Terra, I can fully understand the reasoning not to renew, esp in this economy. As far as the Review goes, maybe every two months with LOWER prices for ads would help. I know the WDA magazine is beautiful, still in a poly bag, and has MUCH lower prices on ads... for example only 75.00 for a full page b/w as opposed to 125.00 for the Review..now why is that? People will do ads if it is more affordable, and I have to wonder why the disparity? Nonetheless, renewing a membership is a personal choice...to support the club or not to support our club. We will support the GSDCA as well as the WDA , as best we can, but that is just our choice. To each his own , I suppose. Best regards, Kathy Tank *http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com*<http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com/> *Home of: CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle * * "Victory...*Vires et honestas" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Terra Fairburn <terraf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have heard that many people are not renewing their memberships. I know > some of it is due to politics but we are trying to decide whether we should > based solely on the economy. We have had to take furlough days off from our > work, no raises, higher taxes on everything, and some other unexpected > debt....that's being kind. So any thoughts why we should keep our > membership? We are not showing as much in the next year, do not plan to > participate in any Futurities/Maturities, and the Review really isn't as > interesting as in past years. We love getting our ROM plaques but it sounds > like plaques are not going to be around much longer, (Futurity Plaques etc). > We have already decided not to renew other subscriptions, dog and people > related. We just wondered what others maybe doing or feel strongly about. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. 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 NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================