Doesn't the selling price need to have margin in it to amortize the effort
and expense that goes into creating and maintaining the rules themselves?
_If_ that cost is now paid by whatever agency gets the cash from sales, then
things are probably OK the way they are.
Ed Koffeman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike King [mailto:mapcomaps@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 8:20 AM
> To: evolution-discussions@yahoogroups.com; autox@autox.team.net;
> sedivsolo2@yahoogroups.com; buccaneerautocross@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [evolution-disc.] Way to finance our Solo2.....
>
>
> With all the talk of cutbacks in SCCA Solo2 and making it live on its own
> for it to be a viable part of the SCCA/Johnson strategy, there is one
> thing
> that I learned this past weekend that really got my mind wondering what's
> up.
>
> I was at the SEDIV Solo2 this past weekend. Got to registration on Friday
> night and had money in hand to purchase my rulebook just like every year,
> $15 in hand, when our local registration lady said $25! I was like, "Haha,
> funny Denise, here's your $15." She said, "Oh no, not this year, they went
> up. $25!" Plus no CD this year which is fine since you can get the
> rulebook
> online and burn one on CD anyways. So, I paid my $25, grumbling as I
> always
> do when I don't agree with something, thinking to myself, "Man, now I
> can't
> afford my $800 set of A3S05s now," and moved on.
>
> A little background on myself real quick and this will explain why I'm a
> little miffed by this whole thing. I own a map/book publishing company
> here
> in Florida. I've been printing street atlases, guide books, wall maps,
> etc.
> for the past 15 years myself, plus I grew up around this industry. I know
> how much it costs to print a book such as the SCCA rulebook. Based on what
> we buy right now, $.50 to $.75 each is a good estimate of what it costs in
> a
> good quantity of maybe 5,000 or more, all depending if you are printing in
> the USA, Canada, or China. Really if you printed in China, these would be
> around $.35ea. Now here comes the good part...
>
> It is my understanding, and someone correct me if I have bad information
> from more than one informed person, but the Solo program sees very little
> or
> none of the proceeds of our rulebook. I don't know how many rulebooks are
> sold every year. I've been thinking somewhere around 5,000. Sound about
> right? I know our region of 500 members, about 100 of those are actually
> Solo people, sells about 50-100 rulebooks a year. So, with 134(?) regions
> now, I'm sure 5,000 is a realistic number. So, why don't we see this
> $100,000+ worth of proceeds from our rulebook? It seems to me that it
> makes
> the perfect subsidy for our Pro/National programs. And if we are not
> receiving any of this money, something is wrong and in my opinion should
> be
> corrected.
>
> I don't mind paying $25 for a rulebook, not at all. But if the Solo
> program
> never sees any of this money, that's when I have a problem with it,
> especially when we're told we can't exist unless we can afford our program
> on our own. Well, that's my beef of the week...
>
>
> -MK
>
>
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