Hi David
Thanks for all the hard work and I am all charged up to prepare for 2009 exams after reading all the feedback. As you know I had enrolled for 2008 product with the intention of appearing in 2009. I have attached below our earlier correspondence on this for your reference but unfortunately I missed sending you the official mail on the extension of my registeration to your 2009 product. Would appreciate if you could consider my request for extension of my registration to 2009 product.
Thanks in advance
Sumit
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Sumit Posted: 29 April 2008 03:57 AM
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Joined 2008-04-27 Hi David
First of all I would like to thank you for all your responses.
Need one more clarification
I am planning to enroll for bionicturtle product. However want to know if suppose, i skip my attempt of NOV08 and decide to give FRM in 2009, will my membership of bionicturtle be automatically carryforward to 2009 or I have to pay extra to continue my membership. I yes, than will it be a fresh membership or is there any nominal charge to continue the membership?
Your prompt response would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Sumit
David Harper, CFA, FRM, CIPM Posted: 29 April 2008 02:18 PM [ Report ] [ Ignore ] [ # 1 ]
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Joined 2006-09-24 Hi Sumit,
In general, a purchase applies to the membership year (i.e., current purchases apply to the 2008 FRM).
I have tried to be fair about two sorts of exceptions:
(i) If you are going to skip 2008 as part of a longer-term plan to sit for 2009, as you are, then yes, you can pay this year (once) and we will extend you a “two year membership.” Several customers did that last year; for whatever reasons, these (statistically) seem to be our better customers (helpful in the forum), so I am happy to do this.
(ii) Also, some candidates plan to sit in the current year but unforeseen circumstances/emergencies prevent them from doing so (e.g., they are forced to defer or cancel). In that case, we extend to the following year. If it’s an emergency, I’ll refund. (I did this once last year. I have never yet had to refund out of dissatisfaction)
All that is required, for either of these, is that you give us advance notice. If you send us one or two sentences (including your email as that is the unique identifier, the email you paid with, so we can match your record in the DB), we will tag your member record accordingly. What does not work for me is to get such a request in November or after the exam.
As illustration, there are several 2007 BT customers who were retained for 2008 (without any additional payment) simply because they sent us a reasonable request in advance, with a plan like yours. But, I won’t honor current requests to retroactively honor a 2007 membership into the current year (it would reflect the lack of such a plan); I hope the policy is fair in both respects.
Thanks, David
