I'm assuming that 1 year membership is £28, less £1 for joining/renewing online = £27David Robertson wrote: then wonder why £27 x 3 sums to £83
3 year membership is £28 x 3 = £84, less £1 for joining/renewing online = £83
I'm assuming that 1 year membership is £28, less £1 for joining/renewing online = £27David Robertson wrote: then wonder why £27 x 3 sums to £83
No, the password is my email address. Your email address is your username. It's important to get things the right way round.Alex McFarlane wrote:So the password is my email address.
It's whichever email address you registered when joining the ECF.Alex McFarlane wrote:But which email address? Is it the one the ECF has for me that it wouldn't allow me to use when joining (and the one it usually uses to contact me) or is it my spam email address which I was forced to use to join (which it has used once to contact me and fairly recently)?
The email address is the userid and the password something you make up. It doesn't have to be as the system can presumably function without a valid email addresses. I would be surprised if you (or at least the ECF) couldn't change it, indeed it would be a necessary part of system design that email addresses can change.Alex McFarlane wrote:So the password is my email address.
The point I am trying to make is that I couldn't join with my 'proper' email address as that was known to the system so I had to use my spam one. I was not alone in having this problem.Sean Hewitt wrote:It's whichever email address you registered when joining the ECF.
David - thanks very much for the constructive comments. I'm going to feed those into the powers that be so that the necessary changes can be made. Lke you, I also bumbled about wondering how to actually pay until I clicked on the payment button so this has been added specifically into the renewal notice.David Robertson wrote:OK, reporting back from the online frontline - some good; some bad; some very poor indeed.
I did as Sean directed. First, enter an email address as 'username'. Hhmm, BAD: which address - I have several; and which might ECF have? Anyhow, enter a likely address, and click 'forgot password' - even though I've never had a password to forget. And GOOD: a system-generated password landed swiftly in my Inbox. Next, enter that password, and GOOD: in we go. And GOOD: I'm prompted to change my password. But BAD, it takes three attempts before the system accepts my change. However, I'm optimistic: it will be easier next time - in 2016!
Ahead of me now lies 'Personal Details'; and GOOD: already filled in. But VERY POOR: nearly all the details contain errors, including errors in my name, address, title, club. Though GOOD: it's very easy to fix things. And as Roger has said: BAD - you seem to be given only a 2014 payment option. Nevertheless, save the changes and press on.
At this point, I expected to be sent to payment. So I spent a minute or two gormlessly waiting for the payment page to appear. Alas, nothing, nada! Instead you have to nip to the menu buttons at the top, and click 'Payment' yourself. No big deal, of course, once you realise there's no auto-transfer as on other sites.
The payment page is GOOD: it contains all the membership period options up to Aug 2016. I decide on Gold 3-year; then, flooded with benevolence and public spirit, click Platinum 3-year instead. Bung in a donation to the International team, and I'm done. Payment options are GOOD.
Overall VERDICT?
GOOD. OK, there are a few niggles, as reported. But they're easily overcome. Once people become familiar with the process, it should be very easy indeed
Ah, OK. I see what it means now. I thought Gold annual was £27Mick Norris wrote:I'm assuming that 1 year membership is £28, less £1 for joining/renewing online = £27David Robertson wrote: then wonder why £27 x 3 sums to £83
3 year membership is £28 x 3 = £84, less £1 for joining/renewing online = £83
This is extremely easy. Without wishing to take sides in the Windoze-Linucks wars, all one has to do is use a password manager, for instance KeePass (KeePassX in Linux). One then has only the one, very long, password to remember for every site that requires a password. If one's memory really is that hopeless, one can use a USB memory stick, for instance, to gain access to the password manager on a home computer.Roger de Coverly wrote:Provided you can remember both the email address used and the password ...