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[Albion] 7th birthday free shirt
- Thread starter Rich Suvner
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Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
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cheers - my lad is short though - and quite sensitive about it - even 122cm would be big, so hopefully he does some catching up. the reality is that i'll have to buy the 6-7 kit too.
Before post 5 I'd already said that a proper kit in a stated 7-y-o size does not exist!
Anyway, back to the Ryder Cup.
That is just crazy. You can claim a shirt when you are seven but you can't actually get the shirt because the club doesn't have shirts for seven year olds.
Another time. Another place. And this would be called a scam!
I remember I signed my daughter up to Gully's gang or what ever it was called in 2002 when she was born. Didn't know about the shirt thing until on her 7th birthday a shirt arrived, it was the Errea IT's one. She was very happy and I was amazed, could not believe the club would do something so nice. It was far to big for her by the way, but she did eventually grow in to it. She used to wear over a hoodie to begin with.
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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reality is if the free offer wasnt there, you'd be buying one anyway right? perhaps buy an away kit this year, keep the free shirt for next year?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,126
A scam that's completely free? Might be in some twisted parallel universe
Like there's only one size of 7 year old anyway.
Just accept the next size up shirley?
lost in london
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There are some things to have a grumble about. Your son being too small for the free shirt the club gives out is not one of them.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
The first Nike kit was available in 6-8...
Last season's 8-10 was fine on my then 6 year old though.
Last season's 8-10 was fine on my then 6 year old though.
Paul Reids Sock
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Ultimately like many have said this is a brilliant scheme but comes across as confusing at times. The club can't make sure that they have a number of different sizes for every sized child. It's frustrating but it is free and an amazing gesture. It isn't perfect and feels like it has too much customer facing admin (yes we are customers in this instance) but I would expect many clubs to not take on the expense.
My only problem with my son was us going to a home game on his birthday to get the shirt and subsequently being told we couldn't claim it on a match day and only could in store on another day. We live 100 miles away so that was out. however they sorted it, I paid delivery and the guy sent it out from stock a day or two later. Pain in the arse and the kid got upset about it. But that issue was mine as I hadn't read the voucher properly. That is a bit of a nuisance for non local fans but it's free!
My only problem with my son was us going to a home game on his birthday to get the shirt and subsequently being told we couldn't claim it on a match day and only could in store on another day. We live 100 miles away so that was out. however they sorted it, I paid delivery and the guy sent it out from stock a day or two later. Pain in the arse and the kid got upset about it. But that issue was mine as I hadn't read the voucher properly. That is a bit of a nuisance for non local fans but it's free!
Birdie Boy
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Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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This is last season so may well be irrelevant but I am sure I had the same thoughts as Rich and it didn’t look like they’d have my daughters size BUT the ‘stock’ for the free shirts is different from seagulls direct. It’s in the ticket office but they have them. Worth checking if you haven’t been told for definite they don’t have that size.
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Mate, there isn't a lot of common sense goes on in that department and what makes it worse is even big chief Barber will back them to the hilt.
The 8th birthday is a great idea but if your 2 days overdue, you might as well be a Palarse fan.
I voted with my feet and have not spent a penny with the club since the 2-year anniversary of:
1) A rude and shockingly bad customer service personnel
2) A line manager who was weak to resolve the situation
3) PB not to give two hoots about a fan of 40+ years
Now we have a bigger fanbase PB treats us all as just a number.
On the plus side I have been able to spend more time with my family as a whole and spent the cash that the Albion miss out on a Personal trainer, so I am as fit as I have been in over 20 years.
Thanks, PB.
Good Luck Rich
I think you'll find (I stand to be corrected), that the Birthday Shirt stock is different from the shop stock. You don't go in and grab a shirt off the rail, you take your voucher to the ticket office counter in the shop and they exchange it for a shirt. This is what happened a year ago at least.
p.s. my lad was a smallish 7 year old, but still went for the 8-10, they're not that big to be honest.
More likely a Marketing ploy - Don't stock 6-8 year old shirts - Forces them to become Junior Seagulls prior to that age if you want the shirt for that season that you turn 7 years old. If you get the kids interested younger you are more likely to keep them as fans for life. I think it is quite clever idea
Whitechapel
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Mate, there isn't a lot of common sense goes on in that department and what makes it worse is even big chief Barber will back them to the hilt.
The 8th birthday is a great idea but if your 2 days overdue, you might as well be a Palarse fan.
I voted with my feet and have not spent a penny with the club since the 2-year anniversary of:
1) A rude and shockingly bad customer service personnel
2) A line manager who was weak to resolve the situation
3) PB not to give two hoots about a fan of 40+ years
Now we have a bigger fanbase PB treats us all as just a number.
On the plus side I have been able to spend more time with my family as a whole and spent the cash that the Albion miss out on a Personal trainer, so I am as fit as I have been in over 20 years.
Thanks, PB.
Good Luck Rich
Are you still having a tantrum despite you quite clearly being in the wrong?
Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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I think you'll find (I stand to be corrected), that the Birthday Shirt stock is different from the shop stock. You don't go in and grab a shirt off the rail, you take your voucher to the ticket office counter in the shop and they exchange it for a shirt. This is what happened a year ago at least.
p.s. my lad was a smallish 7 year old, but still went for the 8-10, they're not that big to be honest.
I missed this post, but put the same thing myself. If it’s not changed since April I’m pretty sure it’s correct and they have various sizes.
You both missed the post and the point.
There is not a home shirt for a 7-y-o. Not in the shop, not on Seagulls Driect and not in some secret stock held for birthday claimants. The shirt simply doesn't exist as it's not manufactured. The smallest size is 8-10 (see here)
The shirt for 6-7 year olds is not the proper kit (see it here), and from what [MENTION=543]Rich Suvner[/MENTION] is saying, it also can't be claimed as the birthday gift anyway.
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Is that why Dean Cox had to leave?
Is that why Dean Cox had to leave?