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ces with the same results .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Will<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org"><span style='color:blue'>pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</span></a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?"><span style='color:blue'>mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</span></a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Boyce<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><span style='color:blue'>pianotech@ptg.org</span></a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] dues payment fiasco<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Well, I too left paying my dues until the last minute.&nbsp; I didn't have any problem doing it online; the transaction went smoothly.&nbsp; BUT I did it on <a href="http://www.ptg.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>www.ptg.org</span></a> and NOT on my.ptg, where I couldn't see a place to do it.<br><br>Some months ago I had a similar frustrating &quot;round in circles logging on&quot; experience when I was trying to do something else; I forget exactly what, perhaps by some Care of my Piano booklets. I emailed the home office who were very helpful, and told me to clear my browser cache and try again on <a href="http://www.ptg.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>www.ptg.org</span></a>.<br><br>Clearly, there are problems which are not yet resolved.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>David.<br><a href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style='color:blue'>www.davidboyce.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br>Ok, so I am going to do some venting now.&nbsp; I just spent a frustrating 50 minutes trying to pay my dues, and by some miracle was finally able to actually do so.&nbsp; It only took me about 50 tries to log in, although my username and password information were entered correctly.&nbsp; It simply just kept going around in circles and kept asking me for the same info on the page I started with, again and again and again.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>