Car Audio Central - Ultimate Car Audio Forum and Community

Welcome to all new members! This thread is intended to inform you of the ways you can support the wonderful forum we all know as Car Audio Central!



I have noticed, and I’m sure many of the already existing members here have too, that we are getting about 2-3 new members a day! This is great! It shows we are expanding; Some forums start out small and humble such as ours, and grow into large overrun forums, where you can't even get a straight answer from someone!

I'm glade to say that here at CAC the Admins, and Mods will NEVER let that happen!



For all of the new members and even those who have seniority, I’m asking for your support of the forum! As most of you probably know, and for those of you who are new and don't know you can help keep CAC up and running.



CAC is a non-profit board. All of the money it collects (Which isn’t all that much) goes right to the costs of running a message board. There are many costs, web-hosting fees, storage space, vb licenses, monthly dues, etc. And as the board grows these services need to be upgraded, resulting in higher bills. The founders of this board have been doing all they can to keep the board up and running, and I think that we can all spare a $10.00 to help them out. You may not think your money will go very far but trust me it will! Do the math, if every member here would be so kind as to chip in $10.00, we’d have 5,000 dollars to pay for the upcoming bills (which never fail to arrive J )!



What do I get in return for supporting the forum might you ask!? Well for starters you become a PLATNIUM MEMBER! This new status allows you to add an avatar (a picture of your choice next to your name) Your own custom signature, Your own custom user title, instead of that plain and boring “member” one you have. You will also receive your very own web page, and guestbook. Like to private message? Well if you upgrade to PLATNIUM MEMBER you can store up to 100 pm’s vs. the 20 or so you get with the regular status. You may have noticed that there are parts of the board that say for PLATNIUM MEMBERS only! Ever wonder what goes on in there? Well now you can find you for yourself! The rewards are endless, and all for less then $1.00 a month! This is not a contract nor do you have to pay anything. It’s a $10.00 at a crack “donation” that will get you one full year of rewards! When the next year arrives your membership is expired and you are given the option to either renew or go back to your regular member status.



So please help the CAC community out and Sign up for Platinum memberships:



You can do so by clicking http://www.caraudiocentral.net/forums/s ... tions.php?

(Not quite sure if this way will work or not, your better off going to paid subscriptions in your USER control panel).


Or going into your User Control panel, going down to Paid subscriptions (on the left side of your screen towards the bottom)!



Any of one of the admins/mods will be willing to help too! Just ask!

Thanks a million to ALL of those who have helped us out!

-Dave

$5,000 would probably pay off all of this forums fee's for more then a year.

Webhosting is cheap, even for good quality stuff. AVB licensing isn't that much either.

After maybe $1000, you're just putting money in their pockets. (not that i don't support paying for platinum memberships)

Darthness wrote:$5,000 would probably pay off all of this forums fee's for more then a year.

Webhosting is cheap, even for good quality stuff. AVB licensing isn't that much either.

After maybe $1000, you're just putting money in their pockets. (not that i don't support paying for platinum memberships)

And what ever is left over is saved for next years fees, etc.

They would not pocket this money i assure you of that!

It doesn't matter what everything totals up to, its the fact that if there isn't support for the forum, there will be NO FORUM.

I believe the total per year is around $200. The initial cost of the VB software was $160 if I remember right and the yearly renewal of the license is $60 + yearly webhosting. Currently, we have 22 platinum members including admins and mods. $220 per year for all of this site's expenses. And that is only IF they stick around and pay again the following year.

The more people signing up means that we could hold drawings for car audio prizes. I know Justin could get us some good stuff cheaply! Being a platinum member doesn't just get you all kinds of little gadgets for the board, you get most importantly a voice that holds much more value than any non-paying member.

Actualy we have the first year of Updates from VBoard included with initial purchase.

To my knowledge there is NO renewal fee for VBoard uless we want to be able to download updates past the one year mark.

Webhosting at current traffic volume is $72 per year.

Extra moneies may be used for fundraisers, stickers, t-shirts and other things.

So pay up people

can you send you $10 any other way than paypal, hard for a 15 year old to grab a hold of a credit card, its usally called stealing lol. If I can send a money order or something then i can pay up.

Sure you can send a money order. Let me talk to over and figure out where to send it.

if everyone paid for platinum, we could afford to offer incentives, like merchandise for new members. ie shirts, hats, stickers. that would be awesometo see.

honestly this board has saved me so much time and money and taught me so much that I didn't even have the slightest objection to $10.00, and I won't next year, or the years to come. $10.00 is nothing for what ive learned from these guys, and the time they've taken.

Ditto. The board has saved me hundreds when i first started out, there was a time when Audiobahn rocked my world baby! lmao then i learned quite a lot more and saved my self hundreds of dollars by buying the good stuff!

Thanks peeps!