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 by: RH - Sun, 15 May 2022 11:37 UTC

On Saturday I went Lords for the first time since Covid arrived. When I arrived at the Grace Gates I discovered to my astonishment that that Lords had gone payment by card only or close to it.

After I pressed the gate staff on whether they really were not taking cash, they grudgingly admitted there was a single till accepting cash.. This was to be found after another 250 yard walk on public pavements to get to the entrance which leads to the Lords ticket office (close to the rear of the Pavilion).

But there was an obvious problem. With a single till open even a small queue took time to dissolve. If only a dozen or so queuing to pay by cash It would take at least half an hour to serve them all.

Doubtless after a while there will d be a claim by Lords that only low numbers are using the last cash ticket point and therefore it will be closed as well - that is a classic ploy by those with power who want to close down a service they wish to discontinue by making it difficult to find the service or to bureaucratise it.

There were no notices up anywhere telling would be spectators that cash would only be accepted at this single point which could only serve one person at a time. This was clearly a ploy to make would be spectators who wanted to pay cash to either bow to the demand that they pay by card or simply cease coming to Lords.
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That was not the end of the pay by card regimen. I went into the Middlesex shop to buy a couple of books. Again it was card payment only. After I kicked up a fuss they admitted there was a single till in the small Lords Shop by the Grace Gates. . They accepted my cash.

The cash only mania did not end there. The various bars and refreshment points were cash only.

What is clear about all this is that it is

1. Done for the convenience of the Lords staff and not spectators,.
2. Very short sighted even from a commercial point of view because it inconveniences one of the largest (and probably the largest )segments of Championship supporters the old.

RH

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 by: jack fredricks - Sun, 15 May 2022 18:23 UTC

On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 9:37:10 PM UTC+10, RH wrote:
> If only a dozen or so queuing to pay by cash It would take at least half an hour to serve them all.

And let me guess. A dozen cash paying customers = £345,000? 345k x 27 CC matches x 100 rounds = £6.99 trillion p/a
All this means CC should get rid of foreigners.

(I hope the ng is ok with me just pulling a number out of my ass).

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 by: RH - Sun, 15 May 2022 20:10 UTC

On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 7:23:20 PM UTC+1, jzfre...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 9:37:10 PM UTC+10, RH wrote:
> > If only a dozen or so queuing to pay by cash It would take at least half an hour to serve them all.
> And let me guess. A dozen cash paying customers = £345,000? 345k x 27 CC matches x 100 rounds = £6.99 trillion p/a
> All this means CC should get rid of foreigners.
>
> (I hope the ng is ok with me just pulling a number out of my ass).

Oh dear, one of the children has stayed up way past his bedtime.... RH

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