Paid Subscription?

[Ron61]

I tend to go along with the spam believers. For one thing this phrase alone is not that you would just lose the extra space, "access will be removed." That is saying thet you sould be blocked from the site and I don't believe for a minute that Ron, Jamo, or Brent would send such a thing. They would send you something more informational than that. As suggested above, point at the link and look down in the lower left hand corner and see where it says it is going.

Ron

[1ntCobra]

Ron,

I got the same email a couple days before my subscription was about to expire. I just went back and found the email in my deleted mail folder. If I hover over the link in the email, it shows me that the destination is club cobra. If it was spammers, how would they know that my subscription was about to expire in a couple of days? And they are silly spammers for sending me back to club cobra to make my payment.

I just think the wording of the email could use some tweaking.

Originally Posted by Ron61

I tend to go along with the spam believers. For one thing this phrase alone is not that you would just lose the extra space, "access will be removed." That is saying thet you sould be blocked from the site and I don't believe for a minute that Ron, Jamo, or Brent would send such a thing. They would send you something more informational than that. As suggested above, point at the link and look down in the lower left hand corner and see where it says it is going.

Ron

[Ron61]

OK, my bad. This must just pertain to those who have the stars and stuff and maybe the site is set up to automatically send out that email. I think the intent then would be that you would just lose the extra space in your Albums and the other extra privileges that you gain as I can't believe they would kick you off the site since your donation was voluntary. Thanks for straighting me out as I was in error thinking it was spam.

Ron

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

Ron,

I got the same email a couple days before my subscription was about to expire. I just went back and found the email in my deleted mail folder. If I hover over the link in the email, it shows me that the destination is club cobra. If it was spammers, how would they know that my subscription was about to expire in a couple of days? And they are silly spammers for sending me back to club cobra to make my payment.

I just think the wording of the email could use some tweaking.

[55312]

The link brought me right to the Club Cobra web site and the section saying contribute or lose the extra benefits etc. etc.. It's something Brent et al generated here.

It use to be that the trophies, stars and the like indicated people that repeatedly contributed to the site, not how much photo memory there was. If you're going to generate this type of nonsense, at least tone down the language. The best way, in my humble opinion, to generate revenue for the web site is to run another donation drive. It's always worked well and never generated threatening e-mails.

BTW this is the whole e-mail

Dear 55312,

Your access to the paid subscription "Club Cobra Gold Star Contributor" is about to expire.

If you have selected a recurring subscription you will be automatically billed for the renewal, else to renew this subscription you must visit http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/payments.php

If you do not extend your subscription, access will be removed.

All the best,
Club Cobra

Tim