I was once a paying member but once the news letters started to become 1 1/2 months late I let my membership expire. I guess i should thank them for that because it was the late news letter that let me finally cancel my membership and ask The Mike about starting a Canadian News letter, thus the free month Joe Canuck news letter was born, 20 issues and still going! :wink:
If you plan on attending the upcoming MC convention then I would say yes, pay the $63.00. You will get next years free membership figure (Big Lobb in ARAH format) and what you pay for one of the attending MC convention sets will basically equal your membership dues. The "free" news letter wasn't that good of a read to warranty the $63.00 (USD). Any news they had you could find out elsewhere within a day or two.
That being said, with the exception of MC exclusive figures and the occasional clearance sale I never buy from the MC club. The shipping rates are through the roof. I've mentioned this to them a few times. There is now way they should be charging a "handling" fee for a club I already paid to join. That's double dipping, plain and simple.
If your looking to buy on-line toys, stick with one of our sponsors. If they don't have what you need and you want to buy from the US then use Corey at smalljoes.com. Corey doesn't make his money from shipping and handling fees and he'll do what he can to help you with customs. I've literally spent thousands of dollars over they years with smalljoes. If MC would wise up and lower their shipping rates then they might have had more of my money, but as it is, they got greedy so I took my money elsewhere.
