Re: RPI vs. Union (Mayor's Cup) Saturday, 1/19/2018
Ralph; Good questions.
1) Was it part of the season ticket package?- Yes
2) That is, could you have refused it when you bought your season tickets?- Absolutely not. If you refuse to pay for this game in another arena, in another city and in an area where Medicare card holders who generally go to RPI games alone would rather not be walking around after dark, you are NOT ALLOWED to purchase a season ticket. Of course, you can always choose not buy a season ticket. However, if you make that choice you lose the seat you have held since 1977 near people you have sat with for almost all of that time. Needless to say, your parking spot is also gone. If that sounds like a shakedown, it probably is.
P.S. To the best of my knowledge AND according to two Union season ticket holders I worked with prior to all of us retiring, Union fans were only subjected to this "arrangement" for the very first cup game. Again, according to my two former cohorts, a very high percentage of Union season ticket holders made it crystal clear that in the future the cup game was to be off the season ticket package or they would not be renewing their season tickets. It ceased immediately. After that first season, I do recall my two former cohorts occasionally ribbing me about how dumb we RPI fans must be to allow ourselves to be subjected to this required by force purchase beyond that first year. Further, they thought I was among the dumbest of them all for continuing to make this pressured payment without ever actually attending the actual event. Frankly, they found it quite easy to get this thing off their season ticket packages simply by speaking up.
Yes Ralph, it appears that someone who made a single game purchase for this event last Saturday and never as much as sets foot in either of the campus rinks is entitled to a refund if they do not want to attend on the makeup date. On the other hand, RPI season ticket holders get no refund for any reason.
Finally, money is NOT an issue here. Bluntly, money has not been an issue in this household for quite some time and likely never will be. The problem is that this whole thing simply does not sound right, look right or smell right.
Originally posted by Ralph Baer
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1) Was it part of the season ticket package?- Yes
2) That is, could you have refused it when you bought your season tickets?- Absolutely not. If you refuse to pay for this game in another arena, in another city and in an area where Medicare card holders who generally go to RPI games alone would rather not be walking around after dark, you are NOT ALLOWED to purchase a season ticket. Of course, you can always choose not buy a season ticket. However, if you make that choice you lose the seat you have held since 1977 near people you have sat with for almost all of that time. Needless to say, your parking spot is also gone. If that sounds like a shakedown, it probably is.
P.S. To the best of my knowledge AND according to two Union season ticket holders I worked with prior to all of us retiring, Union fans were only subjected to this "arrangement" for the very first cup game. Again, according to my two former cohorts, a very high percentage of Union season ticket holders made it crystal clear that in the future the cup game was to be off the season ticket package or they would not be renewing their season tickets. It ceased immediately. After that first season, I do recall my two former cohorts occasionally ribbing me about how dumb we RPI fans must be to allow ourselves to be subjected to this required by force purchase beyond that first year. Further, they thought I was among the dumbest of them all for continuing to make this pressured payment without ever actually attending the actual event. Frankly, they found it quite easy to get this thing off their season ticket packages simply by speaking up.
Yes Ralph, it appears that someone who made a single game purchase for this event last Saturday and never as much as sets foot in either of the campus rinks is entitled to a refund if they do not want to attend on the makeup date. On the other hand, RPI season ticket holders get no refund for any reason.
Finally, money is NOT an issue here. Bluntly, money has not been an issue in this household for quite some time and likely never will be. The problem is that this whole thing simply does not sound right, look right or smell right.
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