If you participate in motorsports, you likely have passed through the MotorsportReg web portal. It has simply become the go-to site for motorsports event registration: autocross, road racing, events even hosted by Grassroots Motorsports.
Earlier this year, Hagerty sold MotorsportReg to Parella Motorsports Holdings, already owner of several motorsports properties including the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association and the Trans Am …
Want my support? Get rid of the $2 fee.
It's especially annoying when you are signing up for a charity dinner (TT Nats) and they add $2 to a $15 donation. And that event was designated as a charity within their system.
Greed is not good.
A life of observation and direct experience has taught me to be skeptical of corporatespeak statements like this:
"First and foremost, I want to reassure you that MotorsportReg’s core principles will remain unchanged...."
I'll hope for the best, but ....
Andy Hollis said:Want my support? Get rid of the $2 fee.
I wholeheartedly agree. Tacking on unadvertised $2 fees at the end smacks too much of TicketMaster's behaviour.
If they want/need more revenue, the right way to do it is to raise the rates charged to the track day providers so that they can build it into the overall event cost in a consistent fashion.
In reply to Coniglio Rampante :
As someone who deals with this professionally it also gives me pause.
Time will tell.
I feel like Hagerty just bought MSReg like 10 minutes ago...
" I am also proud to share that the entire MotorsportReg team that you’ve come to know and trust over the years has been retained as part of the acquisition." If that's true, that's exceedingly rare and a very good sign.
In a former life I dealt a lot with mid-size tech CEOs and watched them buy and sell their companies. I like that Tony has a track record in the technology space and seems very focused on company culture and leadership. I'm not delighted to see that he has venture capital backing, but we'll see what he does with it.
The team staying is always a good sign, but we'll see how long it lasts.
The man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Parella
A book he published previously: https://www.amazon.com/Fractured-Fortune-Tony-Parella/dp/0615222102
codrus (Forum Supporter) said:Andy Hollis said:Want my support? Get rid of the $2 fee.
I wholeheartedly agree. Tacking on unadvertised $2 fees at the end smacks too much of TicketMaster's behaviour.
If they want/need more revenue, the right way to do it is to raise the rates charged to the track day providers so that they can build it into the overall event cost in a consistent fashion.
I mostly agree, I want to see it in the top line price, but I also want it broken out. That way if they decide to tack on $40 you don't go blame your organizer. You can see where the culprit is.
In reply to pinchvalve (Forum Supporter) :
Except that Brian Ghidinelli retired.
As someone who has had to admin MSR for almost seven years, I just hope they invest in backend development and ux.
Andy Hollis said:Want my support? Get rid of the $2 fee.
Greed is not good.
Why is it automatically greed?
In the face of rising costs, MSR had basically two options:
With Option 1, it is clear to the customer where it is coming from and why.
With Option 2, as an organizer, eating it really isn't viable. I already need at least 75% participation in my events just to break even. So now I have to decide whether to raise my rates by the same amount, or round up to the nearest $5 to simplify accounting and on-site payment. Plus, if they adjust their service fee in the future, do I have to adjust my rate to match every time they do?
It's just better and cleaner from an organizer's perspective to make MSR's service fee completely independent of my transaction.
[edit] When the fees hit the streets (last year?) I had one or two customers complain and try to get us to switch services because of it. But 99% of the people didn't care, and the fact remains that we as a club wouldn't get anywhere near the exposure we do if we went somehwere else, and it would be much harder for new folks to find us.
JVB said:As someone who has had to admin MSR for almost seven years, I just hope they invest in backend development and ux.
This I can agree with.
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