>Hi JVP,
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>>Why should anybody get a free ride here??
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>Don't you? Naw, I'm just kidding about that, you've earned it, BUT!, if it weren't for a free membership I owuld have never made it in here. I That means I wouldn't even know the community even existed, it would just be dumb old me with no help in front of a computer.
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>On top of that, not everyone can pay $50 US Dollars, especially non North Americans. We would have never seen the likes of Cetin Basoz or Arnon around here.
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>Its hard to sell a $50 dollar membership to something you can't see, but, those that do use the UT can gladly find $100 dollars worth it.

Fair enough. How about a minimal cost of say $15 dollars. I like the refund idea that John proposed. Even that's not a perfect solution. There are no perfect solutions. You could have people continually signing up under bogus names and getting refunds every 30 days.