Unbelievable! My Gold Membership Reinstated - No Payment Needed?

[fluidistic]

It's been maybe 1 year my gold membership expired. I had lost the privileges I had when being a gold member and now I realize I have the gold status again. I have no memory of having paid any new subscription to PF.
Is it some kind of error or some moderator went too nice on me?
My username should be black and I should have no picture. On the other hand I like being gold for free.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We give out gold memberships for many reasons now. Perhaps you won a contest or someone donated a membership to you.

 

[Evo]

fluid was a 10th aniversary winner.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3124380&postcount=1

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

fluid was a 10th aniversary winner.

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3124380&postcount=1

oh boy, my memory is shocking lol

 

[fluidistic]

Wow, this is awesome! Thank you very much!

 

[JaredJames]

Kudos for your honesty.

 

[S_Happens]

I was going to post my own thread, but I'll try adding onto this one first.

I posted up a flyer at school in Oct 2009 for the Project PF Proliferation and received a gold membership for a year. I don't remember paying for a membership after my one year was up, but it was always my intention to do so when it expired. I don't see any information under My PF that show any dates and I don't show any paypal transfers that could be it from 09-12/2010.

I was wondering the same thing as fluidistic, whether I was hijacking a free gold membership. If I never did renew and my one year has passed I would certainly like to pay for a gold membership. On the same token, if I did indeed pay and have forgotten then I'd like to know that as well.

I use this site quite a bit, even when I'm only lurking, and I would like to make sure I contribute.

P.S. I guess I should post up another flyer now that I'm at a large University (U of Houston) and a Physics major. :P

 

[dlgoff]

I was going to post my own thread, but I'll try adding onto this one first.

I posted up a flyer at school in Oct 2009 for the Project PF Proliferation and received a gold membership for a year. I don't remember paying for a membership after my one year was up, but it was always my intention to do so when it expired. I don't see any information under My PF that show any dates and I don't show any paypal transfers that could be it from 09-12/2010.

I was wondering the same thing as fluidistic, whether I was hijacking a free gold membership. If I never did renew and my one year has passed I would certainly like to pay for a gold membership. On the same token, if I did indeed pay and have forgotten then I'd like to know that as well.

I use this site quite a bit, even when I'm only lurking, and I would like to make sure I contribute.

P.S. I guess I should post up another flyer now that I'm at a large University (U of Houston) and a Physics major. :P

Click on the https://www.physicsforums.com/payments.php" link at the top of any forum page. You can always pay in advance and you don't need a "Pay Pal" account.

That link also shows the "Start Date" and "Expiry Date" for your PF contributions.

edit: After looking at my data, I decided to add another year.

 

[S_Happens]

I did look there, and it doesn't show any dates. It shows me the options to pay for one year or 5 years and a note about automatic renewals being marked with a red asterisk, but nothing else.

 

[dlgoff]

I did look there, and it doesn't show any dates. It shows me the options to pay for one year or 5 years and a note about automatic renewals being marked with a red asterisk, but nothing else.

Strange. This is what I see when I poke the Upgrade button:

 

[S_Happens]

Yup, mine is missing the "Active Subscriptions" area completely.

 

[Gokul43201]

Well, sometimes good s_happens! =D

 

[S_Happens]

I guess I'll give this one more try for a mentor/Greg to spot before I make my own thread.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Please don't :)

 

[nismaratwork]

I guess I'll give this one more try for a mentor/Greg to spot before I make my own thread.

Dough. Nation.

 

[S_Happens]

Please don't :)

OK. Any ideas on what is going on?

 

[S_Happens]

Dough. Nation.

D'oh. Nate. Id.

 

[nismaratwork]

D'oh. Nate. Id.

Bingo! (not by me, just a guess)

 

[fluidistic]

Hmm why am I still "Gold"? It's been more than a year now and Greg said it was awarded for a year.
I enjoy being gold though. :)

 

[S_Happens]

I wonder if it has anything to do with being awarded the membership from scratch rather than using the payment route. We did have that in common.

 

[Evo]

Hmm why am I still "Gold"? It's been more than a year now and Greg said it was awarded for a year.
I enjoy being gold though. :)

SHHHH! Ixnay on the Oldgay.