Am I just being unreasonble and tight with my cash?

[Pumba]

Ok seeinghow everyone else uses KB as a social barmotoer thought I might do it myself.

Was entered as part of a team in a competitive event over the weekend, the premier event of the season for this particular sporting association.

Now our team of four people paid an entry fee of $140.00 to compete, all good so far.

When we recived our race packs outlining all the final details for the competion we then found out that prizegiving would be held in the Novatel Hotel and tickets for dinner would be $50.00 per person or $500.00 for a table of ten people however it came with the following comments:

Please note that unfortunately there is no facility for a prize giving only ticket
at this venue. Make sure you purchase your dinner ticket early so you don’t
miss out.

Now I personaly think this is wrong, I didnt go to prize giving and I have already let the organising commitee know. I paid my share of the entry shurley I am intitled to go and recive the prizes I earnt by competing without being hit with another expenses (for the record I came second, my best ever result in 8 years of competing and due to being so stuborne was unable to bask in the glory)

Am I just being unreasonble and tight with my cash?

[James Deuce]

Perfectly reasonable. Unexpected costs are a fund raising mechanism levied across all sorts of voluntary, club, and government funded operations (like hospitals and schools) and are delivered in a way that makes you look uncharitable if you disagree.

There's an attempt to outsource PE at my Son's school so I organised a rebellion. It was going to cost an extra $150 per term, per child.

Stick to your guns.

[Finn]

A prize is not a prize if you have to pay for it.

[scumdog]

I'm with you - it sucks.
Does Troy Bayliss have to pay for the dinner when HE goes to the prizegiving??

Oh, and congratulations for imventing two new KB 'words':
'barmotoer' and 'shurley'

Ooopps, forgot 'stuborne'!

[skelstar]

...KB as a social barmotoer...

Heh, like talk-back radio?

Fair enough. I echo Finn's comment about it being a 'prize'.

[Usarka]

He's not paying for the prize. He's paying for the dinner.

And there are no quotas, only performance targets.

[Mikkel]

Absolutely unreasonable. Good thing you didn't pay for it - you should get some people from the sport together and file a proper protest to both the arrangers and the national association if you have a such for your sport.

It's not on!

[Nasty]

You paid the entry that is enough .. I would not have paid to go to the dinner and it was silly of the committee to not have prize giving only available as its a financial burden they are putting on people who have already paid a substantial sum .... just another way of making money and not a fair one .. I take it they gave you your prize seperately if you were due one?

[deanohit]

Na mate, you shouldn't have to pay. And as Nasty says, I take it they gave you your prize seperately if you were due one?

Also, Congrats mate for doing so well and setting a personal best!!! maybe, but I bet you felt

[marty]

tight arse

[Headbanger]

Jeez, Nothing wrong with a good meal, a couple of drinks, and a prize (and a bit of adulation...woot woot)

Your loss.

Take that $50 to the grave with ya, Its obviously pretty damn important.

[Pumba]

I'm with you - it sucks.
Does Troy Bayliss have to pay for the dinner when HE goes to the prizegiving??

Oh, and congratulations for imventing two new KB 'words':
'barmotoer' and 'shurley'

Ooopps, forgot 'stuborne'!

There is a reason I never passed School Cert English, best I get out of here before hitcher turns up

I take it they gave you your prize seperately if you were due one?

Yea I will get my prizes, one of my mates should have grabed them for us.

tight arse

Thank you, have we meet.

Jeez, Nothing wrong with a good meal, a couple of drinks, and a prize (and a bit of adulation...woot woot)

Your loss.

Take that $50 to the grave with ya, Its obviously pretty damn important.

Hey I am the first to sit down to a good meal, and to much drink. But with this particular association it seams to be happening more and more often. We will have this prize giving, another for our Nationals, another for the North Island Series etc, etc. And this is after our AGM this year deciding to be more family orientated and try and make it more social. It just didnt seam right to me.

And besides, if I spend that $50.00 on food that is less gass I can put in the bike