Who'd want a refund

Your subscribers still using the site doesn’t mean much.

I was a site regular before the football was brought to a halt and i’m a site regular now. The difference is that the entertainment value isn’t anywhere near as high without the footy and if I was to pay an annual subscription fee, it won’t be to read post after post on Corona Virus but rather engage in and read the passionate debate that takes place at 5pm every Saturday evening- a service you’re now unable to offer.

To make it clear, I don’t believe City should be offering refunds and I certainly don’t think that you should be either when you’ve presumably already had to put in a lot of money to keep this place running. Your tech man obviously thinks differently. If @SimonW really believe’s in what he’s saying then he should message your subscribers, find out the motives behind their subscription and compensate those that need compensating, as per his argument above.

It’s easy to propose money losing schemes as a goodwill gesture when you support one of the richest clubs in world football. City can barely stay afloat at the best times, will be facing even more financial difficulty amid the current crisis and will be in the mire if every fan was to ask for a partial refund on their season ticket. For anyone to consider this as an option is ridiculous and even more so when the guy suggesting it is actually doing the exact opposite and asking for MORE money during these difficult times.

 

In a world where:

Tycoons worth billions won't save their own companies

The government isn't bailing out the NHS, but instead the taxpayer is having to raise millions through charity (you've already paid for a quality health service that should be pandemic-ready, by the way, now you're saying again)

Mega companies who have made money hand over fist, entrepreneurs and those who inherited wealth without earning it squirrel trillions and trillions of pounds in offshore accounts rather than contribute to the countries that made or make that money

You are on about rich people bailing out companies do the little man doesn't have to?

Welcome to a conservative reality.

 

thanks mate, I'm on furlough at the moment but as I work in hospitality it's a given I won't be going back to work at all this year imo. Just really grates I'm being told I'm not a proper fan for prioritising paying rent and food over a fecking football team.

 

Don't listen to them mate.. you are a proper fan. These so called super fans are not giving the club any extra 10 k or £250.

Your bank balance being able to pay bills comes before anything.

 

Lockdown must have got you really bored if you’re going to these lengths to cause some lively debate.

 

Lockdown is boring.. what you doing? Eating kebabs? Playing on your PS4? Using your sock on my hand to please yourself?

 

I tried not to but its insulting in the extreme and I notice most if not all have gone very quiet now. My whole familys had a connection to city since the 50s at the very least (grandad played and broke his leg playing for city, dad briefly played in the reserves then broke his leg too, I had a trial but i was nowhere near good enough and too little haha) but im not a proper fan because im in the shit financially so need to claw back 150 quid out of the thousands they've had off me over the years.

 

You are not alone in being in the shit mate. I too was on zhc. Got a mortgage to pay and kids to feed etc etc

I still wont ask for a refund if one is ever actually invoked.

And where do you get £150 refund from? Its 5 games at £5.77 that you would be short. So thats £28.85. I would be embarrassed to go cap in hand to the club for that.

 

You won't claw back £150 though. Any refund or discount would likely be around 30 quid.

 

These super fans are the first to say no one will invest in Bradford, it's a poor area blah, blah nonsense.

You keep your money for you mate. If a refund is available from City or any other business then you keep it because it's tough times now if if these super fans want to bail out the club when the owner is a muti millionaire are the CEO benefited from selling the club and has money plus the owner of the stadium has money, the government has money and the EFL has money..

Take your money mate.. don't care for these super fans that hang on to the Admin days raising a fiver. This is a different situation completely.

 

Depends on how the season is called off if it is.

 

No it wont.

You cant buy a scratchcard and take it back for a refund if you did not win.

There are 5 home games left to fulfil.

You will be lucky to get more than £28.85.

 

If the season didn't happen then I will be getting my money back.

If 5 games are behind closed doors and I can watch on IFollow or whatever platform for free then that's fine I will accept that.

If its 5 games and they can't be played then yes I will take my £28.85 and give it to charity, a players fund, Bantam Talk or my self.

Bradford City or the EFL won't be keeping my money if the season isn't finished. As I have explained football has many bodies that can help them and the owner has money.

 

Point missed spectacularly.

 

Any amount legally due should go directly to the Burns Unit seeing as they didn't get their collection day last Saturday.

 

As soon as the McBurnie money became available it was back with the owner... oh to help him..

Burns unit, Rimmer/Darby, Bantam Talk(know it's not a charity) need money more than Bradford City and if the league end that's the EFL decision not fans.

EFL, government, tv companies, bookies can all help clubs out mate. I would rather help other things.

 

I'm sorry do you work down the ticket office? Complete conjecture