There will soon be a subscription service available, which will mean you get a "Supporting Member" logo under your user name. This will allow access to a new Supporters Discussion area where trade advertisers will be offering discounts to those Members. The Supporters Forum may also be a little more relaxed on acceptable discussion content, but I would like input on this please.
You may also have noticed a star rating on each user name too. We are working on this, but it will be based on the length of registration on the forum AND number of contributing posts (that means all Dave Ett's smilies don't count towards his rating!!
). That star rating will effect your level of discount or access to certain special offers in the Supporters Discussion Forum. It means you can't just register and then instantly get £50 off a set of pipes for example! This makes it fair for the trade sellers who will effectively be sponsoring the system.
The Marketplace will be re-opening soon too, and I will be looking at discounting prices for Supporting Members in the same way.
I may implement 2 levels of Supporting Member at £10/$20 and £25/$50 which will entitle the Member to different benefits. These two amounts will be easily offset by the savings you can potentially make on purchases with the sponsoring companies; it also helps with the upkeep of the ever-growing cost of maintaining the Forum and Website (corporate hosting isn't getting any cheaper!).
As an example, a "basic Membership" @ £10 could allow access to the Supporters Forum and say a blanket 5% from all suppliers, where as a "premium Membership" @ £25 could give 10%, one-off special offers, and access to special group buys.
Like I say, this is all in the early stages, and I would like to hear everyone's views on this please. Participating suppliers are still to be confirmed just now, but you don't need to be rocket scientists to guess who's likely to be offering the deals!
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