Thank you Evan--I'm not confused and my hair is blond and I am not running for the Board. But you are right --take away free and lose money--makes no sense to me Peg -----Original Message----- From: ELG440 <ELG440@xxxxxxx> To: showgsd-l <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thu, Aug 11, 2011 10:25 pm Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Futurities/ free or not..NOT! In a message dated 8/11/2011 5:18:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, dwinx@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: ...the handlers charge more for these "Match" shows for one simple eason........WE'LL PAY IT!... have been asked why I awarded the BHI award to the change in stopping the free nomination for litters. So, here is my thinking. here are two goals. One is to increase the interest and entry in the uturities and the other is to make money for the club. o, if we have had 30 litters entered for free. Consider if only ten of hem pay to register. Now let's say we have lost 20 registrations. Say here are six in each litter and out of that, only ten of that 120 are show uality. So we get six entered in the Futurity. So, does the entry fees aid for those six, make up for the fees charged and paid to the club for the egistration. On the other hand we have an additional 20 litters that ight give us some puppies that enter. Isn't the entry fee from one puppy the ame as the registration fee we gave up for one litter? ow much thought went into charging for what we had been giving for free. hen when you add in the chance that not that many will pay and we lose hose entries at the show,and the futurities are even smaller, what happens to the futurity system? f you aren't confused by all this, you should run for the board. van L. Ginsburg sgard German Shepherds ttp://www.asgardgsd.com/ here Type Movement and Temperament come together ===========================================================================OST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original uthor and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind re permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the howgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its dministrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any ost. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER F ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL ARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A IOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html ATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ =========================================================================== ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================