Thanks for the reply Mike but what sort of financial shortfall are we talking about? Do we have a treasurer for the fan club? Are the books audited?
(I'm not in any way suggesting that anything bad is happening but just that I'm the treasurer of a non-music club that I belong to and have been able to spot some ways of saving money that non-accountants have not been aware of.)
If people are told that this board costs £XXX per year then they will be more likely to understand about making a contribution.
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I also would like to see greater moderation of abusive and appalling behaviour towards Meat and other people who post here. It started with meet/greet debates and apparently led to some person(s) PMing Meat causing him some upset, frankly I'm not surprised he was fed up, I know I would have been.
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Any abuse on the board or of the PM system should be reported to Rainer and then it can be dealt with by a warning and then a ban. If this has been happening to Meat Loaf then I think it's a shame that he has left the board when the postees should have just been ejected instead.
(I don't wish this thread to turn into a discussion on this next point but what some people find abusive, other people do not. Meat Loaf has been known to misread posts in the past so possibly even this happened again in this instance. Certainly the points in his last post about the tour programmes happened elsewhere and not on this board.)
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To Sue W and others I have answered this question about "why" before. We've tried to increase membership and I think we've done some of that thanks to this tour but unlike other sites we have costs because we reply to all who write in whether they join or not, and non-payers are only too keen to pretend to be members to get meet/greets and other news so costs go up.
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We have to accept that membership enquires are a cost to the fan club but why not just make a ruling that all people who write in must list their Bat number before the matter will be dealt with? Surely most enquiries nowadays are via e-mail anyway (and therefore do not cost the fan club anything financially).
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We've tried to encourage voluntary contribution by purchasing RVM's. Few have, yet that way they would have something in return, a rather good Magazine.
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Why not put a copy of an old edition of the RVM on the site? If people are thinking that it is like the OIFC one page newsletter then they are not going to purchase it. Show them how good it is and that it is worth purchasing.
The largest Todd Rundgren website on the internet is open to all but takes voluntary contributions. Although I don't know the sums involved, that seems to work quite well.
SueW