NHS Concert Tickets (Free but maybe not so free)

Okell

born_again said:

We have ballots like this at work for tickets. Amazing the number of people that enter, but never end up going. 

And this is why they need to be accepted...

astra948

What am I missing, I can accept them and still not go.  As I understand it, if I did this my account would be suspended, so I wouldn't do it.  

So do your ballots in work involve some type of admin fee?

powerful_Rogue

What are you looking for OP?

HillStreetBlues

astra948 said:

What am I missing, I can accept them and still not go.  As I understand it, if I did this my account would be suspended, so I wouldn't do it.  

So do your ballots in work involve some type of admin fee?

There is a good reason for a fee if not claimed or rejected.
It stops people entering every ballot and then just rejected most of them.

astra948

So most of the chat seems to be about people winning and not attending as the admin fee is so low or the tickets are free.  Then maybe the answer is to increase the admin fee to a point where the tickets are still cheapish but you would think twice about not attending.

astra948

HillStreetBlues said:

astra948 said:

What am I missing, I can accept them and still not go.  As I understand it, if I did this my account would be suspended, so I wouldn't do it.  

So do your ballots in work involve some type of admin fee?

There is a good reason for a fee if not claimed or rejected.
It stops people entering every ballot and then just rejected most of them.

Yes I hadn't thought of it that way...I don't think it would actually happen as you win so infrequently that there aren't loads to reject, but its a good point.

astra948

powerful_Rogue said:

What are you looking for OP?

Originally it related to them taking an admin fee and then rejecting my application as I hadn't accepted the tickets in time.  I was asking if the fact that they have taken the admin fee means they have accepted that I want the tickets and they can't then reject my acceptance due to the time I have taken. 

I think we have sort of answered that question. Doing it that way stops people from putting lots of application in and then rejecting them all...the way it currently works means you would pay an admin fee every time.

My only other question would be, is 2 days to accept them reasonable when I'm not in work and should they make some effort to allow me to accept them from outside of the NHS.  Neither of which are really money saving expert questions I think it is something I should take up with them.   

electriccactus

astra948 said:

powerful_Rogue said:

What are you looking for OP?

Originally it related to them taking an admin fee and then rejecting my application as I hadn't accepted the tickets in time.  I was asking if the fact that they have taken the admin fee means they have accepted that I want the tickets and they can't then reject my acceptance due to the time I have taken. 

I think we have sort of answered that question. Doing it that way stops people from putting lots of application in and then rejecting them all...the way it currently works means you would pay an admin fee every time.

My only other question would be, is 2 days to accept them reasonable when I'm not in work and should they make some effort to allow me to accept them from outside of the NHS.  Neither of which are really money saving expert questions I think it is something I should take up with them.   

If you considered 2 days to be unreasonable then why agree to it?

If you do not like their terms, don't agree to them. Personally I'd walk away from those T&C's and never look back, but I understand that some people would have no issues dropping everything and going to a concert with 2 days notice.

Loch_Lochy

My only other question would be, is 2 days to accept them reasonable when I'm not in work and should they make some effort to allow me to accept them from outside of the NHS.  Neither of which are really money saving expert questions I think it is something I should take up with them.   

I work in the Scottish NHS. I can access my work emails on my own PC and through the Outlook app on my mobile. Surely you can do the same.

Okell

Loch_Lochy said:

My only other question would be, is 2 days to accept them reasonable when I'm not in work and should they make some effort to allow me to accept them from outside of the NHS.  Neither of which are really money saving expert questions I think it is something I should take up with them.   

I work in the Scottish NHS. I can access my work emails on my own PC and through the Outlook app on my mobile. Surely you can do the same.

Can you?

I retired from the NHS 10 years ago - so maybe it's changed - but I'm pretty certain that my trust would not have allowed me to access work emails on my own laptop at home or on my own personal 'phone.

But I'm IT illiterate and don't even have a smartphone so I've absolutely no idea what may or may not pose data security risks these days