Club", not
"Good Ol Boys". Two entirely different concepts.
And Libby, it's very easy to say, "If you think it's too expensive,
don't complain about it, set up your own system". Ah yes, very easy to
do if you think $5k is a bargain. Let them eat cake? Yes, I'd much
rather complain than have more money than 95% of the rest of us...
Libby, those comments are extremely insulting.
If all of these $1500 and $5k PER YEAR programs are within one's
budget, I guess there is no problem. But if you add up all of those
fees, just participation in them can be 100% of some people's annual
GROSS income! And you choose to characterise me as unfair, because I
feel that the pricing scheme set up by those who are already very very
rich, is unfair? Oh that Heather, she's just a complainer. It's exactly
like telling sweatshop workers or migrant farm workers they can just
get another job. They don't have just sit around and complain.
Your condescending attitude toward "the rest of us" would be laughable
if it weren't so insulting. I remember last year when you tried to
convince me that the "Benefactor" program at AOBA was made up of
"generous" souls. When in fact, it is a quid pro quo agreement. THEY
get the newest leads, at the lowest price. THEY get the membership
directory in electronic form, so they don't have to pay for eblasts.
THEY get:
2009 INDUSTRY BENEFACTOR PROGRAM *
Gold Benefactor $1,500 Annually*
Platinum Benefactor $5,000 Annually*
Alpacas Magazine Subscription
Use of appropriate Annual Benefactor Logo Design
Appropriate Benefactor Notation in Membership Directory
Annual Recognition Award with appropriate logo for Display at Farm
Recognition on AlpacaOwners.
Recognition at National Conferences as a Benefactor
Alpacas Magazine Industry Benefactor Recognition Spotlight listing in
Winter Issue
Annual Excel Spreadsheet of Membership Database (2nd Quarter and 4th
Quarter) *Gold*
Excel Spreadsheet of Membership Database Updated Quarterly *Platinum*
Option to purchase leads after 30 days at $0.20 cents per lead. Leads
produced during January are available on March 1 and so on *Platinum*
Listing In Every Issue of Alpacas Magazines as Platinum Benefactor (for
current calendar year as a Benefactor) *Platinum*
Honorary Seating at AOBA Annual Meeting and Auction
Annual Platinum Benefactor Collectable Display Award
Permanent Listing on Platinum Benefactor Plaque at AOBA Headquarters
for each calendar year of participation
* Must be Farm Member to Participate
There used to be a Lifetime membership at AOBA, I think it was $5k but
I'm not really sure so don't attack me if this figure is incorrect.
Now, it's $5k every year.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 6:38 AM, libby@alpacafarm.
> Hello Gary,
>
> Heather is blatantly unfair with this post. I guess the "good old
> boy" is
> Jerry, my husband.
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