Re: [Fsfe-uk] Increasing Membership

[Neil Darlow]

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Hi,

On Friday 25 Jul 2003 11:38 am, Andrew Savory wrote:
> Our income is from building Free Software sites and services and from
> supporting Free Software. I'm considering reducing all our prices by 10
> pounds, and adding ten pounds as "AFFS membership fee" to sign up a
> nominated person at the customer site. To us, 10 pounds will make little
> difference to the total price.

I'm not sure this would benefit the AFFS in a positive manner. Unless you
make the AFFS membership discretionary, you are effectively imposing the 
membership on your customers. Some might just opt for a £10 reduction in
your billing instead.

> One benefit from this is that AFFS will get more funds and more members,
> and even more exposure as it will be directly mentioned in invoices, etc
> (demanding money greatly focuses the mind!).

Again, I don't believe that the AFFS would agree with having memberships 
forced on people through an invoice for services rendered. I also doubt that 
any such automatically billed membership would be renewed by a large
number of your customers.

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc.
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