Subscription

[GPZ1000RX]

Sorry to bother you all again with the same old saw but I still don't seem to be recognized as a subscriber.

I filled in the online form, got transfered to paypal to open an account so that I could pay the £15, filled in their form including an instruction to pay Tamiya club £15 subs using my credit card, got all the paypal notifications back complete with notice that to pay the club £15 I would have to sign up for an enhanced account (fee $1.95) signed up for that, got the security code on my monthly bill, entered that on the on line paypal form, got cleared and............ BINGO......................nothing.

Something seems very clunky with all this, not sure if it is me, paypal, the club or all three!

My paypal account doesn't show a debit and my credit card bill shows only the $1.95 paypal fee for the enhanced account.

Do I have to resubmit the club form or what?

Is there any other way of paying my subs (by post for instance), I am an old git!!!!

I started all this on Jan 27th and am finding it all more than a little confusing, can anyone offer advice or suggest an alternative payment method suitable for the club?

Cheers guys.

[Lucodeath2]

Try verifying your e mail address with paypal.

I got my code but I had to do that to get the account working.

Luke

[netsmithUK]

Lets try and narrow it down to some simple facts

if there is nothing in your paypal account history to say £15.00 has been deducted then no fees have been paid to the club.

What has probably happened is Paypal gave up on your first payment as you had not been verified by them. Them sending you a code and you typing it in is all their doing nothing to do with the club. All you will have done is verified you details with them. Hopefully now you should be able to transfer money from you account with no problems.

Chances are you just need to go through the tamiyaclub subscription payment again. Neither the club or paypal will remember transactions that have only made it part way before a problem has occured. (or are you saying you have tried since you verified your papypal account and it still has not worked?)

The whole process is normally straight forward, its just been complicated in your instance as you were not a verified member of paypal before trying to make a payment.

BTW Hopefully this will all get sorted but if it doesn't please don't start anymore threads about it. It makes it much easoer for anyone interested to follow if all the posts/advice are in one thread.

Chris

[Lucodeath2]

Yes, I had to re apply then the membership came through straight away.

[GPZ1000RX]

Thanks Lucodeath and Netsmith for your assistance, I've just resubmitted my subs to the club and...........BINGO............success!!!!

Was I unnecessarily worried? probably! Am I I.T. illiterate? certainly!

Which leads me to an idea:-

For the over 50's Tamiya fans out there (like me) a few "idiots guides" somwhere very visible on the site would be very helpful. Before I stumbled on this club I had never heard of PayPal and never visited Ebay! So, to the understandable exasperation of netsmith, I found it very difficult to join and subcribe.

I probably belong to the first generation of Tamiya fans and believe that the reason for the makes huge popularity is that Tamiya make what was previously very difficult for many (building a viable RC car)as easy as possible. In terms of instructions and build friendliness they are still the best!

In terms of the site and joining up etc maybe the Tamiya club could split it all up into Tamiya style, IT idiot proof steps for us more mature guys for whom "threads" "fields" "format" "HTML" etc etc is a foreign language.

Perhaps also, a beginners guide to RC cars would be good, I could even help out with that, I've been racing eletric cars (slot & RC) since 1967 and am an electrical engineer by trade so know a bit about electric motors for instance.

Thanks again guys hope to be of some help soon, Paul.