Spot on. And no offence taken I assure you.
I had a long chat with Tony over costings. Tony would like to break even this time. Past events have cost him. Not only in terms of hard cash but also for cleaning up, rubbish skips, firewood collection, work in the woods de da de da. With the costings as they are, I did say to Tony that breaking even would be tight if we only got 30 people. He was reluctant to put it up which is very nice of him. Therefore, I think that the least that we can do (and are doing) is rally the troops and get them there so that Tony actually might make some money. Well why not. Even if people can only come on the day, play and go, it's still a ticket. I have paid more than this to drive around a quarry before, never mind camp and have a jolly old knees up.
We kept the costing simple so that we didn't have people saying 'Well I didn't have a starter and I brought my own bread' Which trust me does happen. Fixed fees. If you're coming - you pay.
It is a Landcruiser weekend but I would not be averse to Landcruiser owners with Landrovers coming if they had shiny mobiles and wanted to keep them that way - it's a suggestion not an offer. Obviously they would have to bring their own spare parts. Getting a full compliment would be quite an awesome sight and one in the eye for any other owners' forum. Nothing like a convoy of LCs to put fear into the heart of your enemies.
What about branded goods to actually sell at the meet? Stickers £1.00? Anything else that we can do? Put the money into the forum or donate to a charity - help for heroes? Stick a banner on the site.
OK out of my depth now. Going to go and weld something.
Chris
His minions, I mean, forum members are loosing out on a good weekend because of it... nice way to look after the people who make up your forum....
