PF Premium Membership Now Available! [Archive]

Greg Bernhardt

Apr3-04, 01:59 PM

Support PF and recieve some perks by signing up for a premium membership!

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The satisfaction that you are supporting PF and securing it's future
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Fee: $25 for 1 year ($2/m, price of a pack of candy)

I have taken into consideration everyones budgets and I have come up with a very reduced fee.

To sign up goto your usercp and on the left sidebard find "paid subscriptions". Or click here: http://www.physicsforums.com/subscriptions.php

You can pay through paypal with several major credit cards and check cards in USD, Euro or British Pounds. If for some reason you don't have access to a credit card please email me and you can send a check or money order.

Please take this opportunity to show your appreciation and support for PF so that we may continue to function at a high level.

anthonyryan

Apr3-04, 02:27 PM

Cool, thanks! :smile:

Greg Bernhardt

Apr3-04, 04:05 PM

Cool, thanks! :smile:

Your welcome!

Let me know if anyone has problems, the system should be fully automated and the benefits immediate.

Evo

Apr3-04, 04:49 PM

I just payed at pay pal. Ooooh. I'm a contributor!!!! :biggrin:

cookiemonster

Apr3-04, 09:09 PM

Hm... $13 in my wallet.. Dinner or donate... Wait, I don't have $25! Problem solved.

I wish I weren't so poor. =\

cookiemonster

Polly

Apr3-04, 09:47 PM

I wouldn't worry about it. :wink:

exequor

Apr3-04, 09:49 PM

since i see things listed for premium members that are currently available, such as seeing the people that are online. then i guess those features would be removed for non-premium members.

Taurus

Apr3-04, 09:51 PM

Is it $25 USD ?

Greg Bernhardt

Apr4-04, 11:49 AM

since i see things listed for premium members that are currently available, such as seeing the people that are online. then i guess those features would be removed for non-premium members.

The "Whos Online" page which gives greater detail is only for premium members.

Is it $25 USD ?

$25
£13.60
€20.60

Chen

Apr4-04, 11:54 AM

Huzzah! :biggrin:

Now why do I feel dirty?

Greg Bernhardt

Apr4-04, 11:59 AM

Huzzah! :biggrin:

Now why do I feel dirty?

Haha, you of all people should not complain when in a month or so hopefully we buy hivemail.
:wink: :smile:

rattis

Apr4-04, 03:04 PM

Can i have details of payment by cheque?

exequor

Apr4-04, 03:35 PM

hey greg i can see who is online now. so what i was asking is if it would be removed.

Greg Bernhardt

Apr4-04, 03:41 PM

hey greg i can see who is online now. so what i was asking is if it would be removed.
The page or just the list of the homepage?

wolram

Apr5-04, 12:09 PM

GREG,
paypal keeps telling me i already have an account and asking for my password,
since i have never used PP im baffled, i have tried "forgoten password", several
times, but i do not get a return post, my E MAIL is working ok.
can you give alternate payment method. what happened to life membership?

Monique

Apr5-04, 12:18 PM

You probably used an accountname that was already reserved by someone else? Try setting up a new PP account with another name.

Greg Bernhardt

Apr5-04, 02:39 PM

wolram

Apr6-04, 01:03 PM

finally it worked, i had 10 E Mails from PP all together, was it a
constipated server? who's ugliest me or GB?

Greg Bernhardt

Apr6-04, 01:09 PM

finally it worked, i had 10 E Mails from PP all together, was it a
constipated server? who's ugliest me or GB?

You calling harry henderson ugly, oh boy! Good thing I'm not going to tell him! :biggrin:

btw, I've super sized harry, muahaha

Greg Bernhardt

Apr12-04, 02:59 PM

So, everyone who has the premium membership, are you enjoying it? Lets tell the "regulars" what their missing :smile:

wolram

Apr12-04, 03:44 PM

its a bit like the DRUIDS, you have to commit befor you get the
privelages of the inner sanctum, it makes me drool just thinking
about it, :biggrin:

Evo

Apr12-04, 05:05 PM

The extra perks are definitely worth it. :biggrin: For anyone that likes to send private messages, having an allocation of 100 messages sure beats the heck out of the 25 default limit. It's worth the $2 a month just for that!

Greg, once I recover form the 50 Bazillion dollars I just shelled out on home repairs, I want to donate memberships to a few people. Will there be some way to do that through paypal, or will I need to send you a check and tell you who they are?

Monique

Apr12-04, 05:15 PM

Evo, you are a great person :biggrin:

The_Professional

Apr12-04, 05:17 PM

But I almost never use the private message feature. Anything else? Well that, and I'm not a hot chick so I never get private messages.

Evo

Apr12-04, 05:46 PM

But I almost never use the private message feature. Anything else? Well that, and I'm not a hot chick so I never get private messages.Awww, I'll flood your pm box! :tongue:

Well, you can be invisible when you want. You can change custom avatars, not that I ever change mine. :wink: You get to customize your registered user status (as you had prior to the change). No ads. You get the pleasure of knowing you're supporting PF to keep it available for those that can't pay, and you get that spiffy contributor banner. :biggrin:

You get to join the wild contributor's only parties (well, if we had wild contributor's only parties). :frown:

I've noticed a bunch of new things I can do in user CP, not sure if those are available to non contributors.

Dagenais

Apr12-04, 07:03 PM

I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:

Go Habs!

The_Professional

Apr13-04, 10:09 AM

You get to join the wild contributor's only parties (well, if we had wild contributor's only parties). :frown:

A real life Physics Forum get together for everybody. How about that? sounds like a good idea :cool:

EDIT - get together for Mentors and Members

dduardo

Apr13-04, 11:46 AM

I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:

Go Habs!
Maybe Greg should take them away? Hmmm....

The_Professional

Apr13-04, 03:06 PM

I'm very glad that non-paying members still get to keep their old avatars. :biggrin:
Go Habs!

Thanks for bringing that up. Now we have you to THANK FOR when that is taken away.

Zero

Apr22-04, 04:53 PM

Ummm...yeah.

The_Professional

Apr22-04, 05:07 PM

Ummm...yeah.

haha..I see, shouldn't it say PF Mentor

Elkay

Apr23-04, 08:52 PM

I'm more than happy to help the forums in any way I can.

Wish I could do more, but being a poor college student, there is only so much one can do...

Evo

Apr23-04, 11:40 PM

Elkay, I think it is so wonderful when a person so new to the forum makes the effort to contribute!

I've noticed several other relatively new members have also contributed. That is really great.

BTW, you are really cute!! :smile:

Zero

Apr25-04, 01:54 PM

Yeah... good times, right? So why don't I see a "PF Contributor" thingy?

hitssquad

Apr27-04, 05:42 AM

View/Post/Manage user notesWhat are User Notes?

The_Professional

Apr27-04, 04:13 PM

A blog/personal journal/diary

jimmy p

Jun11-04, 12:57 PM

A blog/personal journal/diary

does anyone use it? or does it log every word you type?? wait I could just look....

Gale

Jul17-04, 12:53 AM

well, i don't have credit cards or pay pal or a checking acount... how to i do a money order?

loseyourname

Jul17-04, 01:20 PM

Take $25 plus whatever fee they charge (probably $0.99 or so) down to the post office and buy one.

Gale

Jul17-04, 05:00 PM

Take $25 plus whatever fee they charge (probably $0.99 or so) down to the post office and buy one.

Oh, well, i've never done it before. But i think i can handle that. Thanks

Crumbles

Jul23-04, 08:48 AM

I have just contributed to PF by PP. But smegging adverts are still around and I still can't have an avatar. Do I need to activate the membership somehow or ...?

Evo

Jul23-04, 10:56 AM

I have just contributed to PF by PP. But smegging adverts are still around and I still can't have an avatar. Do I need to activate the membership somehow or ...?It should have been instantaneous. Did you get a confirmation from paypal?

Crumbles

Jul23-04, 11:05 AM

It should have been instantaneous. Did you get a confirmation from paypal?
Yes I got an instant email notification from PP!

Could it be because the email ad I use on PP is different from the one I use on PF?

Greg Bernhardt

Jul27-04, 01:02 PM

Yes I got an instant email notification from PP!

Could it be because the email ad I use on PP is different from the one I use on PF?

Did you go through the built-in upgrade process here at PF or did you just donate to my email address in paypal? I'll manually upgrade your account though.

Crumbles

Jul28-04, 02:29 AM

Did you go through the built-in upgrade process here at PF or did you just donate to my email address in paypal? I'll manually upgrade your account though.

I used the built-in upgrade function from the menu!

Moonbear

Aug23-04, 02:04 AM

Okay, I finally decided to splurge! One too many flashing advertisements trying to give me seizures finally convinced me :biggrin:

Now, all I need to do is figure out how to make a picture small enough to use as an avatar.

Crumbles

Aug23-04, 09:10 AM

YAY! Welcome to the PF Contributors comunity!

Moonbear

Aug24-04, 12:30 AM

Yeah, but now I'm sitting here wondering where my invitation to the contributors' members-only party is? LOL! :rofl:

But since I seem pretty addicted to this site, I think I'll stick around now. I've gotten addicted to other sites that got shut down for lack of funds, so don't want that to happen here...I can't handle withdrawal that well. :wink:

Obviously, I did manage to figure out how to shrink my picture small enough to make into an avatar (some things I'll never understand about computers, like how I can take an image from one program, open it in another, make no changes whatsoever, just re-save it in the new program, and it's magically a new size).

Crumbles

Aug24-04, 01:41 PM

Did somebody say party? :bugeye: Where?

I think your multisized image is to do with how each program displays it rather than what size it is. Image sizes are measured in pixels and although an image contains a fixed number of pixels, it can be displayed in different sizes on the computer by altering the size of each pixel displayed (in otherwords zooming into the picture).

Well, that's either what you were referring to, or you opened the image in a different program that uses higher JPEG compression, which made the image small in terms of megabytes.

Moonbear

Aug24-04, 11:24 PM

The second is the one I meant...taking it from 52 kb to about 8 kb just by saving in a different program. But now that I know what I have to do to get it to work, I will have to create some other avatars to rotate once in a while.

I'm still thinking about what a good signature line would be. All these tough decisions come with the responsibility of contributorship. Time to pull out Bartlett's Quotations.

Tom McCurdy

Nov30-04, 09:18 PM

I see there are no journal or quiz awards... I still like the idea of both and feel they should be utilzied more as should the chat... if we still have that.

franznietzsche

Dec9-04, 07:35 PM

Haha, you of all people should not complain when in a month or so hopefully we buy hivemail.
:wink: :smile:

Hivemail??

Greg Bernhardt

Dec9-04, 09:09 PM

Hivemail??

It's an integratable mail program like hotmail. However in my findings is causes some headaches so I decided not to offer it.

LENIN

Dec21-04, 05:50 AM

I seam tom have some problems with contributing money.

1. I don't have a Visa or MasterCard creditcard.

2. I can't choose my contry in PayPal

What to do :confused: :confused: :confused:

Greg Bernhardt

Dec21-04, 03:15 PM

PM me and I'll give you my address to send a check or money order.

Tom McCurdy

Feb6-05, 02:07 PM

Hmm I love physics forums but 125 dollars is a lot of money you might be able to get a lot more money from it if you lowered prices for say students or something. Student=poor but I could manage like 10 dollars for 6 years lol.

enigma

Feb6-05, 03:36 PM

It's $25 for a year. Not $125

Greg Bernhardt

Feb6-05, 03:53 PM

Yeah $125 is for 5 years

0°0'0"

Apr25-05, 05:21 AM

is it possible to get premium membership without paying? i don't feel like giving $25 for an avatar...

Monique

Apr25-05, 05:33 AM

0°0'0"

Apr25-05, 05:58 AM

You are not paying for the avatar, you are supporting the site by contributing. Contributing members are appreciated by giving them perks that regular members don't have.

You are not required to contribute. As you are a member on this site for a longer time, you might feel that it is something worth contributing to.

i see.
i have been visiting the site for a long time. just watching. but unfortunately i did not see any difference between being a simple visitor and a member, wait, except a possibility to post messages :)
well i shall consider contributing. maybe.

Monique

Apr25-05, 06:03 AM

And ofcourse the avatar is not the only benefit, summarized they are:Benefits

The satisfaction that you are supporting PF and securing it's future
No ads
Recognition graphic and italized name
Ability to set yourself invisible
Create a custom title
Add a signature
Choose an avatar or upload a custom avatar 64/64
Upload profile photo
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mathwonk

Jul17-05, 08:31 PM

is a super mentor someone who bought that title? how much is a super duper mentor?

Chronos

Jul18-05, 01:13 AM

I would guess Greg confers titles at his discretion.

JamesU

Aug29-05, 12:24 AM

is a super mentor someone who bought that title? how much is a super duper mentor?
:rofl: :rofl:

oh well, I'll be purchasing my premium membership when paypal finishes the transaction with my account. should be on the 1st.