Maybe folks were just waiting for the event planner to get up... hopefully we will see a rise in registrations this weekend.

 

Everybody keeps banking on these magical weekends...

The Event Planner has been up for 5 full days including a full weekend, and it didn't help all that much.

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Come on 400!!

 

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Maybe people are put off by the $10 to change if you want to add an event. I know a couple of people who are waiting to register until they are 100% on what events they want to attend.

Maybe some people are considering canceling this year because of the economy... the thought has crossed my mind. (I'm registered though)

 

I have the feeling that we will break 400 by this coming Friday if not sooner.

 

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10 more...


NA na na nanana....

("Noonan....")

 

Just so that everyone is clear. Last year I had over 100 change requests...each taking between 5 and 10 minutes to resolve. Many of them could have been avoided if only a bit of planning had been done before finalizing the order. This year I felt that it was necessary to put something in place to curb the rash of changes. To date I've only had a handful of change requests come in (much better than last year) and of those the only time that I've charged the change fee was for those that were particularly time consuming to change. Its not my intent to be a hardliner on the change fee...I just want people to give some thought to what they want to register for so that we don't have to go back and change things (and introduce errors into the registration process).

Regardless we're only a week away from the general registration deadline. The event planner shows all the events of the weekend. If people are waiting for the schedule to be finalized...it has been for a week now. We need to get registrations in place. Numbers are so low right now that many of the major events and logistics are going to have to be scaled back in some way so that all the coordinators don't end up in the red financially.

In the next few minutes I'll be sending out an PM to all members of the site that have visited in the last few months. My intent is to make them aware of the concerns we have and encourage them to act quickly.

Mark

 

Mark, I just wished I held off on registering until all the information was in. I didn't realize that most of the prizes were going to be won at Monte Carlo night. Oh well, there is always next year

 

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Well I'm a Do-It-Now type guy so I registered as soon as registration was open, but that's me.. I tend to jump right into things.
But in using Marks quote above, there are many people out there that like to plan everything out before committing and give it plenty of
thought in order to avoid making any mistakes, especially when those mistakes can cost them money.
I see the $10 change fee as a double edged sword, on the one side it does deter changes and yet on the other it keeps people from committing too soon.
After all there's nothing to gain by registering early and something to lose if you do need to make any changes.

So don't be surprised if there is a large jump in registration on the last hour of the last day of registration.
Don't get me wrong, I know of at least a handful of MINI owners that are planning on attending without registering, but in most cases
they are unsure of what day and how long they'll be able to be there.

 

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At the very least, these people should register their cars.

Although we are talking about an event on public roads, the event at large is not put together for free, it does cost the event organizers quite a bit of time and money to make all of the arrangements for space, dinners, group rates, rentals, deposits, etc. I find it hard to believe that someone would not be willing to register and donate a few dollars towards the cause.

I even registered my 1 year old daughter...

 

I just don't understand why folks haven't signed up for the minimal basic registration, it's not expensive after all.
I think that it's not generally understood the vast amount of volunteer work that goes into the planning of this event.
Perhaps next year, nothing should be done at all just so folks can get an idea of how much time and effort goes into this.
I can understand not registering if one is just coming for a day, but if one plans to attend the entire 4 days, and not register for least a basic package, well...

 

Hey I'm with you on the whole registration thing...
I can't force those that don't want to register to do so.

I myself am guilty of not registering for past MOTD events, but I did miss out on some of the fun events because of it.
Thats why this year is my first time officially attending as a fully registered member.

 

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We are so close to MOTD 3 numbers....

MOTD 3 - 417
MOTD 4 - 612
MOTD 5 - 804
MOTD 6 - 396

 

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c'mon - somebody register their dogs so we can hit 400!