IMC extra charges- nope.
Ironman Canada is looking for an extra $69 from entrants as they forgot they had more Canadian taxes to pay. ( I haven't paid close attention to the details.) All I know is that I received an email saying they weregoing to charge my card for it on top of the $600 already paid by me for the priviledge of racing in their race. I told them no, not paying. Here's why:
1. Not my problem. This is business overhead they didn't account for. If they underestimated the cost of aid stations would they come back to me for that? Sorry, I take hits in my business too when I screw up.
2. I don't like WTC much. I guess this shoudn't matter but it's a karma thing. They're the heavy handed 800 lb gorilla, and they take no prisoners when it comes to business, creating new races to compete with existing races, and hassling my boys RnP, just 2 tri gangstas trying to make a buck. So now they want to hold hands? Or am I taking this out on the IMC franchise? I'm not clear on the relationship there.
3. I'm already paying a huge amount to race, imo. Would I have paid $69 dollars more initially? Maybe. But maybe not. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
4. I've always had an issue with their refund and no assignment policy. They over sell these races and make a ton of dough from no shows.
As I said, I haven't paid much attention to the issue but this is my initial reaction. Anybody out there have any more? Has this been posted here already? What am I missing? Perspectives?
Tanks,
Chris
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As A Canadian, that represents $69 dollars of health care I won't receive.
But I can't disagree with your reasons, Chris.
Thanks for the clarifications above as to who owns the race- I was unsure. It makes a difference to me. I try hard not to just rationalize things like this away.
Chris,
I like Graham and NAS, I guess, but I sez fuggem. Not my problem.