It sound sort of like the government, but with the
government you don't have a choice.

"Kevin L. Bachler" wrote:

In article , Jerry says...

For me, the uscf means tournaments. I was once one
of the most active players in the uscf, now I play two
tournaments a year. $49 should be more than enough
for their announcing and rating two tournaments a year
for one person. Why are they losing money?

For one, because USCF is not a service organization that does nothing but
announce and rate tournaments. What services you take from USCF is not the same
thing as the services it charges you for.

This is a membership organization. People seem to have forgotten that, or don't
quite understand what that means. There are things that you pay for that you
may never use.

In addition, they have done some things very, very badly. There is
inefficiency. And there is lost economic value at the LM level.

Kevin L. Bachler