[BFC SITE] Explore the Excitement: Stadium Tours Now On Sale!

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  1. YT

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    I’m stunned that for the first time, they’re charging for this. Disappointing.

    We set up numerous of these every summer, each weekend, completely free and lasted a good 90 minutes with Barry Murphy plus the great volunteers like Laurie and Steve Croft leading them.
     
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    I’m sure you know more than most that our leadership is out of sync with our fanbase.
     
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    For the sake of £3 they may as well have kept it free. I took my kids during the Stendel season for free, Steve Croft showed us round. We really enjoyed it and they got some photos with the players etc.
     
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    You're Darrell Clarke and I claim my £10. There's no way anyone else could get through so many formations in just a couple of sentences.
     
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    I’ve already whinged at Gally about the use of emojis since I’ve changed phone and either the app or website don’t like it for some reason.
     
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    We need to explore elsewhere for the excitement as it’s definitely not on the grass part - I’ll get mi coyt
     
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    That was my initial thought as well. There is an argument for charging nominally for these sorts of things to ensure the tours are full (I have no idea if this was an issue before, though @YT). I was involved in running some one-day tech conferences for the IT community. They used to be free, but many people booked on but never turned up, so we sold them for a nominal fee and got a better attendance rate.
    When people pay even a small ticket price, they assign value to the event or item. Free things are often perceived as less valuable, even if they are high-quality. Even a small financial investment can make people feel like they should attend the event to avoid wasting the money they spend.
    I guess £3 might pay for the wages of those running the event to make the event cost-neutral (if we are even actually paying them)
     
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    All fair points, Paul. And I’d like to think you’re probably right.
     
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    This promotional material has the hallmarks of being written with AI. 'Explore the Excitement' using alliteration in abstract terms, whilst not making specific sense to the event. And the bullet point format.

    I may be wrong, but I'm interested in tracking the progress in this sort of writing work being ceded to AI.
     
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    Converse to this point - a mate used to run a ladies hairdressers and offered the use of umbrellas for when clients were leaving the premises when it was raining. When they charged a small fee that was refundable on return they noticed far more of the umbrellas were never returned when compared to when they gave them out for free usage.
     
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    I was proud that I could say our club did them for free. I know a lot of other clubs do charge. I'm not sure about Gally's point, take museums. If they're free I'll pop in even if I only have half an hour
    If I have to pay, even a small amount, I'd probably decide not to bother. But in that free half hour I'd stick in a nominal donation.
     
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    Agreed, Andy, but I'd suggest not charging but asking for donations to the BFC Charitable Trust, who as I know from personal experience do some great work in our local community. Those that can afford to support our club's charitable work do so, those who can't don't miss out on a great experience.
     
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