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9/7/2017 6:20pm
Yes you heard right, $90 to use a transponder for two laps in practice.
Sign up Friday for Sat/Sun event.
Pay for Friday "early" practice. $25
Go ahead and pay $40 for use of transponder for the weekend plus the $100 deposit to avoid having to come back to the sign up tower Saturday morning to get it.
Crush leg 2 laps into Friday practice.
Straight to hospital in ambulance, transport to another hospital, transport again. 3 weeks in hospital, surgery, one week in hospital head home for the remaining hell that still continues 3 months later. (No weight on leg for 3 months beyond surgery, and now seeing nerve damage to top it off)
So my favorite part of this is,... when it comes to returning your transponder, each Monday that passes, they suck up $10 of your $100 deposit. I still havent touched/washed the bike three months after the crash. I am the dad who does all the work on bikes, pays for the trips, basically does it all, and although I was able to get a friend (one I trusted going into my locked trailer) to get the transponder for me, I still had to get chueffered around later to pay and ship it.
So they keep the $40 they charge to use it, and $50 of the deposit. $90 just to strap the thing on my bike? Can I at least get the laptime information from my 1st lap of practice? LOL
When tracks decide to do business with companies like this, it hurts the sport. No wonder rich people are the only ones left racing mx. It must all be big business nowdays. Someone has found a way to get rich off of transponders now.
Sign up Friday for Sat/Sun event.
Pay for Friday "early" practice. $25
Go ahead and pay $40 for use of transponder for the weekend plus the $100 deposit to avoid having to come back to the sign up tower Saturday morning to get it.
Crush leg 2 laps into Friday practice.
Straight to hospital in ambulance, transport to another hospital, transport again. 3 weeks in hospital, surgery, one week in hospital head home for the remaining hell that still continues 3 months later. (No weight on leg for 3 months beyond surgery, and now seeing nerve damage to top it off)
So my favorite part of this is,... when it comes to returning your transponder, each Monday that passes, they suck up $10 of your $100 deposit. I still havent touched/washed the bike three months after the crash. I am the dad who does all the work on bikes, pays for the trips, basically does it all, and although I was able to get a friend (one I trusted going into my locked trailer) to get the transponder for me, I still had to get chueffered around later to pay and ship it.
So they keep the $40 they charge to use it, and $50 of the deposit. $90 just to strap the thing on my bike? Can I at least get the laptime information from my 1st lap of practice? LOL
When tracks decide to do business with companies like this, it hurts the sport. No wonder rich people are the only ones left racing mx. It must all be big business nowdays. Someone has found a way to get rich off of transponders now.
The Shop
The world is full of exceptions. People/companies can make life better for all concerned if they look at and try to accommodate the rare exception.
Next question: When did it become a thing for motocross people to criticize, bash find fault with every little concern a fellow motorcyclist has? This is a recurring event. Makes me want to ask all the bullies and negative nancy's: "Who pissed in your post toasties?".
We wouldnt want to see tracks hire scorekeepers like we used to now would we?
Sign up fees havent gone down, but now the rider is supposed to pay to be scored on top of it..
The direction is bad, but yall keep advocating for it.
My bad, I shouldve read the refund policy first.
BTW, sucks you got hurt. Here's to a speedy recovery!
The $90 wasn't for the two laps, it was for the 6 weeks of rental. I'm pretty sure that your rental agreement doesn't include any per lap fees........
The OP isn't asking for any resolution to the matter. He understands he's out the money.
His comment about the policy of the transponders sucks in some situations. Which it does.
You all would feel better if you stopped acting like miserable smug people all the time.
Well, yall look at it how you wish, at least now more people might know how things work with escore, so they can plan on having an extra fist full of cash when they go to a race where escore is being used by the track.
Lets see $40 per rider × say 250 riders= $10,000
That'll pay for a hole boat load of score keepers.
Now lets add keeping $50 of the deposit for each rider who got hurt and cant get to their bike, LOL, just kidding on that part, but one can see how the escore nonsense just ads to the cost of mx.
You kept the transponder for 5 weeks, so 35 days, for $90, or $2.57 per day.
Pretty good deal if you ask me. Remember, Escore cannot rent a transponder that's sitting on your bike to someone else, so they're losing $40 rental fee each week. It sucks for you that you got hurt, but it's part of the game. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Did you ever reach out the company in the first week or so to explain your situation? No wife, girlfriend, family, kid, or anyone else could help you get this cared for within a reasonable time..........a couple days, two weeks max.
Do you think it's fair this company was not able to make any money off this transponder during this time?
Pit Row
250 RIDERS × $20 PER DAY TRANSPONDER = $5000
IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE 5 SCOREKEEPERS YOU COULD PAY THEM $1000 EACH. DO YOU KNOW ANYBODY WHO WOULD KEEP SCORE FOR $1000 A DAY?
OR,... WE PAY 4 PEOPLE $150 A DAY TO KEEP SCORE, WHICH IS $600 AND IF WE NEED TO CHARGE THE RIDERS TO COVER THAT COST $600/250 RIDERS IS LESS THAN $2.50 PER RIDER.
RATHER USE ESCORE? OK FINE LOL
LET EVERYONE WHO IS COMING TO YOUR RACE KNOW TO BRING EXTRA MONEY
Where did I say that $90 is 'nothing' to me?
From personal experience, the answer is "no".
The additional rental is their loss of potential income from it. I rent equipment constantly. I pay by the day, week, or month whether I actually use the equipment the entire time or not. Otherwise, they rental company could potentially be renting that equipment out to another customer rather than simply having it sit next to my shop.
Common sense doesn't appear to be as common as you'd think.......
I'll just add that you really didn't need the transponder for Friday practice. So if you would have waited for Saturday's race signups you wouldn't have been in this predicament. Hope ya get healed up and back on the track soon.
Yeh me and escore communicated through the whole deal the whole time. They knew it was coming. I was pretty bummed I didnt get to use the transponder, but paid $40 to use it, and then found it very non MX like to have to pay $50 out of my deposit because they had to live without it for 5 weeks. Maybe it costs them that much, forgive me if it does, but when it comes to perceptions of how business gets done (to use your words) in the mx world, all I can say is I wouldve handled THIS instance differently if I was escore. Trump is gonna build a wall and tracks are gonna stop using escore.
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