I don't think its a rant at all.

Please make sure you let me know when you advertise your stuff on e-bay.

regards yakman

Best regards Chris

Mark
RR BV55YYN

What I own is not an indicator of what I can and cannot afford:cool:

Most forums are free if you what them to be, but cost money to run ! and most asked for a donation, like LR4x4 as you know

Most of this forum is only accessible to Member only,, and that's the way it should be :), a benefit for current contributing members,

However, maybe !! the for sale section should be a open section, as that may benefit paying members

As we  can see there are a lot of different views on the subject and consensus does not seem obvious within the club.

Could I also just remind that that we are under a transition period  with a New Comittee in place for not even a week.

Having said that, we posted (within 3 days after the new Committee being officially transitioned) a summary of the key actions points we will  undertake to address the most important issues under a new section on the forum  "Committee Notice Board". Within that  post we  had--

"3- Membership Matters: Within two weeks (24th March), all Committee members will provide ideas to Paul on how to improve value of the membership for new and current, UK and international members. Respecting the same deadline, we welcome ideas from all club members, which should be sent to the club's Secretary -Augusto, who will then consolidate them all and report back to Paul."

I will take note of all points of view in these thread and put them forward to Paul and the rest of the Committee.

Rob.

Welcome to the forum.

The current cost for the club membership is £30/year. We should be re-opening shortly for new membership,  so please keep an eye for it.

The Membership Officer is Paul  Burt (pjb), so please send him a note if you are  interested and  have a look at the "Joining the Club" section of the forum for more details.

As you read  from this tread we are working towards providing more value to members and we expect to report on that soon.

Hope you will also join us!

At present all suggestions are being collated and will be discussed and hopefully agreed at the next conference call the beginning of April.

As soon as the club bank account has been sorted, it will be ...... all systems go............ :D

New Bank Account eh.....Give us some dosh:D

Obviously we can't see that benifit be we do have a lot to give to the club. Thats why I suggested an associate membership - and plenty of clubs have that facility. In effect it would be a forum use fee for "foreigners". Just make sure we can pay by paypal. Remember 30 quid is $60 dollars and that in real terms to those of us who earn in dollars equates to 60 quid which by any standards is expensive. I know because I am a brit living in the US.

BTW I'm happy to coordinate things in the US for the club if its too much from the UK. Also - this isn't by any means a rant!:D

Pete

Can I be one of those then please!:)

Great news!

Paul (the new Membership Secretary and Treasurer) has asked me to publish the new membership form and paypal details for those wanting to join :)

Full details are available at http://www.g4ownersclub.com/join/

Cheers,

Peter

What he said!! absolutely no point me 'joining' for the amount of relevant threads, I mainly used to browse but £30? that's nearly half a tank of fuel or three hours worth of beer tokens FFS!

Hows torque tune?

:ermm:when was the last time you filled up at the retail pumps

so for £60 thats nearly a tank full as opposed to the £95 for shell v-power

regards

martin

It's all for fun, main thing is to enjoy the toys while we still can.               Roll on 2009 and another set of vehicles!

PS  Our Silver Torq Tuned oil burning G4's are only a second slower to 60 than the V8... and 22mpg combined, 30 on a run!!   All the 2009 fleet are diesels.  :crying:

when the club was first set up we were advised not to pester the "names" from the 03 and 06 challenges, information was sparse for the 03 event and somewhat better documented for 06 although by no means complete or perfect.

the fee for membership was set out as a commitment from members who were percieved as wanting to belong to a like minded body. just having access to the forum promotes a take it or leave it attitude and quite rightly some pepole only need the forum to check on a vehicle reg or chassis number and may well be totally disinterested in off roading or socialising.

therefore the balance will always be in a state of flux and not everything will be of interest or benefit to every member.

hopefully yourself and other insiders and "names" will offer information and access to records for the benefit of all

regards

martin

I'm glad to help all I can, and hopefully for future events too. My point was that we cannot now see what people want to know..Think I've probably been drained of anything useful to you by now anyway!

 Let's end this thread and no doubt bump into you to all at some event during the year.

Cheers, Richard.

Right; following a quick straw poll of the committee we're going to open the For Sale section up for Forum Members to be able to view as a trial period.

For now, only paid up 'Club Members' can post new items in the section, but now at least everyone can see whats available so hopefully this will help.

Obviously discussions continue about other changes to membership for overseas members etc....