It really pays to look at how other counties deal with membership / affiliation fees. People in New Zealand may well have done this but have not shared information. Thanks Rita for shining a different light on this fee issue and making it available to all.
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Hi Rita,
The way I read this is that your club plays $300 to affiliate and then the license fee. Let us say your 50 members were just club players. The fee for them would be $975.00 after 1 August. Add the $300.00 and you end up with $1275.00 for Cockle Bay to play club events only.
Am I reading this wrongly?
I guess you are right Dirk, but I was more or less thinking from the club’s point of view, what the member choice of licence is, is their own. But I thought the way they look at dividing clubs into membership numbers and have different grades in licences is interesting. On the other hand a worker earns more in the Netherlands, things are more expensive in general, so I was quietly surprised a licence is only 10 euro’s for non competitive players and affiliation fee only 2 euro’s
But wouldn’t it be nice to have 18000 members though, lots of tournaments held every weekend to choose from, anywhere in the country, well patronised, played at indoor facilities, with bars, stocked with drinks and food, the PNZ would have millions in the bank, and they are able to send the best team to the World Championships every year at the PNZ’s expense. We can all dream.
I think the important point here is not how different numbers and foreign currencies stack up against our own. It is about charging clubs according to size (we do not have licenses in NZ) A small club still needs to pay bills and rents, etc. I think charging according to size is interesting and worth exploring. It would be great to receive feedback on this from our players.
Rita, I used to go to chess clubs in Holland - they had their own waiting staff, food, coffee and alcohol. Of course membership fees reflected this luxurious club life.
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