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spence

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People will certainly pay that money
 

BeardyChops

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I bought a season ticket for Falmer Auctions, and as Bozza suggests getting out is much quicker than from the Bridge.

I've received an email today saying:

It is with regret that we will not be able to open the car park on Sunday 15th October 2017 for the Brighton v Everton game.
The situation has arisen due to the fact that our I.T. Company used without authorisation from the Football Club their logo on our web page and Facebook.

Obviously using a logo without permission is a terrible sin, but I'm wondering how misusing a logo leads to restrictions on what they can do with their car park.
Does the club have rights over the usage of the roads on match days?
 

Couldn't Be Hyypia

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I bought a season ticket for Falmer Auctions, and as Bozza suggests getting out is much quicker than from the Bridge.

I've received an email today saying:

It is with regret that we will not be able to open the car park on Sunday 15th October 2017 for the Brighton v Everton game.
The situation has arisen due to the fact that our I.T. Company used without authorisation from the Football Club their logo on our web page and Facebook.

Obviously using a logo without permission is a terrible sin, but I'm wondering how misusing a logo leads to restrictions on what they can do with their car park.
Does the club have rights over the usage of the roads on match days?

I'd ban them just for torturing English
 


Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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I bought a season ticket for Falmer Auctions, and as Bozza suggests getting out is much quicker than from the Bridge.

I've received an email today saying:

It is with regret that we will not be able to open the car park on Sunday 15th October 2017 for the Brighton v Everton game.
The situation has arisen due to the fact that our I.T. Company used without authorisation from the Football Club their logo on our web page and Facebook.

Obviously using a logo without permission is a terrible sin, but I'm wondering how misusing a logo leads to restrictions on what they can do with their car park.
Does the club have rights over the usage of the roads on match days?

I guess it could have been interpreted that it was an official club car park.

Are they refunding you?
 

LamieRobertson

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Feb 3, 2008
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18 games to go, £15 per game. Same price as The Bridge isn't it, but sounds like you get away the same day.

Lol...how true took over 80 mins for the Newcastle game and I didn’t leave the ground until 20 mins after KO and sauntered back to the car park
 


Mellor 3 Ward 4

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Jul 27, 2004
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Of course the club logo shouldn't be used without permission, but you would have thought a quick call, take the website down and change it, everyone's happy.

Not only are Falmer Auctions losing out now, so are the fans who had planned to use their car park.

All car parks are sold out Sunday, so it's not pitching business from the club.
 

Jovis

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Mar 30, 2012
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Got the same email. "The club lawyers have contacted us stating the club has lost money due to the misuse of their logo". Really? Seems a bit heavy handed to me. Use the car park as I drive down from Guildford and now have no viable transport option to get to the game. Seagulls travel coach lists are closed. So who benefits from the fact that 60 odd car loads of supporters now have nowhere to park?
 


chimneys

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Jun 11, 2007
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F*ck me! Is this really where all of our years of struggle to the promised land of the Premier League has got us to?!

A sad day for our great club.
 

Bwian

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Jul 14, 2003
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More sledge hammer to crack a nut bullying by the club. Surely a quick phone call was all that was needed-not solictor's letters from the club.

The journey was definitely better than the destination.

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Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Their page is down now, unsurprisingly, although Google have it cached:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...amex-match-parking/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

This is the offending item, presumably:

Screen Shot 2017-10-13 at 19.35.58.png
 


LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
46,415
SHOREHAM BY SEA
More sledge hammer to crack a nut bullying by the club. Surely a quick phone call was all that was needed-not solictor's letters from the club.

The journey was definitely better than the destination.

Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Personally i’ll judge that one after we’ve been at the ‘destination’ a tad longer
 

Bwian

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Stat Brother

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All they had to do was tell them to remove the logo.

In fairness though all Falmer Auctions had to do was not use the clubs logo.

Where the fook do you find an 'IT company' stupid enough to copy a trademarked logo?
Not to mention how stupid are they think there wouldn't be any repercussions?
 

Blue Valkyrie

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Sep 1, 2012
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Some junior IT-er has possibly lost their job for putting together what they thought was a decent webpage.
 


Bozza

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In fairness though all Falmer Auctions had to do was not use the clubs logo.

Where the fook do you find an 'IT company' stupid enough to copy a trademarked logo?
Not to mention how stupid are they think there wouldn't be any repercussions?

Their website says: "Designed & built by orangelove"

As such, one can only assume that they are the "IT company" >>> http://www.orangelove.co.uk/

Pretty poor from Falmer Auctions, really. Looking to blame their supplier. Did they not provide a spec to their supplier? Did they not check and sign off the work of their supplier? Haven't they been offering parking for quite a while - how did they not know this logo was there?
 

Stat Brother

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Their website says: "Designed & built by orangelove"

As such, one can only assume that they are the "IT company" >>> http://www.orangelove.co.uk/

Pretty poor from Falmer Auctions, really. Looking to blame their supplier. Did they not provide a spec to their supplier? Did they not check and sign off the work of their supplier? Haven't they been offering parking for quite a while - how did they not know this logo was there?

Exactly, as much as this is a case of sledgehammer & nut.
You've got to wonder why the nut gave a sledgehammer to the club, in the first place, and said 'go on then hit me'.
 
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