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First of all, thank you to everyone who responded to my question; I learned more about the process from you all in a day than I had in dealing with the store for more than a month. My experience: I emailed the Kingston Barnes and Noble Community Relations Manager, after getting her card from the store, she wasn’t in. After a month of no reply, I went in to speak to her. Her response: You emailed me right…did you email anyone else? I have to talk to my manger to see if I can give out this information… she just left…I still have your email, can I email you back? Needless to say, I never heard back from her. I emailed the Colonie Center B and N, never heard back either. Posted to LM_Net and got some good information. According to a Midwest City, OK middle school librarian Under $2,000 you get 10% cash back or 15% in Barnes & Noble Gift Cards $2,000-$10,000 you get 15% cash back or 20% in Barnes & Noble Gift Cards $10,000 or more you get 20% cash back or 25% in Barnes & Noble Gift Cards Topeka, KS a K-12 district with 5000 students has done them for 4 years and made an average of $1500 Usually does them between 9-7 This year 9-5 Michigan, over the phone approval, in store said that their potential group would be too small I tried to put together a book fair for our after school book club. Rural water area with limited resources and high unemployment/loss of housing (we are in Michigan!). The rep approved everything over the phone, I was VERY clear re: group size, programming, etc. I thought that he was coming to have me sign paperwork and instead told me our group was too small and we wouldn't attract enough patrons from our area to make it worth while so they wouldn't let us have a book fair (no one else had one booked when we wanted). Even if the administrators, teachers and personal friends had been the only ones participating I think that we could have generated a couple of hundred dollars. We were just trying to figure out a way to purchase newer, popular titles for book club. Perhaps this is a sign of the economic hardships for B&N? A Sunbury, Ohio high school librarian said that she made $200 from a bookfair but had hoped for more and that “They pretty much did all the work and I collected a gift card after the weekend was over.” A Chesterfield County, VA librarian added that gift card purchases don’t count and you can’t advertise in or around the store. You can also have volunteers work the gift wrap table that is provided by the store for donations. An Austin, TX librarian stated I believe the cut is about 40% IF you take your proceeds in a Barnes and Noble gift card. We’ve had one for 3 years now and have been very satisfied. A Wallington, NJ Jr/ Sr High School librarian stated that she’s “made about $900 in a gift card for several years in a row. It's the best fund raiser for a library.” A librarian from a K-12 Catholic school stated that “We had a B&N book fair last April. Did almost $6000 in sales; got a B&N gift card for just under $1200. Planning on doing it again this April 2010.” Devin MacIsaac SLMS Student, SUNY Albany Kingston, NY 12401 DevinMacIsaac@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow! http://microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default-ga.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:102009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/ --------------------------------------------------------------------