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Problems renewing Canada chess membership from www.chess.ca website
Problems renewing Canada chess membership from www.chess.ca website
I want to renew my Canada chess membership for BC, which has just expired. When I go to the Canada chess website (www.chess.ca) and select my province for renewing membership and then click on 'Add to Cart', I Just get the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error webpage. So I then clicked on the 'Adult Membership - British Columbia' link, which takes me to another page where there is a button to 'Buy Now'. I click that and then enter my details (on the paypal page) and then click on 'Review and continue' and then another page appears with some kind of error message.
Why do these problems exist? It's a rather poor state of affairs (and quite unprofessional) if people cannot buy/renew membership from the official website. It those links to buy or renew membership don't work (permanently or temporarily), then they should be disabled, or at least have some informational message there to let people know why the links might not be working. I guess I will have to email details to someone in order to renew the membership. I don't want to be wasting my time trying to renew my membership when the website is broken, and I'm sure other people would feel the same.
I want to renew my Canada chess membership for BC, which has just expired. When I go to the Canada chess website (www.chess.ca) and select my province for renewing membership and then click on 'Add to Cart', I Just get the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error webpage. So I then clicked on the 'Adult Membership - British Columbia' link, which takes me to another page where there is a button to 'Buy Now'. I click that and then enter my details (on the paypal page) and then click on 'Review and continue' and then another page appears with some kind of error message.
Why do these problems exist? It's a rather poor state of affairs (and quite unprofessional) if people cannot buy/renew membership from the official website. It those links to buy or renew membership don't work (permanently or temporarily), then they should be disabled, or at least have some informational message there to let people know why the links might not be working. I guess I will have to email details to someone in order to renew the membership. I don't want to be wasting my time trying to renew my membership when the website is broken, and I'm sure other people would feel the same.
Hi Kirk:
I just read your post and tried it to purchase a membership myself and had no problem.... when I added the membership to cart...
I got the page http://chess.ca/productm.asp?PD1=1115
Members Price: $36.00 Catalogue Number: 1115
A person can become an adult member if they are over the age of 18. Adult members electronically receive Canadian Chess News each month, can play in CFC rated events and receive member’s prices on books and equipment as long as their membership is valid.
NOTE: Schools receive Members' Price. All prices are in Canadian dollars. To get the US Dollar conversion rate click here.
HINT: Dump your temporary internet files and click refresh on the link for BC Memberships. Good luck and please, write me personally if you can get this to function. Thanks.
Re: Problems renewing Canada chess membership from www.chess.ca website
Join the Inner Galactic Chess Federation. It costs nothing, you get nothing. I'll keep a membership list in case I get enough members to do anything with the federation.
Posting your email address is optional. I "might" (weasel word alert) get around to doing a chess news magazine one day. We could have more members than the CFC and the price is right.
Re: TRY THIS PLEASERe:Problems renewing Canada chess membership from www.chess.ca web
I managed to put the order through successfully by clicking on the 'Buy now' button and being redirected to the paypal site. It's the 'Add to cart' buttons that try to open the internal link http://chess.ca/add.asp that aren't working.
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