English Chess Forum

I reproduce the following paragraph from the June e-newsletter just received. Anyone in a position to give more details?

"It's coming up to membership renewal time – Please watch this space in the upcoming July e-Newsletter for a special offer from our sponsors Tradewise, who are finalising the details of a free ECF membership deal for all chess players. The rates will be changing from September"

I assume this means a free insurance-related deal for ECF members rather than offers of free ECF memberships but the wording seems to me to verge, to put it no more strongly, on the ambiguous.

Roger Lancaster wrote:I reproduce the following paragraph from the June e-newsletter just received. Anyone in a position to give more details?

"It's coming up to membership renewal time – Please watch this space in the upcoming July e-Newsletter for a special offer from our sponsors Tradewise, who are finalising the details of a free ECF membership deal for all chess players. The rates will be changing from September"

I assume this means a free insurance-related deal for ECF members rather than offers of free ECF memberships but the wording seems to me to verge, to put it no more strongly, on the ambiguous.

I suppose the deal could be along the lines: take out insurance with us and we'll throw in free (Bronze?) membership of the ECF.

I was a little confused by the reference to "membership renewal time". Presumably the offer will apply for 2017/18 though there may still be players who have yet to renew for the current year - the deadline for doing this (and avoiding game fee charges) is imminent: 30 June.

can someone confirm what email address this newsletter was sent from?

Adam Raoof wrote:can someone confirm what email address this newsletter was sent from?

[email protected] is what appears at the top of the email.

Roger de Coverly wrote:

Adam Raoof wrote:can someone confirm what email address this newsletter was sent from?

[email protected] is what appears at the top of the email.

thanks Roger - weirdly this email came in to my inbox (I saw it on my phone) and then disappeared! I will have a closer look for it.

Tradewise have tweeted using their Chess News and Info page. https://twitter.com/tradewise64

Times Chess (ie Raymond Keene) has retweeted it, which is how I saw it in my news feed earlier.