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Season Seven Seat Reservation
AJDUK:
Right now we have a system that only indicates how many people are interested, not how many will actually turn up.
Implementing a £5 fee will give a system that neither tells you how many people are interested*, nor how many people will actually turn up**.
I think the former is therefore much better than the latter (putting aside administration costs).
For example, any notion that a £5 fee would have avoided 30 people not turning up at Wembley from the 80 or so that registered their interest is laughable. 80 wouldn"t have paid the fiver in the first place. What would have happened IMO is that perhaps 30 would have paid the fiver and 25 of those turned up. Further to that only having 30 people registered may have actually put off those that would otherwise go, because they fear a small field and no value.
*because some will be interested but will either not pay the £5 or try to avoid it by registering after the fee is reduced to £0.
** because £5 is expendable
Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: AJDUK on June 04, 2013, 16:55:05 PM ---
registering after the fee is reduced to £0.
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I don"t think this was ever a suggestion...it"s a fiver or you turn up and hope.
At least that"s the way I read it.
AJDUK:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on June 04, 2013, 17:02:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: AJDUK on June 04, 2013, 16:55:05 PM ---
registering after the fee is reduced to £0.
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I don"t think this was ever a suggestion...it"s a fiver or you turn up and hope.
At least that"s the way I read it.
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Yes I read it that way too, but some did suggest removing the fee for a short period immediately prior to the event so I just covered it off by putting it that way.
4KSuited:
It"s a tricky one this. Having just experienced the disappointment of seeing 15 unsold seats at Wembley, I agree that there needs to be a solution that balances APAT's need to cover its costs in delivering excellent value/formatted competitons, with the player"s need for good value & convenience.
It should be noted that having tournaments fully sold is a benefit to the players involved.
However, I think there need to be more benefits than this! Someone"s already posted the idea about an annual membership bestowing benefits. I think that this is the way to go - but with no tier system, just a flat-rate membership fee that would give the following example benefits:
1. Tournament pre-reg preference up to say 10 days in advance of the comp
2. A piece of APAT merchandise - a card-guard; t-shirt; cap; calendar & zillions of other low-cost volume items
3. Staking privelege (?)
4. Monthly email updates on APAT special offers
I can"t speak for everyone, of course, but even those on tight budgets would probably value this at something around £20 p/a - that"s about 3 packets of fags...
It also has the benefit of simplicity, and perhaps the "welcome pack" could include the facility to authorise payment by DD, which I believe would keep transaction fees relatively low - and even offer people the choice to pay by cheque in the post should they so wish (and this is even cheaper for APAT)
Maybe I"m being niaive...
4h Kh
s4ooter:
TBH the 1st thing i think when "Membership" is mentioned is "clique". The appeal of APAT is that the very fact that its open to all grassroots players, and not too sure what effect a membership would have?? Thats not saying it wont work?
Why cant me just punish people that dont let APAT know they cant attend with enough notice. Its pretty embarrassing that grown adults cant have the common curtosey to do that tbf.
Still....
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