On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:53:33 GMT, "Papa3"
wrote:

We recently increased dues in our club some 30%-40% after a long period of
having them frozen. This was due to increasing insurance costs, tiedown
costs, maintenance costs, etc. The actual dollar amount was less than
$100 for the average member, but that was enough to lose several people who
are struggling with layoffs, kids going to college, etc.

I know people think that way. The trouble is that too many people
can't distinguish between one-off and continuing costs. They should
learn to do so and to spread one-off costs over the likely life of the
item. That would make them far happier because they would then realise
they could do more fun stuff with their money.

In this case the proper comparison between a $600 FR + GPS is that it
will last at least 10 years and so the cost is only $60 a year.
However, thanks to inflation that effectively reduces as time goes by,
while your dues increase is more like $1000 over a decade, but as it
will continue to rise with inflation the effective cost will, of
course be more than that.


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