JOIN / RENEW PFRA
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:55 pm
JOIN / RENEW PFRA
The following message was posted some time ago no one opted to respond. Is a PFRA Membership as a gift a bad idea?
An answer to that message would be a matter of common courtesy so tomorrow an open letter to Roy Sye will be posted since a reply is a different thread indicated he has a concern for membership and is aware of its status.
In the meantime, this concern is for RENEWAL.
An attempt was made to renew via the website and there is NO OPTION for RENEWAL.
It simply requests information to "JOIN PFRA" (which will come later as a Christmas gift.)
So, can anyone advise how we can renew on-line - or - must that be done via regular mail?
Regular mail is not a problem if the matter will only be made known.
Thank you.
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THE TURKEY'S GETTING FAT... (A Gift Idea)
by oldecapecod 11 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:16 am
THE TURKEY'S GETTING FAT...
The turkey may be getting fat but I am not concerned about tossing a penny in the old man's hat.
I am thinking more about Christmas.
I encourage a couple of lurkers here (maybe more than a couple) and have decided to give at least one a first-year membership to the PFRA. (Who knows? Maybe we won't suffer the anticipated 30% loss of members?)
Doing this in the past seemed practically impossible unless one aggravated the dickens out of Ken so I refrained. I gave him enough grief with my own name changes, etc.
Anyway, my thought is to do it thusly.
Send the appropriate payment to the office of the Treasurer and include the name of the recipient only - with his mailing address for renewal purposes.
The recipient can later select whatever e-mail account he wishes to use. In fact, we have never exchanged an e-mail - simply talk on the telephone. Remember those things?
Then...
Register the Member with a password and enroll him similarly at the Forum.
Send this data to my friend and advise him to change whatever he wishes.
(This is the part that seemed almost impossible at the old store but seems doable here.)
Once he is operational and sees what is available, it will be up to him to renew.
(I am sure he will. The guy I am thinking of never lets a notice go unpaid.)
So, if any of you have ever done this - in either capacity - please share anything that might make the process easier.
Frankly, we seem to have staff people to do everything including counting bottle caps so I am surprised - very surprised - we do not have some sort of "Membership Director" or some such flamboyant title?
That seems to make sense - especially for an outfit that suffers a 30% loss?
We could have a form or process for buying a "Gift Membership / Subscription" and it just might work?
Hey!
How many gifts are you going to buy that cost only $35. or less?
Not very many.
Even the old carton of cigarettes stand-by is well over $50. and nobody admits to smoking anymore.
What an easy way to take care of a bunch of those on your gift list - and - they will think of you all year through...
HELP!
Thank you...
The following message was posted some time ago no one opted to respond. Is a PFRA Membership as a gift a bad idea?
An answer to that message would be a matter of common courtesy so tomorrow an open letter to Roy Sye will be posted since a reply is a different thread indicated he has a concern for membership and is aware of its status.
In the meantime, this concern is for RENEWAL.
An attempt was made to renew via the website and there is NO OPTION for RENEWAL.
It simply requests information to "JOIN PFRA" (which will come later as a Christmas gift.)
So, can anyone advise how we can renew on-line - or - must that be done via regular mail?
Regular mail is not a problem if the matter will only be made known.
Thank you.
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THE TURKEY'S GETTING FAT... (A Gift Idea)
by oldecapecod 11 » Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:16 am
THE TURKEY'S GETTING FAT...
The turkey may be getting fat but I am not concerned about tossing a penny in the old man's hat.
I am thinking more about Christmas.
I encourage a couple of lurkers here (maybe more than a couple) and have decided to give at least one a first-year membership to the PFRA. (Who knows? Maybe we won't suffer the anticipated 30% loss of members?)
Doing this in the past seemed practically impossible unless one aggravated the dickens out of Ken so I refrained. I gave him enough grief with my own name changes, etc.
Anyway, my thought is to do it thusly.
Send the appropriate payment to the office of the Treasurer and include the name of the recipient only - with his mailing address for renewal purposes.
The recipient can later select whatever e-mail account he wishes to use. In fact, we have never exchanged an e-mail - simply talk on the telephone. Remember those things?
Then...
Register the Member with a password and enroll him similarly at the Forum.
Send this data to my friend and advise him to change whatever he wishes.
(This is the part that seemed almost impossible at the old store but seems doable here.)
Once he is operational and sees what is available, it will be up to him to renew.
(I am sure he will. The guy I am thinking of never lets a notice go unpaid.)
So, if any of you have ever done this - in either capacity - please share anything that might make the process easier.
Frankly, we seem to have staff people to do everything including counting bottle caps so I am surprised - very surprised - we do not have some sort of "Membership Director" or some such flamboyant title?
That seems to make sense - especially for an outfit that suffers a 30% loss?
We could have a form or process for buying a "Gift Membership / Subscription" and it just might work?
Hey!
How many gifts are you going to buy that cost only $35. or less?
Not very many.
Even the old carton of cigarettes stand-by is well over $50. and nobody admits to smoking anymore.
What an easy way to take care of a bunch of those on your gift list - and - they will think of you all year through...
HELP!
Thank you...