Get full access to Nikongear.com forever for only $99

You will also receive a Welcome Pack that includes one of our “Official” caps and two sew-on patches of the site logo.

To purchase a Life Membership you need to enter your existing Nikongear.com user ID in the field below and then click on the “Buy Now” button. You will be re-directed to 2Checkout.com where you can pay for the membership using a major brand credit card or PayPal* (via 2CO).

2CheckOut.com Inc. (Ohio, USA) is an authorized retailer for goods and services provided by Nikongear.com.

Just send your payment to life@nikongear.com (but don’t forget to tell us what your Nikongear.com user ID is).

Nikongear is one of the very few popular photography forums that offers a once-off Life Membership to its members. Once you pay your dues, that’s it. You don’t have to pay again to get full access to the forum and all the privileges of the site. We’ll never curb your access to the site (unless you fall foul of the Code Of Conduct). If you want to show support in the future you are most welcome to make an ad hoc donation of any amount whenever you can - just send it to dallas@nikongear.com.

- access to all the non-public discussion forums (except management and regional boards you are not a part of)
- 100MB’s of gallery space
- permission to post up to 5 attachments to any post
- unrestricted use of the Private Message system
- additional themes (which show the forum at 100% of the width of the screen without the sidebar)
- edit your “custom title” (seen on your posting profile)
- automatically approved Trader Ratings
- view what others are busy doing on the forum

There are also a bunch of other minor permission changes that you will discover as you begin to make posts.

Terms & Conditions

1. Life Memberships are sold by our authorised reseller and distributor 2Checkout.com. Your credit card statement will list 2CO as the vendor.
2. The server space that you will be allocated for image hosting may not be used to store anything pornographic or violent in nature.
3. Nikongear assumes no responsibility for the backing up of files stored on your server space. Our hosting company does make back-ups but if they are required to restore anything there may be costs involved. Never rely on somebody else to do your back-ups.

Refund Policy

Life Membership is non-refundable.

Alternative Forms Of Membership

If you have your own website and would like to combine full access to Nikongear.com with a full featured web hosting plan we offer a few options you may be interested in. Click here to find out more about the Club 500 and Club 1000 options.