How soft are Melbourne supporters.

21 minutes ago, puntkick said:

 

dieter; the penny's just dropped. How the hell did you qualify for an AMEX if your not worth 5o bucks to your name ?

Anyhow I'm off to watch to watch Moana for now and Hope that your finances improve and you stop moaning while I'm away !

Isn't Moana a town in NSW across the border from Echuca? Better get a move on then, the roos come out at dusk.

24 minutes ago, puntkick said:

 

dieter; the penny's just dropped. How the hell did you qualify for an AMEX if your not worth 5o bucks to your name ?

Anyhow I'm off to watch to watch Moana for now and Hope that your finances improve and you stop moaning while I'm away !

I just fudged the figures. Anyway, Amex is desperate to sign customers. Also, please don't tell my wife about this card.

25 minutes ago, dieter said:

If you had cash and you live in Thornbury and you like Christians you're obviously related to the Salems and drive a Mercedes and I know that your fellow countrymen are cash dealers. I deliberately spelt c not hash.Okay.  I'm glad you had cash and had a good day, I had to go home and get nagged to death by my wife.

i can't believe you missed out on a cracking good game, diets, just because you were too stubborn and ornery to go to the local atm at casey after travelling a 100 clicks to get there. 

6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

i can't believe you missed out on a cracking good game, diets, just because you were too stubborn and ornery to go to the local atm at casey after travelling a 100 clicks to get there. 

It's about that old fashioned notion of customer service, young man. Always make it easy and comfortable for your customers is the motto of every smart business person.

Why should I have to walk back to the car park, find an ATM, drive back, find another park, walk back to the pearly gate and miss the first 15 minutes?

As the say in the Irish Classics, Fluck the geese who made it difficult for me to pay them to enter their venue, and if they have relatives in America, Fluck them too.

Dieter, come with Uncle Bitter, Biffen and I to a H&A game early in the season and we'll scrape together enough loose change to get you in. I can't promise you won't end up intoxicated at 2am in  some sleazy, sticky-carpet bar in St Kilda. Your Amex card will almost certainly take a hammering and you'll have some explaining to do re the missus. But at least you'll see the footy!

Edited February 25, 20178 yr by Moonshadow

1 minute ago, dieter said:

It's about that old fashioned notion of customer service, young man. Always make it easy and comfortable for your customers is the motto of every smart business person.

Why should I have to walk back to the car park, find an ATM, drive back, find another park, walk back to the pearly gate and miss the first 15 minutes?

As the say in the Irish Classics, Fluck the geese who made it difficult for me to pay them to enter their venue, and if they have relatives in America, Fluck them too.

yep....ornery and stubborn. you should have tried your considerable charm on the ticket taker.....thrown yourself at his mercy, ... begged and surrendered

Just now, dieter said:

It's about that old fashioned notion of customer service, young man. Always make it easy and comfortable for your customers is the motto of every smart business person.

Why should I have to walk back to the car park, find an ATM, drive back, find another park, walk back to the pearly gate and miss the first 15 minutes?

As the say in the Irish Classics, Fluck the geese who made it difficult for me to pay them to enter their venue, and if they have relatives in America, Fluck them too.

First world problems.

11 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

First world problems.

Agree. It's just that I'm 67, have a crippled arthritic left knee, also suffering from a lergy today, get out the violins Wiseblood, weep.

I know there were potential customers who had the same issue, they were wandering forlornly around Casey Fields looking for an ATM. Like I say, why make it difficult for your customers? Think I'll have to barrack for a 21st century team...

Just now, dieter said:

Agree. It's just that I'm 67, have a crippled arthritic left knee, also suffering from a lergy today, get out the violins Wiseblood, weep.

I know there were potential customers who had the same issue, they were wandering forlornly around Casey Fields looking for an ATM. Like I say, why make it difficult for your customers? Think I'll have to barrack for a 21st century team...

Like Carlton, ha ha

1 hour ago, Clint Bizkit said:

How soft are Melbourne supporters.

Soft?  You ever been nagged by my missus? I deserve a medal.

21 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Dieter, come with Uncle Bitter, Biffen and I to a H&A game early in the season and we'll scrape together enough loose change to get you in. I can't promise you won't end up intoxicated at 2am in  some sleazy, sticky-carpet bar in St Kilda. Your Amex card will almost certainly take a hammering and you'll have some explaining to do re the missus. But at least you'll see the footy!

Sounds like a perfectly beastly experience to me. The promise of loose change sounds tempting. Anyway, we'll lose and I'll become teary and morbid again.

Casey Fields is not my favourite place in the world, but complaints about the lack of eftpos are ridiculous. It is a suburban football ground, not a shopping centre. Buy a membership, pre purchase tickets, bring some cash, go up the road a few hundred metres to the shops. There are so many easy solutions to this first world problem, Especially when you are travelling so far. My family had a great day out.

59 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Dieter, come with Uncle Bitter, Biffen and I to a H&A game early in the season and we'll scrape together enough loose change to get you in. I can't promise you won't end up intoxicated at 2am in  some sleazy, sticky-carpet bar in St Kilda. Your Amex card will almost certainly take a hammering and you'll have some explaining to do re the missus. But at least you'll see the footy!

Not necessarily.

5 minutes ago, poita said:

Casey Fields is not my favourite place in the world, but complaints about the lack of eftpos are ridiculous. It is a suburban football ground, not a shopping centre. Buy a membership, pre purchase tickets, bring some cash, go up the road a few hundred metres to the shops. There are so many easy solutions to this first world problem, Especially when you are travelling so far. My family had a great day out.

Poita, this is 2017. There were thousands of people at Casey today. I was one of, according to the ticket operator, 150 people who expected to pay by Eftpos. Buy a membership, mate, I'm 67, have been to two games since 1987, questioned begged: why should I have to buy a membership just to watch one pre-season game?

Pre-purchase? Why should I? I only decided to go at midday.

Bring some Cash? I brought fifteen bucks, about as much as I ever need to carry because I know in the civilized world I can use my card.

Going up the road a few hundred metres is not as easy as it sounds for someone with crippling arthritis. 

Glad your family had a great day out, sounds like you are one of the wise virgins in one of the Gospels, can't remember which.

It's just that these days, especially at a function which is going to attract thousands, ignoring the simple 'first world' fact that most of us expect to pay by card, without letting the customers know that this facility would not be available is bulldust.

 

6 hours ago, dieter said:

Just got back from a 100 kilometere wild goose chase to Casey Fields and back.

I arrived at 1.50, walked round the ground from the car park in the paddock, queued up to pay and saw the sign 'Cash Only'.

I asked if there was an eptpos facility nearby, he replied in the nearest shopping centre. I said this is a troglodyte sham, he said, 150 others have said that.

I walked back to my car and drove home. 

Goodbye Casey Fields, I'll not be going back. 

 

I'm with you skinny - lack of eftpos at significant venues or events is a [censored] joke.

I rarely carry cash unless I'm doing err...  "business" at establishments like the GAT.

50 minutes ago, dieter said:

Soft?  You ever been nagged by my missus? I deserve a medal.

Now your draggin your missus into it. [censored] !

Buy 3 bloody memberships on your AMEX

22 minutes ago, dieter said:

Poita, this is 2017. There were thousands of people at Casey today. I was one of, according to the ticket operator, 150 people who expected to pay by Eftpos. Buy a membership, mate, I'm 67, have been to two games since 1987, questioned begged: why should I have to buy a membership just to watch one pre-season game?

Pre-purchase? Why should I? I only decided to go at midday.

Bring some Cash? I brought fifteen bucks, about as much as I ever need to carry because I know in the civilized world I can use my card.

Going up the road a few hundred metres is not as easy as it sounds for someone with crippling arthritis. 

Glad your family had a great day out, sounds like you are one of the wise virgins in one of the Gospels, can't remember which.

It's just that these days, especially at a function which is going to attract thousands, ignoring the simple 'first world' fact that most of us expect to pay by card, without letting the customers know that this facility would not be available is bulldust.

 

you're like the rabbott, diets, don't know when you're losing. time to give it up 

2 hours ago, Salems Lot said:

Eftpos freely available for the food BB.  I have just got back from the most fantastic double-bill. Both teams did themselves proud and My Bro, son and I agreed it was a fantastic day.

NB.  I am a member and I did have cash.

Then it makes no sense not to have it for anything else !! (Eftpos )

2 minutes ago, puntkick said:

Now your draggin your missus into it. [censored] !

Buy 3 bloody memberships on your AMEX

What if I confessed I don't have an Amex card? And that I've had three missus'es. One of whom follows the footy but barracks for the E Coli Wobblers, one of them is dead and the other is Polish and just wants me to mow the lawn on the weekend. Give me a break, Puntkick, my life is hard, hubble bubble toil and trouble. All I wanna do is drive to Casey in peace, buy a friggin ticket just like I can buy one anywhere else in the universe and watch my team. You got a problem with that? If so, it's not a first world problem it's a mental problem and indicates an incapacity to take even one step in another man's shoes. And, remember, the shoes are worn by a dude crippled with arthritis in his once well-functioning left knee.

My advice to you is that you repent and say three hail mary's.

 

2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

you're like the rabbott, diets, don't know when you're losing. time to give it up 

My daughter said to me recently, Why do you always barrack for the loser? Does that answer your question?

3 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Has anyone seen a maroon Lexus in the car park?

Pardon my ignorance wj but I don't get this.Wasn't TJ the last with a lexus ?

4 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Then it makes no sense not to have it for anything else !! (Eftpos )

Alleluia, Leonard Cohen reigns. 

Good to see some humor and 'Robust' discussion. Alleluia to both. God knows we need them. Which reminds me, when are the troglodyte Luddites gonna acknowledge there are eftpos machines in Casey? 

11 minutes ago, dieter said:

What if I confessed I don't have an Amex card? And that I've had three missus'es. One of whom follows the footy but barracks for the E Coli Wobblers, one of them is dead and the other is Polish and just wants me to mow the lawn on the weekend. Give me a break, Puntkick, my life is hard, hubble bubble toil and trouble. All I wanna do is drive to Casey in peace, buy a friggin ticket just like I can buy one anywhere else in the universe and watch my team. You got a problem with that? If so, it's not a first world problem it's a mental problem and indicates an incapacity to take even one step in another man's shoes. And, remember, the shoes are worn by a dude crippled with arthritis in his once well-functioning left knee.

My advice to you is that you repent and say three hail mary's.

 

I'1! !m now repentive and wish all strength to your right knee