The NRA is having a sale until the end of the year on life membership $600
If interested sign up here.
Official NRA Membership Application
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Official NRA Membership Application
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Looks like they sent the email before they updated pricing, I will get with NRAlooks like $1000 to me.
I found this link for the $600 lifetime membership and bought it.
Official NRA Membership Application
I got mine for $300 maybe 8 years ago.
Me too.Got my life membership 2 years ago for $500
I don't understand the purpose.
When you pay for these memberships you actually receive nothing of value. Live vs Patron vs Benefactor doesn't actually change anything. You may get a hat?
So you're not really purchasing anything. So when the NRA "discounts" a particular membership level they are just reducing the price on something that has no value to begin with.
I think someone mentioned that this was a "good deal".
If I sold you a sticker for $5 but and offered another very similar sticker for $500...then discounted it to $300 is it really a good deal? It's a sticker.
On the flipside: the value the NRA receives is your contribution. That has actual value (hopefully) and the memberships are (or were) a representation of your contribution.
So if you actually want to contribute, then contribute. If a life membership costs $1k then give them $1k. Why give them $250 just so you can say you're a life member.
You didn't contribute the same as other life members but you get the same sticker?
Just very strange for people to try and get "deals" on them contributing to a cause.
It's like if I wanted to donate to St Jude's cancer research...why would you want to contribute $250 to their cause just so you can tell people that you are in the same group of people who actually contributed $1000?
You aren't doing $1000 worth of good for $250. You are just able to tell people you are.
At the end of the day maybe it all works out and the NRA gets more money. That's fine.
This.
That was an excellent deal then; even $600 isn’t bad, provided you’re fairly young.
You’re underthinking this.Sounds like a huge waste of money to give that organization.
Maybe I'm overthinking things.
I don't think it's a good deal to pay more money to get a "cause" to stop harassing you. That's not why I became a life member.
I also think that if you really wanted to help the cause then you give them what you can regardless of the level of membership is (especially if that membership level is essentially meaningless)
The annualized/amortized argument makes no sense to me because what you are purchasing has no value.
You're saying that you get a "deal" because you pay less to purchase something worth nothing...than if you were to spend more in annual payments to buy something worth nothing.
In the end all you've done is donated less to the cause, which doesn't seem like a deal to me.
I became a life member because I actually wanted to donate to the cause. At the time I became one I believe the $300 option was there but why would I chose it? The whole purpose was to give the $1k and hope they did something meaningful with it. I didn't want to shortchange them $700.
I know for sure the $300 price was what i jumped on in 2013.I got mine for $300 maybe 8 years ago.
I don't understand the purpose.
When you pay for these memberships you actually receive nothing of value. Live vs Patron vs Benefactor doesn't actually change anything. You may get a hat?
So you're not really purchasing anything. So when the NRA "discounts" a particular membership level they are just reducing the price on something that has no value to begin with.
I think someone mentioned that this was a "good deal".
If I sold you a sticker for $5 but and offered another very similar sticker for $500...then discounted it to $300 is it really a good deal? It's still just a sticker.
On the flipside: the value the NRA receives is your contribution. That has actual value (hopefully) and the memberships are (or were) a representation of your contribution.
So if you actually want to contribute, then contribute. If a life membership costs $1k then give them $1k. Why give them $250 just so you can seem like a life member who gave $1k?.
Just very strange for people to try and get "deals" on them contributing to a cause.
It's like if I wanted to donate to St Jude's cancer research...why would you want to contribute $250 to their cause just so you can tell people that you are in the same group of people who actually contributed $1000?
You aren't doing $1000 worth of good for $250. You are just able to tell people you are.
At the end of the day maybe it all works out and the NRA gets more money. That's fine.