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  1. On 7/15/2022 at 6:46 PM, CHA-LEE said:

    When I started USPSA in 2008, the local Club match fees are basically the same ($15 - $20) or $5 more at a few clubs today. As a club USPSA president myself, I had to increase our fee's $5 this year to offset the never ending increase in consumables (Targets, Tape, Paint, Prop Maintenance, etc) as well as the Credit Card processing fee's associated with online registration payments.

     

    When I raised the entry fee $5 ($20 > $25) it was alarming how many "Butt Hurt", "Don't Understand why you are Gouging us", "You are just trying to take advantage of the situation" emails, texts and in person bitching whiners I had to deal with. I tried to explain to each of them that NOTHING has gone DOWN in price since the club was established in the year 2000, so why on earth would the entry fee not increase a little to account for these expense increases? Grown adults literally throwing a fit over $5.

     

    I also don't get the logic of a person with a $5000 gun on their hip is whining about paying an extra $5 to use said gun in the match. That same shooter will spend more in GAS driving to and from the range to attend the match than what the entry fee is. They will consume more $$$ in ammo shot during the match than the entry fee. But pointing out these facts to put it into perspective somehow doesn't make sense to these people.

     Because of those expenses mentioned (that have all gone up substantially), finding savings where we can (ie match fees) is important. 

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