Forced ticket purchase

Aylesbury_Duck

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

eskbanker said:

How do you pay the dance school, i.e. is there a direct debit, or continuous payment authority, or are you paying manually each time?

I'm just thinking that if they don't actually have the ability to take money directly from your account/card, then it would be up to them to pursue you via court for what they'd consider to be a debt, which would strengthen your hand, especially if you bought the second ticket....

 they can !!!!!! off for the 3rd .. 

Charming.  I suddenly have a lot more sympathy for the dance theatre organisation.

Why I didnt swear but for some reason it thinks I did 

Fair enough, although I can't think what fell foul of the filter if it wasn't swearing?

Bug ger was the word uses as in bug ger off

Pretty obvious why that was filtered out, then.  Do you know what it means?

Of course I do .. "go away" but you use what ever version you feel like 

No, look again.  The "off" wasn't filtered out, was it.  Blimey.

I can see why you have difficulty with terms and conditions now.

jobe1972

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

jobe1972 said:

eskbanker said:

How do you pay the dance school, i.e. is there a direct debit, or continuous payment authority, or are you paying manually each time?

I'm just thinking that if they don't actually have the ability to take money directly from your account/card, then it would be up to them to pursue you via court for what they'd consider to be a debt, which would strengthen your hand, especially if you bought the second ticket....

 they can !!!!!! off for the 3rd .. 

Charming.  I suddenly have a lot more sympathy for the dance theatre organisation.

Why I didnt swear but for some reason it thinks I did 

Fair enough, although I can't think what fell foul of the filter if it wasn't swearing?

Bug ger was the word uses as in bug ger off

Pretty obvious why that was filtered out, then.  Do you know what it means?

Of course I do .. "go away" but you use what ever version you feel like 

No, look again.  The "off" wasn't filtered out, was it.  Blimey.

I can see why you have difficulty with terms and conditions now.

I can see you're fun to be around if you meant the word in itself then yes I do but as that was not the context it was used like many words when taken out of context ..

GDB2222

Most of the children want to take part in an end of term show, and they obviously don't want to perform in front of an empty theatre. The dance studio need to at least break even on the cost of hiring the theatre.

Apart from the original contract, buying lots of tickets is part of the moral contract to support all the children in the dance class.

So, buy 3 tickets, and cajole grandparents/friends to attend and, above all,  applaud ALL the dancers  enthusiastically. 

Grumpy_chap

I think the whole thing here is, for the dance class to put on the show, they need to hire a venue and that cost has to be covered.  They children also want to feel proud and appreciated for their performance so there is value in the venue being full of adoring parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles.

The dance class do this by asking that, somehow, each student covers three tickets at £55 each, so £165 per student.
This could be done at £165 per student to be in the show plus a nominal charge for each ticket.
Or any other way of meeting the cost that makes the show viable.

Then the dance class has a comment "If you feel you cannot commit to purchasing two/three tickets please let us know and we will try our best to work around it" which is all about being inclusive so no child is priced out because the parents cannot afford for their child to be in the show.

The three tickets per child also makes for a nice, full room.

However, there will be some families where three tickets is overkill, only one parent, no extended family nearby.
Plus some families where two parents, two siblings, four grandparents, uncle tom cobley and all want to see the darling dance.
A bit of juggling between the families can allow the costs of the venue to be covered and everyone to attend and see the show who really wants to without leaving empty seats where some families do not have the number of family members to take the seats.

Can the OP support the ticket purchases by arranging with one of the families wanting "too many" seats?

eskbanker

Grumpy_chap said:

However, there will be some families where three tickets is overkill, only one parent, no extended family nearby.
Plus some families where two parents, two siblings, four grandparents, uncle tom cobley and all want to see the darling dance.
A bit of juggling between the families can allow the costs of the venue to be covered and everyone to attend and see the show who really wants to without leaving empty seats where some families do not have the number of family members to take the seats.

Can the OP support the ticket purchases by arranging with one of the families wanting "too many" seats?

That would definitely have been an avenue to pursue back in April, but chances are that prospective 'purchasers' will be harder to find with two weeks to go - no harm in asking around though....

born_again

TBH, £57 for a end of term show is just plain rip off & then expecting people to buy 2/3 of them.
Dance school needs to think about where they hold these events & find somewhere a lot cheaper & smaller.

user1977

£57 does sound absurd. There are professional productions charging less than that (in fact just checked and it's more than the cheap seats for Scottish Ballet's next performance). 

GingerTim

user1977 said:

£57 does sound absurd. There are professional productions charging less than that (in fact just checked and it's more than the cheap seats for Scottish Ballet's next performance). 

Those cheap seats are subsidised by higher priced tickets or corporates and sponsorships, something this dance school are unlikely to have.

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

jobe1972 said:

are required to commit to a certain number of tickets from Head Office to ensure the trip can go ahead, therefore we have to ask all students participating in the trip to, in turn, commit to purchasing two/three tickets for the show. 

Maybe they should have written this better and said 3 tickets are required for your child to be in the show, rather than asking.

Good to support kids in extra activities but £170 for dance show is excessive IMHO.

What are they going to do, take you to court for two tickets you wasn't bound to purchase? Unlikely. Might kick you out of the classes though. 

jobe1972

Grumpy_chap said:

I think the whole thing here is, for the dance class to put on the show, they need to hire a venue and that cost has to be covered.  They children also want to feel proud and appreciated for their performance so there is value in the venue being full of adoring parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles.

The dance class do this by asking that, somehow, each student covers three tickets at £55 each, so £165 per student.
This could be done at £165 per student to be in the show plus a nominal charge for each ticket.
Or any other way of meeting the cost that makes the show viable.

Then the dance class has a comment "If you feel you cannot commit to purchasing two/three tickets please let us know and we will try our best to work around it" which is all about being inclusive so no child is priced out because the parents cannot afford for their child to be in the show.

The three tickets per child also makes for a nice, full room.

However, there will be some families where three tickets is overkill, only one parent, no extended family nearby.
Plus some families where two parents, two siblings, four grandparents, uncle tom cobley and all want to see the darling dance.
A bit of juggling between the families can allow the costs of the venue to be covered and everyone to attend and see the show who really wants to without leaving empty seats where some families do not have the number of family members to take the seats.

Can the OP support the ticket purchases by arranging with one of the families wanting "too many" seats?

Hi sorry for such a late response I actually thought the thread was deleted as it was getting derailed.. just FYI we had already paid £350 for her to be in the show for the extra lessons etc that would be needed for her to learn her part so the tickets were on top of that payment ..I had no problem paying what was needed if it was clear and upfront so we could make an informed decision it was the fact they changed the amount and they implied if you could not buy the tickets then something could be sorted that turned out not to be true.. we ended up buying two tickets as the original email overrides anything they sent after that.. many families bought more then 2 tickets as they needed them but they still insisted on others meeting the minimum 3 tickets 

But makes little difference she did her show