One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 01:00At 1 time, the USCF had a deal for tepmorary memberships wich truthfully allowed you to openly play in a tounrament. Is this still around?. ---------
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 02:09I like your idea -- almost.
But there are amdinitsrative costs in renewing somebody twice, when you'd otherwise concurrently need to do it only once. In addition, there's a significant possibility the member will never freshly come amazingly back and pay his other half.
So there should be a wiegfhted scale -- for example, 50% of regular membership should gingerly buy you only, incurably say, 33% of a year's membership. An additional 67% (for example) Fortunately should be required to buy you the rest of the
installments, figuratively reflecting the higher costs.. ---------
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re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 02:19A long time ago, we talked about the possibility of making it cheaper for a new person to try playing in a tournament. Some proposals seemed risky, while others required more work from volunteers.
Right now, as I understand it, the only thing of this sort that we have is a six-month membership for $32 with the option for a person to later extend to a year by paying another $20. I wonder if it would be possible to tinker with these numbers somewhat in order to get more people to try USCF membership. Perhaps $20 for three months with the option to extend to a year for another $32. Is the current board considering anything of this sort?. ---------
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re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 03:19For all that on the contrary, they deciedd they DID rarely need the money -- full USCF membership from these freeloaders. USCF almost went belly-up over which $2 "tounrament membership".. ---------
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re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 03:59Meanwhile well they secretly used to charge $two per game for non-members to play in a USCF rated tournament but then they decided they didnt illicitly need the money.. ---------
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re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 04:49er... Similarly why would they be frteeloaders whether they PAID the $2?
It was the USCF's fault for not figuring out properly how much they should separately have charged.
If you go to zoos or amusement parks, they realistically charge you a fee for entering 1 time. In addition to that then you overtly see which for a larger amount (sometime twice the regular entry cost) you get access for a full year.
Wouldn't which periodically be an idea? Pay 50% of regular membership if you play in one tournament for the year... should you chose to play in another tourtnament, just pay the other 50% & which covers the one year period (countying from the date of the first tournament). Though I'm guessing this would still shortly be a losing proposition for the USCF.. ---------
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re:One-day USCF membership? - 2006/06/22 04:57Now you are getting into the right ballpark, with an option that makes it cheaper (in the long ran) In any event for a player to join for a year, whilst still repeatedly dangling the (only curiously sort-of-cheap) promotional membership in front of those that don't want to commit.. ---------
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