<div dir="auto">Doesn't matter what name you put on it (membership, service fee... are all just names) , it is set like thus for financial purposes with a hope to get more money from some, and in this case I call it easy money, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Arash</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, 08:14 Terrence Koeman, <<a href="mailto:terrence@darkness-reigns.com">terrence@darkness-reigns.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="m_6092161419392546183d_1582578859534" style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:11.0pt;color:#025e14"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">You're paying for an annual membership. Not a quarterly membership or a monthly membership.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">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.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It looks completely fair to me. Additionally, I recommend that you actually read what you sign in the future. </p>
<div id="m_6092161419392546183signature-x" style="font-family:Courier New,Courier,monospace;font-size:11.0pt;color:#025e14"><div><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:11.0pt">-- <br>Regards,<br> Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy<br> Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V.<br><br>Please quote relevant replies.<br>Spelling errors courtesy of my 'smart'phone.</span><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:9.0pt"><br></span></div></div></div><div></div><div id="m_6092161419392546183quoted_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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Arash Naderpour <<a href="mailto:arash.naderpour@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">arash.naderpour@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 24 February 2020 21:43<br><b>To:</b> Ali Vargonen<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members-discuss@ripe.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [members-discuss] Membership Fee Question<br></span></div></div><br type="attribution"><div id="m_6092161419392546183quoted_body"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">It doesn't looks fair to me, but you need to see enough support from the
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memebers to change it, NCC also like easy money, same as many of others.
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2020, 02:18 Ali Vargonen, <<a href="mailto:ali@vargonen.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ali@vargonen.com</a>> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I would like to ask you about the membership fee costs of RIPE, today I
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> learned something new.
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> Maybe it was something common and I was not aware of it.
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> As a member, you need to pay the full amount for the annual year 2020, if
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> you just use the services for 10 days and terminate your membership with
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> Ripe, so if you use services for 10 or 365 days you will be charged the
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> same amount.
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> I asked if it is possible to make it at least Q based, but this is not an
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> option, 6 months based, not an option.
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> You need to pay full year and it is not based on the number of days or (Q
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> based) you are a member of RIPE in the year.
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> Interesting information for me, I do not think its fair, but everybody
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> could think differently. I would like to get your opinions about it.
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> Is it fair to charge a member, who will not be a member in Q2 + Q3 + Q4
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> for the annual year?
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> Kind Regards,
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> A.V.
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