<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Friends, I'm glad I'm not the person who needs to make the decisions on these things.  While some of us would be willing to pay more for the convention, there are already those who don't come because of the cost.  The convention committee has to try to hit that happy medium.  If an increased expense keeps too many more people away, the committee will have less money to work with, not more. Sometime in the past I heard that PTG conventions are inexpensive compared with conventions for other occupations.  Maybe, but it may also be true that large companies cover the cost of their employees' attendance, while for most of us the money comes directly out of our wages.  That makes a big difference. Regards, Clyde David Love wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I'm all for seeing instructors adequately compensated.  I think they should at least have their hotel rooms paid for plus an honorarium.  I don't see why the convention fees can't be raised somewhat to cover that.  They are very reasonable at present.  When you consider a couple hundred dollars for 4-5 days worth of classes plus access to the trade booths, that seems cheap to me.  I don't generally go out of my way to advocate price increases, but in this case I think it would be money well spent.</blockquote> </body> </html>