The Daylily Society offers a coupon with a membership, new, renewal, or upgrade. The coupon is honred by nuseries that wish to do so and on the nurseries own terms. This gives the members a discount but also drives business to those that honor it. It means the member can shop to see what they think is the best value and the nursery can make sure an order placed does not loose them money and perhaps gains extra business. I have been suggesting to several people that we really could use an Iris nurserymans forum that could make suggestions to the board that could help with programs that are good for the nursery and also good for AIS. An additional thought was that considering the amount of fraud on the internet that if this cosortium of nurseryman could agree to a code of ethics that AIS could promote those Iris growers that subscribed to the code.
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From: "Terry Aitken" <terry@flowerfantasy.net>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:22:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [AISdiscuss] Motion regarding purchase of Magazine Binders
I like the idea of âAIS member discountâ. From the storefront?
Iâve been trying to figure out how to do an âAIS member discountâ thru my catalog but it means checking each membership?
Thereâs got to be an easier way.
Terry
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From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org] On Behalf Of Robert Pries
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:17 AM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Motion regarding purchase of Magazine Binders
All good questions, hope to have some answers soon. I do like the idea of preorders. I suspect the first hundred could go quickly but I am just guessing that the last might be around for awhile. Since the Market would indicate a value of these to be $20 each I would suggest pricing them at that, and if we wanted to give a discount for preorders, or for members, or for the first year, whatever, we could do that. But establishing what they are normally worth is important. I would suggest that if we have a reasonable price we could pay for a large part of the purchase immediately. Establishing a price is tricky because you want it fair but still making some profit.
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From: "gary white" <in2iris@yahoo.com>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:10:52 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Motion regarding purchase of Magazine Binders
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I'm all in favor of these binders, and thanks to Bob for obtaining the info and a bid. I do think we need to have these in the Storefront before the convention.
A few questions.
1) Is there a shipping charge from this company to the AIS Storefront, or is shipping included? 2) Is there an estimate of mailing charge from the Storefront to individual purchasers? 3) Does the Storefront have sufficient storage space for 200 binders initially? 4) Would it be possible to take pre-orders once we have a firm price that includes mailing, so that part of the investment in the first shipment of binders is quickly replaced, and number kept on hand reduced? Or is that more trouble than its worth? Gary White
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