It's helpful to look at old subscription prices when trying to set new subscription prices. The current price for admission to a single Tuesday dance is $2 for students and $5 for non-students. (To contextualize them, it's also useful to know the price scheme used for individual nights:
- Until the summer of 2007
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- : $2 for students, $3.50 for non-students
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- Summer 2007 - Spring 2014: $2 for students, increased to $4
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- to include early rounds
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- for others
- Circa 2012 or so: MIT students became free
- Summer 2014 - Spring 2023: free for MIT students, $2 for students and $5 for non-students.
- Summer 2023 - ??: free for MIT students, $2 for students, $5-10 for non-students
Starting in Fall 2015, we started using a sliding-scale subscription model. We also changed subscriptions to include Saturday dances. With the sliding-scale subscription price, the higher end of the price was typically set so that it represented a very small (or even negative) discount on paying single prices for all dances, so in essence, people paying the higher price were giving a donation to the club. Nevertheless, people seemed happy to do that, and the sliding-scale model appeared to be a success. However, some people didn't realize that the high end wasn't a discount and were a little frustrated by that, so it's best to be clear about at least the number of Tuesday and Saturday dances covered by the subscription period ("covers 19 Tuesday and one Saturday dance") when advertising the subscription range.
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