Beaulieu BJ card scam?

[oldbilbo]

Others have 'protested their outrage' at the £1 handling or booking fee levied on Advance Bookings of tickets for the Beaulieu BJ, as advertised in the hallowed pages of PBO Magazine.

It would seem that, from today, that charge has become illegal. See 'ere.... http://tinyurl.com/czqy2gc

So can we look forward to seeing My Lord Montague of Beaulieu and the shy 'n retiring Editor appearing before Southampton Magistrates anytime soon...?

 

[Tranona]

Don't think it is the same thing. This refers to charging for credit card bookings where the fee was "excessive".

 

[duncan99210]

All they have to do is change the name of the fee to 'administration' or handling' charge and they can charge what they like...... The only real change is that they have to tell you about it up front and can't add it on at the last page in the process.

 

[prv]

Don't think it is the same thing. This refers to charging for credit card bookings where the fee was "excessive".

Indeed - particularly aimed at budget airlines where they pretended the fee was optional by also offering a free means of payment but one so obscure that nobody could actually use it.

Pete

 

[nigelmercier]

I pay for my BJ in cash.

 

[Bobc]

I pay for my BJ in cash.

You should try using a swipe-card next time

 

[VicMallows]

Surely the entrance fee for Beaulieu BJ is the bigger rip-off ..... if you have no desire to visit any of the other 'attractions'.

 

[Seajet]

Beaulieu and rip-off mentioned in the same sentence ? Surely not !

 

[Tranona]

Surely the entrance fee for Beaulieu BJ is the bigger rip-off ..... if you have no desire to visit any of the other 'attractions'.

Seemingly not a view shared by everybody judging by the thousands that go to the event every year!

 

[ferroboat]

Seemingly not a view shared by everybody judging by the thousands that go to the event every year!

No they are to busy carting away the cheap they have bought not caring if it is stolen or not.

 

[oldbilbo]

Seemingly not a view shared by everybody judging by the thousands that go to the event every year!

There weren't that many there last year...

 

[VicMallows]

No they are to busy carting away the cheap they have bought not caring if it is stolen or not.

I guess on that basis no-one should ever buy anything second-hand?. Nor anything new on EBAY from a private seller?. And who knows where that VAT registered seller got his stock from?

 

[chinita]

Seemingly not a view shared by everybody judging by the thousands that go to the event every year!

No one ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the (British) public.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I guess on that basis no-one should ever buy anything second-hand?. Nor anything new on EBAY from a private seller?. And who knows where that VAT registered seller got his stock from?

Maybe, but I think it was no conincidence that the weekend a load of expensive block disappeared off my last boat was the same weekend as the local boat jumble