Strangely I agree with Tony again but suspect people are forgetting
the key rule of capatilism.
Look at the price. If you think it's too high, don't go. It doesn't
matter one iota where the profits go. Exercise your right as a money
holder.
EB
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Tony Russell <> wrote:
> Yes it is relevant ! Think of it this way.
>
> The organiser wants to go on a trip to start with, otherwise the issue
> would never come up. So they think up a way of going on the trip at
> minimum cost to themselves by setting up a system in which other people
> are talked into covering what would otherwise be the organiser's
> expense. Would the organiser go at all if it weren't for free ? I
> doubt it. Travel agents do the same thing when they 'accompany, or
> guide" clients on a holiday trip. They get a free trip by organising
> clients on behalf of holiday destination operators.
> I understand that this organising may take a bit of work as indicated
> by Inger earlier today, but the organiser takes that on anyway when they
> decide to offer the trip.
> I used to do some bird guiding around South Oz, but only on the basis
> that someone, a client, covered my costs of fuel and paid me by the hour
> for my time. Of course I enjoyed the birding too, but I wouldn't have
> been out in the field without a client.
>
> T.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Osborn
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:35 AM
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Paying for birding trips
>
>
> Presumably, if you go on an organised birding trip then you know
> beforehand
> how much it is going to cost you. The question then is "Is it worth it"
> to
> you. Whether someone else is going for nothing, or not, is irrelevant.
> Paul Osborn
>
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