Night Wolf
05-06-05, 02:58 PM
I am not sure if this was brought up already or not... but....
I have been (or was) a supporting member for quite a while now, I paid my $5/month ($60/year) to be a supporting member.... the only thing that I really liked from it was that I could actually have a signature, with a picture of my car, my name, or whatever else I wanted (which, BTW on *EVERY* other internet forum I go to has signatures included for free....) The extra space (4mb... woo hoo) for pictures was nice, but our system of posting pictures is rather annoying... but in any case... I paid it, in fact for the last 2 months, since money is tight for me now, I was going to think about asking Sal if there was a way we could pay less then the $5/month, and only get the features that we want (in my case, the sig)
So a few days ago I get the e-mail saying my monthly supporting member thing is about to end.... ready to give up another 5 bucks... I click the link and go thru the process.... except something changed....
Supporting member for 1 month is now $10.... 10 bucks? that is $120 a year.. I pay $13/month for my XM radio, and now supporting member is $10?
Not to mention this place is LOADED with ads and all the supporting vendor stuff.... In either case, I am sad to say I will no longer be a supporting member. That is my $5/month lost, maybe someone else will make up for it now. I do not have my signature and all that jazz, but I will live without.
My friend signed up on a Toyota Tundra forum, he was telling me how normal use is free, but he had to pay $50/year (maybe it was even $25/yr... don't remember) to gain some extra features, such as all the owners manuals and service manuals published on the website for use any time anlong with some other things.... at the time I thought $50/year was alot for that, until I realized I was paying $60/yr just for my sig and some more picture space and whatnot....
Yet I also belong to a Pontiac Grand Am site, the owners refuse to take any money from members even to donate. there are only 2 small banner ads at the top of the site (which are new) and that is it. Everyone gets signatures, unlimited picture uploading and a host of other features I thought were normal... until I had to pay for it here.
I dunno.. for me atleast, it isn't a matter of "only $5/month more" it is the fact that I thought 5 bucks a month was too much to begin with, now this just throws it way over the top for me.
I am now $5/month more wealthy.......
/rant
I have been (or was) a supporting member for quite a while now, I paid my $5/month ($60/year) to be a supporting member.... the only thing that I really liked from it was that I could actually have a signature, with a picture of my car, my name, or whatever else I wanted (which, BTW on *EVERY* other internet forum I go to has signatures included for free....) The extra space (4mb... woo hoo) for pictures was nice, but our system of posting pictures is rather annoying... but in any case... I paid it, in fact for the last 2 months, since money is tight for me now, I was going to think about asking Sal if there was a way we could pay less then the $5/month, and only get the features that we want (in my case, the sig)
So a few days ago I get the e-mail saying my monthly supporting member thing is about to end.... ready to give up another 5 bucks... I click the link and go thru the process.... except something changed....
Supporting member for 1 month is now $10.... 10 bucks? that is $120 a year.. I pay $13/month for my XM radio, and now supporting member is $10?
Not to mention this place is LOADED with ads and all the supporting vendor stuff.... In either case, I am sad to say I will no longer be a supporting member. That is my $5/month lost, maybe someone else will make up for it now. I do not have my signature and all that jazz, but I will live without.
My friend signed up on a Toyota Tundra forum, he was telling me how normal use is free, but he had to pay $50/year (maybe it was even $25/yr... don't remember) to gain some extra features, such as all the owners manuals and service manuals published on the website for use any time anlong with some other things.... at the time I thought $50/year was alot for that, until I realized I was paying $60/yr just for my sig and some more picture space and whatnot....
Yet I also belong to a Pontiac Grand Am site, the owners refuse to take any money from members even to donate. there are only 2 small banner ads at the top of the site (which are new) and that is it. Everyone gets signatures, unlimited picture uploading and a host of other features I thought were normal... until I had to pay for it here.
I dunno.. for me atleast, it isn't a matter of "only $5/month more" it is the fact that I thought 5 bucks a month was too much to begin with, now this just throws it way over the top for me.
I am now $5/month more wealthy.......
/rant