Renewing club membership after short break
In August, we made the decision to sell our caravan, as we felt we were not using it enough to justify the expense of storage and insurance costs etc
Of course, literally as the van was being towed away we realised we'd made a mistake, and then set to finding a replacement. We were lucky enough not to have lost our storage, and in two weeks will be collecting our new van, costing us twice as much as we sold the old one for...
Doh!
So we've joined the club again. Although we sold the van in August, and cancelled our membership then, it ran until the end of October. We renewed on 17th November, so effectively only had a break in membership of 17 days, but have now got a new membership number plus on our cards it states "Member since 2020"!
I know that, in the grand scheme of things, this isn't really an issue, but it seems a shame that our original membership years, from October 2011, have been wiped out 
Having said that, as a family, we've been members since 1969 but that's not recorded anywhere either!
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It happens. You left and rejoined so you start again but it doesn’t matter, does it?
The thing that surprises me is that you rejoined during lockdown while sites are shut in England. I would have waited.
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We have only been Members since 2020 as well😂
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They renewed on 17 Nov but don’t get the new van for another 2 weeks yet 🤷🏻♂️
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Dave
I imagine the problem is that once a member leaves the Club all personal records are Deleted User because of data protection rules. Therefore if you reapply there are no records from which to add back in your previous years?
David
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Nail on the head DK
JK
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Data protection makes sense
You'd think that maybe they could repopulate the new membership with the old details you provided, if you gave them the old membership number and the joining date, but I guess that if literally everything has been wiped, then they've only got your word that this information is correct!
As said, not an issue at all, but I was curious!
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When we re joined, I spoke to someone at HQ, and they managed to merge some aspects of our lapsed and new membership, and it did look as though our new card would retain our almost thirty year status. It worked for all the online stuff, but the new card bit didn’t. We weren’t that bothered about the card to be honest. Three months between our Membership lapsing and rejoining, although I was still registered online.
It did resurrect a previously cancelled booking in Marazion. We had a call from Site wondering where we were on the day we had been due to arrive (Scotland as it happened😁) It all got sorted very amiably though.
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