There is no such thing as newsletters, similar to the paintings you don't buy when you do VIP here. Also to put it in context, VIP is VIP, the standard payment. And not all that different to VIP on the other forums. The other payments are way of providing donation if you want to...rather than donating in the older way.
The diamond stuff is a newer one as mentioned earlier, and was asked for by the more active membership as a better way of donating due to the all too common paypal issues. No mystery, no scam. No pressure to join any of the payment methods or donate. All the forums have a separate donation thing aside from the standard VIP membership stuff. Lots of silly stirring here methinks.
Why can't we provide 20 year membership for $25? ....See, easy do it.

Then I wonder do some people prefer to stir sometimes rather than talk about watches, each to their own I guess.
Why can't we all just get along?