When is £32 not £32
ashthetash
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Concept Sports do this for the Fast Twitch series - although you can enter by sending the entry form with a cheque.
There's an on-line entry system which doesn't tell you about the 'handling fee' until you check out. It is the 'racediary' web site. Is that the same for the one you are entering?
Seems a bit sharp if they don't let you enter by post...
There's an on-line entry system which doesn't tell you about the 'handling fee' until you check out. It is the 'racediary' web site. Is that the same for the one you are entering?
Seems a bit sharp if they don't let you enter by post...
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Is this normal? I have certainly not come across it before.
I accept that there are costs in running a triathlon and that that means entry fees are a bit more than say a 5 mile race but surely all these costs should be taken into account in setting the entry fee and not just added on at the end.
I could understand if there were other ways to enter the race and the surcharge was because you wanted to take advantage of an additional service (entering online).
Am I right in thinking that this appears to be some sort of false advertising!
Now if they replied to my email offering the chance to enter by post . . .
Still they haven't had the common decency to reply yet so I'll look for something else that day.
It does p*** you off you think you are paying x but then find it is actually x + y. What is even better is when you can only pay on-line, you get the handling fee and then when you use a credit card (as that's all they accept!) you have another fee to pay!
Basically they know we need our fix and are prepared to pay out for it - most of the time!
I comes to a point where you think I can pay out x number of dollars/pounds to do a sprint (over in an hour or so) or I can train for free for many hours, I used to do an event at least once a month (October to May) but now I only do the longer distance events as I feel I am getting slightly better value - especially as I am usually right at the back and take full advantage of the catering!
FW
It's not the money itself that is the problem it's the underlying feeling that they were trying to con me that rankles.