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    Re: [RC] "Guest Fees" - Joe Long


    On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 15:56:35 -0400, Merryben@xxxxxxx wrote:
    
    >In a message dated Wed, 2 Oct 2002 2:12:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlong@xxxxxxxx writes:
    >
    >> As do I, which was one of the reasons I joined, and became 
    >> a Lifetime Member.
    >
    >Yeah Joe but have you figured out how much your membership dues are now.  Lifetime members paid $250 each many years ago.  I think the AERC is actually paying you to be a member.  I once figured out that lifetime members were paying about $7.00 a year and that was a while ago.
      
    Yep, it's a good deal all right.  I'm also a lifetime member of the
    American Radio Relay League (the Ham Radio outfit), even though I have
    not been "on the air" in years.  I still get the magazine every month,
    though.
    
    For those who don't know about the Lifetime Memberships:  at the time
    of the AERC's first financial crisis, 20 years ago, the AERC sold a
    limited number of Lifetime Memberships.  The rate was ten times the
    annual dues at that time.  It kept the AERC solvent.
    
    I just had an interesting thought.  I'm the one who's the most worked
    up about non-member fees, when financially they don't affect me at
    all, either way.  I don't pay the non-member fee, and I don't pay
    annual dues either.
    
    But then, I'm not "worked up" over ten bucks here or there.  It is the
    fairness issue that gets to me.
    
    
    
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