Complaint Review: Internstional Nurses Association

I received a phone call after filling out application to join the association on Facebook. The woman on the voice mail explain how I had been accepted. This is a great honor, according to her. She just needed a few more questions answered before she could send it to editing. I returned the phone call, did not speak to the same person that left a message but spoke with another woman. She went on to explain that I obviously am a leader in Nursing and in my area and must be an outstanding LPN to be accepted. She asked me some personal questions about my nursing carrer to put into my 'bio' that was going to be placed in the association list as a new member.

She then went to explained how I can get access to all types of different nurses and healthcare providers around the world all the different discounts that I would receive and so on. Then she starts to talk about the one-time membership fee. I could be diamond and that was I think five or six hundred dollars! She did not say it that way, she said 586 so if I had not asked is that hundred or five dollars? She then clarified, but would have charged me 586. I highly doubt they did any checking on my background as a nurse, basically you are paying to be listed in this book. I don't understand how it can be such an achievement and honor when anybody can join as long as they're willing to pay 5 to $600. In my opinion this is a total rip-off no association should have that large of a fee, save your money find a different Association.