stumptown discount on pdga membership? [Archive] - Northwest Disc Golf News Forums

Lund

January 7th, 2011, 09:15 PM

How and where do I claim said discount? Not seeing it on the pdga form.

LegoRules

January 7th, 2011, 10:17 PM

How and where do I claim said discount? Not seeing it on the pdga form.

Here is the link to the club affiliate sign up page. :yay:

https://ssl.breinerlogistics.com/pdga/MemberEdit.php?NewOrRenewal=Renewal&Affiliate=Affiliate

Cindy :)

Lund

January 7th, 2011, 11:27 PM

Here is the link to the club affiliate sign up page. :yay:

https://ssl.breinerlogistics.com/pdga/MemberEdit.php?NewOrRenewal=Renewal&Affiliate=Affiliate

Cindy :)

sweet, thanks

Sam

January 12th, 2011, 03:32 PM

Um.... when is the discount applied? And that link just takes you to the renewal form. Affliate=Affiliate?

Uhlman

January 12th, 2011, 03:36 PM

Um.... when is the discount applied? And that link just takes you to the renewal form. Affliate=Affiliate?
on the form there is a drop down box that lets you select an Affiliate Club. It is under the Affiliate Club section of the form

LegoRules

January 12th, 2011, 03:36 PM

Um.... when is the discount applied? And that link just takes you to the renewal form. Affliate=Affiliate?

Sam if you scroll down a bit on this page you will see a drop down menu that has a list of current Affiliate clubs. Just click on Stumptown, and you should be good to go. It worked fine for me when I renewed last week.

Cindy :)

Bruce

January 12th, 2011, 03:38 PM

How much is the discount, I hadn't realized stumptown members got one..

LegoRules

January 12th, 2011, 03:48 PM

How much is the discount, I hadn't realized stumptown members got one..

$5

Cindy :)

Sam

January 12th, 2011, 06:31 PM

I figured it out and then got too busy at work to come back and post here. Thank you. :)

snap7times

January 13th, 2011, 02:08 AM

so stumptown is forfieting the $5 that is supposed to go to the club and giving the $5 discount to the members?

Flash

January 14th, 2011, 11:02 PM

so stumptown is forfieting the $5 that is supposed to go to the club and giving the $5 discount to the members?

Words like supposed to are often misplaced, are you suggesting that the affiliate benefits of the club are proprietary to the club?

I guess in the past the clubs would collect memberships and send them all in one packet and the club could keep the $5.00 per person but I don't think that was the intention. I believe the affiliate club program was a way for the PDGA to could encourage golfers to engage and support their local clubs. By joining a local affiliated club the PDGA would offer a discount to that person. Since players can now sign up online on their own they see the discount directly.

snap7times

January 15th, 2011, 09:06 PM

times change I guess. I was told directly from the PDGA a few years ago that the club should keep the $5 to be able to provide more to its members. There seems to be more benefit to the game of disc golf if the club got the $5 rather than the individuals saving $5... that's just me..

Flash

January 16th, 2011, 12:49 PM

times change I guess. I was told directly from the PDGA a few years ago that the club should keep the $5 to be able to provide more to its members. There seems to be more benefit to the game of disc golf if the club got the $5 rather than the individuals saving $5... that's just me..

Yes but if a player is joining a club then they are already investing in a local disc golf entity. Why would the national discount not be a good idea to grant to the individual?

snap7times

January 17th, 2011, 01:13 AM

Yes but if a player is joining a club then they are already investing in a local disc golf entity. Why would the national discount not be a good idea to grant to the individual?

100 individuals get $5 off their membership, $ gets spent at lunch at MCD or something unrelated to disc golf...

100 individuals $5 discount goes to club, club has $500 to spend on disc golf...

That's just my thinking, if it goes to the club, money stays in disc golf, individual gets it, no guarantee it stays inside disc golf..

That's just my thinking...

Bullseye

January 17th, 2011, 11:52 AM

Its a perk we offer to our members.

If we kept the money, it wouldn't be much of a perk.

I do, however, get your point.

Todd Andrews

January 17th, 2011, 06:14 PM

Snap is indeed correct. The original intent was to help out the club and let them use the extra cash to benefit the club as a whole. However, the PDGA does not dictate that the club has to do it this way. This may change in the future...

Pizzel

January 17th, 2011, 08:00 PM

Do members of affiliated clubs still get to take the Officials Exam for free? If so, who is the Stumptown contact for access to the exam? Thanks!

Bullseye

January 17th, 2011, 10:40 PM

Do members of affiliated clubs still get to take the Officials Exam for free? If so, who is the Stumptown contact for access to the exam? Thanks!

According to the PDGA (http://www.pdga.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=1447097&postcount=46) there was not enough support at the Board level to extend the PDGA Officials Exam exemption to PDGA Affiliated Clubs.

snap7times

January 18th, 2011, 12:53 AM

However, if you are a TD for a tournament, you get to take the test for free! Whoot! Be a TD!

Flash

January 18th, 2011, 08:50 PM

Snap is indeed correct. The original intent was to help out the club and let them use the extra cash to benefit the club as a whole. However, the PDGA does not dictate that the club has to do it this way. This may change in the future...

I could see this being handled when the PDGA did not take online registration and clubs would send in all the registrations in a packet but with online registration for members now in place for many years it seems unlikely that the club would see the $5.00 unless the PDGA still collected it and mailed a check to the club!

Flash

January 18th, 2011, 08:56 PM

100 individuals get $5 off their membership, $ gets spent at lunch at MCD or something unrelated to disc golf...

100 individuals $5 discount goes to club, club has $500 to spend on disc golf...

That's just my thinking, if it goes to the club, money stays in disc golf, individual gets it, no guarantee it stays inside disc golf..

That's just my thinking...

100 individuals decide to not join the club saving $10

100 individuals decide to join the PDGA at regular fee price and save 5 bucks for not joining the club.

Look we all can have fun with numbers!!

Seems if the PDGA wants to encourage grass roots focus, the National Discount to an affiliated local club extended to their members is a good way to increase local support of disc golf.

snap7times

January 18th, 2011, 11:29 PM

hmmm... what if clubs collected membership through their online store and in person for both the club and for PDGA memberships and paid to PDGA the dues and kept the $5? This is interesting how different we can view this. Each way is not wrong, just impacts different individuals. I would think giving the member the choice to keep the $5 discount or to defer it to their club would be the best answer and something that probably would be the coolest method Todd? Either way, still gotta be a member of an affilated club first... yeah cool...

Flash

January 19th, 2011, 01:19 AM

hmmm... what if clubs collected membership through their online store and in person for both the club and for PDGA memberships and paid to PDGA the dues and kept the $5? This is interesting how different we can view this. Each way is not wrong, just impacts different individuals. I would think giving the member the choice to keep the $5 discount or to defer it to their club would be the best answer and something that probably would be the coolest method Todd? Either way, still gotta be a member of an affilated club first... yeah cool...

That is a good idea, either the member could keep it or donate it to the club!