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I've found this site frustrating so far. Not sure what is up with that so after joining as a Contributing Member, paying my money, not getting a confirming email or being able to get past the Paid Subscriptions page no matter which link or button was pressed (including Contact Us), writing two posts, and a New Member Introduction, I am resorting to a Test Post to see if I am subjecting myself to any more frustrations.

Hi WarbirdAirbrush2 -

I just joined last week, and like you I did not get a confirming email either (or word if the free lens cloth is forthcoming...not that that's a big deal, but still). However that was the only discrepancy I've had on my own end.

I think what's happened in your case is that recently the site has been experiencing technical problems; no one was able to post pictures, site links were down, and sometimes the entire site could not be accessed. It was very frustrating for all involved, but it looks like most if not all of the issues have been resolved in the last day or two.

I could be wrong, of course, as I'm just a newbie myself as I mentioned. But why don't you give it another shot and see you if meet with more success this time?

Oh, and welcome!

As I mention in an email, I manually activated your other account. Sorry for the confusion!

FYI, to everyone else - this happens when a new member contributes when registering their account, but the account isnt activated. The activation email was probably filtered by a spam filter somewhere.

jdeg said:

As I mention in an email, I manually activated your other account. Sorry for the confusion!

FYI, to everyone else - this happens when a new member contributes when registering their account, but the account isnt activated. The activation email was probably filtered by a spam filter somewhere.

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Thanks John!

Dangerspouse said:

or word if the free lens cloth is forthcoming...not that that's a big deal, but still...

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Sorry, I'm actually all out of these at the moment, but I do have some black ones without the Nikonites. Please PM me your mailing address, and I'll send some.

jdeg said:

Sorry, I'm actually all out of these at the moment, but I do have some black ones without the Nikonites. Please PM me your mailing address, and I'll send some.

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Meh, no biggie. Without the logo it's just a cloth, and I have plenty of those already. But thanks anyway

jdeg said:

Sorry, I'm actually all out of these at the moment, but I do have some black ones without the Nikonites. Please PM me your mailing address, and I'll send some.

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BTW, while I'm thinking of it, did you know the links to the Marketplace and "Cameras Without Mirrors" sites that appear on every page near the top are broken? Just thought I'd let you know if you weren't aware...

Thank you so much, John. From PayPal, after sending money, I hit their 'Return to Vendor Site' button (or words to that effect) and from there I was stuck on the Paid Subscriptions page no matter what I clicked on. This is mentioned only as a help to the problem statement if the issue and linkage with PayPal can be corrrected/streamlined. I will check my Spam folder for the message. Thank you very much for manually activating that account.

Dangerspouse said:

BTW, while I'm thinking of it, did you know the links to the Marketplace and "Cameras Without Mirrors" sites that appear on every page near the top are broken? Just thought I'd let you know if you weren't aware...

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Thanks, I'll get that fixed. They're not visible if you previously dismissed them, which I probably did.

WarbirdAirbrush2 said:

Thank you so much, John. From PayPal, after sending money, I hit their 'Return to Vendor Site' button (or words to that effect) and from there I was stuck on the Paid Subscriptions page no matter what I clicked on. This is mentioned only as a help to the problem statement if the issue and linkage with PayPal can be corrrected/streamlined. I will check my Spam folder for the message. Thank you very much for manually activating that account.

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No problem at all. Sorry you had to wait! If you definitely never received the activation email, it's very possible that your host flagged it as spam. Sometimes they do this because the site does send out a lot of automated emails when replies are made to threads.