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Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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lugnet.events.brickworld
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Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:00:30 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickworld, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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You seem to want to have it both ways. If you don’t need the money and didn’t
start BrickWorld to make money, just state that any leftover funds will be
refunded to attendees. If you do want to keep the proceeds from the event,
just say so. That is certainly your right. I (and most people here on LUGNET)
believe that it is perfectly fine for someone to make money for running an
AFOL event - as long as they are upfront about it.
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I don’t have any affiliation with BrickWorld. I’m not even attending, since,
well, I don’t make enough profit of my own to afford the travel. The fact is,
they *don’t* have to be upfront about it. It’s their business. They’ve stated
that they are running it as a business. Maybe it’s as simple as they don’t know
what they’ll do with any profit, if there is any. That’s a decision they can
make if and when they get to that point. As a business, they are only
accountable to their shareholders and the government. They certainly don’t have
to tell their patrons how they spend their money. As a business, they’ve
decided to ask for volunteers instead of hiring employees. That was their
business decision. If they didn’t get enough volunteers, they’d have to make
another business decision based on that.
And they’ve already stated a couple of times that they don’t want to discuss it
in public. They gave you an answer, specifically stating that they didn’t want
it public. Even if it wasn’t the answer you were looking for, you could have at
least respected their wishes, and not posted their private communication,
especially concerning dollar amounts.
-Elroy
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) The fact is the *DO* have to be upfront about it *IF* they want me to pay money to attend the event and how many MOCs they want me to bring. I consider any AFOL bringing a MOC to a public event, where the public is charged admission, a (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| (...) I understand that non-profits pay their workers - my wife works for one! But non-profits don't have 'owners' who can lay claim to any extra funds; they are run by boards who are obligated to use those funds to further the goals of the (...) (18 years ago, 15-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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