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thebaldfacts
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
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| BucksIsFutureCoach wrote: | | They have an excess of merchandise which they were discounting at the last MCG game by 25%. Now they're discounting again to reduce their stock. Nothing wrong with what they're doing, but we wouldn't be holding excess stock if we were winning and more Collingwood supporters were turning up at games. Forget the milestones, visionary theories of play and being the nice guy. It's all about winning, nothing more, nothing less. |
Think that there is around 5,000 AFL members with Collingwood club support packages, in the past we had always got free members caps or scarves.
Am sure that they would have factored this into their stock order.
Somebody then came up with this bright idea to charge us and we voted with our wallets. Now they are stuck with all this stock and trying to get rid of it to save them the cost of dumping it.
Time to give them away now, rather than trying to sell what AFL members have already refused to buy. |
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MatthewBoydFanClub
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: Elwood
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| thebaldfacts wrote: | | BucksIsFutureCoach wrote: | | They have an excess of merchandise which they were discounting at the last MCG game by 25%. Now they're discounting again to reduce their stock. Nothing wrong with what they're doing, but we wouldn't be holding excess stock if we were winning and more Collingwood supporters were turning up at games. Forget the milestones, visionary theories of play and being the nice guy. It's all about winning, nothing more, nothing less. |
Think that there is around 5,000 AFL members with Collingwood club support packages, in the past we had always got free members caps or scarves.
Am sure that they would have factored this into their stock order.
Somebody then came up with this bright idea to charge us and we voted with our wallets. Now they are stuck with all this stock and trying to get rid of it to save them the cost of dumping it.
Time to give them away now, rather than trying to sell what AFL members have already refused to buy. |
I didn't notice that because I'm a social club member. That's strange then and very unprofessional of the club because as you say, it should have been factored into the sales. Since memberships went up in price in 2017 the cost of free merchandise should have been absorbed into the increased price of memberships. |
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mandy 
Joined: 03 Jun 2001
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You could all, you know, just not buy one.
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Dark Beanie 
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: A galaxy far, far away.
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That would be too easy 
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Joined: 30 Jun 2004
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| the club rang me today as they have run out of bread rolls. I laughed and said put all ya money into hats didn't ya! |
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Damien 
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I got sent raffle tickets last week too. Not much enthusiasm to purchase them I must say.
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Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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maybe they should buy some of the -win 2.1 million on thursday things i just got 3 emails for!! nice pic of Treloar though!!
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Side By Side
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| Damien wrote: | | I got sent raffle tickets last week too. Not much enthusiasm to purchase them I must say. |
i paid for 2 and sent the rest back!
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Hiss 
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: Geelong
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The Club asking me to buy raffle tickets is encouraging gambling! That is against the teachings of Jesus and the Bible
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uncanny
Joined: 04 Mar 2014
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I agree with the criticism of penny pinching with merchandise for members of the club here.
I pointed out similar sentiments in another thread earlier in the year to those posted here. This was upon reflecting on the stingy offering to me of a few stickers and a useless lanyard at the beginning of this year after 25 continuous years of AFL membership. This on top of at least half the years cfc member dating back to 1978.
The club's response then was to suggest that I pay up an extra $60 to get a scarf with my years of membership on it.
Cold and heartless money grabbing feelings coming my way.
In years gone by, the cap has been valued as a small token of appreciation from the club. This is the way to go. It should be combined with other offers when milestones of years supporting the cause are reached. Doesn't have to be much. Just something as thanks and reaching out to connect supporters and active players, be they on the field or in the coaching team. Not having to pay several hundreds of dollars extra for the privilege.
I hadn't heard from the club since tabling my concerns in April until the raffle book turned up in the post this week. Didn't take long for it to hit the bin. We are looking for better than this. We deserve it. The club will be better for it as well.
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| Hiss wrote: | | The Club asking me to buy raffle tickets is encouraging gambling! That is against the teachings of Jesus and the Bible |
What about all those Pokies, in nearly every single RSL ????  
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Joel 
Joined: 23 Mar 1999
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| Damien wrote: | | I got sent raffle tickets last week too. Not much enthusiasm to purchase them I must say. |
Yeah I got some too (as an AFL member). Do they really think we are going to buy them if they were too tight to give us a hat? |
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thebaldfacts
Joined: 02 Aug 2007
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| Joel wrote: | | Damien wrote: | | I got sent raffle tickets last week too. Not much enthusiasm to purchase them I must say. |
Yeah I got some too (as an AFL member). Do they really think we are going to buy them if they were too tight to give us a hat? |
That was how I felt as well. Straight in the bin they went. |
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Dark Beanie
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: A galaxy far, far away.
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I just sold them to friends who always sell me their tickets.
What goes around comes around.
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