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Deciding between [one] year or three year Tug membership

dioxide45

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I haven't paid for a TUG membership in 15 years. I always have credits from reviews and referrals and the odd sweepstakes win to extend membership. If you stay at six or more timeshares in a year, you could renew indefinitely for free by just providing resort reviews.
 
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even one or two reviews of some resorts would earn a free year every year!
 
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TUGBrian said:
even one or two reviews of some resorts would earn a free year every year!
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That must be how we got to a 2025 expiration, because I don’t remember paying anything since we joined. But for various reasons our travel is greatly curtailed, and I won’t have any reviews to write, so I’m happy to get a discount on the extension!
 
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TheHolleys87 said:
That must be how we got to a 2025 expiration, because I don’t remember paying anything since we joined. But for various reasons our travel is greatly curtailed, and I won’t have any reviews to write, so I’m happy to get a discount on the extension!
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Did you perhaps win a TUG Membership extension via one of the sweepstakes? Facebook, YouTube or 30 year birthday drawings? Whenever I have review or referrals my mebership isn't usually extended more than one year and it only gets extended at the time it is up for renewal. Meaning I can't really use my existing referrals or review awards to extend my existing membership now. I would need to wait until I get the renewal email and ask then to use my awards to extend at that time. However, I did get a free one year membership from the 30th birthday prizes and that was noted right away in my expiration date.
 
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dioxide45 said:
Did you perhaps win a TUG Membership extension via one of the sweepstakes? Facebook, YouTube or 30 year birthday drawings? Whenever I have review or referrals my mebership isn't usually extended more than one year and it only gets extended at the time it is up for renewal. Meaning I can't really use my existing referrals or review awards to extend my existing membership now. I would need to wait until I get the renewal email and ask then to use my awards to extend at that time. However, I did get a free one year membership from the 30th birthday prizes and that was noted right away in my expiration date.
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Maybe, but in any case we’re now good until 2028!
 
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Also as a happy new years/welcome to 2024 bonus....anyone who wants to join for the first time can use the 3 year renewal option and join for 3 years at the $30 discount!

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correct, your forum registration will never expire =)

your paid TUG membership will reflect on your member dashboard as posted above! note that there has been an OVERWHELMING response to this post in todays newsletter, the payment system emails are delayed a few minutes so please be patient if your membership renewal isnt reflected immediately! I assure you everyone will get credit for all payments!
 
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I just paid through 2027. I think TUG is a great bargain. I enjoy reading the threads and participating in writing reviews.
 
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Have no idea when my current membership expires, but back for at least another 3 years!
 
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TUGBrian said:
correct, your forum registration will never expire =)

your paid TUG membership will reflect on your member dashboard as posted above! note that there has been an OVERWHELMING response to this post in todays newsletter, the payment system emails are delayed a few minutes so please be patient if your membership renewal isnt reflected immediately! I assure you everyone will get credit for all payments!
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What is todays newsletter? Am I missing something (or just dense ;))?
 
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TUG sends out a newsletter every week to over 60,000 subscribers! we also post them to all our social media pages (fb/twitter/etc)

it appears you had previously marked a newsletter as spam in the past, and as such it was not being sent to your email address for quite some time!
 
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People....it is only $15.00! Why all the chitty chatter for something so affordable????
 
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