(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ...

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It is not that the USCF could make money in the books and equipment
business. It is that the USCF has made money in the books and
equipment business.

In 1996, the LMA, or Life Membership Assets, had two million dollars.
ALL of that money, every penny, came from profits from selling books
and equipment. NONE of that money came from the life members.

That was before the rise of the web. The USCF is unlikely to ever
make money in B&E again.
James B. Shearer