A2OC
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Hello,
The club has been trialling a new membership process since the New Year to coincide with the relaunch of the site. During this time, new members joining the club had to pay a nominal fee to gain access to all the forums and have the ability to post. In return for this fee, we sent new members a complimentary sticker set.
Having reviewed the results of these changes over the last few weeks, we're relaxing our membership rules as follows:
Thank you for your continued support.
The A2OC
The club has been trialling a new membership process since the New Year to coincide with the relaunch of the site. During this time, new members joining the club had to pay a nominal fee to gain access to all the forums and have the ability to post. In return for this fee, we sent new members a complimentary sticker set.
Having reviewed the results of these changes over the last few weeks, we're relaxing our membership rules as follows:
- Unregistered and newly registered users will get read-only access to all forums, except the Marketplace
- Users who wish to upgrade their accounts to full membership will pay £2 and get full write access to all forums, including the Marketplace. Full membership also provides access to the Messages system and to user profiles.
- We will no longer be sending out complimentary window stickers
- Members who wish to purchase window stickers can continue to do so in our Merchandise Shop
- The club was making a loss on all new overseas user upgrades (as it was costing us more than £2.50 per transaction). So, rather than having to have two tiers of membership, we've agreed not to send complimentary windows stickers to any new members. We're also reducing the one-off membership fee to £2 as a result.
- The club's Google search visibility was being constrained, as Google can only index publicly accessible content.
Thank you for your continued support.
The A2OC
