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Beef STL

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Sport Card Prices
« on: July 28, 2007, 04:50:01 PM »
I talked with a local USBC representative that I know pretty well, today, and he mentioned that not only are 298 and 299 rings going to be done away with, but the sport cards are going up from $9 (in addition to USBC yearly fees) to $15 + USBC yearly fees.  

With sport bowling on such a rise as it is, do you all think that this is a bad move on USBC's part, because I surely think it is.  I mean, It's not the fact that $6 is going to make, or break, me, but the fact that they're almost doubling it when it's a relatively new idea, quite on the rise.  I guess it's just another way for USBC to make a buck.
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Re: Sport Card Prices
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2007, 01:11:20 AM »
If it means additional staff to make sure tapes are read in a timely manner, then no it is not a bad idea. It would be nice to know why the increase and where the money is going.

Also, we were told as long as you sanction before 8/1, you only pay the $9 upgrade and it is good until next year.
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Beef STL

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Re: Sport Card Prices
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2007, 01:16:02 AM »
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Also, we were told as long as you sanction before 8/1, you only pay the $9 upgrade and it is good until next year.


I actually asked him the same exact question, about if I bought the $9 this summer, and he said that it expires on the 1st of August, but if I had bought a USBC card AND sport card in the summer, it would go to next year.

And true, it'd be great if that increase does go to helping the program, but I hope (and USBC hasn't shown a good track record of this so far) that USBC fully explains the reasoning behind the price increase.
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shelley

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Re: Sport Card Prices
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2007, 12:54:31 PM »
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Also, we were told as long as you sanction before 8/1, you only pay the $9 upgrade and it is good until next year.


I actually asked him the same exact question, about if I bought the $9 this summer, and he said that it expires on the 1st of August, but if I had bought a USBC card AND sport card in the summer, it would go to next year.


That's what I heard as well.  We had one new bowler that had to get a regular sanction and a sport sanction and his sport sanction doesn't expire until August '08.  Everyone else who bowled in this summer PBA league and bought sport sanctions, they expire in less than a week.

Our association secretary tried to put down that they expire in '08, just like any other summer sanction and was told by the USBS that simply is not the case.

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jhutch769

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Re: Sport Card Prices
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 02:13:50 AM »
That is bullcrap, I am going to have a lot of pissed off people at me because we sanctioned our summer pba experience challenge and made everyone pay the 9 upgrade..
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