<HTML>In a message dated 3/30/02 10:17:19 PM !!!First Boot!!!, crbrpt@verizon.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">2)  Allow PTG members registered  to purchase half price registrations to the Institute for their family members or whomever accompanied them to the convention/seminar.  They could purchase either daily or full week registrations for half price. </BLOCKQUOTE> The daily registration fee might be something that could be considered, (although I think it would crate more problems than it's worth). But I still cannot understand how you can justify allowing someone who accompanies a PTG member to register for half price, whether it for a one day pass or full registration. Do you really want one PTG member to register 2 , 3, 4 or more "other people" at half price. How is that fair? As I said in my earlier post, I might see that as equitable if the family member was either a spouse, (in which case it would only be one person), or a child (or several children), living at home. But what criteria is going to be used as the "accompanying person? Would I be allowed to bring my shop help, or my refinisher?  Or does it have to be a "family member?" What if my "family member" is my uncle, or brother in law, or niece? Can it be a friend, or fellow chapter member? I know, lets have one person from a chapter register at full price, and then everyone else in the chapter, who is accompanying the chapter member, can get in for half price. Hell, why not have everyone register at half price. The money a seminar (or convention) looses from one person''s half price registration isn't going to be missed. Again, Carol, if you want expose your daughter to what PTG members do, have her attend a chapter meeting. With you living the DC area, she could go to three chapter meetings a month. If you want her husband to get an idea of what you do, why don't sit the baby while both of them go to chapter meeting. But I just don't think it is fair to allow them to register for a seminar, or convention, at half price, just to get "a taste" of what a piano tuner does. And certainly not if this policy would increase everyone's registration fee. What you're trying to do is get three people to go to the movies for the price of one a half admission, promising you're going to switch off watching the movie, so that none of you are in the theater at the same time. It just ain't going to happen. Wim </HTML>