Members Area

GPS_fan · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: Members Area

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)
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Darren · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:27 am Post subject:

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!
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GPS_fan · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:

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?
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Darren · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

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?
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MaFt · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

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...

MaFt

Darren · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

Crikey, I was calculating 'Lifetime' sub as being 5 * Annual = £95 and even then I doubt many would take it up.
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Privateer · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

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.

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GPS_fan · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

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
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