Shaelumstash
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I've just done the latest City Voice survey and one of the areas of discussion was a Cashless payment card they are calling "City Card".
It's similar to a Gift Card you get for xmas and then stick in the back of your wallet and never use.
Anyone who has been to the Allianz Arena will be familiar with this rip off. You basically have to load up a minimum amount on to the card, say £10.
You then have buy all your food and drink using this card. But they price the items in such a way that it's impossible to spend exactly £10.
You can either spend £9.50 and leave 50p credit on the card and essentially throw away 50p. Or you can go and add an extra £10 credit on to it to buy that 60p slice of cheese for your burger.
If you have a balance on your card, you can't reclaim it in cash. If you lose your card, you've lost your money, same as if it actually was cash.
But here's the really enticing feature, you can earn CITY POINTS on your card. Imagine, you can get ripped off for food and drink, ripped off for the way you pay for food and drink, but you can actually earn CITY POINTS!! We don't know how lucky we are!!
In a day and age where contactless payment on debit cards is becoming ubiquitous, I really can't see any possible benefit from this, other than the club ripping fans off as much as they can.
They could introduce this as early as next season.
It's yet another example of the executives at the club completely alienating themselves from the fans, rampant profiteering to squeeze every last penny out of us.
I genuinely think if Khaldoon knew the wedge these guys were driving between the club and the fans he would be horrified. For the sake of a few extra thousand pounds they will go to any length to screw the fans over.
I urge every match going fan to sign up to City Voice to let them know what you think of this idea.
It's similar to a Gift Card you get for xmas and then stick in the back of your wallet and never use.
Anyone who has been to the Allianz Arena will be familiar with this rip off. You basically have to load up a minimum amount on to the card, say £10.
You then have buy all your food and drink using this card. But they price the items in such a way that it's impossible to spend exactly £10.
You can either spend £9.50 and leave 50p credit on the card and essentially throw away 50p. Or you can go and add an extra £10 credit on to it to buy that 60p slice of cheese for your burger.
If you have a balance on your card, you can't reclaim it in cash. If you lose your card, you've lost your money, same as if it actually was cash.
But here's the really enticing feature, you can earn CITY POINTS on your card. Imagine, you can get ripped off for food and drink, ripped off for the way you pay for food and drink, but you can actually earn CITY POINTS!! We don't know how lucky we are!!
In a day and age where contactless payment on debit cards is becoming ubiquitous, I really can't see any possible benefit from this, other than the club ripping fans off as much as they can.
They could introduce this as early as next season.
It's yet another example of the executives at the club completely alienating themselves from the fans, rampant profiteering to squeeze every last penny out of us.
I genuinely think if Khaldoon knew the wedge these guys were driving between the club and the fans he would be horrified. For the sake of a few extra thousand pounds they will go to any length to screw the fans over.
I urge every match going fan to sign up to City Voice to let them know what you think of this idea.