[committee] Discounts for Coke members (was Committee Agenda)

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:56:51AM +0800, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:44:01AM +0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
> > Coke members used to have a 'false perk' of being able to go $20 in the 
> > negative. This was annoying, since they would often leave the club with a 
> > debt, or permanently sit at -$19 where the treasurer then had to keep 
> > chasing them.

This is unimplemented/removed for now... <shrug> Fair enough choice.

In theory, it could reduce hidden fraud/IOU's, in practice there was
at least a fair bit of not-so-hidden add/remove XXX cent "rorts", which
wasn't a huge deal. I would ask that if fraud is detected with/in parallel
to the new system it be made public enough for peer pressure to work.

> > I would like to replace this with a more positive system, 
> > which recognises the fact that doing coke runs costs money and time, 
> > especially since a coke run has to be done during business/university 
> > hours. The 4c discount represents about 10% of the profit on the cheapest 
> > drinks, and that figure decreases as the price of an item increases.
> 
> Would reimbursing people an extra $5-10 in recognition of the cost involved be a simpler and fairer system?

I think offering $5-$10 for petrol, or a free drink, etc. is a simpler
and fairer system, after all not everyone who does a coke run has to be
a cokegroup member. It'd probably work out more expensive, except that
not everyone takes up the offer.

Still, it can be hard to get people to do drinks and snacks runs and
as mentioned, cokegroup members who aren't doing any runs or doing
in-clubroom crediting, etc, probably shouldn't be group members.

Nick.

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