Poor show BHAFC very poor show.

[Easy 10]

Threads like this will lead to the free shirts being withdrawn by the club. It will become more trouble than its worth.

Its a free shirt, for being signed up to the scheme, if you arent signed up then tough luck! As mentioned previously I am suprised you only have to be signed up a month before to recieve this.

This smacks to me that the OP thought they will get there little one a free bday present saving them a few quid. I cant see what the club has done wrong here. You were at fault. Classic blame culture.

The two options which it seems like to me is:

1. You have known about this for a while but just havent been bothered to do anything about it until a month before.

2. Recently found out about it in the last week and just missed out. In which case its a bit tough luck.

 

[Easy 10]

Never, ever, ever have expectation levels regarding catering in the West Upper. It's enough to turn a man to drink . . . . oh, wait a minute . .

Indeed. Chance would be a fine thing.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

My Ex-flatamte has experienced the same problem when trying to sign their son up to the Young Seagulls. His son's birthday is on the 7th of November, and he too asked if his son would receive a free replica shirt before his birthday. His conversation with the club went something like this:
Young Lady:Unfortunately you have missed the deadline.
Ex-Flat Mate: Whats is the deadline.
Young Lady:It's a month before their seventh birthday.
Ex-Flat Mate: looks at his watch (which has not been updated to today date, 30 day months!!) which reads the 9th and said i have missed it by 35 years, but surely you can sort something out.
Young Lady:she replies that she can't actually.
Ex-Flat Mate: So because i am a bad father and not registered my son in time so now he will not receive a replica shirt?
Young Lady: That's right.
Ex-Flat Mate: So we have a potential customer which could spend thousand over a lifetime with his dad and brother and wife and just because i am 35 years late he can't have one.
Young Lady: That's right, rules are rules.

He wasn't even asking for it AFTER his birthday in fact nearly a MONTH before.

Is this POOR TRAINING in customer services or just LACK OF FORESIGHT from BHAFC?
He is SO fecked off with the club, there is a tipping point with all customers and because of that call he is so tempted to say goodbye after being a paying customer of 40+ YEARS.

It's so outrageous the way he's been treated, and the way the club failed to cave in and give a free shirt that I might join in the boycott and walk away too

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Was with you all the way, right up until that bit.

I don't think its unreasonable to expect to be able to get a beer in under 40 minutes, when you've started queuing for it at 6.50pm. But I realise perhaps I've set the bar a little too high on my expectation levels in the WSU.

Believe me, the people I'm on about hadn't been waiting 40 minutes. I was queueing with them for 10 mins tops. They were just too late, simple as that.

Wouldn't happen in an American sports arena, eh Easy?

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

I have just called up the club to sign my darling daughter up to the Young Seagulls, i asked will she receive her replica shirt before her birthday.

Young Lady:Unfortunately you have missed the deadline.

ME: Whats is the deadline.

Young Lady:It's a month.

ME:I look at my watch (which has not been updated to today date, 30 day months!!) which reads the 9th and said i have missed it by one day, surely you can sort something out.

Young Lady:she replies two days actually.

ME: So because i am a bad father and not registered my daughter on Friday she will not receive a replica shirt.

Young Lady: That's right.

ME: So we have a potential customer which could spend thousand over a lifetime with her dad and brother and wife and because i am 2 days late she can't have one.

Young Lady: That's right, rules are rules.


I am not even asking for it AFTER her birthday in fact nearly a MONTH before.

Is this POOR TRAINING in customer services or just LACK OF FORESIGHT from BHAFC?


SO fecked off with the club, there is a tipping point with all customers and because of that call so tempted to say goodbye after a paying customer of 40+ YEARS.

Sorry I'm with the club on this one.
You should have got your act together earlier, bet your wife is saying right now I told you to do it last month.

Try it in a Sainsburys a day after the special offers finish. "Oh but please I was busy yesterday and could not get for the two for one deal.... Go away and sort your life out would be the reply.

 

[Husty]

Why not buy her one you f*cking cheapskate?

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Team club..

 

[Stat Brother]

Sorry I'm with the club on this one.
You should have got your act together earlier, bet your wife is saying right now I told you to do it last month.

Try it in a Sainsburys a day after the special offers finish. "Oh but please I was busy yesterday and could not get for the two for one deal.... Go away and sort your life out would be the reply.

That's not quite it though is it.

This particular branch of Sainsburys has had one tempting special offer for over 5 years.
The OP has done his bi-weekly shopping at that branch, for all of those 5 years.
I'd imagine he's even had to 'pop in' just 72 hours between shops.

Yet here we are 5, 6 even 7 years later deciding, it's someone else's fault that he didn't take up the offer.

 

[Sheebo]

Surely you should have registered her years ago if you were a true fan & not just before her 7th birthday so you could get the freebie

 

[Eeyore]

My two lads have been STH (and Junior Seagulls) since they were 5 or 6 years old, sat in the rain at Withdean. Did they get a FREE SHIRT on their 7th birthdays? Did they ****. Did we think, when they later brought this very generous gift in, that we were somehow hard done by? Did we ****.

Two seasons ago, I had to shell out loads more for the eldest's ST, because he was born one day too soon - turned 16 ON the opening day of the season, so no longer an 'U-16'. A day later would have saved me £100+. Was that a bit annoying? Yes. Did we whine about it* and ask that they bend the rules, because it was 'only a day'? Of course not.

*maybe a little

So the 'immoral' of the story is to register new-born's a couple of weeks prior.... I jest. But it does remind me of my little cousin who had been instructed, in order to get free bus travel, to regard herself as three and not four. A bus driver asked her one day "How old are you, then ?" to which she replied "I'm three when I get on the bus and four when I get off...."

 

[sahel]

I have just called up the club to sign my darling daughter up to the Young Seagulls, i asked will she receive her replica shirt before her birthday.

Young Lady:Unfortunately you have missed the deadline.

ME: Whats is the deadline.

Young Lady:It's a month.

ME:I look at my watch (which has not been updated to today date, 30 day months!!) which reads the 9th and said i have missed it by one day, surely you can sort something out.

Young Lady:she replies two days actually.

ME: So because i am a bad father and not registered my daughter on Friday she will not receive a replica shirt.

Young Lady: That's right.

ME: So we have a potential customer which could spend thousand over a lifetime with her dad and brother and wife and because i am 2 days late she can't have one.

Young Lady: That's right, rules are rules.


I am not even asking for it AFTER her birthday in fact nearly a MONTH before.

Is this POOR TRAINING in customer services or just LACK OF FORESIGHT from BHAFC?


SO fecked off with the club, there is a tipping point with all customers and because of that call so tempted to say goodbye after a paying customer of 40+ YEARS.

Rules are for the guidance of wise nen and the obedience of fools

 

[dazzer6666]

Team Club here too. Amazed there isn't a year+ qualifying period at least, and completely get them sticking to the deadline they have.

 

[Bladders]

My dad phoned and had the same problem, though in fairness he was 35 years too late with his phone call.

 

[dangull]

These new replica tops are pretty bad anyway. Buy her the old 1979 kit, a classic and it is a historical promotion kit to the top flight as well.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

That's not quite it though is it.

This particular branch of Sainsburys has had one tempting special offer for over 5 years.
The OP has done his bi-weekly shopping at that branch, for all of those 5 years.
I'd imagine he's even had to 'pop in' just 72 hours between shops.

Yet here we are 5, 6 even 7 years later deciding, it's someone else's fault that he didn't take up the offer.

Nope not buying it, the rules are the rules. Tuff luck, how far should we bend the rules two days three days before you know it it's a week etc etc. He should have got his finger out, smacks of either to lazy and forgot over the weekend too busy drinking or partying maybe... I don't know or care he can't even use the end of the month excuse. If I'm being cynical he even is trying to get a free shirt out of the deal and pretending to his son or daughter that he bought that for them... Now I will give boots the benefit of the doubt and say I don't think that's his game, but one would be forgiven thinking that's a possibility...

 

[R. Slicker]

Come on Mouldy, this is a poor show, I registered both my children 10 years before they were born.
If I were you, I'd rip up my season ticket and throw it at Barber at the next home game. You will be at the next home game won't you Mouldy?


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[Deleted member 2719]

Great thanks for all your support.

I can take plenty of hits to the chin and have in the past, BUT my point is i did not sigh up my daughter earlier as she would have been to young and not interested yet, yes the shirt was the selling point as i felt they were going the right route in looking for potential new customers but to stick so ridgedly to a rule just does not compute with me.

They provide a shirt that cost them a few pounds , lets be generous £15.00

I buy multiples tickets, drinks and more shirts for years to come. Sales revenue of lets be conservative £3,000 pound.

Can anyone do the maths


Who is likely to be the winner ?

 

[Guy Fawkes]

My dad phoned and had the same problem, though in fairness he was 35 years too late with his phone call.

Your dad wasn't my ex-flat mate by any chance ? (See post #123)

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Come on Mouldy, this is a poor show, I registered both my children 10 years before they were born.
If I were you, I'd rip up my season ticket and throw it at Barber at the next home game. You will be at the next home game won't you Mouldy?


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Mate you always had far more foresight than me.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

I can take plenty of hits to the chin and have in the past, BUT my point is i did not sigh up my daughter earlier as she would have been to young and not interested yet, yes the shirt was the selling point as i felt they were going the right route in looking for potential new customers but to stick so ridgedly to a rule just does not compute with me.

So if it were say, 10 days to go would that be reasonable?