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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 16:18:21
Just realised my years membership must have ended now, because i only paid $5 - a years worth of membership, and i'm pretty sure i joined december 03/january 04.
the page on the site says members would be sent a reminder when their membership ended, i'm wondering if it was just me that didn't get this reminder because I signed up with an old email.
but the main problem, as far as i am aware, is that the club doesn't really operate any more, does it? for the sake of newcomers who may see that page and sign up and then recieve nothing in return i think it should be taken down. the only other option is to provide some of the things that were promised but i gather it's too much trouble. i don't regret giving $5, because it at least helped the site run, but i do feel a bit conned. as a result, i'm not sure whether it's worth it to join again.
lolzabad |
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/23/2005 : 05:57:21
wondering if dave noisy sent that email out...
quote:
Okay, I've finally had time to get to this!
Congrats to "takatak", the winner of the 'big' June 2004 Friends Club prize, a complete promo set of the Brixton DiscLive CD's! Also, "Smokey Ling" won the DVD, and Ian Gair and "the_atomic_ned" both won 'Best Of' CDs.
For July and August i made the prizes 'Best Of' CDs as well, and the winners were Dirk Doucette and "Sparticus" - congrats everyone!'
I'll announce the September Friends Club prize(s) soon.
Sign-up info below!
come on dave, september's nearly over!
oh wait, you meant september 2004 :/
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 04/30/2005 : 17:08:46
Shit I forgot it was $5 a year. How do I pay more?
I joined the secret forum, and all I got was this lousy secret
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| Carl |
Posted - 04/18/2005 : 16:57:50
The signiture is free, but I felt guilty using it at first! I coulda sent 5 dollars if I'd made the effort....I noticed the info about the FrankBalck.net club had disappeared too. |
| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 04/17/2005 : 09:44:52
I wanted prizes! I joined up the damn club for them! 
Ayúdate a ti mismo, y entonces te ayudarán también los demás. Principio de amor al prójimo. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 04/17/2005 : 09:30:14
What mun said. I'll give Brian some $ when I see him.
And no need for prizes or anything. You guys do so much, the least I can do is fork over a few bucks.
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Catholics |
| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 04/17/2005 : 09:12:56
I'll bug y'all soon, in the mean time, don't pay. =)
 "Live life like you're gonna die...because you are." - William Shatner, You'll Have Time / Has Been |
| BLT |
Posted - 04/16/2005 : 11:32:50
What mca said.
 "Join the Cult of Ronald and Russell Mael"  |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 04/16/2005 : 08:14:24
my membership must have ended too and i got no notice but i'll gladly send another 5-10$ if there is need for them with or without the prizes. i appreciate the people who run this place for their non profit attitude and i don't see why they should pay for all of it. keep up the good work.
 i bash newbies for a living |
| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 04/15/2005 : 22:07:47
Aye, Club started 12/03.
"Live life like you're gonna die...because you are." - William Shatner, You'll Have Time / Has Been |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/14/2005 : 11:10:42
The 'Friends of FrankBlack.net Club' was started in December 2003
maybe my maths is shit.
edit: oh wait, my original post wasn't clear. i meant the club. yeah, i know the site's been around long longer than that.
 Oh let it linger |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 04/14/2005 : 11:01:24
No, 2.5 years and running.
 "I joined the Cult of Frank / Wooteenie!" |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 04/14/2005 : 10:51:56
it's only been around for under a year and a half though.. no?
Oh let it linger |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 04/14/2005 : 09:34:43
Yeah, oops, I've paid once and been here for like, crap, almost 3 years I think...
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This is the war and not the warning. |
| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 22:27:29
Hey all, it's still 'alive', tho a slightly stunted growth. Don't worry about updating, i'll send out a letter at some point soon...hopefully!
"Live life like you're gonna die...because you are." - William Shatner, You'll Have Time / Has Been |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 20:23:37
The good news is that, with a few more dollars, we have enough in the account to pay for the server next year and this FTP site provided we're able to get it to work the way we need it to with this company. So no fear of that, you've all been very generous and thank you for that.
 "Oh dear / I seem to have joined the Cult of Frank." |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 19:48:11
Wow, I can't believe that if it wasn't for the financial help of members that the site would have gone down in Feb. Wow... keep us posted Dean if you guys need more help.... |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 17:52:20
thanks CoF.
lolzabad |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 17:45:55
Speaking of the Friend's Club, I always felt guilty for not contributing. My personal scapegoat was that I neither had a paypal account, or a credit card. But I shall make amends! When I see Brian in June, I'll give him some dough, as my contribution.
Are you honest when no one's looking? Can you summon honey from a telephone? They sat there with their hooks in the water and their mustaches caked with airplane glue. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 17:41:19
If you do feel bad, I put it $50 and a hell of a lot of time.
I agree that the Friends Club should do what it says it does, but Dave will catch up (ask him - I've been nagging him to do this for months).
The purpose of the membership was never to really have special benefits, Steve. We didn't want to create a pay for service system or some two-tiered system. People are *supposed to* donate out of the goodness of their hearts of their feeling that it's worth it or they'd like to contribute. The forum costs us quite a bit /year to run and without Friends' Club, it would've died in February. Yeah, that's right, no more FB.Net. Further, we certainly wouldn't be able to look at paying for FTP hosting, but we have been and I'm actually pretty close to having a new site up provided I can get tech support for the hosting company to do what I want.
At any rate, whether you believe me or not, I've been asking Dave to do exactly what you said (either catch up or take off the 'prizes' part) for a while and will continue to hound him until it gets done. We are unpaid volunteers, for the record.
"Oh dear / I seem to have joined the Cult of Frank." |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 17:15:38
such as what?
lolzabad |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 17:08:56
You definately shouldn't feel conned... why you are keeping the site going. That's huge.
Look if you come here on the site every day... that's like 0.01369863 cents a day! Or for you 0.003227889 cents a post! Anyone here can handle that!
Why don't you become a lifetime member and then you won't have to worry about when it is expires. That's what I did.
Membership has its benefits! |
