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=== Ayumi Hamasaki Online Fan Club ===
The fan club began accepting members in July 1999, and officially opened for access in September. A subscription to the avex alert! service was a prerequisite for fan club access.

The fee was 6,000 yen, to be made via money transfer at the post office; after making the transfer you were instructed to e-mail a fan club e-mail address with your information to finalize your membership; once you received your confirmation e-mail, which could take up to two weeks, you could log in to the ayu fan club with your avex alert! login information.

==== Official Benefits List as of September 1999 ====

* Issuance of a premium membership card*
* Participation in Ayu BBS/Chat system
* Ayu original photo gallery
* Ayu Diary
* Downloading screensavers, etc. (in the "ACCESSORIES" section)
* Plus the promise of more services in the future, at the time "still under planning and production".
<nowiki>*</nowiki>While this was listed as a benefit from the beginning, it would be about six months before physical membership cards were finally sent out to members.

The Ayu BBS/Chat did include Ayu making posts on the BBS (as a "Message from Ayu" class of post), which were like blog entries.

According to TA Magazine issue 1, the first AYU'S DIARY video was posted on October 9th, and was called "First Diary".

The website also included a "REPORTS" section, not listed as a feature, as of the release of LOVEppears. This section was any combination of photos, text, and video, much of which was publicly-available material (like CMs and PVs) merely put here for ease of access or in case you missed it. The first fan-club exclusive report was "Ayu's New York Photo Diary," uploaded October 9th or 10th, 1999.