18th December 2007, 03:56 PM
It has been pointed out to me about a post on Britache ... where N. Swift looked with Daily Mail outrage at £24 per find for the PAS - and suggested that this was bad value for money... ... I am intrigued to know how much 'good' value for money is...
To know if it is good or bad... one must have a comparator... I notice that when challanged, he went on to suggest that 12 quid a find was even better.... (how very Thatcherite!) Taking into consideration, the recording, research, data input, office costs, wages, materials, travel, photography etc etc... it comes out at circa 1-1.5 hours per find... so not too bad... or am I wrong.... in the commercial world... where budgets are by neccesity tight... is £24 an artefact from finder to published good or bad? HELLLLLLLLLLLLP.
I feel there are areas that can be tightened in the PAS... but surely you make these adjustments after you look into them.... not before ( Good ol' Thatcherism again!)
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
To know if it is good or bad... one must have a comparator... I notice that when challanged, he went on to suggest that 12 quid a find was even better.... (how very Thatcherite!) Taking into consideration, the recording, research, data input, office costs, wages, materials, travel, photography etc etc... it comes out at circa 1-1.5 hours per find... so not too bad... or am I wrong.... in the commercial world... where budgets are by neccesity tight... is £24 an artefact from finder to published good or bad? HELLLLLLLLLLLLP.
I feel there are areas that can be tightened in the PAS... but surely you make these adjustments after you look into them.... not before ( Good ol' Thatcherism again!)
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu