Insider or Outsider? To be or not to be,...?

Woody Allen is more like the Zelig type.

The Queen of England could have said it for all I care.
It made me laugh and that's a good thing on a Friday morning before 2 cups of coffee even.

"Working closely with some of our most dedicated audio enthusiasts, we’ve launched a premium membership tier"

So, maybe I missed it. Anyone want to step forward and identify themselves?

The model that I've seen that has worked well this way is for specialty auto forums where there is a fee for seeing and advertising paid member to paid member classified ads along with other minor perks. Rennlist, as an  example. That forum however makes it's revenue from member subscriptions almost exclusively. No fees collected from sales transactions. About the same price. People there who are "unbadged" are generally seen as lurkers and not actual owners of these particular vehicles. There are some potential parallels here. Will this become the "true high end Forum" however that term may be defined?

What Audiogon is referring to there is that some time ago they sent out emails to members ( no idea what they based that selection process on though) to see if interested in providing feedback to Audiogon on future ideas, plans etc.
Nothing nefarious at all.....

And nobody got paid for it...lol 

I can see the analogy with high end car forums to high end audio forums for sure but we will have to see how this goes.

Still do not see anybody having joined or admitting to joining yet.

Maybe might have to stump up $10 just to see.