NARRC Entry Fees

[StephenB]

Not sure what the NARRC comittee could do about a regions pricing??

Not taking credit cards has been an issue, it envolves a thrid party credit card company.
As many of you know we at NER do not accept credit cards on line because of a huge refund problem but then again we don't require payment in advance.

Why prepay? Probably because if it rains, as it did a few years ago, 30%(or more) of the entries won't show up and the region (NY in this case) can't afford to take the loss.

This is my opinion not necessarly the facts.

When dealing with OVER 85k in entry fees I would think they would WANT to use credit cards rather than carrying around all that cash and checks for the weekend. In the retail world we get less than 10% cash and less than .5% in checks. As far as pay at the track or in advance it has no impact on my decision to bail or not so that argument is pointless. Susan is in the banking business (vise president of a bank) so she must know something about why this region does it the way it does. I would think she is doing business in the most cost effective way...

As far as the double dip controversy I think it should be 1/2 entry BUT if the class becomes oversubscribed you don't get to race.. only the full paying customers get to race even if your faster and out-qualify the full paying customer. Seems simple to me and honestly has no impact on the other classes since track time isn't reduced like in other examples of 1/2 entry revenue that regions are trying.

Stephen