Does anyone know what the charge is for an AOS award? I remember that they had gone down and are lower for AOS members.
careful! if you have odd plants and one gets a cbr or chm, you have to pay for the 'award' (ouch)
careful! if you have odd plants and one gets a cbr or chm, you have to pay for the 'award' (ouch)
careful! if you have odd plants and one gets a cbr or chm, you have to pay for the 'award' (ouch)
lol I had what I thought wasn't really a 'new' phal species and entered it in our show a while back and it turned out that nobody had every entered it for aos judging (phal braceana). It was nice that it got a chm, though the 'award curse' did claim the plant, and I did pay the fee. nobody had given the advice at our shows before that to point out 'not for aos judging'.
I'm sorry, but if a plant is awarded, then as far as I'm concerned, you have the right to put the award on the tag - paid for or not. The money doesn't change the fact one whit that the plant was judged worthy and above the rest. It still is the same plant. It won the award. Period. Paying for it has nothing to do at all with the plant's quality. They have it all bass ackwards [as usual] - the awards are a SERVICE of the organization to which the clubs hosting the shows belong.
The only other option I see is just selling the awards outright, say $50 for an AM, $75 for an HCC and maybe $100 for an FCC. What's the friggin difference?
Well, the $36 is down from the old $50 for members, reflecting, in part, the digitizing of photos. I'm curious, what do the charges go to pay for? The judges are not reimbursed at all for their time. Is it to pay for the cost of a professional photographer?
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