UK MKIVS, Edition 38, VW Vortex , anyone use these more than this site, or as mu

[gibby]

It takes a tight Northern monkey to know one though eh Chuff !

touche,  wanna buy my slot for a RR day I cant make, sure the BMW will go down well  

Don't need to go on the RR as it's fresh enough to be as it left the factory............so about 116bhp then !

[Tazzy]

tbf, i duno how they do things over there, but if i have a member who cant make an event which costs, like a show, i simply sell their ticket to someone else, that way, the original person gets refunded and somebody else gets the ticket at cheaper cost...

Should that be the organisers responsibility to sell it or the peron who can't make it ? I know which I think it should be.

depends who is in possession of the tickets

when i book my club into a show, i keep hold of all tickets and club stand passes till the morning, if somebody cant make it, i simply sell the ticket to another attendee and refund the original person when i see them, it keeps everyone happy with nobody falling out with my club, im not looking to penny pinch from my members

however, if of the morning, somebody doesnt attend without notification, i keep their ticket and they lose out!

[JC]

I'm sorry but if when I organized the JKM dyno day I started taking payments well before I doubt as many people would come. Yes a lot drop out on the day of the event but at least they have the safety of knowing they're not loosing out on money, and ending up disappointed like me.

And before you "lol", I was advised to threaten clubgti with a small claims court by someone who knows legal advise more than well enough. Clubgti just had a cry about it and quickly banned me before giving me a chance to speak out. A few people had dropped out and didn't get a refund, and at £25 a pop clubgti has made £100+ from nothing...That to me is theft.

How you organise events on here is irrelevant in this case.

Its the risk you run when paying for ANYTHING up front unless you take out cancellation insurance,  is it not.

If you were advised so well did you pursue it ? getting banned shouldnt have stopped you surely.

And yes, theft in your opinion - strong words  - lets hope they dont take legal advice and act on it.  

[Khare]

tbf, i duno how they do things over there, but if i have a member who cant make an event which costs, like a show, i simply sell their ticket to someone else, that way, the original person gets refunded and somebody else gets the ticket at cheaper cost...

Should that be the organisers responsibility to sell it or the peron who can't make it ? I know which I think it should be.

depends who is in possession of the tickets

when i book my club into a show, i keep hold of all tickets and club stand passes till the morning, if somebody cant make it, i simply sell the ticket to another attendee and refund the original person when i see them, it keeps everyone happy with nobody falling out with my club, im not looking to penny pinch from my members

however, if of the morning, somebody doesnt attend without notification, i keep their ticket and they lose out!

That's the fair method, keeps everyone happy and if in the day of the event you can't make it then that's your problem. But if you give them a few days notification, then I don't see what the problem is.

[gibby]

depends who is in possession of the tickets

when i book my club into a show, i keep hold of all tickets and club stand passes till the morning, if somebody cant make it, i simply sell the ticket to another attendee and refund the original person when i see them, it keeps everyone happy with nobody falling out with my club, im not looking to penny pinch from my members

however, if of the morning, somebody doesnt attend without notification, i keep their ticket and they lose out!

Good on you for doing that. Personally, I couldn't be @rsed with the reponsibility of sorting something out for someone else when they can't be bothered to sort it out themelves. There's not many people like you out there dude, be careful people don't take advantage.

[gibby]

That's the fair method, keeps everyone happy and if in the day of the event you can't make it then that's your problem. But if you give them a few days notification, then I don't see what the problem is.

If you don't get it then, well, I guess you just don't get it and probably never will.

[gibby]

How you organise events on here is irrelevant in this case.

Its the risk you run when paying for ANYTHING up front unless you take out cancellation insurance,  is it not.

If you were advised so well did you pursue it ? getting banned shouldnt have stopped you surely.

And yes, theft in your opinion - strong words  - lets hope they dont take legal advice and act on it.  

Good points.

[danny_p]

you booked a slot,  you payed  you didn't turn up, your loss

if you cancel in good time fair enough you should probably get a refund but a week ? FFS   unless it's on a weekend thats unlikely to be enough time for someone else to get the day off if it's in the week.

for it to be theft  you would have had to turn up and been told to f**k off and not get a refund.   also  they proably din't make said amount of profit  rolling roads that are any good cost a LOT of money and have to be payed for.

[lemski]

I'm on here mostly cos of the friends and different range of projects. Then am on mk2 owners club, but after they made the new site don't really post as much. Cluyb gti I use when I need to know how to do something and want a reply quick. And bomber county dubs (the local) to see when meets are and if any think else has happened recently.

I'm always finding myself on my phone internet on golfgti though

[dom]

I'm sorry but if when I organized the JKM dyno day I started taking payments well before I doubt as many people would come. Yes a lot drop out on the day of the event but at least they have the safety of knowing they're not loosing out on money, and ending up disappointed like me.

I disagree Khare, when sorting out the RR day we asked for a provisional list and set a deadline for payment (of 2 weeks before the event). Anyone who hadn't paid wasn't coming and any spare slots could be taken on the day. It worked extremely well no-one pulled out after the payment deadline and even Chuff managed to get on the rollers on the day.

IIRC around half of people dropped out on the day at JKM.

As far as dropping out a few days before hand, I would have told you that it was your responsibility to sell the ticket on if you want to see any of the money back.