Big Power

[Archbish]

sexy muppet

I knew it!!

Hmmm - maybe we should pay by the kilo of body weight...  if the average cost would be £25, that means Gurj owes £376.47p...

[grinder]

Originally posted by iaint
If people just want a web forum then great, go set one up but MRC is about more than that.  Well, it should be.

This is not just aimed at you Stu, but at everyone coming out with crap excuses for not supporting the club.

hope that aint amied at me

im a fully paid up member and GIVE my time for free being a mod

and if it wasnt aimed at me - can you give me a hand getting off my soap box

Stu

[TRex]

Originally posted by davegttph1
Being a new member please tell me what Id get for my £25???

scoobynet runs for free which is great... but all forums here are available to non paying members, if half the forums we\'re locked them Id consider stumping up cash £10 for the RTOC club and thats worth its value in gold IMO... £25 is steep but I\'ll pay if somebody tells me what I\'ll get out of it?

Dave

 I had a reply, but now deleted as I just can\'t bother with hearing these stories anymore.......

[iaint]

Originally posted by grinder
hope that aint amied at me

im a fully paid up member and GIVE my time for free being a mod

and if it wasnt aimed at me - can you give me a hand getting off my soap box

Stu

as I\'d replied to stu0x I\'d assumed he was a stu.  Also, if you look at what you\'ve quoted I say, quite clearly... "This is not just aimed at you Stu".

So, even if Stu was you, Stu, it wouldn\'t be aimed at you, or Stu.

[iaint]

Originally posted by davegttph1
Being a new member please tell me what Id get for my £25???

scoobynet runs for free which is great... but all forums here are available to non paying members, if half the forums we\'re locked them Id consider stumping up cash £10 for the RTOC club and thats worth its value in gold IMO... £25 is steep but I\'ll pay if somebody tells me what I\'ll get out of it?

Dave

To name a few things:

• Insurance discounts
• Club newsletter
• First shout at club organised events
• Warm fuzzy feeling for supporting the club
• Discounts with various vendors

To name but a few.  Actually, if you spend 10 minutes looking at the list of benefits that membership gives you then you may see that you actually get quite a lot for you £25...  

To save searching the relevant forum is here .

At the end of the day the forum isn\'t cheap to run... it uses a huge amount of bandwidth that has to be paid for and your subs are used for that amongst other things.

Bottom line - if you don\'t want to join then no-one is forcing you (or anyone) to join.  It\'s your choice.  Those of us who are members feel we get enough out of it to justify paying our subs.  What we\'re trying to do at the moment is encourage people who get something out of the club to put a little back in so the club can move along to \'the next level\' where more events are organised for the members to enjoy.

Iain

[grinder]

Originally posted by iaint
as I\'d replied to stu0x I\'d assumed he was a stu.  Also, if you look at what you\'ve quoted I say, quite clearly... "This is not just aimed at you Stu".

So, even if Stu was you, Stu, it wouldn\'t be aimed at you, or Stu.

LOL - thats superb matey

took some reading to make sense of it

[stu0x]

Originally posted by Glenn Butcher
There is actually a subscription manager in vb3 which we will be upgrading to in the next couple of weeks.

There is still so much that goes on behind the scenes, from when the person pays for their subscription through to delivering the packs etc.

If you\'ve already got a vb subscription app it shouldn\'t be too hard to just build a function that checks the date and adjusts the validity/flags for action based on that.

Having said that, if there is significant \'real world\' work with renewing subs etc then a fixed date makes more sense from that perspective for you guys.

If that\'s the case, a \'quick fix\' would be to simply offer a pro-rata rate for the initial subscription period to take you up to January, whereupon you renew a full 12 months. That shouldn\'t be too tricky to do through the webapp - have it check the date, backdate to the month start, multiply it by a monthly rate (2.10GBP), and pass it as a variable to Paypal, very simple function.

Don\'t get me wrong, I don\'t think £25 is an unreasonable amount by any means for a year\'s subscription, and understand why you might want fixed dates for your purposes, but you don\'t (for example) pay a year\'s insurance premium for 6 months cover just because you happen to need insurance in May. Sorry if you think that\'s a crap excuse iaint.

[ro284]

I think we all (quite sensibly!) try out any club website before we join, for a few months and enjoy some of the benefits, i know i did then i found my car thanks to the club, then joined it, The point is i had a few FREE months as well, which in effect are included in the measly £25 membership fee! So i think in that way we certainy get our moneys worth, i just got a discount on RS2, weekend, what with that and the one i got for Brooklands, i dont know how the club does it all for £25, Fantastic club, Fantastic value for money, For serious committed Mazda owners

[bin liner]

Originally posted by TRex
Thanks for the attention..........

 Would like to know why some, sorry "MOST" on here are not \'paying members\' but use the the forums same as or even far more than the the ones that play fair and carry the can for others!

 Sorry but I cannot understand, we don\'t exactly drive a cheap few hundred pound cars,, and they are actually one of the most costly cars to run.  Either maintainence or petrol bills.......
 
 Surly the price of a 1/2 tank of fuel won\'t leave you homeless!

 Their is no excuse, but lets hear them anyway!

 1.

I asked to be a member, asked for the forms to fill in but got no reply.
Good enough for you ?

[iaint]

Originally posted by stu0x
Don\'t get me wrong, I don\'t think £25 is an unreasonable amount by any means for a year\'s subscription, and understand why you might want fixed dates for your purposes, but you don\'t (for example) pay a year\'s insurance premium for 6 months cover just because you happen to need insurance in May. Sorry if you think that\'s a crap excuse iaint.

Actually I think it\'s a valid point - maybe a half-year subscription should be available from end-June although I suspect people would moan that it\'s the end of Feb and I\'ve lost out on 2 months so I\'ll wait until July...  

At the moment the whole membership is not automated at the \'business end\' i.e. it falls to Lisa to produce the membership packs and cards and handle the accounting/bookkepping for it all.  Not sure how pro-rating the membership would ocmplicate it though and now RS is done and dusted maybe it\'d be looked at.

People have had the abaility to join online (and people have done so) for most of the year though, not just since the last month.

[iaint]

Originally posted by bin liner
I asked to be a member, asked for the forms to fill in but got no reply.
Good enough for you ?

Who/when/where did you ask?  Have you noticed that online membership is available?  It\'s also been available for the whole of this year, if not longer via the rotary-tarts website...

[J4P RX]

Well ive just voted in the poll, dont think its worth it.  Simple enough really.

Lee

[zevans]

Better hope your car never has a problem then, Lee. Simple as that.

[stu0x]

Originally posted by iaint
People have had the abaility to join online (and people have done so) for most of the year though, not just since the last month.

Given, but some of us have only just bought our cars