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Seat buyins and reservations.
Sugar_Free:
--- Quote from: Des on October 21, 2013, 20:40:15 PM --- The charge is there to ensure players don"t reserve without being fairly certain they intend to travel. And those that do travel do so in the knowledge that they have a seat locked up and can plan their travel and accommodation in advance.
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They"d be able to do this having paid the full amount beforehand too (and wouldn"t have to be at the venue over an hour early). Why don"t those that want to prepay have the same flexibility?
Fatcatstu:
Are we seriously seeing this amount of bed-wetting over a fiver?
Some absolutely ridic over reacting going on here, if there is something to be said, can it not be said without all the hysteria and gnashing of teeth?
Des/ APAT have always listened to all points of view in the past, without the need to try and organise some kind of revolution. Not sure its needed here.
GiMac:
Aggressive? No. Meant to get a reaction? yes. If telling you how it is is seen as being aggressive then I think thats got more to do with defensive posturing imho, but I certainly do not in any way mean this to be aggressive, I"m just telling you how I feel.
If you actually read what I posted instead of making and promoting your own agendas, you would realise that I do not have issue with the reservation scheme per se and I understand the logic behind charging for it. It could be £20 to reserve a seat for all I care, in fact I even stated I would be happy to pay a higher registration fee, so it"s not about the fiver as some people who missed the point seem to think.
For those who missed it or just skipped over my point please note, and this is actually the crux of it, why does seat reservation have priority over seat purchase? That just isn"t logical, especially when, as Des indicates approximately a third of the reservation fee is taken by the online processor!!!
It"s all very well saying the seats have been available for months, well they haven"t been for direct purchase, they were only released for direct purchase at midday today (21st Oct)! How many seats made available for direct buy in? A measly 5.
You say it saves on admin, how? Surely it takes the same amount of admin to have an online buyin tank for 5 people as it does for 20?
Imho people who actually want to commit to attending an event by buying in direct in advance should take priority over those who pay a fiver to reserve a seat on the off chance that they might have a free weekend or can be bothered to get out of bed that day. Maybe i am way off the mark but it"s my opinion.
I for one remember the debacle of the tournament at this venue starting late last year due to everyone having to queue around the cardroom for upwards of an hour to buy in at the venue prior to the event starting. Looks like the same thing will happen again this year.
In short all I would like is the same facility that EVERY other UK tour gives its players. Whether it be GUKPT, GPS, UKIPT, 25/25 series, UKIPT Series, DTD, PPUKPT, etc etc, you name it they all have an online direct buy in facility.
I would simply like to go online click a button and register for the event, then turn up on the day and play. I do not want to be forced to reserve a seat, then have to turn up to the venue 1-2hrs before the event and queue up for the best part of an hour to buy in before playing an event. If people want to reserve a seat and do the turn up hours before, queue and pay on the day fine let them have that facility but please do not remove my option to facilitate them, cos lets face it that"s what has happened. In reality 5 seats released for direct buy in is a token and therefore the facility has all but been removed.
Mikeyboy9361:
Never used it before, used it this time as I knew numbers would be limited, and proved right to do so. I can"t remember what my first thoughts were when this reg fee was first mooted,but I now think it suits me pretty well, as quite often I don"t know whether I can attend until pretty close to the date, and £5, to reserve a seat means that I can do that with only the risk of losing the cost of a Guiness. As it is, really looking forward to Glasgow :)
GiMac:
--- Quote from: Eck on October 21, 2013, 21:20:04 PM ---
lol at the raging over a fiver.
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lol at completely missing the actual point. ;D ;D ;D
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