Are you an ANA Life Member

ColonialCoinUnion

My first question, in all seriousness, is why?

Is there any advantage to doing this other than the fact that it sounds kind of cool to say you are a life member? Do you get any cool free stuff? Do you also pay cash for your cars while your neighbors are all leasing?

$750 beans seems like a lot -

airplanenut

Well, if you're a member for around 25 years, it becomes less money.

And even if you're not, it's a good organization to support for promoting the hobby, so if you pay a little extra, well... then you're supporting a little more.

Jeremy

Coinosaurus

$750 and going up. I believe 9/15 is the last day you can get that rate.......

boiler78

LM-4981 When I paid it was around 500 and I was tired of paying annual dues. The only perk besides supporting a great orginization was a Life Member plaque.

ziggy29

In retrospect, I wish I did this when I joined to begin with -- except that I didn't have the money then. The problem is, when you're older is often when you have the money, but that's when becoming an LM becomes less cost-effective...

kranky

Yes, it's another way to help support the ANA. If I remember correctly, another perk is you get invited to attend a special reception at each summer's ANA convention for LM's only.

Like ziggy, I should have become a LM years ago, but I couldn't afford it then.

foodude

Yes, it's another way to help support the ANA Ditto

I wish I did this when I joined to begin with -- except that I didn't have the money then Ditto

If I remember correctly, another perk is you get invited to attend a special reception at each summer's ANA convention for LM's only. My invitation must be lost in the mail

coinlieutenant

Yep...LM-5949

boiler78

foodude- I think they lost my invite in the mail too?

aem4162

<< <i>... $750 beans seems like a lot - >>



it's a lot for me

manlye1

lm- 2152

Johnscoin

If you're a YN and you're serious about coin collecting, you should think hard about it. I got mine 3 years ago before I turned 22 for $500. YNs can get life memberships cheaper...And it certainly has worked out for me...It's a neat plaque and a cool gold plated card as well...But don't take it to an airport...

monsterman

shhhhhhhhhhhh

monsterman

well if you got 10 guys to join and you talked to the right person.....5,000 would get all 10 in.....so somebody ram rod it and get it done....thats what i did

hope this helps

now dont go runnin to the ana and say*%)$$$))$#@$^

im just tryin to help

oreville

Too bad I didn't try that route, monsterman suggested. No one wanted to plunk a discounted rate of $500 (I had to pay the $650 rate because it was going up to $750 at the time) when I wanted to become a LM in 1998.

The only thing I convinced them to do was to pay the $650 at the time over two years, by credit card.

I first joined the ANA in 1969, stayed a member until the fiasco 1976 Summer ANA convention in New York City and then I quit since the ANA no longer wanted to come back to New York (at the time),

Once the ANA decided to follow through on returning to New York in 1997, I relented and rejoined.

paigowjohnny

Nope...not even a regular member.

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>Nope...not even a regular member. >>



I'll ditto that!!

airplanenut

Maybe I'll win YN of the year and not have to worry about paying

kieferscoins

Yes. I got mine for free as part of being the ANA YN of the year.

Cameron Kiefer

DennisH

I'm no longer an ANA member at all. When it accepted a donation from ACG, I decided ANA was not something I wanted to be a part of.

mtnman

I've been a member for 33 years. When I first joined there was no way I could have come up with the money
to be a life member. Now at my age, it wouldn't be cost effective.

mgoodm3

Nope.

kranky

<< <i>If I remember correctly, another perk is you get invited to attend a special reception at each summer's ANA convention for LM's only. >>



<< <i>My invitation must be lost in the mail >>



Maybe "invited" was the wrong word. There was a reception for LMs at the ANA, but maybe they don't send out invitations. It was in the program schedule, though (Thursday, 4:30).

notlogical

<< <i> YNs can get life memberships cheaper...And it certainly has worked out for me... >>



How much cheaper? How can i join?

hamiltonjh

No.

but I'm an AMVETS life member.....

ScarsdaleCoin

yup ....
lm4852
supports ANA
hope it lets me live longer
and gives me a star for bourse tables....

MrEureka

LM 2446. It was 1980 and $500 seemed like a good deal. So I bought myself eight life memberships for 4K.

INXS

Just what do you get for $750? I have plenty of wall decorations so thats not an incentive to me. I usually do not support(donate to) anything thats not non-profit, simply for that reason. So there must be some added perk's that I dont know about.

Inxs

kranky

The ANA is a non-profit organization. There really aren't any other perks to being a life member. It helps support the mission of the ANA.

Julian

Yes, for thirty-five years. I think the fee was $150, at the time.

It was important that dealers become life members, as it increased the chances of receiving an ANA table, which were less available than they are today.

As others have stated, it shows increased support for our national numismatic organization and it is more important today than it has ever been.

Promotion of the hobby in these times is critical to the continued health of the hobby. There are still only 168 hours in the week and there are more and more things competing for that time. Promoting numismatics is an important function of the ANA.

Coinhusker1

39/750 = 5.2%. If you lived forever, you would have to earn 5.2% on your money to break even. But that ignores inflation. However, it ignores dying, so may roughly even out.

However, there are probably intangible benefits to life membership such as supporting the ANA, and being able to say you are a "life member" (which for a big-time dealer, may be a tangible benefit!)