Membership Package...where is it????

[saintsRrising]

It just struck me that for the last several seasons well PRIOR to the seasons end that I had been sent information about signing up for next season...and had by now done so.



So what has happened this year?????

[riccardo]

There aren't enough staff to go to the Post Box to send them out!

[Iceman234]

Was thinking the same thing when the SFF stuff arrived.

Last year I'm sure my first regular monthly payment came out in mid October so not long left to get organised.

[saintbrat]

https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/pack_ ... am=stkilda

My Account | Contact Us

St Kilda Memberships

2008 Membership

Information regarding 2008 Membership will be posted in the next few weeks.

usually end of sept- early Oct sign up

then again just found my letter from 2004 and I sent membership on 20th Sept.

[saint66au]

Quite right Bratty..I well remmeber being hassled for early-bird membership renewal when we were right in the mix for a GF spot and a trip to Adelaide was coming...and the Club would not hold off on the deadline for the earlybird benefits.

[Cam1lla]

of course i would buy membershipo if i lived in Australia but fact is i live in rainy england! so there is no point at all

[saintdooley]

lol, we dont get our memberships until around late jan or whenever we need them to get into family days, or n.a.b challange games etc.....

[Iceman234]

Just checked my bank statements and my first came out on Oct (edit - oops) 15 2006 for the first instalment of my nine month payment - I know that's still a month away but thought the packages were out earlier.

Edited - oops my bad - the 11th month is November apparently

[Seaford_Saint]

dare i say.... maybe the Hamster in the backroom is a bit distracted at the moment....

[saintspremiers]

perhaps Rod is too busy taking legal action to care about trivial things like Memberships/sponsorships/running the club etc etc.....

[michelle]

Maybe it has got to do with the No Sponsors yet!

[saintbrat]

Membership now closed for 2007
Thank you to all of our Members who joined in 2007. Renewal information for the 2008 season will be sent to all members in November - so look out for some information in your letterbox.



http://saints.com.au/Membership/tabid/5428/Default.aspx

[chook23]

Maybe it has got to do with the No Sponsors yet!

My understanding vodafone contracted to 31/10/07

Not sure about Billexpress

[saintspremiers]

Membership now closed for 2007
Thank you to all of our Members who joined in 2007. Renewal information for the 2008 season will be sent to all members in November - so look out for some information in your letterbox.



http://saints.com.au/Membership/tabid/5428/Default.aspx

well what a disgrace eh???

November huh?

Well if Rod stood down by the end of this month, hopefully things can ramp up prior to January....sorry, I've not trust in RB's team anymore - whilst they say November, it will drag into December, as no doubt nothing is being done at the moment due to no sponsors and no staff, and then Xmas will loom, it will get into the too hard basket and before you know it it will be January mailouts....

[Mr Magic]

Membership now closed for 2007
Thank you to all of our Members who joined in 2007. Renewal information for the 2008 season will be sent to all members in November - so look out for some information in your letterbox.



http://saints.com.au/Membership/tabid/5428/Default.aspx

well what a disgrace eh???

November huh?

Well if Rod stood down by the end of this month, hopefully things can ramp up prior to January....sorry, I've not trust in RB's team anymore - whilst they say November, it will drag into December, as no doubt nothing is being done at the moment due to no sponsors and no staff, and then Xmas will loom, it will get into the too hard basket and before you know it it will be January mailouts....

Other than getting some monies into Club coffers, what does early mailout/renewal of memberships in Sep/Oct actually achieve?

Surely those of us who will renew early will do so when the package comes in Oct/Nov/Dec/Jan?

The bulk of renewals probably occur in the period between 'pre-season' and the first couple of rounds?

I actually don't mind the renewal package coming out later as it means I don't have to pay so early.

[chook23]

early bird package sent out Sept? obviously because price kept at the previous year

Normal package WAS sent out much later .......Nov or thereabouts

with updated pricing (subject to AFL increases etc)


If the early bird has been abolished don't see the big drama

NORMAL PACKAGE BEING SENT OUT AT SIMILAR STAGE.

[Oh When the Saints]

People are generally a lot tighter with money after Christmas (Jan/Feb are the lowest months of consumer spending for the year) due to the amount they have spent at Christmas.

You are likely to have more people sign up in November and December as people are more inclined to spend money.


Someone staring at their credit card bill and St Kilda membership renewal in early January are likely to put off renewal.

It is much harder to increase membership from a poor start and it is critical to build a good base in January and February if you are to increase your membership.

In 2006, we had 16,000 signed up by mid-December.

[saintbrat]

any changes in ticket / seat pricing which is directly based on the AFL numbers will not be out till around the time of the fixture etc?

in the last couple fo years with early renewel it has meant either refund of the need to add a bit as the number of games in Victoria has changed each time-

[st_Trav_ofWA]

of course i would buy membershipo if i lived in Australia but fact is i live in rainy england! so there is no point at all

you could always go for an international membership

[saintspremiers]

any changes in ticket / seat pricing which is directly based on the AFL numbers will not be out till around the time of the fixture etc?

in the last couple fo years with early renewel it has meant either refund of the need to add a bit as the number of games in Victoria has changed each time-

not quite correct.

You are thinking of 2006, when the AFL screwed us by at the last minute adding an extra 2 interstate fixtures giving us 7 rather than 5 interstate games.

Our club had very good and reliable information (I believe) from the AFL that we'd have only 5 interstate games, but after GT's rant at the umpires Dimwit punished us!

As for the 2007 draw, everything was sweet again and we got only 5 interstate games, and hence no dramas re 17 game Vic memberships....

[plugger66]

any changes in ticket / seat pricing which is directly based on the AFL numbers will not be out till around the time of the fixture etc?

in the last couple fo years with early renewel it has meant either refund of the need to add a bit as the number of games in Victoria has changed each time-

not quite correct.

You are thinking of 2006, when the AFL screwed us by at the last minute adding an extra 2 interstate fixtures giving us 7 rather than 5 interstate games.

Our club had very good and reliable information (I believe) from the AFL that we'd have only 5 interstate games, but after GT's rant at the umpires Dimwit punished us!

As for the 2007 draw, everything was sweet again and we got only 5 interstate games, and hence no dramas re 17 game Vic memberships....

That is not true about the interstate. We had 7 because we chose to go to Tasy. Do you think we should have had 3 interstate trips only.I think not.

[saint66au]

The earlybird membership was a bit of a misnomer anyway. The basic membership price was the only part "frozen". All your extras, reserved seat, SC etc were at the next years price.