Season Tickets

BuzzCzar said:
This is the kind of thing where you typically have an "in-kind" sponsor like UPS doing it for no money, just in exchange for advertising of being a GT sponsor

Given the relationship between UPS and GT I doubt the AA paid them $

Just sayin'
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The strange thing about this is that if this is the case, it was the sponsor's employees that 'mangled' the tickets and now the AA, instead of the sponsor who did the mangling, is being trashed.
 
Akinji07 said:
öööö you. Now I'm joining camp @GTCrew. You just destroyed an alliance.
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I agree with Dane but I'm not butthurt

I am the non-existing center

I destroy no alliances, nor do I construct them

I am an alliance on my own. The joining of intellect, physical prowess, and confident airs.
 
clapper said:
The strange thing about this is that if this is the case, it was the sponsor's employees that 'mangled' the tickets and now the AA, instead of the sponsor who did the mangling, is being trashed.
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Good point, although it might still have been a GTAA person deciding how to package it. "In-kind" sponsors usually do whatever up to some $ value. They let you decide what you want usually tho
 
If you pay extra for something it better be right; that's why I agree with Dane

If you pay extra to get a side of mutton with your falafel, but then they bring it cold and the guy has his thumb in it while serving it, you would be grabbing your carpet and leaving without the customary 5% Turkish tip even

Admit it

Marketing Commandment: if thou dost become successful at enticing a customer and up-sell them, thou best make it count!
 
BuzzCzar said:
Good point, although it might still have been a GTAA person deciding how to package it. "In-kind" sponsors usually do whatever up to some $ value. They let you decide what you want usually tho
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Agree. And it wasn't likely the shipper who provided the packages. It was still their employees who damaged them. The least they should have done was stamp "DO NOT BEND" on the package.
 
BuzzCzar said:
If you pay extra for something it better be right; that's why I agree with Dane

If you pay extra to get a side of mutton with your falafel, but then they bring it cold and the guy has his thumb in it while serving it, you would be grabbing your carpet and leaving without the customary 5% Turkish tip even

Admit it

Marketing Commandment: if thou dost become successful at enticing a customer and up-sell them, thou best make it count!
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I lol'd in real life
 
fwiw, I'm still more bh by the crappy coasters (and last year's coin) than the condition of the tickets. the years before that we got decent swag... gameday vehicle flag, gameday vehicle magnet, and that funny clear bag. Those are actually useful items. Like an earlier poster said, I can't imagine the majority of these coasters will be anywhere but the trash within a few weeks.

/complainingaboutfreestuff
 
Now the swag part I agree with CD05 and Akinji - saving money on that is ok in my book when funds are low

Who needs another GT car license plate? Also end up not used and cost more...
 
ramblin' wagon said:
It is actually cheaper to not use the bubble wrap package. There should be a significantly discounted rate for as many season tickets that are shipped. It has nothing to do with money.

Also get off the cargo plane bullshit. It wasn't a cargo plane.
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Cheaper than what? You don't think they got a discounted rate in previous years?
 
BuzzCzar said:
This is the kind of thing where you typically have an "in-kind" sponsor like UPS doing it for no money, just in exchange for advertising of being a GT sponsor

Given the relationship between UPS and GT I doubt the AA paid them $

Just sayin'
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I would be very surprised if this is the case.
 
clapper said:
Agree. And it wasn't likely the shipper who provided the packages. It was still their employees who damaged them. The least they should have done was stamp "DO NOT BEND" on the package.
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Wouldn't work. If they use the floppy Tyvek envelopes, it doesn't matter what they stamp on them. The nature of parcel sortation and delivery means that some significant % will be bent. It would be much better to use the stiffer cardboard envelope.
 
gtleviathan said:
I would bet dollars to donuts the "support" is in the form of a negotiated discount, not free shipping.
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I bet it is some total amount of in-kind trade so that they can write it off as a sponsorship

The GTAA gets some amount of money to use toward stuff by UPS, the rest they have to supply themselves

I found that link in about 5min. You might be able to find more info online if you wish
 
gtleviathan said:
Cheaper than what? You don't think they got a discounted rate in previous years?
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If you ship them in the cardboard envelope UPS then they won't get bent. It should be cheaper too because the bubble wrap envelopes are more expensive. They were shipped the way they were because someone either didn't know or didn't care, not because it saved money.
 
ramblin' wagon said:
If you ship them in the cardboard envelope UPS then they won't get bent. It should be cheaper too because the bubble wrap envelopes are more expensive. They were shipped the way they were because someone either didn't know or didn't care, not because it saved money.
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If cardboard boxes were cheaper but they decided to use soft envelope and bubble wrap then what you're suggesting is they spent more money to send you creased tickets. That leads me to think either they did it to öööö with y'all on purpose, or someone at GTAA has stocks in the bubble wrap company.
 
Akinji07 said:
If cardboard boxes were cheaper but they decided to use soft envelope and bubble wrap then what you're suggesting is they spent more money to send you creased tickets. That leads me to think either they did it to öööö with y'all on purpose, or someone at GTAA has stocks in the bubble wrap company.
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UPS doesn't charge for the boxes in my experience.
 
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