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Just off the phone from “Mr Mountain Mayhem” Patrick Adams

February 17, 2009

provelo_logo_topThat nice man Mr Adams has asked us to pass on a message to you all regarding his website.   robcrayton “Provelo support your first place of call for all things Mayhem, sleepless, Enduro 6 and Nice Price Series has changed it ‘s URL. The new URL is www.provelosupportuk.co.uk Patrick. So there you are. Bookmark it!

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30 thoughts on “Just off the phone from “Mr Mountain Mayhem” Patrick Adams”

  1. Sod the £2.
    None of our group are entering this year because of the consitant wall to wall mud, it’s sad to say.
    We can stay home and ride trails that cope with rain far better

  3. -m- do you have a paypal account?

    I’ll quite happily send you two pounds as I’m 100% convinced that you’ll make better use of it than me, on the one condition that you promise to:

    a) tell me what you are spending it on

    and

    b) can assure me that you will spend it better than Pat Adams

    I would like to extend this very same offer to Mr Pat Adams and I shall declare the winner on the basis of their £2.00 spend.

  4. Mr Nutt, I do, but I’m afraid that I must refuse your very kind offer of £2 (or 200 finest new pence as it has alternatively been referred to above) as I would not wish to be accused of obtaining money under false pretences 😉

    Just in case anyone has missed my point, or been distracted by the boring bit in the middle about the best/worst way to spend £2 on the administration of payments:

    1) I don’t care how big or small Pat Adams’ margins are
    2) I don’t care how much he charges for his events – the market will set the price…
    3) I don’t think that £32 is outrageously expensive

    However:

    4) I just think he should charge the actual headline price for entries, rather than adding on hidden charges for certain entries.
    5) If that means charging everyone £32 then I’m sure that wouldn’t be a problem for anyone that wants to enter; after all the price paid would match the expectation set from the headline figure…

    To be honest, I’d be less bothered if he’d said “We’re really sorry, but because of the extra cost to us of processing on-line payments through Paypal, we’ve got to charge you an extra 96p for this event. We’re looking for ways to avoid having to do this in the future.” But he didn’t.

    Of course, alternatively we could simply have an open bartering system where everyone negotiates their own entry price individually 😉

    Now can we move on to the more serious issue of talking about the punctuation in the original article?

  9. They’re not still trying to push that Ride All Night thing are they? Does anyone know anyone that’s signed up for that?

    I’ve had to pay £3 ‘on the day’ fees to enter races before (got charged £8.50 at Cheddar once!) so while I think Pat should advertise the fee as being £32, does it really matter?

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