Can a paying member send a gift membership for free?

[andrew mccarter]

Hello, all.

I found the link below and wanted to send a friend a gift membership. The page says that it would cost me, a paying member, $0.00; however, when I tried to "buy" it, my shopping cart said 22$ would be charged. I was logged into BPL at the time I tried to buy, so it knew I was a member. Am I doing something wrong?

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/xdpy/sf/Publications/Subscriptions/index.html

Thanks for any help.

[Ryan Jordan]

Hi Andrew, from where did you click to get to that link? That's a very old and outdated page.

[Ken Thompson]

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[BlackHatGuy]

I'm not sure how Andrew did it, but it's quite doable.

Click Gift BPL from the main page.

Click Give A Gift Membership from that page.

Scroll down that page to Related Products.

You come to: View More Gear » Publications » Subscriptions

Click on Subscriptions

That brings you to this page:

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[andrew mccarter]

Douglas mapped the trail. Nice work. That's how I got there.

Sorry to hear that it was an old offer.

[andrew mccarter]

If you're not going to honor the offer presented on your website, at least remove it.

[Ken Thompson]

Don't be mad. Did you really think that you could give away memberships because you have one? When you click on view item details it let's you choose a gift of a lifetime membership $100, or a regular $25. I don't see a problem.

There is no free lunch.

Geez. Don't get your feelings hurt. Re read your first post. It is not a stretch to come to the conclusion I had.

[Ryan Jordan]

Thanks for pointing this out. There was a bug on our display code that wasn't showing the price correctly when it was in the "list" but it didn't affect the price display on the actual product page, or when ordering. Should be fixed now. It was a bug, though, not a promotion that we've ever run.

[andrew mccarter]

Wasn't looking for a free lunch, just responding to a promotion I saw on your website. Some sites do promotions to attract membership. I see that this site would rather insult its members. Lesson learned.

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