I got two books in the mail today.(no decent bookshop here and I find they're cheaper thru the Book depository UK with no shipping costs).
The small one was a copy of 'DMSMH'.It was supposed to be a 1950's edition but what arrived was a 1977 one instead.I had read Nibs tape transcript on the 'Early days on the Apollo' thread and wanted to check out afew things he said, along with afew other considertions I had-my faulty memory and someone mentioning that you cant let go of something if you dont realise you are hanging onto it.
the big one was my brand new copy of 'Going Clear' by Lawrence Wright. Yay!!!
My big read for the next little while.
When I pulled the dmsmh book out of its package, I noticed that on the front page was the $2 price up on the right hand corner.
I immediately thought of the time when Ian (my PES), came to me to complain that he had been in the bulk books storeroom and found heaps of old dianetics books,how they were damaged and he had been told to sell them anyway and for the current price.
He disgreed with this and so did I.
He wanted to set up a bargain bin for the grotty ones to get rid of them, but we were not allowed to do this per policy.
So....we had to 'sell' them.
A solution presented itself in the form of my 'partially paids' list.-all those little amounts people had in their accounts that were usually leftovers somehow, rather than an actual payment For something.
We packaged up the books and sent them out to those people, invoicing the last little amounts that they had.I think we only had one ever sent back.
This solved alot of problems.
It got rid of books we didnt feel comfortable selling at current prices.
Because we went out of our way to send out books from the price range like this one with the $2 tag to those whose had money in account from that time frame, it sort of covered our arses. =The org was out exchange with them, there was some half hearted disagreement with doing this, but we obviously 'handled' it enough for them to cover Their arses.
It cleared out my list of 'partially paids'-so I did not need to waste either my or their time by calling them, or writing to them as part of my Treasury Sec hat.
Because they now had empty treasury files, they fell off the radar so to speak.For the most part probably 99% of them, were never going to come back in and nobody really wanted to call them to try to get them in either, but because there was money in account we 'had' to.....God the stupidity.
So, if you got a book and invoice in the mail, out of the blue and didnt know why....now you know.
One of my explanations to New Era Pubs Anzo-cant remember his name now, was the exchange thing but also..'well you know, it might just revitalise their failed purpose and remind them that when they first read Dianetics that they wanted to go clear....'
Funnily enough.....one person did get his book, read it and after 20 years out, walked back into the Day org.
He bought auditing, attested to clear and bought his OT levels.
The night before he left to go to the AO, he and Marion Moffat came to see me.....to growl nicely at me for sending him the book at the price I had. 'It was worth more than that you know'
'Well,' I said, 'the whole purpose ws to get the org in exchange with you so you would want to continue to move up the bridge...it worked, didnt it?'
'Well yes, but......' Marions' face was saying...'Oh,Trish what were you thinking?'
Jeeze, you gotta laugh, once again, we did something that worked, got the result and got growled at while 'they' got the reward-GI,someone in session....and the fsm commission when they went to the AO.....big sigh....oh well Ian and I got what We wanted too.
The small one was a copy of 'DMSMH'.It was supposed to be a 1950's edition but what arrived was a 1977 one instead.I had read Nibs tape transcript on the 'Early days on the Apollo' thread and wanted to check out afew things he said, along with afew other considertions I had-my faulty memory and someone mentioning that you cant let go of something if you dont realise you are hanging onto it.
the big one was my brand new copy of 'Going Clear' by Lawrence Wright. Yay!!!
My big read for the next little while.
When I pulled the dmsmh book out of its package, I noticed that on the front page was the $2 price up on the right hand corner.
I immediately thought of the time when Ian (my PES), came to me to complain that he had been in the bulk books storeroom and found heaps of old dianetics books,how they were damaged and he had been told to sell them anyway and for the current price.
He disgreed with this and so did I.
He wanted to set up a bargain bin for the grotty ones to get rid of them, but we were not allowed to do this per policy.
So....we had to 'sell' them.
A solution presented itself in the form of my 'partially paids' list.-all those little amounts people had in their accounts that were usually leftovers somehow, rather than an actual payment For something.
We packaged up the books and sent them out to those people, invoicing the last little amounts that they had.I think we only had one ever sent back.
This solved alot of problems.
It got rid of books we didnt feel comfortable selling at current prices.
Because we went out of our way to send out books from the price range like this one with the $2 tag to those whose had money in account from that time frame, it sort of covered our arses. =The org was out exchange with them, there was some half hearted disagreement with doing this, but we obviously 'handled' it enough for them to cover Their arses.
It cleared out my list of 'partially paids'-so I did not need to waste either my or their time by calling them, or writing to them as part of my Treasury Sec hat.
Because they now had empty treasury files, they fell off the radar so to speak.For the most part probably 99% of them, were never going to come back in and nobody really wanted to call them to try to get them in either, but because there was money in account we 'had' to.....God the stupidity.
So, if you got a book and invoice in the mail, out of the blue and didnt know why....now you know.
One of my explanations to New Era Pubs Anzo-cant remember his name now, was the exchange thing but also..'well you know, it might just revitalise their failed purpose and remind them that when they first read Dianetics that they wanted to go clear....'
Funnily enough.....one person did get his book, read it and after 20 years out, walked back into the Day org.
He bought auditing, attested to clear and bought his OT levels.
The night before he left to go to the AO, he and Marion Moffat came to see me.....to growl nicely at me for sending him the book at the price I had. 'It was worth more than that you know'
'Well,' I said, 'the whole purpose ws to get the org in exchange with you so you would want to continue to move up the bridge...it worked, didnt it?'
'Well yes, but......' Marions' face was saying...'Oh,Trish what were you thinking?'
Jeeze, you gotta laugh, once again, we did something that worked, got the result and got growled at while 'they' got the reward-GI,someone in session....and the fsm commission when they went to the AO.....big sigh....oh well Ian and I got what We wanted too.