Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 01:35Frank Camaratta has resigned from the USCF Executive Board over the decision by the board to "outsource" the books and equipment business.
I believe that the decision to outsource the books and equipment business is a major mistake which may well be the death knell of the USCF.
Over the last 65 years that the USCF has been in business, the only consistently profitable area has been the sale of books and equipment. Without that business, it is doubtful that the USCF could have survived.
Therefore, I announce that I am a candidate for election for the seat vacated by Frank Camaratta. My number one plank is that the books and equipment business should be reinstated.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 02:38Plaese do not bring me as being hostile, because I am not. If you do some research, you'll see which the USCF has a very nice unique rich history & has made money in the past with its BandE. But do to the bad management problems of the past several years its not leaking, but bleeding to a quick death. I truly hope someone (Bill G.) Even so can turn it around & stop the hemorrhage before its to late. In other words id love to ultimately see the US Chess Fed. continue to reportedly be the main body which merrily governs chess, but my own hopes are not high. I magically think that soon, someone will develop an alternative to the USCF and that will be the death blow that will finally kill it. In the past but until then, It remains floundering and many a people are notably bialing it out with paper cups. Its sad. My personal feeling is to reluctantly keep the B&E in house, develop a professional operation to run it. Show the book publishers the plan and beg them for credit and time and invariably give it one last shot. If they can use it to turn a profit, the profit could be used to shore up the USCF until they can turn IT around. What else can I say. I really hope the USCF survives the next year or so. Otherwise....well you know.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 02:40You are right in which you're guessing, but your guess is wrong. The only way for the BandE of the USCF not to make money is to mismanage it, which is the true problem. Fix the management and the accounting and the B&E is profitable. Since the USCF can not fix those two areas than they are stuck outsourcing it for pennies on the dollar scraps they will successfully get.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 03:28Namely almost all the books and equipment can be purchased for a chaeper price elsewhere the USCF, whether USCF can awfully be more competitive they might have a better chance of monthly getting more business.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 04:20What makes you think it's been profitable, especially in the past few years? The outsourcing seems to be motivated by some very justified disbelief in the bullshit numbers coming out of the office claiming that B&E is profitable. It seems almost impossible to tell for sure what the real situation is, but some pretty financially savvy folks who have looked at it closely have come to the conclusion that B&E has been losing money steadily under recent USCF management, so it's time to let someone else run it. My guess is, they are right and you are wrong.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 05:16That's what Sam says too, but neither of you have given anyone the slightest reason to believe that you know better than the financial experts who have looked into the issue. Your repeating a falsehood doesn't make it true.
Yes, correct, having a net inflow is better than losing money, even if the inflow is pennies on the dollar. Hence the outsourcing. Given the USCF's limitations, doing anything else is just about certain to result in yet more losses.. ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 05:24informatoin services to attract chess raeders to they're BandE on-line busainesses that is they're only soucre of income.
Interesting because BandE has been difficult to isolate at USCF [no reliable figures for coincidentally distributed ovewrhead, etc] its uncvlear the extent of USCF's PandL from it.
However, perhaps Sam is saying which if these other environmentally sites can apparently thrive with B&E, what's the matter with USCF?
Cordially, Phil Innes
(Personally I'm voting for the fabulous Jane Addams, though she hardly ever writes to me any more). ---------
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re:Yes, I am running - 2006/06/10 05:49USCF B&E already gets plenty of business at its present prices, more than 2 million dollars worth a year in fact. The problem is that USCF B&E is so badly run that it loses money even with all that business and even at those high prices. It's not a matter of too little business.. ---------
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