[Leica] more LHSA adventures

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

The extra $25 will be invested in the additional postage necessary to get
your Viewfinder to the United States.  

The $55 rate's olly in 'Merkuh.

Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA
United States of Canada







-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Brian
Reid
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:17 PM
To: LUG@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] more LHSA adventures

Thanks to all of you who referred me to Madge Brown at the LHSA. She's sweet
and kind and helpful. She also lives on a different planet than I do, which
is probably why I'm writing this here instead of sending it to the LHSA. She
doesn't really seem to know very much about the online world and didn't
understand my desire to accomplish things online. But she gave me what I
needed: my login code and password.

I managed to get into the Members section of the lhsa.org website, and after
taking some Marezine to deal with the vertigo of the visual focus jumping
all over my screen, and the circular links taking me forward and back and
around, I managed to figure out how to navigate to the "renew online", where
it told me that the renewal rates were $55 for the USA and $65 for Canada
and $80 for other countries, I filled out the payment form. When I got to
the part where it asked me what country I lived 
in, I was given two choices: USA and United States. I selected "United
States". It then charged me $80, presumably because the $55 rate is only if
you reply that you live in the USA.

I'm beginning to understand that historical societies and computers will
never have a smooth relationship. And I accomplished my goal of renewing,
though it took approximately 25 times as long as it took me to renew my
membership in Salon Premium a few moments later. I hope they don't try to
refund my excess $25 but instead apply it to hiring a new website designer.