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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: Members Area |
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Perhaps the PGPSW home page and/or subscripton could be made clearer to indicate that the subscription is £2 per month or £19 per year instead of leaving this until the point of choosing a payment option.
The heading Members Area (£2) could possibly be deemed to be misleading since there may be some restrictions with this membership option.
Maybe there's also scope for a third option:
Option 1 - £2 per month
Option 2 - £19 per year
Option 3 - £xx lifetime subscription ( possibly with scope for a refund if a member qualifies for lifetime membership by reporting a camera etc) _________________ Andy
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:27 am Post subject: |
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Fair comment. We are actually working through options to make the whole subscription process clearer and simpler and so I'll take these comments on-board.
We won't however be refunding your sub if you qualify for a lifetime membership award, we're giving you future membership free for life after all! _________________ Darren Griffin |
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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: |
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Darren,
That thought about a refund was aimed at my 'option 3 - lifetime subscription' because if somebody has signed up for 'lifetime' then presumably the only way to give free lifetime subscription would be to give a refund (or partial refund) of what had already been paid - otherwise their lifetime subscription would not be given free by PGPSW as it would already have been paid for IF PGPSW introduced a lifetime subscription option.
Have I made this any clearer? _________________ Andy
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, sorry I'd misunderstood. We haven't actually given any consideration to a lifetime subscription option. I'm not sure how practical that would be nor if there would be many takers? _________________ Darren Griffin |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15225 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: |
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a quick calculation:
average age of satnav user: 30
average life of human: 75
= 45 years for 'lifetime'
assuming a special discount of 25% (i.e. £15 per year) for a lifetime sub you're still looking at £675... (minus paypal fees etc etc) not sure how popular that option would be...
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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Crikey, I was calculating 'Lifetime' sub as being 5 * Annual = £95 and even then I doubt many would take it up. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Privateer Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 30/12/2002 17:36:20 Posts: 4916 Location: Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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I belong to the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) which is best known for the Royal Show in Stoneleigh (south of Coventry). I joined as a life member (for, what was then, quite a large amount of money) about 20 years ago. With the annual rise in the membership costs, my life membership has now just about paid for itself. When I bought my life membership there was a single fee. Nowadays they take your age into consideration – the younger you are the more you have to pay!
My Old school society (sounds far more impressive than it actually is) has an annual subscription of £5.00. I asked if they had a lifetime option. They replied that it just wasn’t worth it to the society – they used to offer it as an option, but over the years inflation has turned the one-off lifetime payment into an almost worthless amount.
Regards, _________________ Robert.
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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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It was just an idea....obviously not a good one.
If it ain't broke don't fix it and if the current system works, leave well alone.
Keep up the good work lads anyway _________________ Andy
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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All ideas are welcomed _________________ Darren Griffin |
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GPS_fan Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jan 04, 2007 Posts: 2789 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Darren wrote: | All ideas are welcomed |
In that case, FREE membership for all
Seriously, though, I had thought maybe £75 or so may be taken up by members.
On the up side, if a member 'leaves' you still have their subscription paid up.
On the down side, it's a pain to come up with a good figure and difficult to administer on top of everything else you guys do. _________________ Andy
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mostdom Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jul 10, 2006 Posts: 1964 Location: Surrey, UK.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: | ...= 45 years for 'lifetime'... |
OMG
in 45 years this website'll be re branded as GPSU
Gallactic Positioning System Universe and it'll be surgically installed so no pockets required. We'll all be living in test tubes and via a genetic modification, no one will be capable of speeding so no speed camera database.
Anyway, confident aren't we? 8) _________________ Dom
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theripper Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 581 Location: Medway Towns, Kent
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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MaFt
If you think 45 years is a lifetime, why does my lifetime membership run out in 20 years 52 days??
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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theripper wrote: | why does my lifetime membership run out in 20 years 52 days?? | You don't want to know. _________________ Richard
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Beacuse that's the maximum our subs software allows us to use _________________ Darren Griffin |
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DennisN Tired Old Man
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 14901 Location: Keynsham
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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MaFt wrote: | average life of human: 75 | That's why I'm not quibbling about my thingy saying my subscription expires in 18 years, 297 days - I just think of it as my lifetime expiring before my subscription . However, I do believe the actuarial calculation currently puts male life expectancy to age 86 (still beats my subs ) mostdom wrote: | in 45 years this website'll be re branded as GPSU | By which time, it'll be appropriate for you to think up a new signature. _________________ Dennis
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