I probably shouldn't speak in definites since I don't know the current financial status, but I believe in the not so distant past that the cost of the magazine, postage and convention actually cost more than annual dues could cover. (Difference made back in club auction, convention attendance, fund raisers, etc) That may have changed with cost cuts.

I hope you don't think I was being derogatory to people who don't attend the convention. If you are an active member who enjoys the club and the CCTN, it is fine that the club spends money on people interested in the CCA, even at a loss, because the point of the club is to promote the hobby.

What I think we should not do is sign up people who have no interest in the CCA, don't care about the club magazine, won't ever attend a convention and don't take any pride in the club. It just seems like we are sometimes so focused on the numbers of members we have, when we should be focused on the commitment of the members we have.

As an example, I signed up a friend of mine years ago who was interested in chips. Each quarter he never even opened the magazine, threw it away immediately. He never attended a convention and only collected chips from casinos he visited for one year and stopped collecting all together. That guy probably cost the club money and gave nothing back to the hobby or the club. I knew he wouldn't be a committed member and should never have signed him up.

That's the only point I was trying to make.