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Register Certificates - opinions please

Dave Wilkinson

Dave Wilkinson

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As many, if not all, of you will know, I'm currently trying to validate and correct the entries in the 964 Register and many of you have already responded to confirm or update the information relating to your cars and I thank you most sincerely for doing so. There are still quite a lot of responses still awaited and I would urge those of you who have not yet filled in the form - or, at least checked that it's right - should do so as soon as possible in order to prevent this task becoming a never ending story!!

Once the task is completed I felt it would be a small "Thank You" for every owner on the Register to receive a Certificate confirming the details of the car in question. My view is that it's something that you can add to the scrapbook or even hang on the wall. Before I spend too much time on it I'd welcome some opinions as to whether it's all in a good cause - or am I wasting my time??? If it's going in the bin (well, it'll be on e-mail so it's only a theoretical bin) I won't bother but if it's seen as "a nicety" I'll do it.

I've put a link here to an example (actually for my car) so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Regards

Dave
 
Dave, Wow - I'm going to have to buy a 964 just to get one of these. Are you going to let Maurice have a copy of the software?
Mark
 
ORIGINAL: Mark Elder

Dave, Wow - I'm going to have to buy a 964 just to get one of these. Are you going to let Maurice have a copy of the software?
Mark
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Mark,

It's only done with Word, using an Excel spreadsheet as the source of the data. I had intended to have a chat about it at the next Workers Conference in November but we'll see what happens here first. In fairness, the difficult part is getting all the data right to go onto the certificate!!! I've only (!!) got 700 or so 964s to worry about but I suspect Mauruce has a few more than that.

Ian - you're probably right. Slow day at work today!!!

Regards

Dave
 
Can we have them printed on parchment or should we just brown off the certificate in the oven like we did when making treasure maps as kids? :ROFLMAO:
 
I know Steve's comment was a little tongue-in-cheek but it raises a point that I didn't make very clear before. It was my intention to deliver these things by e-mail only. The cost of sending something like this in a hard-backed envelope to protect it is likely to be excessive so it's going to be up to the recipient what it gets printed on.

For newcomers to the Register I thought it could go with the windscreen sticker but, again, it needs a much bigger and costlier envelope than the sticker so it just adds to the cost.

My feeling is that more and more things in this life are being centred around electronic delivery (music for sure) and it's becoming more and more necessary for members to have an e-mail address. Thiose who don't will soon begin to miss out on some benefits of membership - and I fear this may be one of them. I'm sure this is a debate that is not new within the Club (even though I am) so I'm convinced it will rage on for a while.

Regards

Dave
 
Hi Dave.

I'm interested in the words "validated and verified" on the certificate. How do you intend validate and verify?

Ian.
 
ORIGINAL: ian_uk

Hi Dave.

I'm interested in the words "validated and verified" on the certificate. How do you intend validate and verify?

Ian.
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Ian (and Maurice),

Short of getting to see each car in turn I guess that the answer might be that you can't. However I am asking each owner to confirm the details that we have on record and things like VIN and Engine numbers are checked against the known correct format so errors that are so common on the V5 are avoided. It's not the easiest thing in the world though to get the right numbers from the owners.

If you feel that the words are used unjustifiably I am certainly open to changing them.

Regards

Dave
 
ORIGINAL: MoC2S
What else do you have up your sleeve as a fresh RS appearing at his first Worker's Conference ? ... [;)]

cheers, Maurice [:D]
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Maurice,

It's not so much the ideas that are the problem - it's knowing how to put them across without upsetting everybody!!

I've got quite a few things I'd like to discuss, particularly about what cars are included in which Registers but I'm concerned that it's likely to upset a few people. I really don't want to start a war at my first WC!!

One very positive thing that I've come to learn in this past week is that the members very much seem to appreciate getting some sort of contact from their RS and I'd like to make more of that. It seems to me that making more use of e-mail (and the forum) is necessary if we are to avoid escalating costs of stationery and postage. I'm communicating with members as far afield as Taiwan (yes, he IS a PCGB member!!) on a minute by minute basis - and you can't do that with Porsche Post.

See you in November (if not before)!!

Regards

Dave

PS Maurice, did you ever get my e-mail the other day?? I have real trouble getting mail through to your BT Internet address.
 
Dave,

Great idea, I'd back it. As to the verification RO's could check at meetings that the details are correct, assuming the meber attends meetings. However, it is not meant to be a certificate of provinance more of a nice to have.

Cheers

Bill

 
Great idea Dave.
Looks that good, it could pass as a qualification certificate! complete with seal of approval. Essentially it is .... pre-requisite - 'must own a 964' [:D]
 
ORIGINAL: Ian Bloxsom

Great Idea. Have you any feel for how many 964's there are in the UK, in there many guises?
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Ian,

That's a difficult question to answer. Estimates suggest that there were something in the region of 4000 sold during the 5 years of the 964. However, there have probably been significant numbers imported since then from Europe and elswhere and there have been quite a few wrecked too.

The BIG problem from my viewpoint is that I'm guessing that, still, the vast majority of 964 owners are not members of PCGB and hence don't appear on the Register. Currently the Register has approximately 650 or so cars detailed (I'm guessing because I have a list which contains a number of RSes, Turbos, 930s, 3.2s and 996es as well) although the Club database will contain significantly more than that since they include those belonging to ex-members as well.

My proposal for the Register Certificates would only encompass current members so I suspect the answer you're looking for would be approximately 650. This would not include Turbos or RSes since they are currently associated with their own Registers.

Regards

Dave
 
Dave,
Thanks for you prompt response. I was just interested in the numbers from a value point of view.
I'm intending to keep mine for as long as is practical, however in light of the money spent on it recently this could be for a very long time, I hope.
Lets hope that you can increase the numbers of cars on the register.
 
Paul,

Generally, yes, a very good response. Of the approx 550 e-mails I sent out I've had replies from probably 200 - 250. I'm still getting replies from people who have been away but I'm getting there.

I have realised a small snag with the Register Certificates though. The problem is that I can print them to a pdf file - but they all get printed to one document rather than being seperate documents. This just makes it more of a chore to seperate them out in order to e-mail one page to each owner. I was hoping to mail merge them individually as I did with the update message and I can't find a way to do it as automatically as I would have liked.

I'll still do it - but it may take a little longer than I first thouight!!!

Regards

Dave
 
Thanks for the update Dave. Good to hear you are receiving a good response. Sorry i can't give much advice on your IT issue. I'm sure someone will know how they can be separated with out to much effort, hopefully. Where there's a will there's a way! or so they say [;)]
 
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