Premium Membership Poll - Your thoughts please

[Andrew]

Justin is correct, I cannot see the majority of members being able to agree regular discounts without the benefit of the forum. I buy most of our regular items well into the thousands for each order yet the discounts on other bits where I might buy in small amounts more than pays for itself.

Regardless of the above I think many will pay the £10 purely for the help they get through the info and sharing of knowledge on this site.

[funkey monkey]

Justin,

I was only posting how I see it!

I already get 10% or more from 3 of the suppliers on thisforum! I also get 10% of more from suppliers which are not on this forum!

If the newbies in this game can’t work out how to speak tosuppliers to get a discount then maybe they should not be in it?

I’m sorry if I have offended you in some way but I thoughtyou had this post for people to say why they didn’t pay for membership for thepoint of the poll post!

You do a great job with this forum for keeping going allthis time and more power to you for that.

[FONT="Calibri]But I was only giving my opinion for the notpaying for the premium membership![/FONT]

[Justin]

Not offended in the slightest I respect all and every opinion so don't worry about that.

I'm afraid I just can't agree with your statements about discounts though. Someone working on a hobby level for example cannot call up all of these companies andf get 10% off just like that. What's in it for the supplier? Very small irregular orders. Quite happy to be proved wrong but that's certainly what I've been led to believe over the years.

[Karen.]

I personally didn't pay for the membership to get the discounts, but partly for any added benefits that it may lead to and partly purely because I know how time consuming and sometimes costly running a forum can be. If my tiny £10 a year helps with this at all then I will gladly continue to subscribe.

[Simong12]

Just adding a opinion, I have only joined in last two weeks, and seeing all the help people have given me I decided to join as premium member just like Karen. If I can get discounts great, problem is with many forums is not the forum itself it's the members, and you get a divide. Being new to sublimation my question might sound stupid to older experienced members. People ask questions because you don't know or not sure, and 9 times out of 10 someone else is to embarrassed to ask the same question. Or the question might been asked before but people don't have time to read all previous threads, If I can help anyone in future when I have experience then I am more than willing to do that.

[Neilb78]

Just joined as a premium member and about to place a order with xpress, but they want a code off me any ideas when I get code justin

thanks

[Renniwano]

Click forum.. and then official supporters private section.. and the discount codes are in there on a post

[Justin]

Just what that member just said there! lol. Please remember that this code changes at the beginning of each month...so you just have to keep coming back!

[Neilb78]

Cheers sent code, can't wait for machines to arrive now and get cracking

[ArtyGamer]

Just wanted to add my two cents, if that's okay. The day that I joined, I signed up for Premium Membership even though I don't actually use any of the suppliers other than Xpres... although, to be honest, I barely use them that often and certainly not enough to warrant caring about a discount with them. I paid for my membership because, quite simply, I use the forum. I have my own website (video game reviews) which has a forum as the community aspect of it, and it costs us £300 a month to keep it all going because the traffic is too much for a 'typical' hosting account, and we have a lot of videos and other multimedia stored on it, so we use our own server. Not only that, but the forum software is a paid license. We don't have a premium membership there, primarily because there's actually nothing we could offer to make it 'worthwhile' for the end user, but it certainly would have helped with the running costs.

So my reason for buying a membership is because I want the forum to stay around, and the only real way to guarantee it is to make sure that the owners aren't running at a loss. Considering how low the membership cost is, I'm genuinely surprised that there are people who aren't paid-up members. If only to support those who maintain the space/server and keep the software up to date, clean up and optimise the dbase tables regularly etc. It's a very small price to pay for a community with so many resources.