....wasn't that fee a lifetime membership fee. If so, shouldn't it be transferable to his other or new sites. Otherwise, it will last FAR short of my lifetime at the very least.


I guess i need to research that info tho, but as far as i can remember, it was a lifetime mebership fee.

it was a lifetime membership fee for NPGMC.

there's no NPGMC anymore.

so the lifetime is over.

i'd be surprised if the new site carries over the NPGMC memberships, but stranger things have happened.

I'm sorry but, if you paid for it, you're a member for life


There's no way out

PANDURITO said:

we're talking about a web site here, not herpes.






ok, wrong analogy

I'm not upset about paying a fee.. but I'm willing to bet anything you can "do" in the site, you can't actually keep. Or he'll put some expired thing on it.

Anxiety said:

PANDURITO said:

i agree with ya!

I honestly think it's a no-win situation. I paid for the lifetime membership too. Yet, as many others have stated, I don't believe it was for my lifetime.. simply the lifetime of the club itself.

Either way, a subscription or not, there would be a reason for people in general complain. The best part of it all is that nobody is forcing you to sign up. And if paying for access to NPGMC left you bitter or turned off- consider it a lesson learned and move on. Hate Prince, hate the internet, hate credit cards, hate cute little puppies, it's not going to change the fact that the money is long gone and no one here has enough to take on Prince's legal team to get it back. Call it a mistake and get on with your life.

I'll be paying again... only because I know I'd probably end up wasting that same amount of money on other crap, so why not? I don't see my hockey team making the playoffs, so bring on the silly fees!

MotoPsycho said:

if $77 to prince's site saves me at least that much in ticketmaster fees, then i won't complain.

Anxiety said:

Ticketmaster fees are sometimes as much as a ticket to events around here, so I agree completely.


I wanted to say that I got my money's worth out of the old site on tickets alone. I understand others may not have had the same experience. (Reminds me of the whole Crystal Ball pre-order disaster.) It's slightly similar to paying for a ticket to the movies. You don't know for sure what you're going to get, but you have to pay to get in regardless. Not many people, unless they're ticky tacky, get their money back if they hated the movie they saw.

I get that it's not that easy, but at the heart of it all- it's the same concept.

MotoPsycho said:

my $25 to NPGMC more than paid for itself in saved ticketmaster fees.

i'm not gonna nag about $25 for a "lifetime" fee.

let's wait and see what will happen...

tammie said:

I just think he should be more careful about how he advertises stuff. Selling a lifetime membership, then changing the name of the club and charging again is obviously going to piss some people off.

asideorderofham said:

Or putting up bogus dates on his new site..


or let's say.. deceiving things like "Listen/Watch/Buy January"

Anxiety said:

[Edited 2/3/09 5:14am]

MotoPsycho said:[quote]

Anxiety said:

As Christopher Tracy said...
"Me too"

Anxiety said:

That was not what was advertised.

Anxiety said:

That's not the case with many others.

Not me fortunately. I stopped falling for his cheap sales tricks years ago, but I know many thousands fell for it again.

I would agree that it's kinda stupid to really expect to be a life time member. The issue I have however is with the way it is advertised. Just like they expected, many thousands fell for it, actually expecting to be a member for at least a couple of years, but they only ended up with DRM laden, self destructing music files.

Not everybody had the pleasure to see him in concert and avoid ticket master fees you know.

So I am saying, that for those who expected more out of it than just that, this "77$" (How blasphemic is it actually too price your products in Biblical numbers?) just to be a member ("for life" again?) and get a T - shirt (who the hell wants a T - shirt these days?) is not exactly a bargain.

Al contrario.

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[Edited 2/5/09 14:37pm]

I dont care about the new fee I just want to pay it and have the site up and running.

sherylturk said:

Dont everybody got $75 to just give to a questionable cause.

I just hope it ends up like NPGMC where we have a place to freely be...not as if prince.org isnt but ya know.

It's just that every time U turn around, Prince has some other scheme he's starting, that's in contradiction with his prior scheme. I know people change their minds and shit, but at the end of the day, it seems all Prince stands for is money. I understand everybody gotta make a dollar. He need to make his love of the dollar public instead if using this "art first" guise to do it.

BobGeorge909 said:

Ugh.....

Anxiety said:

what does that mean then our life is over.. do we have to die now?
[Edited 2/6/09 12:59pm]

Anxiety said:

A lot of fans who were members of NPGMC had VIP tickets to his shows, I think that itself paid for the membership fees imho.

BobGeorge909 said:

I think for his type of business he has substantial expenses and he has to find different sources of income. I don't think he is being greedy at all.

Tremolina said:

i don't remember it advertised as a lifetime membership for any official prince site that might happen from now through the end of time. i assumed it was for THAT specific site. i had no inkling of a hint to believe otherwise. what made you think differently?

Anxiety said:

I remember it was simply advertised as "a lifetime memebership for 25$". So that could be interpreted it different ways. Like I said, I did not fall for that, but many thousands others did. I remember discussions in here about what to "xpect" from that offer and there were many fans who really genuinly believed that it would give them acces for at least several years, actually expecting the npgmc to last that long, or that Prince would otherwise extend their memberships to any new site. Reasonably speaking in their mind.