Quote Originally Posted by oki916 View Post
Like Chuck "caymen" said....its supports the site to enable it to continue going and hopefully grow and grow. Yes there is advertising on the site but that income is usually based upon traffic of the site so it may not generate enough to support the site being a free website.

In the past you got a T-shirt, membership card, & sticker but Nan is who was in charge of that and since her passing, it stopped. Doug did say he would not be doing that so I wouldn't count on it happening.

If anything for a paid member I would like to see in the future, perhaps a GTG done for Paid Members only if possible that would have a fun day, dinner, etc... Just an idea, but of course there would have to be a good amount of paid members and then picking the location that suits all.
I think doing a get together is a great Idea. The trouble is that I want to do it on Little Cayman so that I can have a beer with Chuck and go scuba diving... ;)
The fact that there are 14 paid members at $25 a year. remaining profit after paying for software and bandwidth wont pay for many beers on the beach but Im in. And it would be a business expense. Lets see flight and hotel on the beach in Cayman is about $2000, annual Supporting members revenue from the site $300. The server costs $450 a month. It works out fine, My accountant wont mind.

Im serious BOTH about the fact that Cayman is likely in my future for a diving trip AND I would be happy to buy a beer for local memeber at Bonedaddys in Dallas some time.