Ray,
I wrote it. I stand by it.
If a TRA member wants the magazine, and they are renewing, they make a check out to TRA. TRA is then the 'vendor', as far as the member is concerned, for the magazine. Therefore, regardless of whether or not HPR sends a magazine out, TRA is the one 'on the hook' for delivering it to the member.
The only way out of this predicament would be for HPR to simply offer a 'discount' to TRA members, and there could be a referring URL on the TRA website to allow such. Having the money pass through TRAs hands still leaves TRA liable (and culpable).
If HPR is a separate entity from TRA, there should not be this level of relationship, especially given the past problems.
As far as my comment that TRA is 'guaranteeing' a certain amount, what I meant by that was that HPR magazine is guaranteed that any money paid with TRA renewals for a magazine goes into their hands -- not that TRA is guaranteeing a flat fee to HPR magazine.
David Erbas-White