Quitting a co-op usually means selling your membership share back at a price fixed by the bylaws and far below market

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Capper-Volstead lets farm marketing co-ops set prices together under an antitrust exemption written in 1922 Subchapter T lets cooperatives deduct patronage refunds: the tax rule most founders discover too late The Rochdale Pioneers wrote the 1844 rules still defining co-op principles: one vote each and a dividend on purchases The International Co-operative Alliance lists seven principles and plenty of member organizations quietly skip two One member one vote sounds fair until the co-op needs $40 million and every investor wants a board seat Patronage dividends let a co-op return surplus to members without the tax treatment of a shareholder dividend Redeemable member shares turn into a capital crisis when the founding generation retires and asks for its money back Converting a co-op into an LLC needs a member vote and a valuation fight over decades of retained patronage Mondragon moved worker-members between factories instead of laying them off through four recessions Demutualization turned member-owned UK insurers into listed banks and members got a small cheque for their ownership