Membership fees for Forum access

[Robert VannRox]

If one were to purchase a book on painting, it would cost from $15 to maybe $60. The average being around $35.

If one were to purchase a movie on painting. It would cost some where in the order of $40 to $125. With the average being around $75.

If one were to purchase a 37 ml tube of oil paint it would cost from $3.00 to maybe $25.00. With the average being around $6.00.

If one were to purchase a Hog Bristle Brush it would cost from $1.00 to maybe $15.00. With the average being around $4.00.

So this is my point...

If one were to charge to visit and be a member of a for fee web site, one could be expected to pay from $10 to $100 a year. With the average being around $45.

So, I would suspect that perhaps $45 would be a number to charge for the maintenance of this site.

I, myself, would pay $45 to be a member of this site, but only if it could offer slightly greater resource access in some (as yet undefined way). I am not complaining. I just think that an increase in the fee structure from $0 to $45 is too dramatic initially.

Summary:

I would like to propose a $45/year fee structure. It would include some kind of product or magazine discount and artist registry. My overall feeling is that $45 is really too steep a change from free to paying.