Photo.net Now Accepts Credit Cards / Subscription Drive

[marcofrancardi]

YEEEESSSS!!! finally I'm in! I had a Paypal account which never worked, and, living in Lebanon, could not get decent help from them (only free toll numbers not working from abroad). I subscribed immediatly and I'm proud to be part of this funky community ;-)

[Brian]

OK, you just removed the obstacle that prevented me from subscibing. I'm in.

[mischakoning]

Great idea, have been waiting for direct CC acceptance for a while, so tonight I can finally become a paying member and help you keep the site as great as it's been for many years.

[jukka_lehmus]

Great news! Thanks for the CC option and the extra months.

 

I've been using photo.net as a non-sub for a few years and it feels good to be able to obtain a subscriber status now.

[mottershead]

I'm seeing some duplicates where it looks some people paid twice. If these are mistakes, which I think they probably are, please let me know. I'd like to know how they happened, so we can avoid them in the future. The ones I've spotted are from: Joanne Doyle, Joseph Lopez, and Heather Flaherty.

[tom t]

Thx Brian. I just renewed too. My subscription was up last August but since I hape PayPal I just let it be. This feature is appreciated!

 

Tom

[frank uhlig]

Dear Brian,

 

1) I have always shied away from paying phnet because of the "only paypal" connection.

 

2) I have always shied away from paying phnet because of the mandatory icons, extra workspace and other "priviliges". I hate rank and title and prefer to use none.

 

Now that my first objection has fallen, how about the second one?

 

Sorry to be so difficult.

[jcs56]

Brian:

 

Tanks for all!

[sl attanapola]

Excellent! NOT!

 

I subscribed on the 10th and NOW this happens!

 

I am not a happy bunny at all!

[jim mucklin]

Brian,

Thanks to you and all. Worked without a hitch. I too could not deal with paypal.

Jim Mucklin

[pmind]

Brian,

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Happy to help.

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Paul

[whitworth photography]

I was one of those you mentioned who have been waiting for a non-paypal option to become a member and now I am :)

[mottershead]

SL, I don't know how to resolve that. It would be better if we didn't have to have subscription drives and people just subscribed.

 

But it is obvious that many people need some impetus or encouragement to subscribe. We don't have the drives very often. Both of the previous ones were actually initiated by photo.net members, and the photo.net admin just went with the flow. This is the first one that we have actually initiated. But when there is a drive, the subscription rate goes from single digits per day, to dozens per day. It would make sense to have more drives except for two factors: if we had them all the time, people would wait to subscribe until the next drive, and we would always be making folks like you unhappy that they didn't get in on the drive.

 

So we don't plan on having many drives, or regular drives, and we plan on just springing them on the user base. But when we do have a drive, it has to start at some point and end at some point. There is always going to be someone who subscribed just before the drive started who is going to be unhappy, and someone who was just a bit too late, and who will also be unhappy.

 

If it is any consolation, we don't plan on having another drive again for a long time, and while we will most likely get a couple of hundred people to sign up during this drive, you haven't paid any more than the few thousand other subscribers.

[barefoot]

Brian

 

I extended my subscription on the 1st Sep during the first subscription drive and my 54

months were duly added. I also paid for another 54 months yesterday (13th) but so far no

sign of this. Is my second subscription considered an error by the system?

[vivek iyer]

I (like most here) was one who did not want to use ppal, otherwise, I would have renewed my subscription a long while ago. Drive or no drive, it is great to have this non-ppal option.

[dazftw]

YAY im a subscriber im so glad you brought the credit card payment in thanks again brian !

 

Cheers, darren

[albert_smith]

Brian,

 

I am so pissed. This is still not working for me. How can I be the only one in the world that can't access this service?

 

Every time I click on the link you provide, it takes me to that same screen with the two boxes for PayPal or credit card, but when I click on the link for credit card for one-year, it just takes me right back to the same screen. It never goes anywhere but that screen, along with the warnings about it not being secure popping up like before. Why am I alone not able to do this? I log-in and pay by credit card on dozens of sites. I am enabled for cookies, and when I go to Photo.net, I am already logged in, so my computer is recognized at your site.

 

I want to pay, I just can't. ;-(

[35mmdelux]

I disagree with the 3 posting scenario described above. Photogs need to see that there is value here and hence the reason for being a paid subscriber of the community. Had I only been allowed 3 postings I might have moved on to my other sources of info. because there would not have been enough exchange for me to see the value.

 

BTW I like paypal even though they've taken some big bites out of my sales. I use them as a firewall.

[mottershead]

Albert, scroll back a bit where I gave my hypothesis about why there is a problem, and provided a URL which you can try in order for us to see if I might be right. Maybe it is in the other thread.

[j_doyle]

Brian, Thanks so much for picking up a double payment from me. It was, indeed, in error. Somehow when I pressed submit, I think I hit back arrow (intending to return to gallery) but which instead brought me back to the "submit payment" page again leading me to (too hastily) believe the "submit" did't go through. It was my error...not any system problem. But I really appreciate your catching it. And also, appreciate all your hard work and dedication to this site. Regards, Joanne

[sandy.]

I am so glad you are doing well in the subscription drive. You'll be alright.

 

Good luck and keep on the good work.

 

Best regards / sandy

[iangillett]

Dear Brian,

 

I am also experiencing problems getting into the Subscription Renewal section. I scrolled back through the message but could not find the URL you referred to. Please could you help.

 

Many thanks

 

Ian

[sl attanapola]

I will just have to delay my renewal that's all(in 2006)! :(

[mottershead]

SL, if you renew now, you will get the 18 months tacked on to your current subscription. Quite a lot of people are renewing very early in order to take advantage of the upgrade. Probably they have noticed that we don't do a lot of these drives.

[mottershead]

Ian, there isn't really a renew button. You just buy another subscription using the same buttons. If you have an unexpired subscription, the new one gets tacked onto your current subscription. If your subscription has expired, you will just start a new subscription period.