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richie95 25-09-08 10:19 PM

£500 test
 
orgers...
twas reading my lovely MCN and in the letters page, someone was saying that up north a riding school has block booked all the tests and charging £500 for each test to sell them on (i did not know you could do that) but if its true, thats gotta be profiteering.... dont have link here, but its easy to find on the letters page in MCN....

this post probably dont make sense... i just wanted to get it off chest... i have people like that... specially if they call themselves bikers

:smt019

yorkie_chris 26-09-08 12:47 AM

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I was under the impression schools were only allowed to block-book a certain number of tests each. Sounds like boswallox.

richie95 26-09-08 01:36 AM

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phew.... my faith in bikers be restored....

Lozzo 26-09-08 01:42 AM

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There's a riding school local to me who block booked a large number of places and was charging through the nose for them too. Now the new test has been postponed he's kicking himself, because many new riders have now boycotted his firm when they found out about his over-charging and he's now stuck with them unbooked having lashed out a lot of money. Serves him right.

Alpinestarhero 26-09-08 11:26 AM

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Lozzo, how long has the new test been post-phoned for?

muffles 26-09-08 11:47 AM

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6 months Matt.

Dangerous Dave 26-09-08 11:53 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by muffles (Post 1635953)
6 months Matt.

+ 1

Training centres have a limit on how many they can book per week, can't remember the correct number.

simesb 26-09-08 12:19 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dangerous Dave (Post 1635969)
+ 1

Training centres have a limit on how many they can book per week, can't remember the correct number.

And they can only book them so many weeks in advance. If there is more than one centre in an area, they all become available at the same time on the same day so all the schools are phoning at once - pot luck which they get through to first.

Viney 26-09-08 02:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by richie95 (Post 1635582)
orgers...
twas reading my lovely MCN and in the letters page, someone was saying that up north a riding school has block booked all the tests and charging £500 for each test to sell them on (i did not know you could do that) but if its true, thats gotta be profiteering.... dont have link here, but its easy to find on the letters page in MCN....

this post probably dont make sense... i just wanted to get it off chest... i have people like that... specially if they call themselves bikers

:smt019

Theres the clue

More Crap then News

richie95 26-09-08 07:41 PM

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lol


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