[members-discuss] Billing scheme problem

I see that you didn't read my letter at all. My a very small business as 
you said give me €1k per month. I've collected €1050 to pay my quarterly 
payment for 3 LIR's. If the RIPE will compels me to pay annual payments 
for these 3 LIR's, this amount will reach 1400x3 = €4200. And what do 
you offer me? Sell my house to pay this invoice? Or take a loan in a 
bank? To your knowledge, the interest on a loan may reach 40% annually. 
The only reason for such changes in billing scheme I see in the 
impending crisis of IPv4 and in this way RIPE wants to take back as more 
IPv4 blocks as they can, because I will be forced to close my LIR's if I 
would be forced to pay annually. Organizations like RIPE should work on 
improvement of the service but not on the complication of life for its 
members.


Have a good day.

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Kind regards,

Serhii Khomenko
  

08.01.19 13:22, Terrence Koeman пише:
> With all the confusion around billing I've seen on this list, I understand RIPE discontinuing their service of allowing quarterly payments.
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> You can get a loan to bridge the first year and save up for subsequent years, essentially replacing RIPE's free service by a commercial one with an interest for the first year and by saving up yourself for the following years.
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> The extra costs of this change are only the interest for such a business loan (which depends on the inflation of the currency your business uses, but for EUR currently around 3-6% afaik). Even if it were 10% interest on the €1k4 fee it'd be €140 spread out over a year (=€12/month), that should not be a burden even for a very small business.
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