Note these provisos for the renewal options: Platinum Club Membership Renewal- Monthly Plan *Platinum Club Membership - Monthly Plan requires 11 monthly payments of $7.95 after the initial payment in order to maintain membership privileges. If at any time you cancel your membership or one of your automatic monthly payments are defaulted upon, you will be required to re-start your membership at a cost of $29.95. It is importantly to realise that you are buying a monthly payment plan for an annual membership. You cannot cancel your membership (except, presumably, by using the 30 day unconditional guarantee). If you try to cancel (?) or default on a monthly payment - you will be charged another $29-95 and must continue paying for the remainder of your membership period. This is something to bear in mind if you run your card account/s close to the credit limit. These are fair enough, but definitely something potential purchasers should be aware of. Platinum Club Membership Renewal- Annual Plan *Platinum Club Membership - Annual Plan only requires one payment of $69.95 in order to maintain membership privileges for a full 12 months. If at any time you cancel your membership, you will be required to re-start your membership. I do not know what the final sentence means. If there is a facility on the DAZ site for a PC member to cancel their membership it has escaped my notice. If you've paid up for a year, and the 30 day money back guarantee has passed, the only effective way of 'cancelling' would be to not buy anything. They surely don't mean that once you're in you have be a PC member - FOREVER! ;-)

xoconostle wrote: "Do the monthly thing for a few months and evaluate the value for your purposes." You can't. You can only buy an annual membership for the Platinum Club. The only difference is in the way you pay for it. The "monthly thing" is an ongoing payment plan for an annual membership. This is precisely why I posted this...

The pardon is granted, xoconostle, though it is somewhat superfluous since I am talking about renewals. I don't have any "issues". I'm not saying DAZ is doing anything wrong. I have posted this here for fellow Renderosity members.

Ummm ... I don't think they're saying that there's a cancellation charge of $29.95. If you cancel now, then restart the membership later on, then you have to pay the $29.95 just like a brand new person would who's just starting the Plat Club membership.

If at any time you cancel your membership or one of your automatic monthly payments are defaulted upon, you will be required to re-start your membership at a cost of $29.95.

I've read and reread the DAZ PC stuff..plus its changed a coupl eof times over the last month or 2... Do you get the $30 voucher as a voucher, or does it just come off the regular $99 annual fee when you renew??? Do you get the $30 voucher if you renew by the month??

Er, xonocostle, any "attitude" is in the eye of the beholder. I don't have a problem with DAZ and I don't have a problem with you. If you think I'm talking crap please carry on saying so. ;-) I appreciate what you and Crescent are saying about there not being a "cancellation charge" as such. I didn't mean to imply that there was such a specific thing. But in the case of the "Monthly Plan" DAZ is clearly and irrefutably talking about an annual arrangement. They specifically describe a one off payment followed by 11 required monthly payments - that's the 'plan'. If the "Monthly Plan" were just a, well, monthly plan, then there wouldn't be any need to talk about the plan lasting a year, with a set number of required payments (nor about "extending" it and "renewing" it). It would just be an open-ended arrangement that could cease at any time payments were stopped. xonocastle wrote: "In other words, I don't believe that those renewing on the monthly plan will be expected to renew it again in a year. It renews monthly, as it were." I guess we'll only find that out for sure in a year's time. As things stand, renewing members currently on a monthly plan appear to be obliged to purchase a full year's membership on the "Annual Plan" if they wish to remain in the Platinum Club. DAZ seem pretty keen on the notion of memberships lasting a year. As can be seen in the thread below this one, DAZ are describing both renewal methods, "Monthly Plan" and "Annual Plan", as signing up for a second year. I don't know what DAZ will do if someone on a "Monthly Plan" stops payments before all 11 required monthly instalments have been made. Their "small print" is ambiguous to say the least. At the moment my interpretation of it is as a contract similar to so many other instalment arrangements - payments must be maintained for the stated period. Otherwise, why have a stated period at all and use the word "requires" in relation to the payments?

Thank you PJ for spelling that out, especially about the monthly plan. I certainly appreciate the effort, as it was the deciding factor to me to spring for the annual payment instead. :)

Now if somebody can explain to me why I cannot use my VISA card to pay for my renewal, I will be a very happy camper indeed. ;)

Where the frig you been, PJ?

/P

"If you think I'm talking crap please carry on saying so." For crying out loud, I never said any such thing. My responses to you were completely in a friendly spirit, and were also intended to help clear up the understandable confusion on the renewal issues. When you say things like what I've quoted and some of the other little things you've said in this thread, you do indeed convey a condescending attitude. C'mon, "the pardon is granted?" Gosh, thanks, your majesty, LOL. Enough of these childish games. I did my best to be diplomatic once you started condescending, but ended up deleting my posts partially out of disgust, but more out of a desire not to contribute to anyone else's confusion on the real issue. Let's put this silliness behind us, cool? Cool. :-)

xonocostle, when I said I didn't have a problem with you, I meant it. The line of mine you quoted is followed by a winky smilie. As with the last line of my first post, that means what was said was in jest. I certainly haven't intended any slight against you in this thread, and I'm sorry if that's how I've come across. There are no games, there is no silliness. There is no spoon...

OK, thank you very much, I appreciate it, and also apologize for my role in anything negative. :-)

Dave-So,
Don't know if you got your answer or not, but when I renewed last night on the $69.95 yearly renewal plan, I got a $30 voucher in my account and the freebie pack. I don't think you get the voucher on the monthly plan according to their latest text, just the freebie pack

shadowWind..thanks:) I think I'm all straight now... need to conme up with $70... However, I'm not sure I'll renew this year..except for DAZ studio coming apparently in December..or at least that's what the DAZ banner says...

I'll probably wait until payday (Tuesday, thank the gods!) to re-up my yearly membership, but how am I to pay if I can't use my VISA? I was notified recently that my PayPal account was expiring and I did nothing about it, since I rarely use it....was that a major 'OOPS?' on my part?