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It's been proven that 'honesty' payment systems can make more money that fixed price systems. I recall a newspaper doing this once (London Evening Standard rings a bell). Face value was something like 20p at the time but average takings per paper were somewhere around the 30p mark because people didn't have the right change but were happy to pay a bit more to get a copy of the paper. Similarly, when restaurants have tried a 'pay what you want' scheme their takings typically go up. This is what SFC needs right now....some ingenuity and lateral thinking.

Rotch Property Group have used Guernsey based Aletheia Partners as their 'bid vehicle' before. Did someone mention a Channel Islands connection in one of the bids a while back....?

So, a loss making organisation such as FC United is 'allowed' to sell season tickets but SFC isn't/can't/won't....I'll find some logic amongst such dichotomy if it kills me....

Maybe it was a quip about hunting and he simply misheard the word "Pheasant"?

I could've sworn there was someone similar looking to Vincent (on the right) in one of the recent Directors Box photos...?

Fair point. I hereby consign my suggestion to the pile marked 'naive'

Time to dig out some Wilde quotes on the OS from last May/June me thinks....

I accept that a company that is on the cusp of not being a going concern shouldn't start selling something it can't commit to, but, in the case of a football club, isn't the sale of season tickets the very bread and butter that keeps it solvent in the first place? If McDonalds stopped selling burgers I'm pretty sure they would soon go under, so what do they do? They keep selling burgers to ward off insolvency. To say that we can't sell our main commodity in case we can't fulfill the service we're selling is one of the biggest false ecconomies I've seen in a long time (IMHO of course).

Indeed, and there's been no movement for over a month now. I've a suspicion that something is up. Just a hunch mind.

Fair point. But what is ultimately more upsetting? Losing c.£300 (if the club went bankrupt even after throwing the season ticket sales dice) or seeing the club disappear because it didn't/couldn't sell season tickets in the first place?

Many people have said that a company can't sell a 'future' commodity is it is in known financial straits (administration or otherwise). Can anyone actually post a link to the actual law in question so that I/we can see that there is actually a law that prevents 'Southampton Football Club Limited' (a company that is currently still a going concern, unlike the parent company) selling season tickets NOW for next season? I asked the question several weeks ago: "would people be prepared to waive their consumer rights to allow the club to sell season tickets" and most replies were "if it generates a cash flow that will get us through the summer and thus saves the club's bacon then, yes, of course I would buy a season ticket to keep the club alive". Surely any 'law' that exists which is preventing season ticket sales primarily exists to protect the consumer. But if the consumer in this case is prepared to own the risk rather than the retailer then why, oh why doesn't the club do something about it? If the law doesn't allow for consumer waiver of rights then the law is an ass. Which comes back to my original question to any lawyers out there. What is the exact wording of the law in this area? Thanks.

Even those who do it tongue-in-cheekily?

Which bid? Pinnacle?

Great news. Wish I hadn't logged on now!

Almost as much as an MP gets in total. Madness...

We could always ask Claus to pay for the re-seeding. Ah, hang on, not such a good idea - Rupert "£100k" Lowe already got him to pay for that last year.....

http://www.bursledon.org/

Does it say how much Kim van der Waals was on?

Fair point. Ok, perhaps all it needs is a question mark then....?

May I venture the thread title is a little misleading now given Weston's clarification that he's not (directly) involved in 'bid 1' per se?

http://www.pinnacleassetmanagement.co.uk/index.htm

Cheers...so tends to rule out the likes of Maple Leaf Sports then. Wasn't one of the 'directors' of Trican (Marc Jackson's previous consortium vehicle) a Canadian?

Interesting. Cheers