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Speed Camera Database subscriber award changes
Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 12 Oct 2012
Those of you who are regulars in the forums or who read the Newsletter will know that we recently invited comment on our proposals to modify the Lifetime Member award scheme. A change is necessary to ensure the long term viability of the service as a whole. A whopping 15 page thread ensued (see here) and the consensus was overwhelmingly supportive.
We have now decided on how the service will change moving forwards and so, from 1st November 2012, the subscriber reward offer will be changing as follows.
- Qualifying camera reports from that date will receive a one year subscription, added on to their existing subscription.
- Subscribers will be able to accrue rewards subject to a limit of one award per subscriber per week.
- It will be a condition of any award that a subscription is active both at the time of the report and at the time it enters the active/live database.
- Only reports made by users with full PocketGPSWorld web-site subscriptions will be eligible. This excludes reports made via our CamerAlert iOS apps where the subscription is an Apple in-app type.
- Reports for change of camera type for fixed cameras will no longer be eligible for the reward.
A large number of existing Life Members were supportive of calls for us to revoke all those Life Memberships already awarded. However, we believe such a move would be would be unfair and consequently existing Life Members will remain Life Members. Instead we will be launching a donation option allowing Life Members the ability to make a contribution. Donations will be entirely voluntary and open to all PocketGPSWorld readers allowing anyone to make a donation if they wish to.
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 Posted by Darren on Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:16 pm |
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Updated award criteria can be viewed here.
Darren Griffin |
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| Posted by aj2052 on Sun Nov 04, 2012 1:21 am |
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Not sure that you have done enough to ensure the survival of the Database, for instance | Quote: | | •Subscribers will be able to accrue rewards subject to a limit of one award per subscriber per week. |
therefore subscribers only have to report a minimum of one new camera or change per year and effectively remain life members, even better rport 3 in a year gives 3 yrs membership, also with all due respect to the diehard members who have used the donation facility will this be purely a gesture more than a long term income support, peronally i would have liked a maximum one year benefit because i think the present subscription is not excesive and should survive.
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| Posted by M8TJT on Sun Nov 04, 2012 8:46 am |
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| aj2052 Wrote: | | Not sure that you have done enough to ensure the survival of the Database, for instance........ |
Just a wild guess, but I would have thought the Darren and co. would have given this a little more than a 10 second passing thought before deciding on the new policy, and they do have access to all the figures on which to base their decision. 
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| Posted by PeirreOBollox on Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:40 am |
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Is there any possibility of adding Paypal to the list of payment methods on the donation page? As I didn`t see it when I looked
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| Posted by Oldboy on Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:54 am |
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You could use Renew Subscription Here.
Richard
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| Posted by Kremmen on Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:06 am |
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| PeirreOBollox Wrote: | | Is there any possibility of adding Paypal to the list of payment methods on the donation page? As I didn`t see it when I looked |
I did mine via PayPal
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| Posted by unwanted on Fri May 10, 2013 9:50 am |
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Q: do mobile speed camera reports get entered into free sub for a year or is it just static speed cameras
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| Posted by Darren on Fri May 10, 2013 10:59 am |
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| unwanted Wrote: | | Q: do mobile speed camera reports get entered into free sub for a year or is it just static speed cameras |
That's answered in the link to the award criteria in the second post above.
| Quote: | The first subscriber to report a new Mobile site.
NOTE: because mobile sites are very difficult to verify it should be noted that validation may take significantly longer than for other types of site. Reports that re-activate an existing Mobile Camera site that has been de-activated due to inactivity is classed as a 'Seen Again' report and so does NOT qualify. The Free Subscription will only be added after both verification (once it goes 'active' in the database) AND further independent reports have been received. |
Darren Griffin |
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| Posted by davangie on Fri May 01, 2015 8:00 am |
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Hi Darren Would I be right in the time frame of understanding that reporting a new mobile sites are very difficult to verify it should be noted that validation may take significantly longer than for other types of site. Could this be months or longer as I reported site in December
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| Posted by Darren on Fri May 01, 2015 8:05 am |
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Indeed it could take months. It requires further independent sightings.
Darren Griffin |
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| Posted by Andy_P on Fri May 01, 2015 12:45 pm |
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Just to add to Darren's reply... As mobile sites are that much harder to verify and there is a longer delay getting them onto the main CamerAlert database, PGPSW introduced the optional "pMobiles" download.
Subscribers can add the pMobile details to their main data on their satnavs to alert them to any potential/unverified mobile sites as well.
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