# Membership renewal? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135 "2010-05-20T15:46:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/21 "2010-05-20T20:25:43Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > You’re going to feel silly when the world ends in 2012. And everyone else will feel silly when the world ends, but the SDMB keeps on going. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/22 "2010-05-20T23:54:33Z")
I got this email, and yet I never was a Charter Member. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/23 "2010-05-21T00:35:58Z")
How can someone check their status? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/24 "2010-05-21T00:36:46Z")
It was a broad spectrum email designed to hit as many people as possible – as I said earlier “painting with a broad brush.” You can merely disregard this if it does not apply to you. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/25 "2010-05-21T00:37:29Z")
> [@Doug\_Bowe](#): > > How can someone check their status? UserCP/Paid Subscriptions. This is also the portal to resubscribe. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/26 "2010-05-21T01:17:00Z")
> [@Esprix](#): > > It looks like an automated message. > > I have to say, though, that I’m really surprised the only reminder I ever received was on the day my subscription is assumed to have lapsed. Fortunately I re-upped last month, but that’s some pretty last-minute notification otherwise. Were no other ones sent previously? A zero-day notice is probably not the best way to contact your subscription base, no? > > Just a thought. > > Esprix Exactly. When I saw the email I thought, “WTF, didn’t I just re-up a a couple of months ago?!?!?!1 Or was that just a drunken stupor”. I think at least a one week warning should have been sent out, this last minute shit is just asking for people to bitch about not having enough time to re-up if the wanted to. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/27 "2010-05-21T07:11:40Z")
Damn!! Missed this by a day!! A query - if I had tried to re-subscribe yesterday, I would have been charged the $7.49, which I can afford when converted into local currency, but having missed the deadline, I now am being charged the full $15.whatever, which is starting to verge to the steep side of expensive for me… Is there anyway to set time back by a day for me so that I can re-up at the preferential rate? I’m not sure whether “time management” is included in Mod-superpowers 😉 Grim P.S. I also only got the “please resubscribe” notice on the 18th when it was due to run out on the 20th… my fault for using an email address I don’t check regularly enough for my SDMB subscription I suppose… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/28 "2010-05-21T12:14:23Z")
> [@grimpixie](#): > > Damn!! Missed this by a day!! > > A query - if I had tried to re-subscribe yesterday, I would have been charged the $7.49, which I can afford when converted into local currency, but having missed the deadline, I now am being charged the full $15.whatever, which is starting to verge to the steep side of expensive for me… > > Is there anyway to set time back by a day for me so that I can re-up at the preferential rate? I’m not sure whether “time management” is included in Mod-superpowers 😉 > > Grim > P.S. I also only got the “please resubscribe” notice on the 18th when it was due to run out on the 20th… my fault for using an email address I don’t check regularly enough for my SDMB subscription I suppose… I think I can slide you in under the wire here if you can get this going on in the next day or two. Is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/29 "2010-05-21T12:28:48Z")
Thanks - you da bomb\*!! Subscription renewed. Grim \*or whatever the cool kids are saying these days… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/30 "2010-05-22T13:43:27Z")
Gosh I wish you folks had sent out reminders prior to the very last day. I read my email & the Dope daily. Except for May 20th when I had to go in to work early. So on the morning of the 21st I see the email & go renew. Only to discover it’s $15 (not really a problem), and I’m now a plain member instead of a Charter Member (largish problem). I try to pay attention to the boards. But I rarely venture into ATMB since it became just the “Mod-bashing for fun and little profit” forum. So if there were any stickies or announcements about impending renewal there I missed them all. What can we do to fix my issue? What can we do to make this less burdensome next year for the staff? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135/31 "2010-05-22T18:04:16Z")
LSLGuy, please check your PMs. I think we got this solved [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/membership-renewal/540135.md?page=1)