Look at my Pretty Star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The story of my star.

Tribe has been HUGE in my life. I've found love and life and laughter and insight and growth and silliness here and if I had the money I would have handed over as much as they needed. I've offered to help in lots of ways in the past, I even got to go do a beta test in the top secret tribe offices once! I knew I was a hopeless geek when I was as excited about that as someone else would be to see their most worshiped celebrity.

So of course when they offered premium subscriptions I got one. That was in Nov of last year sort of a Birthday gift to myself. Then they offered for us to be able to do a year for $50 and I didn't really have $50 but I found a way because I really wanted to help and to show my support and put my money where my mouth was after all of the times I said I would help tribe in any way I could. So Jan 2nd the money came out of my account and I though I was set for a year and even happy to have a new tribe t-shirt.

Things were going along swimmingly until March 10th when I changed my credit card in pay pal and it told me if I did that it would delete my subscription. I thought they meant not having a card would delete it, I figured that in a min when I was on the other screen with the new card I'd put in I would just tell it to associate that card with my tribe account and hey I still have most of the year left to work it all out right?

um no. it took less time for them to take my star away then it did for them to give it to me. I e-mailed for help, I felt bad mentioning it since I kind of did it to myself but it is $50 and I didn't think that it was fair punishment for not understanding pay pal to loose most of the year I'd payed for. I e-mailed, I e-mailed again. Darren asked for information from Pay Pal, I sent it to him and nothing. a month later I wrote a very polite "hey I know you are super busy but have you forgotten about me?" e-mail and got nothing. Eventually I gave up and it was one of the things that signaled the end of tribe for me.

I had been encouraging people to buy memberships and I just couldn't any more. I would have felt horrible if someone else had had something similar happen and it had been me who encouraged them to buy the subscription.

Along the way things got so bad I couldn't even get into tribe most of the time for months there. I got sadder and more disconnected from tribe and from alot of my tribe community though for some parts of it we build back ups. It just isn't the same. People are scattering and no where else has been somewhere I've been able to meet people and get to know them. People as amazing and varied as here on tribe, in discussions as amazing and varied as on tribe.

But today...today I suddenly got a message for tribe premium members and wrote back to ask...does this mean my membership has been fixed?!? and it has!

I can't explain it, but somehow this little bit of personal attention has given me a bigger spark of hope for tribe than even the recent lack of down times.

I still have to wait to find out if they will give me the time I missed of my subscription. But I can't imagine they wouldn't do that since I clearly did not have use of that time.

So Long Live Tribe, Yay for Pretty Stars! and here is what they are saying about premium subscriptions Maybe some of you might consider getting one now that there is support for it, plus I am totally excited about having a tribe e-mail!!!

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