USFA membership year?

[Morion]

I looked briefly at the USFA website but couldn't find the information. I am finally going to cough up the cash to join this year and I was wondering how the membership works. Does it last a year from when they receive your application or do they work on some sort of a yearly calender such as July through June? Probably a dumb question but I have so many of those I might as well get rid of a couple. Thanks!

[Mr Epee]

August 1st -> July 31st

I think it's silly, but it works for them.

No matter when you purchase the membership it expires the next 07.31.xx

Could be a year. Could be a week.

[Moses]

Not entirely true. I became a member around April of this year, and my membership won't expire until July of next year.

-Da Mose

[Mr Epee]

Ach! wieder Ach!

It may have changed (good)

Moses could be right...

[DJ Apostrophe]

They do that for you if you join after april 1st, and have never been a member before (or they don't notice that you were a member before)... otherwise it expires on the next 7/31.

-w

[oiuyt]

You're both right (mostly).

The membership year runs August 1st - July 31st. Regardless of when you join it expires the next July 31st. EXCEPT, if you are a first-time member of the USFA and you join April 1st or later, then your membership runs until the following July 31st. You pick up, as a free bonus, the remainder of the season that you're currently in.

First-time member I think is defined as they don't have you in their database, which means you've never been a member since 1990, or thereabouts. And you check "new member" rather than "renewing member" or whatever the checkboxes on the form are labelled.

Obviously multi-year memberships (and lifetime memberships) extend that deadline by the appropriate amount.

-B :)