We all have a surprising amount of paperwork, stationery, and postage costs which we use to give info to non-members as a result of posting on this site. That comes out of Members contributions. this is in the hope people will signh up as full members - call it marketing!
We've tried to use a "something for your money" approach by asking people to buy back numbers of RVM - without significant success - some have kindly agreed to help via that route and they do get something in exchange. It seems however that the majority of non-members won't contribute anything. If the voluntary route doesn't work why should we fund everyone else?
As Caryl says £5.00 is a modest fee and I'd be quite prepared to have a reduced student / young persons rate of say £2.50, i think that's a really good idea and fair too.
Mike
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