Honestly, I think a great way to help keep members they already have is to offer a slight discount if you renew your membership early. Maybe a 5 or 10% discount if you renew during the month of November or something like that?
If I was a current member but had no firm plans to show the following year, I’d probably still go ahead and renew while there was a discount simply for the why not factor.
Honestly, I think a great way to help keep members they already have is to offer a slight discount if you renew your membership early. Maybe a 5 or 10% discount if you renew during the month of November or something like that?
If I was a current member but had no firm plans to show the following year, I’d probably still go ahead and renew while there was a discount simply for the why not factor.
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Public free access to the list of suspended horses and humans and disciplinary action is something I do agree should be available. That would allow new entry non members to see if they want to buy a horse from that person or board and train with them before they take the plunge instead of learning afterwards the hard way. Most don’t join until they have to for show purposes and most trainers, (even the good ones) will tell them they can wait to join until they have to.
That I do support as a member. It shouldn’t be a secret.[/QUOTE]
I said this in the other thread on this topic, but I emailed USEF about this topic right after the changeover. The director of the regulation department responded very promptly to tell me that she had been under the impression that the suspension list WOULD be public info, but that the launch had been different from her initial understanding. She said they would be having a discussion about whether to keep it behind the paywall. So they’re at least considering a change there.
If you’re a member, I’d recommend making your thoughts known on that topic!
Not that I should really talk, given I don’t live in the US and my own national regulating body (Equine Canada/Equestrian Canada/whatever the heck they are called now) is in such a completely laughable state right now, but for what it’s worth, discipline records, suspensions, etc absolutely should NOT cost money to access. That is ridiculous. It should be publicly available information so everyone can make educated decisions about which trainers to use and what a sale horse’s drug history might be. Also the rule book better damn well be publicly available as well. (I’m not clear if it is or not, as someone earlier commented about how for $25 you got access to the rulebook. That is nuts, you should not have to pay money to have access to such basic information.)
Beyond that, whatever. EC makes competition results available for free (sort of? it’s never really worked that well) and beyond that the EC website (and EC in general) have never offered me anything I would consider worth paying for, so I’m not sure how much value you get out of a USEF membership. When I want to look up show results I either check the website of the specific show/farm that hosted, or check my zone’s website (I show on the provincial circuit). But like I have already said, EC sucks, so I am assuming you would get more bang for you buck with USEF (?)
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Not that I should really talk, given I don’t live in the US and my own national regulating body (Equine Canada/Equestrian Canada/whatever the heck they are called now) is in such a completely laughable state right now, but for what it’s worth, discipline records, suspensions, etc absolutely should NOT cost money to access. That is ridiculous. It should be publicly available information so everyone can make educated decisions about which trainers to use and what a sale horse’s drug history might be. Also the rule book better damn well be publicly available as well. (I’m not clear if it is or not, as someone earlier commented about how for $25 you got access to the rulebook. That is nuts, you should not have to pay money to have access to such basic information.)
Beyond that, whatever. EC makes competition results available for free (sort of? it’s never really worked that well) and beyond that the EC website (and EC in general) have never offered me anything I would consider worth paying for, so I’m not sure how much value you get out of a USEF membership. When I want to look up show results I either check the website of the specific show/farm that hosted, or check my zone’s website (I show on the provincial circuit). But like I have already said, EC sucks, so I am assuming you would get more bang for you buck with USEF (?)[/QUOTE]
Rule book is still publicly accessible.
I HATE EC’s results database. So unbelievably clunky, and the info was really unhelpful when I was trying to look up my horse’s show record before I bought him. “CN” or just blank placing in “Miscellaneous (Non Points Class)” all over the place, and no way to tell if it was a hunter, jumper, or eq class, what height, or how many were in the class…nightmare. So if a fee for looking at results means we get a database that’s actually useful, then I’m all for it.
There’s plenty on the website that is still free. My point was not that everything is pay-for-use but rather that there’s a lot of material on the USE website, it costs money to maintain that site, and it doesn’t seem unreasonable to charge what is really a fairly nominal fee for unrestricted access to the full site.
This was my experience
computer - have to login with account
phone - was free didn’t have to log in
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