• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

Corvette Club members?

Are you NOW a member of a Florida Corvette Club?

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2Vettes said:
Hey Als2052 :wavey: I met you the other night in the parking lot at the meeting. :welcome:
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Yes we did. Had great time and looking forward to future good times.

It would be nice to know who from the club frequent these forums besides ourselves.
 
It would be nice to know who from the club frequent these forums besides ourselves.[/QUOTE]
I've pretty much been it. They rely on me to bring news from the forums. I've encourged them to join the computer groups but most just don't. :shrug01:
 
Rich,

Too bad that you choose not to participate with Cruisin' Corvettes in Tallahassee, they are a good bunch of people. The invitation to participate has always been open whether you had a newsletter, name badge, etc. or not.
 
KBlanke said:
Rich,

Too bad that you choose not to participate with Cruisin' Corvettes in Tallahassee, they are a good bunch of people. The invitation to participate has always been open whether you had a newsletter, name badge, etc. or not.
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That may very well be true, but I certainly was not made to feel welcome by the "powers that be" there. I felt that my wife and I would be infringing on their good will be taking advantage of the club offerings and social events without first becoming paid members.

First off, let me copy that last email I got from the club prez here concerning my offer of resolving the problem:
I am responding to your disappointment in Cruisin' Corvettes. We are all human and we do make mistakes. My personal apologies that your membership application somehow got missed. Our club is going through growing pains and many changes. During the time your membership was sent in (I believe was November 2005?), the individual responsible for notifying me of new members had sold their Corvette and was losing interest in the club. This is one of the reasons I encourage our members to participate in club events to get to know other members so that they can vote in members who are truly interested in what is best for the club and it's members. We have good people representing our Club and I am proud of each and every one of them as I am of our Club. I personally want you to know that we have not had and do not have a grudge with you, nor do we have a hatchet to bury. We are simply a Corvette Club that enjoys good times and spending time with others who have the same love for the Corvette. Myself and the other officers were together this weekend at one of the many fun Corvette events and we took the privilege to discuss your dilemma and decided that it would not be fair to the other members to give you a full years membership, but are offering joint membership for the cost of an individual membership. Our officers work as a team and are very considerate of the best interest of our club members and therefore, do no go out on their own and make these decisions. If you would like to give us another try, I certainly encourage it as we are getting new members monthly and they come with new ideas that only make our club that much better. If you do have a change of heart, you may complete the application on our website and mail it in. I don't think that you will be disappointed.
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My "olive branch" offering to them was to just forget the past screw ups they did with my application and instead of my paying to be a member now and lose 5 months (their memberships run January 1 to December 31), I asked the prez to extend my membership for another year, effectively ending December 31, 2007. That offer was declined. Kind of penny wise and dollar foolish, if you ask me. Not to mention the ill-will now generated. Now the interesting thing is analyzing the financial "hardship" they would have endured by granting my request, but it is first necessary to view this from their membership application:
Dues:
Dues run from January to December, regardless of Date of Membership, unless you join (not renew) in October, November or December; then dues are paid for the following year as well.
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OK, so it was early May when I made this request, and I originally sent in my application at the end of November, 2005, so my original membership should have been valid roughly from December 1, 2005 thru December 31, 2006. So all total, their accepting this "olive branch" would have cost the club a whopping 6 months of my dues ($17.50 since my wife and I were joining jointly), figuring I COULD wait and sign up in October, 2006 which would make my membership valid from October, 2006 thru December 31, 2007 anyway. So in effect, the only issue at this point is the 6 months from May thru October 1. As you can read in that reply copied above, the prez did offer me a joint membership for the price of a single membership. That's a difference in price of $10.00. So subtracting that difference from the 6 months freebie membership I asked for and we come up with the burdensome total of $7.50 I would have been cheating the membership. That's the "penny" part of the equation. The "dollar" part is that I most likely would have been a paying member for as long as I owned a Corvette. What is that typically? 5 years? 10 years? So to save the club membership from my taking advantage of them and "not being fair to the other members" for that $7.50 difference, they lost a potential $175 to $350 over the life of my likely membership. Not a wise business decision, in my opinion.

Sorry, but no, I interpreted that as simply snubbing me, since the math just didn't make sense.

But that is their problem. Maybe when there is a changing of the guard, I will consider joining, but at this point, I believe the officers of that club have some issues that need to get straightened out in their own minds. :crazy9:
 
Is it not true that they did offer joint membership for the price of a single membership in a attempt to recitfy a mistake? The whole point of being a club is to have fun doing things with other enthusiasts and sharing everyone's corvette passion.
 
KBlanke said:
Is it not true that they did offer joint membership for the price of a single membership in a attempt to recitfy a mistake? The whole point of being a club is to have fun doing things with other enthusiasts and sharing everyone's corvette passion.
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That point is mentioned in my previous reply.
 
No, not a member of a Florida club just yet. I just built a home in Ft. Myers and will be relocating there from Maryland towards the end of next year.

I just found this forum, so I thought this might be a way to start the process of looking at clubs in SW Florida.

My wife and I have owned at least one Vette for the last 17 years and have been very active in a local NCCC club. We will be very interested in a club in the Ft. Myers, Cape Coral, or Naples area that enjoys this hobby and likes to socialize.
 
Yes, a local Muscle car club, not vette exclusive. A group of friends actually started this up about two years ago, so we are a close group. We started with 5 cars and have about 15 members. :thumbsup:

Mike
 
Joined VeniceFloridaCorvettes about five months ago. HATE the color of their shirts, WON'T wear it.....seems to be an active club....have met some very nice people in the club.

It's too bad the shirts are tangarine yellow.....:ack2: :ack2:
 
Sorry Guys no club for me . I know without clubs there would be alot less shows . I just have too many hands in the fire for a club.:nopity: I was in a Van club for a few years, Back in the Day.I think i still have the Club t-shirt and licence plate:rofl1: BTW Formula outlaw the T-shirts were Black :hehehe:
 
Tampa Bay Vettes and a local F-body club (www.FLCFA.Net), the Florida Camaro and Firebird Assn., that I started along with some friends about 2 years ago. We split from another group and formed our own. Now about 25 members strong.

Also a 4WD group (Suncoast Flatlanders).
 
Man, when I first got my Jeep Wrangler, I used to drool over stories of 4-wheelin in Baja and on the Rubicon trail. Here in Florida you are pretty much limited to a natural landscape fitting for mudbogging and little else. Some of the old strip mining areas do give you more vertical terrain to negotiate, I guess.

Before the Jeep I had a full sized Bronco. Spend many a day up on the New Jersey Pine Barrens in that thing when I lived in Maryland. That was a real fun place to kick around in. Within close proximity to very high density population areas, yet you could go all day without seeing another soul there. Two things I found as a necessity when going into the Pine Barrens: (1) a full tank of gasoline, and (2) a compass. That was back before the days when cell phones and GPS units were available to us common folks....
 
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