Member's Gallery renewal,,, SCALED BACK by popular demand... WE HAVE HISTORY IN THESE PHOTOS!

When we first built our gallery, it was $150 a year...  a couple years later it went to $200 a year (which is approx $16 a month)...  then they bumped it to $300 a year!  ok, we handled that for the last couple years, but I really didn't like it bla-bla-bla....

Well, the price went up AGAIN!!!   Almost $400 a year....   BUT...

When we joined, it was with ALL the "bells and whistles", which after all this time I really don't think we need...  

So here's the deal....  we could pay a bunch of $$$ (which I would need some BIG donations to cover) to keep it as we have it,

OR we could get rid of it entirely and start over,

OR scale it down to a reasonable fee that I won't lose sleep over  and hope for the best...

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The  is in YOUR court!  What shall I do?  I've just got a couple of weeks to change things, or get rid of it (NO WAY are we gonna pay that kind of $$$!)

please cast your vote!

I have found it to be hard to submit pictures in the gallery. I like the personal gallery when you click on a user's info.

Gallery? What Gallery? lol
I never use it so I'm not gonna vote in this poll.

Sorry to say, I haven’t seen it yet lol.

Way to expensive for the number of supporters at this point. From the comments so far looks like most don't know it's there.

I vote scale it down to keep costs manageable... I don't use it but I do look at some of the pics already in there from time to time.

stop by the gallery and have a look if you haven't lately

https://vintage-vans.smugmug.com/

I have about 2 weeks to come up with a final call on what we should do...

I had a brief look around in the Galleries and there seems to be a lot of neat site history there. Kind of hard and time consuming to search through, but I can see why people who have galleries there would want to keep it going.

Nice feature. I used it a lot when I was new to the site and for research on what other vanners had done. I doubt if it brings many new users to the site. Is it worth the money? Probably not for a small non commercial site. I say scale back or eliminate. Many thanks to Chebby for all the work.

I have not looked on it maybe once... $ seems high for the service. I would say drop it.

Yeah, I finally looked through it. I never knew it was there either! I'd say, "Do whatever is prudent."
Thanks,
Jim

Have not used it before nice collection

I understand some vanners choose to sit in front of their computer for great lengths of time because that is what they like doing. So the gallery might be important to them.

I have no interest in bells and whistles on web sites.

I went to the gallery once a few years back. I have not gone to or used the gallery since.

I vote to can it and save the funds for other costs you deem important.

M1D

I was encouraged by someone back years ago to create a gallery?  I enjoy looking from  time to time.
That stat # is interesting.  It appears that "somebody" is looking at it?   I vote for scale it down?  Im not sure how that happens?

I guess Im the only arrogant loser here that has a link to his gallery

It's a great reference page for similar vans to what we restore....nice to keep, but the price is way up there.

Scale it down, or maybe feature Galleries of those who contribute.... elsewhere where it might be cheaper to maintain.

I can't remember the login for the gallery. Can't get past the page that pop's up with the link Chebby posted.

I have not used it so I would vote to discontinue it. I dont want Chebby to struggle with maintaining the sites expenses

man I love the gallery but thats a lotta coin scale it back if thats what it takes and I will get on board and send in some money im long over due and love it here

So here's what I did... I scaled it down, saving over $300 a year!

log-in with vintage-vans instead of email and imamember as the password

Thank you, Chebby! I'm sure that will be great!!

Jim

chebby wrote:So here's what I did... I scaled it down, saving over $300 a year!

log-in with vintage-vans instead of email and imamember as the password

Thanks Chebby....guess it's time to pony up to help the site out a bit.
Cheers,
Roger

I totally forgot about the gallery! And I’ve got two galleries in there! I just checked and it’s been 10 years since I’ve posted a picture there. That was the year I bought my current van. I think I’ve taken a few pictures of it since then...

Oh man, another thing I always forget is to chip in every year! Chebby, you gotta nag remind us more! I’ll do that now.

just wanted to thank you all, pollers and commenters for your input!

means a lot!

when the world and life gets too much for me, I always find my calm again and my smile right here with all of YOU!

Thanks for keeping things going behind the scenes Chebby! There are a Lot of us who come to this site to get away from the hustle and bustle and share our passion for these vans and trucks and we definitely appreciate the effort you and the rest of the gang put in to keep this site up and running and interesting!

OUR HISTORY IN PICTURES ARE SAVED!