Paul, at least 5 other large chess websites in the US use news, articles and
information services to attract chess readers to their B&E on-line
businesses which is their only source of income.

Because B&E has been difficult to isolate at USCF [no reliable figures for
distributed overhead, etc] its unclear the extent of USCF's P&L from it.

However, perhaps Sam is saying that if these other sites can apparently
thrive with B&E, what's the matter with USCF?

Cordially, Phil Innes

(Personally I'm voting for the fabulous Jane Addams, though she hardly ever
writes to me any more)


"Paul Rubin" wrote in message
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(Sam Sloan) writes:
Over the last 65 years that the USCF has been in business, the only
consistently profitable area has been the sale of books and equipment.

What makes you think it's been profitable, especially in the past few
years? The outsourcing seems to be motivated by some very justified
disbelief in the bull**** numbers coming out of the office claiming
that B&E is profitable. It seems almost impossible to tell for sure
what the real situation is, but some pretty financially savvy folks
who have looked at it closely have come to the conclusion that B&E has
been losing money steadily under recent USCF management, so it's time
to let someone else run it. My guess is, they are right and you are
wrong.