monkeybones wrote:The cost of credit card facilities are around £10-£15 per month with a one off set up fee of £100. Many banks will do it for nothing or waive set up. The return for the investment would probably be covered in less that a month.
quote="Willie Wastle"
On a more negative note, the lack of facilities for card payments is absurd, and the unwillingness to address it only serves to fuel rumours of money laundering, however baseless such rumours might be.
At £10 a game, even for seniors, it's still not a bad deal for Premiership Football.
But, can anyone currently working in the financial services industry confirm monkeybones prices are accurate? I seem to remember there was always a margin of around 2/3% taken from the sale by the card machine provider but the increase in sales potential normally made that up very quickly. Accies, with a poor range of merchandise on offer, may only see a credit card machine as being in use on a 'one-off' situation i.e. to supply season ticket sales, and the odd 'all ticket' game, and as such, unable to cover the annual costs. Doubt it, though!
However, the 'money laundering' implication can be eliminated by paying by cheque for the season ticket. Many people still have access to a cheque book on their account, even though cheques themselves have been going out of favour for a number of years.
There is no question though, that some are working in the 19th Century at Hamilton Accies, rather tha the 21st Century, and the Club in its myopia WILL be loosing out currently, and progressively even more in the future, with a lack of basic sales technology in a credit card facility..
