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Message: <blockquote data-quote="astroboy" data-source="post: 701214" data-attributes="member: 4527">RM50 is not big money to an average BMW owner and I do believe that the goody bag value is suffice to cover that. It's the so called "member's benefit" that upset those who do not see any differentiation in the member's participation in this event.From my experience, all past official club functions members do get 'specials' in terms of subsidized entrance charges [full or partial], lucky draw privilege, exclusive door gift but then again, those are mostly semi-closed functions mainly meant for the club members with limited guest participation.For this Bimmerfest, I do believe the Club alone won't be able to pull it off if we are talking about record breaking more than 200 cars gathering. Many other clubs have to get involved [my assumption] and jointly organise the event. And other clubs have members too and if we start providing specials for our members, other club members will demand the same and end of the day, everyone can claim they are member of one club or another, so back to square one, all get the same.Such gatherings best get the involvement of sponsors, oil, detailing, tyres, spare parts, brand rep [BMW Malaysia], authorised dealers, even satay and teh tarik stalls operators, where rentals are charged for their participation which I believe there are, and most likely the collection is insufficient. Annual dinner is coming, we still need the vendor's sponsors.. so they can't sponsor too much on one single event. Again, I'm assuming..Even if it involves using the club fund, so what?! It's for the benefit of the members and clubs, it's a long run investment for the brand which I am not objecting to. This is not a profit making entity and constitution don't even allow for it, so we must stop thinking about making money from it's functions and events, the tenth of thousands of Ringgit in the coffer is not even deposited in an interest earning account.If the club can't distinguish member's privileges as oppose to guest, then many would contemplate for sure the decision on 2014 membership renewal. For sure!For this function, I would love to join but can't relief myself from my usual Saturday errant at noon, the earliest I can make it to the event is about 3pm.. probably can help out in packing if rain hasn't started [touch wood <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />].. yet.. RM50 for 2 hours?! hehe.. :4:My 2 sen.. a small fee subsidy, or a special one-off design T-shirt or door gift [not balloon la! :4:] just for the OM with Bimmerfest logo would please all OMs.. Anyway, to the CM, I know it's hard work with little appreciations, you still get my vote.. still got Annual Dinner? that's where I can 'recoup' my renewal fee and influence my 2014 renewal.. hehe :4:</blockquote>

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