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Started by Jeff, September 28, 2004, 07:43:29 AM

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Jeff

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Is there *ANY* room for negotiation on this topic if we petition?

Specifically, I'm looking at children gate fees.  I would like to see the "children in free" age upped from 12/under 12 (depends on the track or who's at the gate) to under 16 unless competing.

If a child is under 16, they really can't stay home for a weekend alone, and they're coming with PAYING adults.  If they're competing, fine, charge them admission.  However, if they're not competing, they should be allowed in with their parents (without mom & dad lying about it).

Tiff, or anyone "in the know", is this worth petitioning?
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EM JAY

  Right.  Or maybe throwing a "bonus" to the riders for bringing in more $$$ in the form of spectators?  Give the riders SOMETHING in return?  Maybe for every 5 paying spectators give then some % back or even certs?
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Jeff

Quote Right.  Or maybe throwing a "bonus" to the riders for bringing in more $$$ in the form of spectators?  Give the riders SOMETHING in return?  Maybe for every 5 paying spectators give then some % back or even certs?

That might be a logistical nightmare.  

A gate "season pass" at a discounted rate might be more appropriate.
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spyderchick

I'd support a season pass. Makes tons of sense. Jeff, write up a proposal, and lets see if we can make this work.

The thing is, this could benefit CCS, because anyone who goes to all the races will buy a season pass for them self and their regular crew, in advance. That means they could potentially earn interest on that money. For those who go to most of the races, they would probably buy a pass as well, to save the hassle of having that money as part of the weekend budget. CCS would benefit from this by knowing an advance gate "take" from the purchasers of the pass. (some of whom might not be racers) Might take some work to set it up, but it has potenial.

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Jeff

I'm crunching numbers right now...  There is a ton of opportunity here for CCE...  
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H-man

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Jeff,

If you'll accept a friendly amendment....  Allow me to suggest either in addition or instead of a pre-paid season pass, a pre-paid partial season pass.

Similar to buying a limited nuber of games season ticket for a sports team, this pass would be good for "x" number of races and could cross regions.

This would work well for those of us who travel to races in a limited area (so we wouldn't attend all the races in a single region), but have more than one region that uses the tracks within that limited area.

I recognize this might be a little tough for the sanctioned, affiliate regions but it isn't rocket science.  Just need cooperative parties.

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Jeff

I thought of that too...  Kind of a "punch card" pass...  Might be an option in my letter.  But again, it needs support and I have to be able to "sell it" to CCS.
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Woofentino Pugrossi

I'd like it better if they would go back to the daily fee for Friday and Saturday. I know alot of people that wont pay $20 on saturday and cant come back sunday. Theres alot of times I heard that people dont get the sundays gate fee back when they leave teh track and are not coming back on sunday.

If they have problems with people just paying the saturday single day gate fee and dont go pay for sunday asap on sunday morning, kick them out and tell them never come back (spectator) or maybe they would get a nice suspesion from the series (racer/crew) for a while.
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Super Dave

I'll start the rain.

Some CCS regions are operated by people outside of CCS.  Gate money can go to the track, CCS, or split.  

So, this could be a bit harder to work out.

Super Dave

Jeff

I understand that, but it really wouldn't be that hard to work out if CCS wanted to.  It'd be as simple as CCS negotiating a deal and writing a check to the track.
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