<html><body><style type="text/css">  </style><div id='d_1582578859534' style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14">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. <div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14"><html><head></head><body class="airwise">-- Regards, Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V. Please quote relevant replies. Spelling errors courtesy of my 'smart'phone. </body></html></div></div><div class="quoted_separate_body"/><div id="quoted_header" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">From: Arash Naderpour <arash.naderpour@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, 24 February 2020 21:43 To: Ali Vargonen Cc: members-discuss@ripe.net Subject: Re: [members-discuss] Membership Fee Question </div></div> <div id="quoted_body"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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@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. > > _______________________________________________ > members-discuss mailing list > members-discuss@ripe.net > https://mailman.ripe.net/ > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/options/members-discuss/arash.naderpour%40gmail.com > </blockquote></div></body></html>