[members-discuss] Membership Fee Question

You're paying for an annual membership. Not a quarterly membership or a monthly membership.


If you want to terminate it early that's your prerogative, but you get what you pay for even if you don't "use" it.


Note that you're paying for a RIPE membership, not RIPE services. A RIPE membership for 2020 funds RIPE as a whole for 2020, if you terminate your membership early RIPE still exists the rest of the year, as do the other members.


It looks completely fair to me. Additionally, I recommend that you actually read what you sign in the future.

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   Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy
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From: Arash Naderpour <arash.naderpour at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 24 February 2020 21:43
To: Ali Vargonen
Cc: members-discuss at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Membership Fee Question

> It doesn't looks fair to me, but you need to see enough support from the 
> memebers to change it, NCC also like easy money, same as many of others. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> Arash 
>
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, 02:18 Ali Vargonen, <ali at vargonen.com> wrote: 
>
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I would like to ask you about the membership fee costs of RIPE, today I 
> > learned something new. 
> > Maybe it was something common and I was not aware of it. 
> > 
> > As a member, you need to pay the full amount for the annual year 2020, if 
> > you just use the services for 10 days and terminate your membership with 
> > Ripe, so if you use services for 10 or 365 days you will be charged the 
> > same amount. 
> > 
> > I asked if it is possible to make it at least Q based, but this is not an 
> > option, 6 months based, not an option. 
> > 
> > You need to pay full year and it is not based on the number of days or (Q 
> > based) you are a member of RIPE in the year. 
> > 
> > Interesting information for me, I do not think its fair, but everybody 
> > could think differently. I would like to get your opinions about it. 
> > 
> > Is it fair to charge a member, who will not be a member in Q2 + Q3 + Q4 
> > for the annual year? 
> > 
> > Kind Regards, 
> > 
> > A.V. 
> > 
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