Well it's not a quite so meagre an amount if you're not earning dollars (or a stronger currency), but it's more that I don't have means of payment even if I do have the cash...anyways my beef is not that you charge, my beef is that you still charge once the product has basically expired...ok granted that does not neccessarily apply to Mass Effect just yet especially as it's part of an ongoing trilogy but the fact remains that the newest trainer is not time delayed but rather unavailable forever.
Music is timeless thus it makes sense that people charge for it, games however come and go, only die-hard fans hold onto a game for as long as they possibly. Besides, the music industry has always charged whereas Cheathappens is the first site/group to charge for trainers or limit trainer releases, NONE of the previous groups have charged. Now I will give you that Cheathappens trainers are quality and they tend to beat other groups to releases, but I would say you're already more than getting your money's worth from the Unlimited Members you do have (and that includes server costs) otherwise you would stop completely and vanish like the groups before you.
I know you guys work hard and that you need the memberships to host a site as nice as this, the memberships are not my problem, you work hard there's no doubt about that and you deserve some recuperation...but you're not going to get anything a year+ down the line (well almost nothing, there's always an exception or two) so why keep limiting? you say you do it as an added service to UNL members? do they care? have they requested the limiting? Surely UNL members already get their money's worth by getting their trainer before anyone else? Surely just making the public wait a couple of months is already enough? If one unlimited member pops up and requests a trainer for some old game most people have forgotten, cool no problem, restrict that to UNL members, heck make even more money and restrict it to just that member and make the others pay a little extra cuz you had to deviate from the current feature games to make that trainer...but don't restrict feature games like Mass Effect beyond a time-limited public release especially not whilst inbetween patches that actually still fix bugs and don't just rebalance or apply multiplayer fixes.
Oh, I hardly expect everything for free, I pay not in money though but in time, for a couple of months I have to sit there not being able to play the game as I want to as I wait for the public release (if I am not unlucky and the trainers ends up UNL only). And yes I know you guys work hard to produce your trainers...as for you deserving payment, yes you do, but keep in mind no other group before has requested it...and you get your payment from the members you do have and those unwilling to wait for public releases (and as I said I bet there's enough of those) yet keep on limiting those whom you never will receive payment from which is pointless and less than friendly.
As for the free tuts, I have tried (though addmittedly not with Mass Effect) in the past and failed miserably, I simply don't have the skill or knowhow to do what you do, so you do have my respect for that. I am afraid I am dependant on your and the other trainers groups kindness.
Mass Effect is not the only game where I have UNL trainer I want having no public release by the way, another one is Red Alert 3, I have no problem there though because most new patches just contain rebalancing and multiplayer fixes, the game is perfectly playable before those patches and even if not it's preotection is less draconian so I could uninstall and then reinstall and only patch up the highest I can get a public trainer for. Plus as many RTSs the game has an almost equal weighting on multiplayer so you restrict cheating in that scene. Just so you know that I can be reasonable and understanding of UNL only trainers, I just think that limiting those games that everyone wants to play (like Mass Effect) whilst still being given important patches is quite mean of you guys and I am very thankfull that the Batman - Arkham Assylum trainers are only time-limited (though I have yet to get the game anyways).