How Much Do You Pay A Month For Your Car?
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Whoaaaaaaa there, sport.
Buying a membership is not a requirement for posting here. It's only a requirement if you wish to post items for sale and take advantage of other benefits that full membership provides. But it's free to post here as long as you want to without needing to pay, in case you were misinformed.
Rennlist is no longer a mom-and-pop operation but one of many automotive communities owned by a major corporation called Internet Brands who happens to own a large number of these online communites: http://www.internetbrands.com/ib
Paying for a membership is a pure waste of money if you don't intend to take advantage of the benefits that premium membership offers.
Buying a membership is not a requirement for posting here. It's only a requirement if you wish to post items for sale and take advantage of other benefits that full membership provides. But it's free to post here as long as you want to without needing to pay, in case you were misinformed.
Rennlist is no longer a mom-and-pop operation but one of many automotive communities owned by a major corporation called Internet Brands who happens to own a large number of these online communites: http://www.internetbrands.com/ib
Paying for a membership is a pure waste of money if you don't intend to take advantage of the benefits that premium membership offers.
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If he has no need for a premium membership - i.e. no need to post items for sale or a desire to access the OT Forum, and is perfectly content with posting in the tech forums - why should he waste his money buying something he doesn't need? Are you in the habit of wasting your money on things you don't need and will never use?
Maybe that's why he was able to afford paying cash for his car because he was smart with his money and didn't blow it on things he doesn't need nor will ever use. Just a thought.
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Oops, Ben, I do that all the time! ![Big Grin](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Let's not debate over a post-and-run troll who obviously confuses a Porsche with a $25 million yacht. Plus, while he may have written that check, it could still have bounced! Oh, and didn't we establish that "Joke" was "Gatsby" anyway? And "Gatsby", in turn, really was "MMD"? Oh well, the anonymous playground that is called Rennlist.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Let's not debate over a post-and-run troll who obviously confuses a Porsche with a $25 million yacht. Plus, while he may have written that check, it could still have bounced! Oh, and didn't we establish that "Joke" was "Gatsby" anyway? And "Gatsby", in turn, really was "MMD"? Oh well, the anonymous playground that is called Rennlist.
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You're missing the point.
If he has no need for a premium membership - i.e. no need to post items for sale or a desire to access the OT Forum, and is perfectly content with posting in the tech forums - why should he waste his money buying something he doesn't need? Are you in the habit of wasting your money on things you don't need and will never use?
Maybe that's why he was able to afford paying cash for his car because he was smart with his money and didn't blow it on things he doesn't need nor will ever use. Just a thought.
If he has no need for a premium membership - i.e. no need to post items for sale or a desire to access the OT Forum, and is perfectly content with posting in the tech forums - why should he waste his money buying something he doesn't need? Are you in the habit of wasting your money on things you don't need and will never use?
Maybe that's why he was able to afford paying cash for his car because he was smart with his money and didn't blow it on things he doesn't need nor will ever use. Just a thought.
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This thread really is separating the Democrats from the Republicans. Having said that, $17.00 a year isn't a lot to pay for anything nowadays, much less a website that goes a long way to help every Porsche owner. Whether you need it or not, isn't it a nice gesture to "pitch in" $17.00 to help subsidize a great website such as the Rennlist? Just a thought.
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In case you're not aware, those banner ads you see overhead are actually being paid for by the advertisers to Internet Brands, Inc. in the form of handsome ad revenue. That's why Internet Brands bought Rennlist, to profit from advertising revenue. It was purely a business decision, and you don't need an MBA to understand that. It's the same reason why General Electric bought NBC, to profit from advertising revenue. So when advertisers are paying over a million dollars for a 30 second ad during this year's Super Bowl on NBC, do you think your hypothetical seventeen dollar check to General Electric will amount to anything? Of course not.
Internet Brands owns many of these automotive communities, and many of them offer a premium membership (paid) and a regular membership (free). I would venture to guess that the cost of these premium memberships is barely enough to cover the processing cost of recording and documenting said memberships. I doubt much is going to the corporation after these costs are covered. But by and large the overwhelming source of their revenue is through advertisement in the form of the ads you see above.
So if it makes you feel better to think you are helping subsidize a major corporation with your measly seventeen dollar check, well don't let me disillusion you.
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WHO CARES?
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!
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WHO CARES?
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!![Big Grin](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!
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Please keep in mind that it's still the first week of the year.
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WHO CARES?
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!![Big Grin](https://rennlist.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Guys, if you want to discuss this, go to the OT. That's the place where my intelligently earned seventeen dollars subsidize dumb altercations with no purpose; that's the place where you find mentally debilitated morons who have arguments for argument's sake.
The poor original poster... we probably scared him off. Yo, Ferrariman, are you still there? We are usually much friendlier!
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With my comment I wasn't even specifically addressing Ben or you, and this thread most certainly wasn't anywhere near those OT threads yet. I was addressing the nature and irrelevancy of content of our interaction, and the direction that this thread had taken. Ben knows that, because he and I know each other personally from my visit with him, and I hope you understand that, too.
I do agree, though, that I am hypersensitive in this respect. I'm not going to spend my time arguing over everything that I disagree with or that I'm bothered by, and I try to not provoke even when I know I'm right (of course, that doesn't always work, particularly not this time). I'm the same in traffic, I don't care if someone cuts into my lane or not. If beating a Porsche in traffic is an accomplishment for them, then they really have nothing going for them in life.
I live a brilliant life, personally and professionally, primarily because I have been able to surround myself with positive people who actively engage in conflict avoidance. In the virtual world, that's who I find here in the 997 forum for the most part, and that's why I hardly ever visit the OT (once in the past three months), which is probably why I overreact when this kind of attitude finds its way over here.
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Thank you. But I hope you know exactly what I am referring to: it's those bitter, heated, opinionated, argumentative, polemic, meaningless, insulting, selfrighteous political/social/economic threads that are actually neither very open nor reflective of a discussion at all. Very apparently my "rant" excludes 95 percent of the OT threads and 99 percent of the OT posters, but if you look for those types of altercations, you'll find them there.
With my comment I wasn't even specifically addressing Ben or you, and this thread most certainly wasn't anywhere near those OT threads yet. I was addressing the nature and irrelevancy of content of our interaction, and the direction that this thread had taken. Ben knows that, because he and I know each other personally from my visit with him, and I hope you understand that, too.
I do agree, though, that I am hypersensitive in this respect. I'm not going to spend my time arguing over everything that I disagree with or that I'm bothered by, and I try to not provoke even when I know I'm right (of course, that doesn't always work, particularly not this time). I'm the same in traffic, I don't care if someone cuts into my lane or not. If beating a Porsche in traffic is an accomplishment for them, then they really have nothing going for them in life.
I live a brilliant life, personally and professionally, primarily because I have been able to surround myself with positive people who actively engage in conflict avoidance. In the virtual world, that's who I find here in the 997 forum for the most part, and that's why I hardly ever visit the OT (once in the past three months), which is probably why I overreact when this kind of attitude finds its way over here.
With my comment I wasn't even specifically addressing Ben or you, and this thread most certainly wasn't anywhere near those OT threads yet. I was addressing the nature and irrelevancy of content of our interaction, and the direction that this thread had taken. Ben knows that, because he and I know each other personally from my visit with him, and I hope you understand that, too.
I do agree, though, that I am hypersensitive in this respect. I'm not going to spend my time arguing over everything that I disagree with or that I'm bothered by, and I try to not provoke even when I know I'm right (of course, that doesn't always work, particularly not this time). I'm the same in traffic, I don't care if someone cuts into my lane or not. If beating a Porsche in traffic is an accomplishment for them, then they really have nothing going for them in life.
I live a brilliant life, personally and professionally, primarily because I have been able to surround myself with positive people who actively engage in conflict avoidance. In the virtual world, that's who I find here in the 997 forum for the most part, and that's why I hardly ever visit the OT (once in the past three months), which is probably why I overreact when this kind of attitude finds its way over here.
Finally this: I realize this is a tech forum, but most guys driving 997s, myself included, have few do-it-yourself issues (unless it's a mod of their choosing) because we're almost all under factory warranty. I had to laugh reading a thread a few months ago about the "Chickability" of driving a 997. The true Porsche gearheads are posting on the older tech forums. The guys on the 997 forum are half torn between writing about modifying their rigs and how good they look driving down the street. There's unavoidably a lot of OT.
Either way, Wolfgang, life is too short, and to that I say ... truce.
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