[Artemisia] Cost of Uprising

[Morgan Wolf]

Sir Conrad, my old and dear friend,

I see your point, but how on earth can you differentiate between
old-haven't-bothered-to-renew people like me, and new-first-event people
when they're paying the fees through pre-reg?  More importantly (from the
Castellan/Hospitaller POV) how does it encourage new people to join the SCA
when we tell them "we want you, but we're going to charge you extra if you
want to go to a few events before you actually shell out the $35.00 for a
membership"?  I personally am a BIG fan (okay, I'm just big, but I'm
dieting, so don't start) of first-timers get their site fee waived, instead
of charging them extra.

Of course, I could be wrong.

By the way, would you (Sir Conrad) contact me privately?

Bonheddr Morgan Blaidd Du,
Protege and Ghillie to
Baron James Ulrich MacKellar and
Baroness Rachel Ashton,
Castellan of the Shire of Stan Wyrm

Fei g'wneir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Heisler Jr." <conradvz at yahoo.com>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Cost of Uprising


> Greetings,
>
> I'm just picking on this one because it actually has the costs involved.
For those of you who don't remember, Uprising has cost very nearly this much
before (about four years ago I think).  The Barony lowered the prices at one
point and are now raising them back to something that is more reasonable.
>
> If you're really interested in knowing why Uprising prices have raised,
I'd suggest you go online and price the cost of Porta-lets, shower trucks,
40x60 pavilion rental and add 4-5K for the site.  Once you have those totals
. . . .(which don't include ANY of the details) then you'll have some idea
of why the prices are set how they are.
>
> I'm not trying to be rude, but I've autocratted Uprisings and been
intimately involved in it many times so I know what I'm talking about.  Rest
assured that as Bethoc points out, you're not being gouged.
>
> As for Non-member fee's.  I have no sympathy for those people who have to
pay non-member fee's.  Artemisia needs as many members as she can get and I
would personally advocate MUCH higher fee's for non-members (not necessarily
first timers, but certainly those who've been playing A WHILE) than the
Barony is suggesting.  That money could be called a 'kingdom tax' and given
directly to Kingdom.  Sort of a 'fund raiser'.  But thats just my
suggestion.
>
> I encourage everyone to just get a membership and make the whole debate
moot.
>
> Very sincerely,
> Sir Conrad von Zuberbuhler
> Fifth Baron of One Thousand Eyes
>
>