Our policy regarding the access to bonus videos has always been simple - after three months of the current membership. We did not take into account the member's history with us, we always focused just on his latest membership. The reason was simple - the customers keeping our site alive are those who don't cancel their membership and who have been with us continuously for years. Paying for one month, downloading everything and then leaving for a year is also possible but does not support our work much.
But we have received a lot of requests from members who do cancel from time to time but who have already spent a high amount of money for past memberships. And that group of loyal customers and friends is very important to us so we've decided to change the algorithm in favour of them.
Three months of membership are still needed for accessing the bonus videos BUT we are now also counting your past memberships in a certain ratio. We will keep the exact algorithm secret but our script basically finds your past memberships and counts approximately one third of the sum of those periods towards your current membership. Example: if you were our member four months in year 2013 and two months in 2016 the site adds two months (one third of the total of six months) in your favour and you gain access to bonuses already after one month instead of three. How cool is that! (Of course it's necessary that you use the same username or email address as before, otherwise there's no way to assign those past memberships to your current account).
We were surprised to find out that some visitors cannot pay for the recurring membership because some cards (for example a VISA gift card) do not allow to pay for any recurring membership (even if it's cancelled immediately and basically becomes a 1-month single membership). One of our customers suggested to come with a single-month option that is slightly more expensive but gives the chance to become our member to our visitors who may not have a credit or debit card or may not be able to make a SEPA payment. So if you never had a chance to become our member you can do it now. The payment gate (CCBill) accepts a very wide range of payment types.