Tango, Maths, Discounts and Workshops Bookings!

We go to our Milongas to take lesson and to dance Tango. Tango makes us feel and experience romance, love, passion, and so many other human emotions however it has been a while now that we also need a degree in Mathematics to understand what it costs us.

The entry fees and costs to attend our milongas are getting gradually so complicated to understand and decipher that many are confused and totally lost and sometimes even out of pocket .

There are all sorts of schemes: Membership, No Membership, with and without partner(s), turning up 4.5 or more times a week(!), twice a month, penalty of extra fee for once in a blue moon attendance, extras for sunny day on Wednesday, 1 lesson discounted price if it is a rainy day on 2nd Tuesday morning of the month and you must also book and pay to turn up on the 3rd Thursday the following month.

We may read their notes and find out: any mentioned discount is only available if tickets are booked before lunch times and that we are to collect the pre-b tickets on a specified date like a Friday that happens to be 3 weeks prior to our actual booking dates.

We are also told things along such lines:
"You will be entitled to get any possible discounts by filling in a formal application only which must be returned by registered delivery in post. Such a discount will apply if you book and pay for 14 or more tickets when used in the next 3 weeks but are only valid if you spend minimum of 3 bookings with yet "an unknown teachers" on workshops titled "what to do with your partners' free leg(s) if she is wearing the wrong colour shoes on the 4th Saturday of the month between the hours of 12-00 and 12:30 am".

OK....am I getting close enough for many to recognise their own postings in tango-uk yahoo newsgroups? ;-)

I suppose what it comes down to is that many organisers who do such schemes as above - believe me the above were are not very far fetched from their reality! - they actually sit down with a calculator of some kind and build their pricing. They also want to find themselves "Captured Audience". To encourage and entice their customers to spend more money and time there suddenly bring about their Marketing gimmicks. Consequently they come up with the most bizarre and complicated systems of bookings, attendance, and undecipherable discount systems.

A lot of times I wonder if these guys have any idea themselves what their systems of membership and discounts mean.

The message to some of you (nice!) people is:
Common guys, be inviting and enticing but please for the sake of everyone's sanity: "KEEP IT SIMPLE" and stop penalising "the poor suds" who are not your "cash cows" all of the times!

MilongaCat is back!

(p.s. Thanks to 24tango)