Post #32
BrianM wrote:What exactly do you get for your £10 membership here?
That's a valid question Brian, and I am glad you asked it.
The 'membership' of this forum can be as little as £5....for this you still get access to all the sections, read and write just the same as you would do if you were a member who paid £10. The only difference is the size of your inbox. If you hardly use your inbox at all, there really isn't a point of paying up £10 instead of £5.
However, why is the cost there at all?
The forum obviously has to be hosted somewhere. Since it's birth in 2002, Ash himself has been financing the site out of his own pocket. As the years went on and the site got bigger and bigger, more time, effort and most importantly server space was needed. This is the part which costs the money.
Naturally Ash wanted to keep this place free of charge to members. However, as costs grew he felt it was fair to ask people for a small donation. Like most voluntary donations go, it wasn't very popular and therefore the membership levels were introduced, just so that the club had some finances to be able to keep running in the long term for the benefit of all.
Like I said yesterday though, it's ONLY a forum. With the PSOOC it is club run with a magazine, events, tours abroad and a forum. And for the time I've been a member it's been a good club. I've tended to only use this forum as it was dedicated to the car that I own rather than a generic Peugeot one, but nevertheless I've thoroughly enjoyed being a member. However, I think the time has come to say the clubs been great, it isn't changing or evolving and seems stuck in the same rut, therefore I'll pass based on those reasons.
As I have said in previous posts, if the club made some changes, evolved perhaps or had some new additions then I would consider renewing the membership.
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