Steamboat Girlie, it sounds like you purchased from Disney. That pro rating of annual dues has to do with date of purchase. Disney will charge you dues for the calendar year from date of purchase (not date of closing) and it thus appears your actual date of purchase was about January 23 and your dues are the pro rated from that date until December 31, 2008, meaning you don't pay any amount for those first 23 days of January.
Dues for a calendar year are determined in December, i.e., dues for 2008 were determined in December 2007. For existing members, they are billed in January for the entire year. Since you bought in January, yours for 2008 are apparently now payable by March 1 and that is because they designated that date as the due date because you are a new purchaser.
You have an option that I am not sure you chose. Rather than paying all dues at once for the year at the beginning of the year, you can agree to pay them in monthly installments as long as you agree to have that done by automatic withdrawal from your checking account. They don't charge any interest or extra fees if you go monthly so the total amount you pay monthly throughout the year ends up equaling what you would have paid if you just pay lump sum at the beginning of the year. If you want to do monthly and have not set it up, you can call the Member Services number and go to accounting on the promps and they will tell you what you need to do.
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