Fee for Attending York

I paid $12. When did it go to $23?

It hasn't been $8 in a long time. I just registered yesterday and the online price which has a surcharge of I think $1 in it was $13.50. I'm sure someone will chime in who remembers when the price went up. The York flyer they sent you should say what the costs are and when the pre-registration period is over.

Sounds to me like the pre-registration period just ended. You might be able to save $1.50 if you register at the meet. I know there is an extra fee for online registration. Sorry, wish I could be more help.

Here's the fee schedule.

You coulda/shoulda registered for $12, you're paying a late fee for registering late.

 

 

 

Senior registration at the April 2015 Meet for this October only cost me $6.00.  What a bargain!

I registered my spouse....I thought she was free???

TrainHead....your spouse is free!!  Look at the fee schedule that hojack provided above or go to the TCA site and all of the fees are there...you will see that a spouse is free.

 

Alan

Do I get a refund if I don't find anything...per the last two Yorks?

(not really expected)  Puh-leeze tell me the few remaining manufacturers are filling

in the gaps with catalogue pages and shelves full of new and different stuff in the dealer hall  (that, sadly, is not really expected, either)

If'n ya had read my 'final days' thread ya coulda saved a bunch of $$.

 

Although there's no charge for her to get into the meet, taking your spouse along is never free.

It is still $12.00

Based on my involvement with TCA, it is: $37 every 6 months.

 

$50 - TCA membership

$12 - April Meet

$12 - Oct Meet

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$74 / 2 events = $37. 

 

Well worth it.  

Not for October at this point.  Read the second line item from the bottom of the list shown above. 

 

It's a minimum of $20 now for October.  ($23 if you pay on-line with a CC - but it's still a good deal!)

 

-Dave

Who cares how much it cost. Does it really matter how much it is? Just go and enjoy the meet.

Not sure where you're getting the $12 from, here's what's on my receipt from registering on-line.

 

1	Regular Member Admission	@ $13.50 ea. =	$13.50
	Total		$13.50

It's $12 if you register by mail, sending a check or MO. This also means you've provided them with return postage and an envelope to send your badge.

 

Registering online incurs an extra fee (though I can't quite point to where it explicitly says that) and is the reason that method is $13.50

 

---PCJ

I think the Eastern Division should raise all the fees and admission to the York train meet and donate all the additional proceeds to the museum.

Registration after September 1 is $23.00

It's cheaper if you are a senior citizen, but you have to prove that somehow. Although I qualify for the senior rate, I just paid to regular rate to avoid any possible hassle.

I didn't see the senior citizen option, I think I qualify.

 

 

It costs MORE to register on-line? That's backwards...and ridiculous.

Rich:  When you register on-line Eastern Div pays the postage to mail your badges vs sending a SSAE if you were to mail in your registration.  I believe that is why the extra cost.

To qualify for Senior Registration you have to be 60+ with 10 years TCA membership.

It costs only about 50 cents more to register online vs. by mail after you provide the envelope plus postage for both return mailing and to send it in by mail.

 I've never been there to know the entrance routine.

 But it is listed as a "Convenience Fee" if I remember right. A fee for not waiting in a ticket line to pay there was my grasp of it.

 Just walk past the cashier to the "conductors" to have your ticket punched.(big events around here that "ticket" is a bar code printed at home, or shown on a phone, and the "conductors" have code reader guns like the supermarket).

  Turnstiles move faster than cashiers lines, and the folk with the scanners are likely a little bored compared to others. 

 That might be $1.50 worth of saved hassle I'd imagine

 

What would be really ridiculous, is if you have to go to the cashier anyhow. 

This whole thread is about nothing.

The "convenience fee" is for the opportunity to perform the registration online, pay with a credit card, and save a stamp.  When you sign up by mailing the form and sending a check, the means by which you actually enter the meet is the same as if you did it online.  Years ago, on-site registration was a zoo; not so much anymore between the computerization of the process, expansion of the meet to 3 days, and lower attendance.

 

There aren't any turnstiles to walk through - just rent-a-cops who will wrestle you to the ground if your badge isn't properly displayed.

Agreed, but our local utility companies and gov't agencies do the same thing.

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It costs MORE to register on-line? That's backwards...and ridiculous.

 

Why? It has to cost the Eastern Division more for a member to register on line. They are paying credit card processing fees. And unless they are sending you a PDF of your badge to print out yourself, they have to pay for postage and an envelope to send you your badge.

Agreed.  For anyone not already running a business (such as, I don't know, maybe a magazine business that also sells lots of hobby products on the side as well), processing credit cards certainly isn't free (not that it's free for OGR either, but it's a cost of doing lots of types of sales that gets spread around all product pricing).  Since there is no "product" being sold here other than admission to the meet, EDTCA fairly applies the fees only to recoup from those who wish to go that route.

 

But I have come to  expect no less of a snide comment from Rich based on his previous comments on all things York.  I think he is a reluctant participant.

 

And if there are any "nearly free" methods available to individuals, if the EDTCA was to try that route for York registrations, the volume would quickly take them out of the pool of allowable use for such a service.

 

As Brian said, it's not that much different when you actually consider you don't have to use 2 stamps, write the check/MO, use 2 envelopes, go to a mailbox, PO, etc.

 

Eddie

Most of these York gripe fest threads are. Ridiculous.



       

It is so much easier now that you can register onsite for the upcoming show.  I pay and the tickets come in the mail.  No worries, no late fees, just simple.

 

Do it at York and forget about it.

John, that option is in the meet notice and online.  You do qualify as do I.

I think the initial question and some of the responses are very valid but some of them are nothing but background noise. 

Please explain.

When it's all said and done, you might have payed the fee but you will spent the same amount for a Vision Big Boy.

The first year I went I didn't know I was going until about a week and a half beforehand. So it was too late to register online or by mail, so I registered there. About a half hour into the line I decided I would never do that again, and have registered for every one since online. Even the ones that I had no intention of going to. (I have yet to attend an April York)

 

To me, the $1.50 is money well spent if I don't have to sit in that line again.

 

 

J White

 

Seventy one York shows ago, I also went at the last minute.  I stood in a very long line outside the side door to the Blue hall.  The lady at the table had to look up my name and then make my name tag by hand.  I do not care if online cost more as I am now 36 years older than I was at my first York.  Rich is correct on it being backwards.  I wonder why.

As long as its a good show, it would be worth the extra cash.

I would have to attend several $5, $6, $7, and $8 train shows to equal what I see and experience at York.

I guess I could compare the cost of attending the show to the dollar amount I spend at the show.   $15.00 versus  $ xxxx.xx