Re: Official 2011 BMWSG Sepang Track Day thread
I guess we can have a system. This will help with our under-supply problem. But I will need everyone's help. Mostly coz I dont know everyone in the forum, and I'm really so bad with names and faces. I'm definitely worse than national average on this.
So, we will open up the first 40 slots to contributing members and their immediate friends, Those who fall outside of this category will be automatically put into the waitlist, if any. Our track days are understandably cheap, and I dont mind doing a service for the BMWSG community. But I cannot be extending this sevice for the whole singapore. So I will need regular members' help in identifying these participants, in order for our own members to be not squeezed out. It's the citizens vs foreign talent issue we are all familiar with.
Next, I want to relook the first-pay-first-slot issue. We started this some time back when the demand level is different from today, and when we had issues with people who tua and didnt pay and caused an overall loss. In today's scenario, it's perfectly okay to receive payment within the week of registering, as the risk of making a loss on the TD is still negated. This will make it more convenient for participants to arrange payments. Hopefully with this change, members will not need to rush payments, but rather, just log in to sign up. I'm trying to continuously make things easier for everyone.
However with this change, may come the scenario of someone coming in and putting 20 names one shot. So in tandem, we should allow only for a registrant to sign up 2 other friends' names, for example. If they are contributing members with an active account, they will be able to easily log in to register for themselves. If you are overseas, outside working, you should easily have a friend in the community to help you out. If you are a brand new enthusiast member, you can look for me directly to help should u be away from your computer.
The above is definitely notspecifically targeted at anyone currently at the moment. I have a few long term members who do that for their friends, and these are really long-term, loyal, consistent, safe, and friendly drivers at our track, no bad debts, etc. Superb. But as an overall, overarching rule that we need in place to fine-tune our track day demand/supply situation.
What do you guys think of the above suggestions? If they are in agreement with the majority, I will most likely incorporate them from next year's TDs onwards.