Wednesday, June 30, 2010

New Management...

So I wanted to share the correspondence I had with our new rep Jaime yesterday. I didnt want to bombard her with questions (Im sure we will get our chance for that in the captains meeting) but I wanted to know about the whole 1 week deadline to get our teams together before randoms start signing up and why our cost is $72 when we are getting 2 less weeks of playing time. Here is her response...

Hello... The cost this season has everything to do with WAKA the corporate office, an nothing to do with individual divisions. MLoop actually did some amazing negotiating to get the price lowered to 72, due to exactly what you stated (field time etc...). As for registration.... right now it is still just for returning players... On the 7th it does open to all, however, I do not assign free agents until registration ends... So keep in touch with me and I will try my best to get your team together. I will send an email out before I do any assigning of free agents. Hope this helps!~Jaime

So after I laughed for a little while it took alot of strength to not email her back and ask if she would kiss me...why do you ask? Yes because I like to get kissed before I am being fucked...
Obviously she does not realize that we know "MLoop's" negotitating skills and we are not impressed. Really "amazing negotiating???" Thats a complete joke.
At least she did say she would work with me to keep my team together so I suggest you contact her if you think you might have trouble putting your team together before the 7th, otherwise you might have some randoms on your team.

Last night at the Dog Track Chandler brought up a good point, if we talked to PAL how much do you think it would take for them to tell WAKA that the fields are not available on Thursday nights? I bet we could work with Kickball Society and get a better/cheaper deal put in place...ready discuss!

9 comments:

Chandler said...

"So after I laughed for a little while it took alot of strength to not email her back and ask if she would kiss me...why do you ask? Yes because I like to get kissed before I am being fucked..."

That is some funny shiz right there.

We pay PAL about $3,000 per season for the use of their fields. WAKA's revenue from Bayshore division is about $27,000 per season (380 x $72).

I think there is a ton of room to negotiate and "buy out" Thursday nights from PAL. I'll be setting up a meeting with them very soon...

bull said...

So glad this will be my last WAKA season. I'm petty sure Obama needs to give me a raise before I can afford next seasons fees! (that's right I blame Obama!) Its 10 and done for me!

Florian said...

Just looked at a division in Jacksonville and they only pay $65 to play. Are thier fields cheaper or do they just get a better deal? I'm sure there are many others like this.

Chandler said...

We all do need to keep in mind that it technically isn't our new rep (Jamie's) fault rates when up. Reps do not have that much power. She's accurately blaming corporate WAKA... but as customers I don't think our reps (even Mike Loop) realize that we don't give a shit WHO is to blame. We're just tired of seeing rates increase with decreased number of games.

Nate Dawg said...

I actually did email her back and she told me that WAKA corporate up'ed their base charge to $79.00/player and Mike Loop got it down to $72.00/person. I agree with Chan that its not Jaime's fault just as it wasnt Ty's fault, they are just the messenger of the corporate asshole WAKA.

Flo I would have to look deeper into the Jacksonville league but I would assume their field cost is cheaper.

Smithkey said...

Kickball Society people

Geoff said...

I'm sitting this season out anyway, but would be willing to look to KS for my return should I feel the need to return to kickball

Robes said...

Our whole team is down for moving to KS if you can get the PAL fields on Thursdays.

Nate Dawg said...

We'll get back to you on that guys...