Lee

Re sponsership - have you approached Lintronic or Soundsmith? Beoworld have given them free (presumably) links to their websites which must generate them some income. Also what about the guy in the Netherlands who sells on ebay foam speaker rings and is it Recone that do the re-foaming?

Cheers

Nigel 

Lee,

I think the prize draws are very generous at the moment. When they started, I expected the prizes to be quite small but to gradually increase in value as time went by - in other words, as BeoWorld's bank balance became healthier.

Of course, the bigger prizes go some way to attracting members so I understand why you don't want to have smaller prizes.

How about this as a way forward - have notably smaller prizes each month (e.g. a beo 4 remote or A8 earphones) but each quarter have a super-draw where the prizes would have even greater value than they do now (e.g. the top three prizes all have a value about £1000-£1500). It should be possible to balance this in such a way that we can still offer great prizes but the total cost of all prizes over 12 months is less.

Michael

Lee - perhaps I misunderstood your subject in my earlier post - which was,btw, tongue in cheek.

However,as this thread is now a ££ for Beoworld thread, I hereby promise to make the next King Street in-store gig a money raiser for BeoWorld ( either partially or exclusively - details tbc) - we drummed up about £600 for Chethams School of Music over the weekend, with a Charidee Auction at half time.

Regards

David.

ps- why not ask B&O UK about hosting a dealer forum ( passworded, but within your system) for a modest charge...🤔

My toughts:

• Give away more collectible B&O gear, which is valuable and less expensive than new stuff (as somebody mentioned, Beolits, Beomasters, etc).
• I also support the quarterly superdraw idea, with less expensive gifts in the "normal" monthly draw.
• Why don't collector members (or any member) donate any of their collectible objects for further use in the monthly draw. It will be good to see at the end of someone's post "I have donated the 1st prize in July's draw, a mint Beogram xxxx". Those guys donating good pieces of B&O gear may be able to sell other stuff later to members, as people will know that they have excellent pieces. They could also be listed in a section of "Beoworld golden supporters with pictures of their contributions". By collectible items I'm not necessarily talking of expensive items, but also catalogues, soldiers, books, LC2s, etc. And not necessarily need to be collectible or old. But in perfect condition.
• You can create a platinum or diamond category, worth 50 or 100 pound, that will entitle for a special bi-quarterly or yearly draw with the rarest and most seek after stuff, like Beograms 3000 (1967), Beovox 2500, etc. such a draw could have fewer prizes.

My cent.

What about allowing non silver/gold members to be entered into the monthly draw for a small fee (payable through paypal?)

Might help get some revenue.

doomlordis:

What about allowing non silver/gold members to be entered into the monthly draw for a small fee (payable through paypal?)

To be fair, non-gold members ARE allowed to enter the monthly draw for a whole year for a small fee - £30! 

Everybody can take part in the prize draw without paying any fee! Read