nug
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kids for a quidI see if you buy the argus this week there will be vouchers in there for the bell vue and poole games to allow kids in for a quid, also the sales must be down on programes cos if your lucky enough you might find a free voucher for free entry into the next meeting or if your a season ticket you get a £10 gift voucher instead
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Kevin54
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Good idea, if they don't try it they won't know if it will work, and if it gets more people through the door...................... 
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speedy dan boy
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Have to agree kev,good idea and not forgetting season ticket holders as well.someone somewhere is now on the ball,hope the new ideas keep coming!!
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Tweagle
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Lets applaud the initiative. For too long there has been virtually no promoting of the meetings. 
It's a start - a very small one, but it's a start. 
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ray
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yes , we might just have an acorn . 
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parker
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I agree with the above posts a step in the right direction.
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7oakseagle
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A step in the right direction, agreed but why could they not just let in kids for quid on the gate? This voucher in The Argus means that anyone living in the Eastbourne area can get a decent saving but those of us who have to travel 120 mile round trip each week get nothing.
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ray
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on the ball 7oakseagle
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ComeOnYouSpurs
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| 7oakseagle wrote: | | A step in the right direction, agreed but why could they not just let in kids for quid on the gate? This voucher in The Argus means that anyone living in the Eastbourne area can get a decent saving but those of us who have to travel 120 mile round trip each week get nothing. |
Couldn't you get hold of a copy of The Argus on your way to the track on Saturday?
Or ask "a local" to grab one for you and pick it up in the car park.
Or in today's technological world is there a version on-line that you could download the voucher from?
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ray
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they are available at the track usually . the vendor is just in past the gates near the club shop . 
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ComeOnYouSpurs
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| ray wrote: | | they are available at the track usually . the vendor is just in past the gates near the club shop . |
Sorry to state the bleedin' obvious ray.... but wouldn't it be too late to get the voucher once you've already gone thru the turnstyle?
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ray
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oops , sorry , just saying how us non-locals can get the argus . so how about when outside asking those who are going in to get the paper , pass it over the fence by the track shop to those outside . where there's a will , there's a way .think we would help eachother out , i'd gladly pass a paper and/or the voucher over the fence . 
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nug
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sorry to have to report but kids for a quid has been dropped for the time being.
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ray
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but you posted that they were available for the poole and belle vue matches , so presumably this is still valid for this week . just when we thank them for being constructive they tear it all down again ?   watta bunch of wallies , hardly long enough to judge whether this would make a difference . any explanation ? 
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nug
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all i know is that it had to dropped and it was out of bobs control to do anything about it, i assume it may of been a c**k up on the argus side of it
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Kevin54
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"Next Door" reports that it was dropped due to "Circumstances beyond our control"!
What's "beyond our control" about okaying a typesetter at the Argus printing works to print up a voucher entitling the bearer to entry to the stadium for £1.00?
I can smell the odour of the farmyard!, yet more management bull.
Oh don't worry though, the lucky programme offer is still up and running, the more you buy, the greater your chance of winning 
Now, when was the last time you met someone who actually won a prize in a lucky programme 
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ray
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who is buying programmes anymore .they were free when i was a season ticket holder , why pay £2 when it can be obtained free . no parker , won't go on about that £1 grandstand fee , cos i won't pay that either .quite suprised by myself , but dealing with people
with the attitude and intent " they " have tends to make you respond in a similar way
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sussexbulldog
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I can quite see BD pulling the plug if he does not get a good deal next week for Kennett.
He seems desperate to save money. May be the credit crunch is hitting the machine tools business more than anticipated ?
If so then we really will have something to moan about.
Hope that I am wrong.
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Mart Le Taxi
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For various reasons we didn't get to a single meeting last season and now work has picked up (I'm self-employed) we were going to come down Friday. The wifes cousin and kids are staying with us so I said as the kids are a quid we'll go down. £48 quid is within our budget.
Now the scheme has been withdrawn it'll be £65 which is a different proposition. Add the extra £20+ for programme, parking
and a bag of chips and a drink and it gets expensive. We could take sarnies and the like but that'll still cost money.
Surely £45 from the adults would have been preferable to absolutely nothing?
Every business is struggling but it's all about cash flow. When the likes of Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsey and the like are doing 2-for-1 offers in the worlds top restaurants just to get bums on seats, shouldn't the promotion at Arlington be looking for something similar.
Stuff the Argus announcement, just announce kids are free with a full paying adult and give people a choice. Most families will be looking to do something with their kids on a bank holiday and unless its financially attractive, by the time 7.30pm comes most will have already done it elsewhere unless offered some sort of incentive, which others will in all likelihood have already done!
Whoever is responsible for marketing The Eagles is doing a very poor job.
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zena
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It gets a lot more expensive for the ones that do both meetings on Good Friday,every year we say we wont do both but it would not be Easter without the trip to Poole.
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MrB
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| zena wrote: | | It gets a lot more expensive for the ones that do both meetings on Good Friday,every year we say we wont do both but it would not be Easter without the trip to Poole. |
I know what you mean. I thought about giving the away leg a miss this year but theres something special about the early start, long drive, bank holiday traffic, loosing the meetings (not this year though ) and the late finish  We must be glutten for punishment
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Mart Le Taxi
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Does anyone know what the dickens is going on re pricing?
Took the kids last night and expected to pay £39 for the family ticket. When we arrived it was £34, £15 per adult and £2 per child. Per que?
How many people swerved last night thinking the kids would be a couple of quid per head more (at least) and would have turned up had they known?
I know its only saved us a fiver but that's a fiver we were more than happy to have and spend elsewhere while we were there.
Are the food concessions at Arlington private or are all profits for the club? Just curious like.
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