With their credit card systems shut down while they investigate security problems, the G.I. Joe and Transformers Collectors’ Club have uploaded a PDF form to renew or sign up for memberships via check or money order.
The following email comes from Pete Sinclair.
“Hello!
We wanted to give you the latest update on the current procedure for membership renewals and NEW memberships. As we continue to work to resolve the online store issues, we have put up a PDF that members can download and print out. These will need to be mailed in with a check or money order. We will process your membership as soon as they arrive. Just click the “Join Now” button in the top right corner at www.gijoeclub.com
Please note that the March 16th deadline is still a hard deadline (in house), so please make sure any mail is in the postal system by March 9th. If we could move the date we would, but that is not an option as these have to be processed due to existing schedules.
If you want to receive either the 3 3/4-inch Footloose OR the 12-inch “Man of Evil” action figures your membership must be active as of March 16th. If your club expiration date is after March 16th you are good to go for this years figure.
Thanks as always and we do apologize for any inconvenience!”
This is obviously a frustrating event for all those involved. Here’s hoping they get the situation ironed out quickly and go back to business as usual.
I hope everyone has enough time to send there membership renew in, mostly the foreign members, now if they could do the same thing for the club store
I can’t help but reiterate that there are so many things that can go wrong with this method. I fear many people will have to pony up for delivery confirmation and who-knows-what-else just to be sure that they get there stuff in on time. I foresee multiple disputes about whether or not membership fees were received or not. After all of this, I feel completely burned by the Club, and I wasn’t even a paying member yet. Looks like I wont be one any time soon, either. Bummer, because I was actually fairly excited about Footloose and the FSS figures.