[members-discuss] RIPE forces us to pay the bill unfairly

RIPE NCC has annual fees, both for joining and for continuing membership. In the first calendar year you owed both.

You became a member in year 2018, so you owe for year 2018.

The fact that fee is divided into quarters is just to make it easier to pay, although frankly I don’t see the point; you have to do four bank transfers and all you save is 1/2 of the year on average; so time value of money must be really high for it to work.

If the member fee would be pro-rated (reduced for the months you were not a member) then somebody would open an account in November and transfer resources in December, for 1/4 of the yearly cost paid.
And this is precisely what the rule is for.

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 21:03, olena.dmytrenko at bignet.ua wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> Our LIR has signed agreement in April of the 2018 year.
> How can we pay the invoice on the service which wasn't given to us. How can you pay for the service which was earlier than the agreement?
> 
> --
> Olena Dmytrenko
> 
> 
> From: Adi Vaizovic <adi.vaizovic at telinea.com> 
> To: Mohamed Bubtaina <mohamed at bubtaina.com>, "olena.dmytrenko at bignet.ua" <olena.dmytrenko at bignet.ua> 
> Cc: "members-discuss at ripe.net" <members-discuss at ripe.net> 
> Sent: 7/9/2018 2:51 PM 
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] RIPE forces us to pay the bill unfairly 
> 
> Ripe, has fair and clear procedures.
> 
> Read before say something.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adi
> From: members-discuss <members-discuss-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Mohamed Bubtaina <mohamed at bubtaina.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 3:46:07 PM
> To: olena.dmytrenko at bignet.ua
> Cc: members-discuss at ripe.net
> Subject: Re: [members-discuss] RIPE forces us to pay the bill unfairly
>  
> Hello,
> 
> It’s fair, as you see it’s divided into 2 parts, the membership, and for the yearly LIR payments which are divided into quartets. So you don’t pay for what you haven’t used, or if you decide to leave. I for example pay the LIR bill yearly. It’s less hassle and remembering the payments due, and if you forget or get busy and don’t notice like it always happens with me as I’m holding the bag alone and walking, (somethings you just can’t trust anyone with, your wife, yourself, your money, and ip’s!) I want to even ask for resources and I just keep missing that button! So fair? Yeah, in my opinion, it’s easier the whole year (-what you didn’t‘ think use of the time for newcomers)
> 
> But that’s my opinion, I’m still searching for the wife, finding where my money i, but at least I know me,  fully trust me! And never doubt it no matter. As my ip’s.... well they keep wandering around but get hold of them so at least I know they aren’t used for any illegal or malicious purpose in anyway by anyone, hard, but not MI!
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> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Mohamed Ali Bubteina
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> > On 6 Jul 2018, at 17:53, olena.dmytrenko at bignet.ua wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everybody!
> > We got a problem! 
> > We want to share it with you to find out your opinion on this matter.
> > We are transferring our network to other company. The transfer is approved.
> > As policy prescribed, you have to pay the annual fee. For today these are the third quartal and the forth.
> > But RIPE forces us to pay the bill for the first quartal, however our LIR was opened later in the second one. ( in APRIL 2018).
> > We would like to see and discuss the rules, where it is prescribed what to pay in such cases.
> > Where we can read the regulation that you need to pay an annual fee for the quarters in which Lir did not even exist.
> > 
> > Furthermore, we have 5 more LIRs on one company.  Is it fare to be forced to pay all annual invoices on all Lirs, before the transfer one part of the network from 1 LIR?
> > 
> > --
> > Olena Dmytrenko
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