RX Club planning meet things to think about
 

These are just topics and thoughts that should get your brains churning for the meet on Sunday.

Parts Discounts
1. I have been considering whether I should donate a shelf corporation to the club so that we can try and create vendor accounts to provide club members discounts on aftermarket parts. Eg. Greddy, HKS, etc. This may require a bricks and mortar location to help us but I think I can arrange that too. This would be a significant savings that would justify membership dues.

Dealers
2. How many dealers to involve? Is it better to make agreements with a couple of dealers in the different geographical areas? The Protégé Club for example only works with one dealer primarily.
3. We will create a dealer rating service of all dealers based on member’s first hand experience.

Specialty Shops
4. This is definitely a contentious area since almost all shops have produced unhappy members at some point. Should they all be given a clean slate and an opportunity to offer member’s discounts? Or should the club only endorse a couple of shops based on past experiences? But I don’t think any type of hearsay should be considered in determining worthiness. Only a member’s first hand account should have any bearing on endorsements.

Membership Dues
5. Should we have membership dues? I don’t personally see a reason for dues at the moment but as the club is able to offer more value to members it seems reasonable to have a membership fee to counter administrative costs. So what is a reasonable membership cost?

Attendance
6. We all have busy lives and getting together with conflicting schedules can be difficult but I feel there must be a commitment of some sort. For example mandatory attendance at least 2 events throughout the season to maintain membership.

Code of conduct
7. It goes without saying that members should conduct themselves in a respectful manner but the club will develop a code of conduct so that there are misunderstandings. The code will be most important in situations where a car maybe be wearing a club decal.


Please add to the list as it is clearly not comprehensive and only created to spark conversation.