Re: that's a good question
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Originally Posted by Lunchtime O'Booze
### over 100,000 baht is an excellent result for this effort-it would indicate that people were being extremely generous on the night considering there are so many requests on them to donate.
Do you really think so? The individual donations from 4 known individuals came to 75,000, nearly 3/4 of the total. The pass the plate - the only true measure of the geneal audience donating something raised just over 12,000 which if there were 250 people there means an average of 50 a head. Does that seem people were being generous?
Re: that's a good question
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Originally Posted by Lunchtime O'Booze
That's why a break-down of donations, costs and disbursements is helpful
So you want to add a further overhead onto the owners - the cost of accounting for that particular function? Someone else has already remarked, not only is much of that commercially sensitive information, owning a bar is not necessarily the ticket to untold wealth, and many bar owners operate on much skimpier margins than they would like anyone (including their "friends") believe. As well, many bars are always on the market (in the sense that for the right price, they'd sell) and they're certainly not going to provide information that could influence the size of the offer
A better solution would be for the charity organizers to offer the bar owner a flat fee for the use of their premises and staff and a set limit on the amount of booze to be sold, and take the surplus - essentially the bar income. However that would transfer the commercial risk from the owners to the charity and that's usually not a burden do-gooders wish to shoulder