[AlpacaTalk] Todays AOBA Update - Alpacas Magazine Update
Did you all get this message today..
I read it again and now I am even more irritated..
This all goes back to the board 3 years ago that some now current board members spouses were on.. That board took away the free magazine.. and thoroughly ticked off a lot of members. They rampaged through everything and AOBA was a big boy only shop.
but it was fine.. it saved money..
or should I say it MADE - AOBA money.. I personally just waited and bought mine for that year for $5.00 on the site when they were outdated. I wanted my magazine, but certainly didn't need any more AOBA rip offs much past the already awful member fee + show fee + the absolute ripoffs of not every members farm being available on-line, but you can pay AOBA even more and have your farm listed too. ( A TOTAL JUST FOR THE RICH BOY THING!)
Then we got some GREAT NEW board members and eliminated the 'Good Ole boy thing', and one of the first orders of business was to reinstate our FREE member magazine! THANK GOODNESS, A GREAT DAY!
Also to get every farm listed, the final FAIR game of AOBA leads..
As you all know before, your farm needed to be wealthy to get the good leads. The rest of us and the small farmers were left with the several month old used up ones.
We had a great new Pres., David you were doing an awesome job!
Then this past year.. A total wreck.. The good ole feller attitude is back.. Chased off (for lack of a better term) some really great folks, including the executive director, office staff, and anyone not on the right side of the fence.
A total mess all year, with if anything a regression of progress.
Headed right back to where we were, and the magazine is just another one of the many things that seemed to be on a doomsday with this.
AOBA worries about shows, another place we get to spend money.. Seeing as it is such a great time right now to spend a lot. Many members cannot, or do not go to shows. but they do read the magazine and are active members in other areas of the organization.
So all I really got out of today's e-blast is that my yearly membership dues + my show membership ( for the 1 or 2 shows I can make it to) + the fees I pay at the shows are not enough to receive a magazine subscription?
Plus a load of whining by those that already thought this was fixed by making us pay for that too. It has been brought to the board 2 times recently and both times the board voted no. The magazine stays.
Yet defeat on that issue can not be withstood, new board members must push on to insure the failure of Alpaca Magazine, and whatever else they can drag down with it.
Just exactly what does an AOBA membership get you?
and a final note. All that eBLAST really told me was that they want us to pay to fill the Magazine up with Junk (ads) and spend more money.
The cost of that magazine are NOT losses! They are the cost for that form of advertising and a VERY GOOD ONE! Alpaca magazine has done a wonderful job for this industry for many many years and has always been a dependable way to introduce alpacas.
Guess that eblast just ruffled my feathers a little,
Vida Palmer
Kuska Paku
Moss Point, Ms
www.kuskapaku.
posted by Chaddo at 6:24 PM
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