Thread: To Pay or Not To Pay - Please Vote !!

Greetings AA Members,



The owners and myself have sat down and had a serious talk about AA and its future. We believe that AA (especially its members) would benefit alot more if we went back to our roots and were a free site again.



This post's intent is for us to get a general feel of what the members of AA want. We want YOU all to decide on the best course of action and to have a say in the future of AA. As I have said, we would prefere to go back to being free to use. If you all decide to agree with this then AA will set a date that it will revert back to being a free site again. The date will be exactly 1 Year after its last paid member. This way our paid members get the benefits that they have paid for aswell as AA honouring the contract.



We believe that being free will entice more people to join, thus raising the chances of its members being able to help each other more.

To help us with server overheads, AA will set up a donations area for any members that are willing to help with the cost of running the site.



Please vote as YOUR input is very important to us. If you do not agree please reply to this post explaining your reasons. I thank you in advance.



Best regards.

Hi Jon



I'll go along with what Mary said, at the end of the day if being a free site is the best way to go then that is fine and i will be more than happy to donate to help the site pay for itself.



Mary im sure you will get the same as you do now, i cant see that anything will be restricted in anyway.



If im wrong on this im sure Jon will put me right

Hi Mary,



Thanks for the Q's. The answer is simple, once we become a free site everything will be free. You WILL NOT lose any of the features that are currently on AA.

We will rely on the good nature of our members to donate what ever they can to help us out.



Bottom line is you WONT lose anything, you just wont be paying for it.



Regards

Hi, I know I'm new to this site, but I would like to make a comment .

You are providing a service, and £5 a year hardly breaks the bank! If someone is really interested in wanting information from somewhere, then they are willing to pay. I can't see why it would affect interest in a site.

I'm also a member of Genes reunited, and ancestry which charge a fee. I've even used pay per view sites ( especially for Scotland ) which can be a pain, especially if you waste 5 credits on looking at something which turns out irrelevant!

I myself would personally like to take part in inputting data on a geneaology site, I find it really interesting!

That's my 2 cents!

Hi Dominex,



Firstly, please do share your comments. Just because you are new does not mean you can'y add your view. We want to hear them so thank you for your input.



The idea of going back to being a free site is a personal choice that the owners are looking into. We are not out to become millionaires, we just want a happy community in which to help others.

If you are interested in helping input data into sites then you are at the right place, we are currently looking for people to help us transcribe the 1841 London census onto MS Excel, if you are interested.



Thank you very much for your input, it is greatfully received.



Kind regards

Hi Dominex



Your 2 cents are appreciated, very good points you have made.

Your input is most welcome, and valued especially as a new member.



Thankyou

Oh Dear, excel isn't one of the tings I have on this computer, or not to my knowledge.

Actually only found that out the other day, when the IoM registry office sent me a file of a request form. I couldn't open it! Is excel what is needed?

Afraid so Dominex,



To save time uploading the names to the database, we require the data in Excel format.

Thank you for your interest though. Much appreciated.



Regards.

Jon, I'll go along with whatever you all decide, but I'm more than happy to continue paying £5 or more for all the benefits I recieve from my membership, and I can't see that this small sum would put anyone off joining, especially when you consider the subscriptions you're required to pay to join, for example, Ancestry. But whatever you think is best is okay by me, as long as the owners personally are not out of pocket.

Sorry, I suppose that's not very helpful, really.

anny.