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Touts (Replica or Fake goods)

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Park bantam, Jul 14, 2019.

  1. Stafford Bantam

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    Need to make half scarves with a fastener; collect all 92 and make up your own half and half scarf for each match. :unsure:
     
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  2. hippo

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    Glenn Ackroyd has left apparently. Needs more time to devote to his fledgling street trading/pop up shop business perhaps.
     
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    Does the club still have a stand in the Broadway?
    That is/was always stocked with the most popular selling items.
     
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    Not at the moment
     
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  5. Stafford Bantam

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    The Club should consider some sort of franchise or tie up with one (or more) City centre bars. Somewhere that could sell match tickets, matchday programmes and a range of merchandise.
     
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    Do you think all the merchandise being sold on Wembley way was ‘official’
    If it’s not private property there’s nothing anyone can do about it. You could put a burger van outside McDonalds and there’s feck all they can do so long as it’s not using their name or logo.
     
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    Club Shop is now back in the hands of Avec so club will just get a lump sum so I guess they are not interested in increased sales as there is nothing in it for them.
     
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    I always thought they should team up with the Bulls regarding the shop in town half the costs each but I guess that'll never happen ,and a little tuck shop corner for Avenue :rolleyes:
     
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  9. Jay

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    The club should have people selling scarfs outside the ground and inside the ground they should sell merch too
     
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    Surely there's big costs in setting up something like that though? We'd have to have permission for every single stall and then pay for staff to run them all instead of just one cost, that we already pay for, too use the shop.

    This is the advantage the street trader has. They are most likely illegally trading with no set up or planning costs but aren't there often enough for the council to be bothered. If it was the football club opening numerous shops on street corners they'd be all over us.
     
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    I am not sure that there are ‘big costs’? Permission would surely be one single fee. If the legitimate street traders, burger bars etc have the ability to do so, then I do not see it as an insurmountable problem. Programme sales are dropping so incorporating this with small ‘pop up’ stalls may well be a way of preserving jobs. Just trying to generate a ‘Can Do’ rather than ‘No Can Do’ mentality. Think positive rather than always looking purely at obstacles.

    Just checked, https://www.bradford.gov.uk/business/licensing/licensing-fees/
    1. Occasional Street Trading Consent - Commercial:
      1. Half Day - £47
      2. 1 Day - £100
      3. 1 Week (7 Days) - £470.
    So if the club or a franchise already pays a fee or the programme sellers you would switch the licensing fee.
     
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    Seems a possibility then but wouldn't they have to pay that amount per pitch? Plus the relevant insurances and staffing costs?

    It's a good suggestion and maybe it's both easier and cheaper than I imagine but i would have thought that plenty of clubs would have done this by now if it was commercially viable.

    NB, I'm not sure the programme sellers come within the street trader laws. I think just outside the turnstiles counts as within the confines of the stadium and as such the are no applicable laws with regards trading consent.
     
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    Licenses would be needed for each street at least, possibly each location, as this needs stating on the license. Obviously they wouldn't be needed for on private land. Not sure on the cost per application.
     
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    On reflection they could locate two pitches in the Small Car Park area and steps in front of the Main JCT stand. Probably one near the ticket office to catch people entering the NW Corner and Kop. Not sure what could be done from the Midland Road side.
     
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    That's a very decent idea. Cuts down the over crowding in the shop and catches the kids entering the stadium with parents who, unless they walk past the shop, won't even think about scarves, shirts, badges etc
     
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    It was the club that requested the area be put there so they must have thought at the time that selling on the streets wasn’t feasible. They will not want to currently bother the council about incase they enforced it fully including programmes and Shirt of Your back tickets
     
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    There was a merchandise stand in the concourse of the main stand on Sunday, not sure if that is there ever game
     
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    I sit in the Main Stand normally and there is no merchandise stall at games. I guess as I sit in the lower section l am not sure what happens in the upper tier but fairly certain that it will be the same throughout the ground.

    Just checked and the price of a scarf is a £10. Sell say 100 over the three sections of the ground and that is a tidy £1000. https://bantams.clubstore.co.uk/hats If goods are easy to access then they are more likely to be sold.

    One for @Glenn Ackroyd@Glenn Ackroyd to consider.
     
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    It was on the lower concourse just at the bottom of the steps to the left.
     
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    @Glenn Ackroyd@Glenn Ackroyd doesn't work at City anymore. Best to post @wetherbywhaler@wetherbywhaler in future I think as he has some links...
     
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