Posted By: WalterBlack
TER is up for renewal. And it's a bit easier to justify not maintaining a TER VIP account for 1 year since I don't have any OKs or references or reviews here. How do most people deal with their TER VIP accounts? Do you pay per month you need VIP to get your research done? Also would I lose all my favorites if I lose VIP?
Your favorites and whitelist still exist on TER if you go back to basic membership - you just can't add new favorites, or send PM's, or see ratings/full reviews on basic.
If you don't plan to see anyone for a while, it may make sense to wait for a bit and renew TER before you are planning to see someone again so you can do research.
P411 is up for renewable as well.
Looking at my OKs I have 4 that are still active, but it's almost a year later. Not sure how much use they'd be at this point as references. Other providers I've seen were either in agencies, are UTR, etc so I wouldn't be able to use as references. If I let my P411 account expire do I lose all my OKs, searches, and favorites? Or is the info still there if I decide to activate a month later after it expires?
Another concern I had about P411....they came up in the news a few months back in Denver, Colorado. Granted it's been 2-3 months now, but I'm wondering what that means as a client.
I'd keep P411 active. I'm not sure what happens if you drop your account but probably you would not be listed as a long-term member, and if you decide to see someone on the spur of the moment it's good to have that as a reference you can use - even if the OK's are all old.
As for the P411 / news thing - they resolved that, it's not been an issue as far as I can tell.
Last thing I wanted to ask was regarding credit card. I made the silly mistake of using my actual card last time. I feel I should be a bit more secure and wondered how others tend to pay for TER and P411.
P411 allows for Western Union, and some other ways to pay by cash.
There's no choice besides credit cards with TER currently. I have to admit that has kept me from buying a quarterly/yearly VIP again after my VIP expired. It's pretty annoying as you only get VIP for two weeks after a review, then it goes back to basic again.
It depends on whether you think the value is worth the cost.
Sounds to me like you haven't used them all that much and don't think you will in the future. In which case it probably isn't cost effective to renew.
OTOH, if you think you will continue whore mongering, I would renew. I find them both extremely valuable for the cost. I've used my credit card for both and never had an issue.
