# Subscription Question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 19, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174 "2011-01-19T04:56:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/1 "2011-01-19T04:56:12Z")
This may seem a little nitpicky, but here goes: I just reupped my subscription. For the first time I saw an option for two years, so I took advantage of that. So you just got $29.90 from me. (Hooray!) I thought about extending my User Title at the same time even though it does not expire until September. But it’s still only one year for that. Perhaps you could extend that to two years also?
As it is, I think I’ll wait until later in the year to renew the User Title, as it gives me a good excuse to use my American credit cards, which I like to do from time to time to make sure they stay valid. (The company canceled one once because I hadn’t used it for so long.) But if you extended the period for that to two years, I’d take advantage of that too.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2011, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/2 "2011-01-19T05:14:46Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> … as it gives me a good excuse to use my American credit cards, which I like to do from time to time to make sure they stay valid.
That may be a bit confusing. Actually, I can use my American cards here and even my Thai credit cards in the US. But it seems to go smoother foreign-exchange-wise if I pay American currency with an American card.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/3 "2011-01-19T05:58:12Z")
I’ll ask about extending user title subs to two years. I was about to say “but you could just make two transactions and that would be two years” but you know what? I don’t think that’s been tested and I’m not 100% sure it would work. Let me find out on all counts (no pun intended) and I’ll get back to you.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/4 "2011-01-20T03:59:16Z")
Thanks Again, not a big deal. Maybe you could even give people a slight discount to encourage the two-year option.
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### Author:  [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/5 "2011-01-20T04:03:26Z")
It costs $15 for a year’s subscription?
And here I thought someone had only paid $6 for my sub!
That is all.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/6 "2011-01-20T04:09:44Z")
You’re worth more than you thought!
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subscription-question/568174/7 "2011-01-20T08:43:56Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> It costs $15 for a year’s subscription?
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> And here I thought someone had only paid $6 for my sub!
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> That is all.
My first subscription, the person paid only the half price: the system wasn’t quite working yet. The person was a Charter Member, so it asked for the Charter Member price to sponsor me. It took tech support to make me an actual Member, and they essentially gave my sponsor a half-off deal due to the trouble.