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Post by mrmystery on Mar 14, 2017 11:01:56 GMT
A bit of context for all those waving banners about principles and taking the moral high ground. Easy to criticise but put this 50p increase for a 44/32 page issue and B5/A5 size in the context of current calls for increased admission prices from £9 to £11 with kids suggested to go from £2 to £5, and talks of increasing the profit making membership costs or even having 2 tiers of membership prices. It’s all a bit different when you are the people in situ who are charged with trying to balance the money in precarious financial times as was the case 2 years ago, and as it is now. Not really, it's not the first time in our history we've had an admission price rise, all of them voted for by the fans, adult admissions gone up twice, when did it go up last? Kids admission hasn't gone up since 2005, what else hasn't increased in that time? Either way the decision to raise tickets if it is taken will be voted on by the membership, entirely different to a price increase on a one off programme, which cost less than any other programme we produced.
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Post by wwiii on Mar 16, 2017 11:28:39 GMT
If you were to weigh up the pros and contras in this thread, you would broadly get the impression that contributors feel the club made a mistake and subsequently muddied the waters, but also that the PE prevaricated on the issue. Let's leave aside the matter of the amount of work the PE did and the amount he was paid, which is not relevant to the actual issue.
Pro - a great programme and well worth the extra 50p Contra - a mistake ... to 'spot an opportunity'
Pro - PE agreed new size and extra 50p but then backtracked and insisted on going back to £2 Contra - It was how the club went about it...they lied to justify the increase
Pro - PE quoted saying 'I think as long as we are honest in explaining the extra 50p, people will be fine with it. They are getting a bargain at the end of the day.' Mushypeas does not dispute this PE quote
Contra - PE backtracked when he discovered the unit price of the Benfica programme would be lower than that of normal programme, presumably due to a larger print run
Perhaps the best that could be offered here is that the club should have come out in the open about why there had to be a price increase, and actually the PE's suggestion of 'I think as long as we are honest in explaining the extra 50p, people will be fine with it. They are getting a bargain at the end of the day' now sounds quite reasonable.
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