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I was going to sign up - but it's the t&c's that have done it for me - I daren't sign up. Why are the club wanting to do credit checks? When will these checks be done? Too many checks can start to affect your credit rating. Maybe not by much - but I don't know when I am going to need credit - the club has no business doing a credit check when they are not giving me credit.

How long are the prices good for? Let's imagine a perfect scenario on the pitch - we sweep past Derby, and have a glorious second promotion at Wembley, then go on to do a Leicester next season. Under the current t&c's the Allams are free to put the prices up FOUR times over the course of a season (Every 90 days). Don't tell me that if we had some how had a season like them this shower wouldn't have put prices up once demand started to rise.

I go to City on my own, but have been sat with the current group for nine years. Once I lose my seat, that's my link to these friends broken; I've no guarantee I'll be able to sit near them again, but what alternative is there?
Is that correct??? Coz i find that quite hard to fathom being able to put them up mid season
 
Is that correct??? Coz i find that quite hard to fathom being able to put them up mid season

It's a subscription - not a season long membership.

http://www.hullcitysupporterstrust.com/beware-before-you-sign/

HCST said:
Monthly direct debit

When you bought a season pass, you knew that was it for the season. Not so with this Scheme:

5.2 Without prejudice to conditions 3.2 above and 13.1 below, the Club may change the Monthly Fee, the Rights and/or any part of these Conditions at any time by giving to the Member not less than 90 days’ prior written notice of any such change.

Whilst you would reasonably expect the cost to change after the season’s end, the Club says it can in fact up the cost of your direct debit at any time during the season. It’s not hard to imagine that when it discovers that – surprise, surprise – less people joined the scheme than it had expected, the Club might seek to make up the lost revenue by increasing its charge to members. Remember, it has nowhere said that it will keep to these pricing levels throughout the 2016/17 season. However, the right unilaterally to increase charges or make other changes to the membership agreement which the Club purports to reserve to itself is unlawful by virtue of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
 
It gets worse.
After reading that i cant believe that 4.500 have signed up.
It wouldnt surprise me if they ended up with 10,000 members the way its going

Admittedly, the four times a year would be at the extreme end, and they've have to announce the price rise as the previous one kicked in; but I would have said a hair-brained scheme this wasn't likely either.

I was prepared to sign up - like others have said - I don't want to let them win - but the t&c stuff the HCST has pulled up is very scary - even more troubling is that the club doesn't feel the need to issue any clarifications.

People say they're running the club as a business - but could you imagine any other business ignoring one of it's biggest consumer groups in this way?
 
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Interestingcto see that about 80% of the people at this U21s are 18 and under
Is that what we are gonna lose
Discussing this all night
Loads of tiny mobs of tiny kids...who were absolutely loving it. Sadly they will have to wait for another free U21s game to all come again
I can live with him not wanting me there...I'm a miserable old ****er. However not wanting them there is just deliberately choosing to kill the club
It's ****ing madness
 
Wouldn't be a surprise if quite a few cave in the next couple of days before the deadline.
I think a lot will.
This scheme could have been crushed before it got started but im afraid that people coming together and standing against what they see is wrong ended in the 80s.
A **** you im alright Jack situation is more prevalent in this day and age.
 
Folk have got to stop looking at this as a fight, a battle. For those who want change to the oppressive regime (dramatic but true) there needs to be clarity that not all battles must be won to win a war. That is what is in front of you, a moral and public spirited war of attrition to save the integrity of your club.

The OSC is not only ineffectual, but also damaging. Their subservience to the club is Quisling like and needs to be abandoned and dismissed as any form of supporter representation.

Take whatever action feels right to you, but listen and share with the HCST. Join it, encourage others, your mam, dad, everyone and anyone to join it. Give them the numbers that give them a voice; their voice can and will bring change for the better. The bigger they are the more allies will come to their (your) aid.

I would encourage them, the Trust, to take the longer view (I think they are) as there will probably be no immediate wins, but probably quite a few tears. Deadlines are those of the club, terms and conditions are those of the club, dignity, truth, patience and strength will belong to the Trust, so join with them and win the war.

The most important thing is that the club hears a very clear declaration of war, no more nice words of appeasement, just straightforward claims of you have gone too far, enough is enough.

A membership scheme could be a good thing, if structured correctly, this one is far from that. Your choice of membership is almost academic, go to games or don't, as the club has railroaded choice. The key thing is to join the Trust and help them in an ongoing war against this hideous scheme, as it won't be won soon.
 
Is that correct??? Coz i find that quite hard to fathom being able to put them up mid season
It's like a mobile phone contract
They tell you what it costs now, but also tell you they can put it up
They put it up. You pay it or cancel the contract

Club in the ownership of a 'good home'?...**** off
 
It's like a mobile phone contract
They tell you what it costs now, but also tell you they can put it up
They put it up. You pay it or cancel the contract

Club in the ownership of a 'good home'?...**** off

Its not like a mobile phone contract though. If I understand the position of the Trust and Amber Nectar the scheme may well be illegal.