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  • Re: Defeated by stunning SSA website - again

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Dec 20 12:42:24 2022
    On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 3:27:14 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    Perhaps I'm just not technically savy, but...
    Good Grief, how does one RENEW a membership on this P.O.S. web site?
    Just wasted 10 minutes and cannot figure it out!
    Dave, settle down and understand that it took only 72 hours to get to the moon, yet we have been struggling with this Jurassic website for a long period of time. Try to get to the magazine section and you must log in once again. We should all just throw
    in a few bucks to have the website rebuilt and making it functional. I will donate the first 250 bucks. OBTP

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  • From Dave Nadler@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 20 15:27:07 2022
    Perhaps I'm just not technically savy, but...
    Good Grief, how does one RENEW a membership on this P.O.S. web site?
    Just wasted 10 minutes and cannot figure it out!

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  • From Jon@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Dec 20 13:34:55 2022
    On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 12:42:26 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 3:27:14 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    Perhaps I'm just not technically savy, but...
    Good Grief, how does one RENEW a membership on this P.O.S. web site?
    Just wasted 10 minutes and cannot figure it out!
    Dave, settle down and understand that it took only 72 hours to get to the moon, yet we have been struggling with this Jurassic website for a long period of time. Try to get to the magazine section and you must log in once again. We should all just
    throw in a few bucks to have the website rebuilt and making it functional. I will donate the first 250 bucks. OBTP
    Mine is set to auto renew but it should be under your name at the top -> "Membership Subscriptions". From there it should have your status and you can click "View" and the rest should pop up.

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  • From Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot)@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Dec 20 14:54:00 2022
    On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 3:27:14 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    Perhaps I'm just not technically savy, but...
    Good Grief, how does one RENEW a membership on this P.O.S. web site?
    Just wasted 10 minutes and cannot figure it out!
    Just one advantage of being a life member since the '70's.

    Agreed, things for actual members can be tough to get to/find.

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  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to Dave Nadler on Tue Dec 20 16:38:09 2022
    Well, I first tried the technical approach by right clicking in the
    website and selecting "View HTML source for this page" or some such.
    Then I searched for "renew" and found 19 instances of the word, "renew".
    Not being an HTML guru, I went back to the ssa.org home page and
    searched <Ctrl-F> for the word "renew" there it was right near the top
    of the home page. Then, I suppose, it's just a matter of following the instructions.

    But, somehow my membership expired and, as I've seen nothing of value in
    the magazine in a long time, I just let it go.

    Dan
    5J

    On 12/20/22 13:27, Dave Nadler wrote:
    Perhaps I'm just not technically savy, but...
    Good Grief, how does one RENEW a membership on this P.O.S. web site?
    Just wasted 10 minutes and cannot figure it out!

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  • From Moshe Braner@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 20 22:46:33 2022
    IIRC, to renew your SSA membership, you have to go to the "store" (a
    third login!) and there essentially buy a gift membership for yourself.
    Last year I managed to mangle it so that I got a new membership
    number, and had to ask them to cancel that and assign it to my old number.


    Here is the email I sent to the SSA last year after it got messed up:

    "Tried to renew my SSA membership electronically, as always it was
    difficult. I have never been able to login to the "new web site", only
    the "old" one hidden within members.ssa.org. And I gather the SSA
    "store" is yet another login. This is very confusing. When I used my
    email address ________ in this renewal, I got a message saying an
    account already exists with this email address, please log in. Which I
    don't know how.

    So I used another email address I have, ________. Got a reply email
    that a new account has been created with that address. So now my
    "member profile" is brand new? Did my renewal get linked to my old
    membership? Will I now get all SSA emails twice? And will I have even
    bigger problems renewing next year? All I wanted was to renew the
    existing membership. Please delete the ________ e-address (and the new
    member profile) and retain the ________ address.

    And please make *everything* work with one login.

    Also, I hate handing 3% of every transaction to the banksters. You
    should set up a way to pay that does not use a credit card - and does
    not require a paper check. Direct ACH transfer. It's 2022!"


    Stunning indeed. Maybe this year I'll just mail a paper check to stay
    out of trouble.

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Moshe Braner on Tue Dec 20 19:57:07 2022
    On Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 9:46:37 PM UTC-6, Moshe Braner wrote:
    IIRC, to renew your SSA membership, you have to go to the "store" (a
    third login!) and there essentially buy a gift membership for yourself.
    Last year I managed to mangle it so that I got a new membership
    number, and had to ask them to cancel that and assign it to my old number.


    Here is the email I sent to the SSA last year after it got messed up:

    "Tried to renew my SSA membership electronically, as always it was
    difficult. I have never been able to login to the "new web site", only
    the "old" one hidden within members.ssa.org. And I gather the SSA
    "store" is yet another login. This is very confusing. When I used my
    email address ________ in this renewal, I got a message saying an
    account already exists with this email address, please log in. Which I
    don't know how.

    So I used another email address I have, ________. Got a reply email
    that a new account has been created with that address. So now my
    "member profile" is brand new? Did my renewal get linked to my old membership? Will I now get all SSA emails twice? And will I have even
    bigger problems renewing next year? All I wanted was to renew the
    existing membership. Please delete the ________ e-address (and the new
    member profile) and retain the ________ address.

    And please make *everything* work with one login.

    Also, I hate handing 3% of every transaction to the banksters. You
    should set up a way to pay that does not use a credit card - and does
    not require a paper check. Direct ACH transfer. It's 2022!"


    Stunning indeed. Maybe this year I'll just mail a paper check to stay
    out of trouble.
    They told me last year that the auto-renew is no longer available due to security issues. So I renewed with the understanding that I would get the magazine issues that I ended up missing - didn't happen.

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  • From R@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 20 20:17:21 2022
    SSA.org
    Tap RENEW MEMBERSHIP icon on right side.
    Fill in data

    R

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