OK. I still don’t see why regular members and charter members need to be treated differently. It seems to me it just results in extra work for you guys and hard feelings for members who have to pay the double penalty fees.
The funny thing is: I don’t care about the fee. It’s like I’m thirsty and want to get a bottle of water to drink. I go to a store and buy one. I’d pay whatever the price is, within reason. I don’t care. However, it would piss me off if the guy running the store said “Oh, too bad you didn’t come in five minutes ago. We were selling water for $2 then. Now that you’re late, you’ll need to pay me $4 as a penalty.” It’s not that I care about the price, it’s that it’s an unfair system of payment that unnessesarily leaves a bad taste in the customer’s mouth and makes people less likely to buy again.
Will you please lose the idea that if we ask you to pay the regular price, this somehow constitutes a penalty or a punishment? We offered a special deal. Certain conditions were attached. The deal was apparently good enough for you to take us up on it. Now a year later you decide you don’t like the attached conditions. So what do we do? We change the rules so you can still be a charter member. And what happens? YOU’RE STILL COMPLAINING! Nothing personal, kid, but you know what? Put a sock in it.
Perhaps it will feel better to you if you think of it instead like a discount card. “Do you have your CVS discount card?” “No, I forgot it, sorry.” “Alright, then the water is four bucks. Remember your card next time, sir, and we can give you the special price of two bucks.”
Or happy hour. “That’ll be four dollars, sir.” “But the sign says $2.” “That’s our happy hour price, sir, like the sign says. 3:00 to 7:00 every day. Come on by tomorrow and we’ll be happy to sell you that same beer for two bucks.”
I’m not complaining. Really, I’m not. I paid the double price, and haven’t asked for my money back or anything like that. I paid right away and have no complaints… It’s just that I want to see the SDMB thrive, and I think that this policy was a mistake. I think it will cost the board subscriptions, and I don’t want to see that. Time will tell if I’m right. I hope I’m not.
Have you changed the rules? Last I checked I’m still a “Member.” Certainly this isn’t a big deal, but the board’s handling of this is disappointing. If you have changed it, thanks.
If your Charter Member status has not been reapplied it is because I’m still in the process of doing so. I had to work on Saturday and spent some time making my way through the list of earliest re-subscribers. I will list those I have changed back to Charter Member status at the end this post.
I did not work Sunday and I took off Monday so I’m sure there is a backlog of subscribers who made the Monday at noon deadline to renew their Charter Member status. I will start getting to that backlog today. It may take me a while because it is not an immediate process and I have to fit it in amongst my other responsibilities. I do promise it will be done and that I will post to the end of this thread when I believe it is finished. In the interim I’ll post occasional updates.
Thanks,
Jerry
Member to Charter Member status as of 05/03/05 @ 09:15
jweb
chorpler
ExTank
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Heart On My Sleeve
Trunk
Arhat
InkBlot
Mr. Peabody
CreaseMunky
tim314
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Ooner
pkbites
DirkGntly
Silver Fire
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So I paid via paypal on the 27th, but of course the check did not clear until just recently…Is there any chance in hell that I could have my Charter Membership reinstated? pweese!
I will never make the same mistake at future resubscriptions
Those of you who used PayPal which does have a number of payment types that are not instantaneous will have your Charter Membership reinstated if you initiated the transaction prior to 05/02/05 @ 12:00 pm. It takes a while for the eCheck and funds transfer options to clear. I can figure out who did what when. I’ll eventually get everyone back to the correct status. I will post here when I believe I have completed all changes so if I’ve missed anyone you can let me know.
In other words, yes your Charter Member status will be coming back. When? In a few days…
