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Post by kenglowhite on Aug 2, 2022 11:58:36 GMT
I see Football Vultures are back, if the latest pronouncements on stadium parking costs are anything to go by. The employment of Parking Eye, the well known parking penalty cash seekers is another example of our owners' attempt to extract the full Michael from supporters. This is very cruel to charge £8 per game, and demand payment through smartphones. Even more surprising is the fact that if you have bought a parking voucher for a full season you will be expected to pay £8 per match extra for cup games, which is a complete change from previous years. It is now beginning to appear that FV are finding ways of milking true supporters with extra charges, and this is not the image they have tried to create since taking over our club. I have become a little bored with the simultaneous utterings of Ian Evatt during the close season - presumably to cover up for the lack of signing the necessary big experienced centre half to help Santos, and to cover for Williams in defensive midfield. I hope not, but FV's chickens may soon come home to roost.
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Post by riochforthereebok on Aug 2, 2022 15:42:27 GMT
Football Vultures😂😂
I thought Rishi Ventures Someone’s got to pay for all that ‘free’ furlough money just the same as us Trotters giving Michale James his money back for the car parks he now owns
£8 is going to turn some folk away as there’s nowhere else to go now with cones everywhere
Also, if I want to buy a shirt does that mean I get clocked and have to pay unless I get a ticket??? Bloody stupid move if it is
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Post by whitesince63 on Aug 3, 2022 15:49:52 GMT
I can’t see why there’s much of a problem paying electronically personally, it’s all part of modern day life now and I rarely actually carry cash with me anyway any more. Personally when I come over it’s with Mrs Whites and I drop her off at the shopping and park there so unless there are any changes to that I’m not sure it will affect me anyway. I do agree though that along with the Membership scheme, which I still think is a daft idea, they appear to be taking a pretty hostile, “this is how it’s going to be” attitude to fans. Whether that’s all Neil Harts fault or not I don’t know but given the reduced price of season tickets they do have to make money somewhere I suppose and I wouldn’t begrudge the increase or inconvenience when I do attend on my own.
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Post by westandlower on Aug 7, 2022 15:44:17 GMT
Has anyone signed up for the Good2Go option for the car park? Any problems? I haven't been charged for parking yet and looking at my Good2Go account cannot see any activity. They were supposed to take money from my debit card shortly after exiting the car park but that does not seem to have happened either. Getting worried that I'll get a fine but didn't see any ANPR cameras not that I was particularly looking. Maybe we'll get a free be.
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Post by kenglowhite on Oct 13, 2022 9:36:32 GMT
I can’t see why there’s much of a problem paying electronically personally, it’s all part of modern day life now and I rarely actually carry cash with me anyway any more. Personally when I come over it’s with Mrs Whites and I drop her off at the shopping and park there so unless there are any changes to that I’m not sure it will affect me anyway. I do agree though that along with the Membership scheme, which I still think is a daft idea, they appear to be taking a pretty hostile, “this is how it’s going to be” attitude to fans. Whether that’s all Neil Harts fault or not I don’t know but given the reduced price of season tickets they do have to make money somewhere I suppose and I wouldn’t begrudge the increase or inconvenience when I do attend on my own. The said Mr Hart has at last revealed the dark secrets of the reasons for the extra inconvenience to supporters who have paid high prices for car parking on the Lower Concourse. Apparently it was necessary to move the cars of players and staff and sponsors guests onto this car park in order to set up the fanzone. This necessitated ultimately expanding the Lower Concourse by adding a section of carpark C to accommodate all of us who have paid to be on this carpark for years. Mr Hart claims - in my case wrongly - to have written to all people who have complained about not getting on the carpark, particularly for the Wycombe game, and again wrongly that there has been no price increase, and again wrongly that he has factored in for us LC subscribers to use it free of the £8 charge for cup ties, which was always the norm. What Mr Hart has failed to consider is that many of us using the Lower Concourse, though not using wheelchairs or zimmer frames, but needing llft passes, have been totally inconvenienced by the long distance from the extremity of the car park - Having to arrive at the ground an hour before kick 0ff to secure a place as close as possible to the entrance ( it used to be for me half an hour), Needing to leave 10 minutes before final whistle in order to get out without much queuing as the exit is now by using the place where we entered a long way from the exit by the traffic lights we used to use. This fanzone thing seems popular - though I fail to see why it needs to be a counter-attraction to the match itself - and I do not wish to squash anything that attracts younger fans, I do not think this latest example of Football Vultures has paid anything like enough respect to those of who whose support has kept the club alive over so many years, and I resent the way Mr Hart has now belatedly come out of the shadows to announce all this with such a big smattering of untruths. I have asked that Marc Iles ask him to respond further to the points I have raised, and many others on the BN website. I have not mentioned here the somewhat unnecessary involvement of the Parking Eye organisation, and why that is necessary.
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Post by OohMac on Oct 13, 2022 10:10:38 GMT
Football Vultures😂😂 I thought Rishi Ventures Also, if I want to buy a shirt does that mean I get clocked and have to pay unless I get a ticket??? Bloody stupid move if it is First hour is free so no. You could park on Middlebrook too and walk down the steps. I have no issue with the price. Its a premium spot and as Whites said there are other spots. Maybe the club, supporters trust or any fanzines could launch a car share site. Buddy up and share the cost and reduce CO2 and congestion. That My only issue was blue badge holders/mobility issues saying they could not get near the stadium that needs addressing.
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