04-10-2015, 12:00 AM
StevieHilton Wrote:Paul,
£150 might be reasonable for some who can afford such a fee, but for someone who might have benefited from these lectures and is on a limited income £150 is a lot to ask for.
I do live in the real world Paul, and to me the amount asked for this lecture did not seem to me like value for money. I have no doubt that the lectures were good, but value for money No. For 1 to 1 coaching that is a different matter all together
This event would have been priced out of a majority of players affordability.
Fair enough Steve, but that is a rather different stance from your original statement isn't it? You made the blanket statement the £150 fee was excessive. If Quality Chess were making a decent profit from this venture perhaps you could argue that, but that simply won't be the case.
Did you make the effort to contact Quality Chess and see if there was a discount available for those on a limited income? Did you make the effort to contact Quality Chess and ask to just attend 1 or 2 days? Maybe you did - I don't know you have not said. You did make the effort and found the time to come on the CS noticeboard and have a grumble.
And how on earth can you possibly know that the event was "priced out of a majority of players affordability." What... did you conduct a survey? A telephone poll? Nobody has that data and pretending to have that knowledge is complete nonsense.
Perhaps if you had added more words to you original statement I wouldn't be so wound up. Readers of the noticeboard aren't mind readers.