Originally Posted by johnnywhopper
schurcr - i understand. I totally over looked the hand out motors. This is a huge expense that needs to be ordered in proper quantities as not to set yourself too far back "in the hole".
would be nice if the handout supplier would deal with the race organizer's on a consignment basis. That way there would always be enough motors, yet extra's could be sent back for credit. Or, if not consignment, at least credit for untouched trays of motors that are returned after the event. Seems like it would take a huge burden off the host track.
At our paved nats we were able to return any untouched motors, but we still had to pay for ALL the motors originally ordered up front ...it helped out tremendously having online signups (you could use CC or paypal online) with motor and tire prepurchases as that helped with the cash flow and knowing what quantities to order ahead of time (not to mention cash flow for the track work we did -- redoing benches, new shade structures, repaving, repainting, new scorint software, etc, etc).
The added benefit of the online signup with the ability to prepurchase motors and tires was that we had a pretty good count of what everyone was going to use tire and motor wise before the event and were able to assemble handout bags to hand out at the race i.e. when you checked in we handed you all the motors & tires allready marked and assigned to you that came with your entry and that you prepurchased.