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On 7/14/2017 at 9:25 AM, smithy said:This is also not quite true either. We will allow members to vote online.
I need to correct my post. After speaking with our parliamentarian, our bylaws do not allow us to have an electronic vote. We have to do it the old fashion mail way. Sorry for the confusion everyone.
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On 7/13/2017 at 6:07 AM, BillAdams said:No voting on the internet either. They will depend upon the low readership of the magazine and the lack of motivation of most "members" to do anything with that piece of paper. Way too much trouble to tear out, put an x in a box and then put it in the mail if they can find a stamp.
(Sarcasm, but likely true).
On Edit: See my post below posted on 7/15/17 for updated information.
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On 7/12/2017 at 6:50 PM, BillAdams said:Surprise! Since only the board that recommended the change will count the ballots, anyone want to guess what the outcome will be?
Bill,
We have an outside firm that counts the votes. The ballots go directly to them. The decision is solely in the hands of the Governing Board and general membership. The Governing Board overwhelmingly approved it, and now it goes to general membership. Every national director votes based on how their chapter tells them to vote.
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1 hour ago, spuds said:I'm curious why some of us who followed the instructions and submitted the request online in time for the June allotment have never gotten our calls (and now have to wait at least a month).
This is one of the poorest roll outs I've seen and the apparent lack of concern that FMCA is being scammed by folks who don't own RVs joining and taking advantage of the program is disappointing.
The demand has been overwhelming. It is all hands on deck to call people back who requested information about the program. The June offering was a soft launch, so even if you filled out the form three days ago, there was no guarantee you would make the June shipment. In fact the info request form says a call back will take some time.
I'm sorry you feel the roll out was poor. It is a shame one of our members leaked the story to Technomadia, and in turn to the outside world. Technically we have not rolled it out ourselves. A leak happened and unfortunately we cannot control that.
People who sign up are asked if they are a motor home owner. If they answer yes and do not provide a coach code, we contact them to obtain it. If they say they don't own one or do not provide the code, we cancel their membership immediately. We enforce the requirements to the best of our ability.
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You can call in and take advantage of the benefit right now.
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Hello all,
As you can imagine, blasting a great deal like this out to 72,000 members all at one time would cripple our membership department. We soft launched to 5,000 members as a test run. With a new benefit, we wanted to use this crowd to finalize our process before opening it up to everyone.
As soon as the soft launch was emailed out Tuesday, someone sent it to Technomadia. They quickly had a write-up and video on their website highlighting the benefit.This has spread, and unfortunately we have no control over that.
The digital edition of the magazine will be available on the 20th. Physical copies will follow shortly after that. In my article, which was written a month ago, it states that we intended to do the full launch on the 26th to all of membership.
If you would like to sign up now, please call membership. Devices will ship on July 20th or 21st.
I again apologize to current membership. We wanted to be prepared for the full launch by having the soft launch. It was then leaked to the outside world and took off.
With all that said, we are very excited about the offering and feel it will be a valuable member benefit.
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Hello all,
Staff has been busy putting together a new member benefit through Verizon. We are working out some details, hence the reason it is not on our website or has been announced yet. No secret handshakes needed or conspiracies taking place. We anticipate the launch in June. Stay tuned!
Chris
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Unfortunately our bylaws do not allow for on-line voting. We will make it very obvious on the front cover that an important vote is in that particular issue.