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Homecoming 2010
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Rita Heath has now sent out the 2010 OUBAA Newsletter to everyone she can find via E-mail. If you did not get one somehow, you can grab a slightly down-resolution copy of it here in PDF format. (This version is 1.3MB, compared to the 3.5MB version she sent in E-mail, just to keep the server from crying if you all download it 12 times.)
The registration deadline for “Homecoming 2010” is September 25, 2010. That’s just three weeks after the first home game this weekend. If you need reminding, look near the top of the home page and see the Counting Red Box of Reminding.
As with last year, you can register online for Homecoming 2010, including extras like tickets, lunch tickets, extra shirts (new red shirts this year, which is why one is included it in every marcher’s registration), optional embroidery, and all that fun stuff. Payment is processed by PayPal, so you can use any major credit card or, of course, your PayPal account.
Two notes, just to be clear:
When an item has optional information, like the text to embroider on your shirt or the info about your years in Pride and instrument borrowing, enter all of that before you click “Add to Cart.” Every time you click “Add to Cart,” you’re adding a new item to your cart. (Fear not, you can always edit the cart and remove whatever you want.) But for easiest registration, make sure you’ve provided all of an item’s options before adding it to your cart.
We add a small “shipping” fee to each item to account for the fees that PayPal (and frankly, every credit card processor) deducts from the purchase price. This is not actual shipping, it’s just fee recovery. Since we’re not paying PayPal a big chunk of change for “merchant services,” it’s the best of the limited options available.
This only gets confusing if you want extra shirts mailed to you. If you don’t, you can safely skip the next paragraph.
If you do want extra shirts mailed to you, that requires a separate $5 fee (for each shirt) that you must add separately to the cart. If you intend to come pick up the shirts yourself, you should not add the $5 shipping item to your cart. The “shipping” that PayPal adds automatically is unrelated to mailing shirts, and amounts to something like 2.5% of the total purchase price because that’s roughly what PayPal charges OUBAA to do this for us. Since a huge percentage of you used online registration last year, it’s an insurance policy to make sure that 2.5% of a huge total doesn’t wind up costing the general fund several hundred dollars.
If you have any questions, contact me (the Webmaster) or Rita Heath and we’ll do our best to answer them. And don’t delay those registrations—they’re due three weeks from Saturday!
Posted by Webmaster on 9/1/10; 11:43:20 PM
from the Homecoming 2010, Membership dept.
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You can register for Homecoming 2010 and pay your dues all on this page, using any major credit card or your own PayPal account.
Important shipping and fees info
PayPal charges a small fixed fee and a small percentage of the sale price to process credit cards and deposit the money for us. As the Homecoming items are not priced at any kind of a profit, there’s a chance that these small fees could turn into an actual expense. To avoid this, we’ve added a small “shipping” fee to recover the costs of using PayPal.
All orders therefore have a small “shipping” charge that cannot be removed. This fee is to recover PayPal fees and is not for any actual shipping.
It’s more like a “handling” fee, but PayPal only lets us use certain names for “shipping” options, so ours says “Standard Shipping (2-3 weeks).” Again, it’s not for actual shipping, it’s to recover the very small costs of online payment.
Note: This year, we’re getting new red uniform golf shirts to march in! The older white shirts will not work. Therefore, each marching registration includes one new red uniform shirt. You can purchase extra shirts below. You can also have up to two lines of 16 letters (or spaces) each embroidered on the shirt for an additional $7. Add that option if you like, or leave it out if you just want a plain shirt. But one new shirt is included with homecoming registration!
Registration, tickets, and dues for Homecoming 2010
All registrations are due by September 25, 2010!
| Annual dues (whether marching or not): $15 |
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Registration for each marching member: $45 (Only large brass, percussion, and flags can be borrowed) |
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| Optional: Custom embroidery under the logo of the new red OUBAA shirt included with your registration fee (up to two lines of 16 characters each, and spaces count as characters): $7 per shirt |
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Football ticket for OU vs. Iowa State; October 16, 2010: $77 per marcher
Required for each member marching at the game unless you already have your own ticket! You can’t get in without a ticket! |
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Guest football ticket for OU vs. Iowa State; October 16, 2010: $77
Guests cannot get in without a ticket either!
Limit of one (1) unless approved by OUBAA officers |
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| Homecoming Lunch: $8 |
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If you want to order a extra new RED uniform shirts and have them mailed to you, that’s an extra $5, and you must add that to your cart or we won’t mail the shirt to you. (You can always come back and buy the “mail me a shirt” option later, so don’t worry.)
OUBAA Uniform Golf Shirts
| Additional new red OUBAA uniform golf shirts: |
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| Optional: Custom embroidery under the logo of the additional new red OUBAA shirt (up to two lines of 16 characters each, and spaces count as characters): $7 per shirt |
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Mailing any shirt: $5 each
(No mailing necessary if you pick them up at Homecoming 2010) |
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Of course, we still accept checks and all the traditional OUBAA payment forms. This is simply another option for those who want to pay securely, online, instantly. We’ve only added the small fee recovery (it’s less than 3%) because otherwise, if lots of you use this, it could cost OUBAA several hundred dollars in fees. It seemed wiser to add a few dollars in fees to each order than hope the grand total wasn’t too much for OUBAA to eat. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Posted by Webmaster on 8/9/10; 3:39:15 PM
from the Homecoming 2010, Membership dept.
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The red box has returned to the Web site’s home page with this afternoon’s announcment that Homecoming 2010 is now officially on for October 16, when the Sooners take on Iowa State (in Norman, obviously).
Parents Day (not to be confused with the separate Pride Parents Day) is October 30 vs. Colorado.
Everyone (including your officers) just found out today, so it will take some time to get the process started on forms and registration and the like. Of course, given the realities of modern college football television contracts, we probably will not know the kickoff time until October 4, or perhaps as late as October 11 if something goes really strange. It seems more likely that we’ll know by October 4 (13 days ahead) because Saturday, October 9, is the Sooners’ bye week—one week after Texas, one week before homecoming. You can see all of this on our Events calendar if you wish.
Also, the band department also promises us an online (PDF) registration form for the annual alumni golf tournament later in the week, and we’ll link to that when we have it, too. With concerts in the next two weeks, as well, the activity is really starting to pick up for band folks!
Posted by Webmaster on 4/15/10; 4:40:49 PM
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