[NYCBSDCon] Con pricing?

[Okan Demirmen]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:27 PM, George Rosamond
<george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> Isaac (.ike) Levy:
>>
>> On November 24, 2013 06:43:53 PM EST, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi con people --
>>>
>>> I'm just returning from Chicago, so apologies if this has been handled
>>> during my week-long absence.
>>>
>>> With the December meta-party coming up in two weeks, I think it's time
>>> we really think about pricing, and make that number (those numbers?)
>>> public.
>>
>> I spoke to Romeo about buttoning up Suspenders last week, after the 8th
>> change.
>>
>> (Fortunately, I was at suspenders while George was buttoning up the
>> holiday party bits as well).
>>
>> I'll be emailing him again tonight to get this wrapped up, so we have
>> our baseline for costs settled.
>>
>> Best,
>> .ike
>>
>
> So in terms of pricing.. this is what I was thinking.. . .
>
> $25 cash if you pay at next NYC*BUG meeting in Jan, the holiday party
> (assuming we have our end together) and may be another time or two at a
> set place.  That is aimed at local people.
>
> Online with paypal.. $50 flat fee.  It's more hassle, and we're aimed
> locally, and it's still cheap considering.  Not sure how to handle it to
> make it easy for Okan.  I'd assume just have a paypal address, and they
> use same email they reg with... api integration is not necessary.

wait wait wait!  I do not want to use my paypal account for this again
- this has been a sore point for all our cons....

BTW, if we do paypal, we have to use some sort of API of theirs, so
there's no "simple" answer with paypal.

> Full time students can walk-in, with valid ID, $15 or so.  We won't get
> *that* many to screw up our planning.
>
> At the door for others, $30 cash.
>
> If we get say, 75 people averaging at @$25 each, that's $1875.
>
> We should hit 100 though. . . at least.
>
> my $0.02
>
> g
>
>>
>>>
>>> I would really like to ping my university about the con as well, but
>>> not having any pricing information available makes that a bit difficult.
>>>
>>> Also, the date on the Logistics and Sponsoring pages was never updated.
>
>
>
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