justarunner wrote:
apbadger wrote:
SurfAwave69 wrote:
What's your angle here? Do you support the decision to only give 25% off, or what?I'd agree with the people thinking its a bit on the cheap side. I happen to work for a race company on the weekends, and I can honestly say IF something like this happened with one of our races the RD/owner would be a bit more accommodating. I have no idea how many people were signed up for the cancelled race, but if they allowed everyone to enter the same race for free the following year, that just wouldn't fly. Getting a comped race entry up to a certain value seems more reasonable. But to everyone here thinking the money is just sitting in the bank, that's just crazy. Races are so damn expensive to produce well. No point in beating a dead horse. /rant
It's been asked a few times and I've seen some people throw out numbers, but as someone who works with a race company, what do you think is the fair reimbursement.
I personally feel the RD has no obligation past the clause in the contract, i.e., no refund and no obligation for the future. However, as someone who wants to be an RD eventually, definitely unacceptable in my eyes. Perhaps no refund this year as funds have been spent but how do you discount next year when so often the race is barely breaking even? Would you say its fair to email all who were registered and give them a discount code that works for a certain period of time and up to X%? I personally would argue that up to 35% would have to be the max as anymore and you risk eating into the funds necessary to put on the following race.
Where do you draw the line at what percent?
I don't personally work on the financing side of race production, do mostly race timing, event set up/tear down and bike/run course support, but I've seen the invoices and its always eye opening. I do know that the further out a participant pays for a race, we can provide a steeper discount. Things become more expensive closer to race day, which is pretty obvious. In terms of the OPs situation, I'd think a more fair offer would be closer to 50%, but like I said, I'd really have no good estimate of how that would affect the bottom line of the business.
edit: that 50% expiring well in advance of the next years race. It'd be a good way of the RD saying "it sucks we had to cancel. If you decide to race next year by XX date, this is what we can offer" sort of thing.