Hi Tony, upgrading a forum user account to full membership is a manual process, meaning someone who doesn't get paid or receive ANY benefits from DSUK has to spend their own time to process this, admittedly it's not as slick as it might be but that's where we are, you paid the membership yesterday at 1420 and I thank you for that and the extra is really is appreciated as hosting and insurance is where this mainly goes, your account was upgraded yesterday at 1530 (thats probably some sort of record for us!). I haven't seen any emails from you and I'm not sure what you were expecting? Fanfare or maybe something magical, I am looking at adding membership numbers and avatars for people who join but that's a work in progress so keep an eye out for that.
You should see extra forums and a PM stating that you'd been added to the official members group. If you still feel "robbed" I'm happy to refund
I've also updated the membership post in official forum information stating that account upgrades are manual and not magic.
Official Membership Link