Dear ALL MALTA FISHING FORUM members.
I have finally managed to get the rate for the MALTA FISHINGFORUM MEMBERS.
1/2 price to all entering the VALLETTA BOAT SHOW showing the MALTA FISHING FORUM membership card!
See you there...
Thanks
MECCA MARINE
I have yesterday been to the boatshow.
I shown my card but she stood with her mouth open, so i insisted and she charged me only 2 euro.
Discount my ASS. I was there yesterday, at the entrance, I showed my card to the ticketing lady, who just stared at it!!!. She knew nothing about a discounted entrance for members of the Malta Fishing Forum. Actually her exact words were...NO, there is no discount, who are you, discount only for people with invitation....I was utterly DISGUSTED. No use arguing, there was alot of people around, and I'm not used to begging!. I suggest (actually I insist) that in the future Meccanic, before you come onto this site and raise members expectations (although you're used to that too from what I hear and see....) with alot of BS, get your facts right.
UTTERLY DISGUSTED
LOL ...... was expecting this.......... & thus i did not bother
I assume a lame excuse will follow shortly.......
ohhhhhhhhhh so she just let me in by mistake..or maybe since that I insisted.
She charged me as a senior citizen.
I understand your feeling gaffer.
I was actually thinking about the same thing Robby. Your name came to mind (in a positive way) when I was posting my disgust at being humiliated in front of a lot of people. Of course, this will be my last time attending the Cospicua Boat Show. Never again.
i contacted the administration of the show but the person i talked to did not know anything about the discount to mff.the tel. no. is 2131 6326
Thank god I did not even bother to take my card with me! Such an unprofessional act!
something that has anything to do with hsbc bank BEWARE!!!!!
Jin hsibt li ha jati half price fuq id dghajjes tal mecca ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
niftakkar advert tajjeb fuq il maltapark............. mal ***** ghal gol hajt
HEHEHEHE same story same person guys e!!!!!! I think all the people know now about his BS on this forum.................
What I cant understand is why bother with this boat show its GARBAGE.....best way to describe it. I was utterly disappointed last year and I promised that I will not attend another one again. Its true I used to go as an excuse to meet friends like tal-Kaptan etc and see whats on the market but last year the boat show was so poor with an exorbitant entrance fee and high priced cold coffee that put me completely off........so before I see a poster with all the participants to know that there is a decent show I will not bother. Just advertising that there is a boat show is not enough.
QuoteThe Gaffer:
Discount my ASS. I was there yesterday, at the entrance, I showed my card to the ticketing lady, who just stared at it!!!. She knew nothing about a discounted entrance for members of the Malta Fishing Forum. Actually her exact words were...NO, there is no discount, who are you, discount only for people with invitation....I was utterly DISGUSTED. No use arguing, there was alot of people around, and I'm not used to begging!. I suggest (actually I insist) that in the future Meccanic, before you come onto this site and raise members expectations (although you're used to that too from what I hear and see....) with alot of BS, get your facts right.
UTTERLY DISGUSTED
Many thanks for nice write up: i really appreciate your views but before your write some comments such as these, check the things right! BOAT SHOW ORGANISER: CHRISTINE 99426747 and owner of NETWORK PUBLICATIONS: Mr John Formosa all confirmed the half price entry ticket with MALTAFISHING Membership card. I put up the post only when all confirmations were in hand - the post was correct and we work alot to see more people at the Boat Show. Did any other importer try to help you get in free or half price? MECCA was only one of the over 50 exhibitors! Bil-malta - mis suba tiehdu l-id! u dak il-grazzi li niehdu.
It is very easy to sit on your chair and write melicious comments about all the service providers - yet our work attitude is so much different.
KAPTAN JNR: is-sena l-ohra ha sehem missierek u hadt gost hafna nara li saqqaf wiccu ghal -MALTAFISHINGFORUM biex jidhlu b'nofs prezz!
Missieri mghandux ghalfejn joqghod jitkarrab lin nies biex jidhlu b'nofs prezz biex jigu fuq l stand tijaw habib!!!!
@ mecannic: If what u say is right Meccanic then the fault is with the Boat show organiser and owner of Network publications that is Christine and John respectively. If they are half decent and professional they would write a few lines in your favour and apologies for their mistake.
Its no use arguing with the gaffer or pointing at Kaptan Jr, they are expressing what they felt by being rejected at the door and believe me the feeling is NOT NICE.
Your arguments should be with the ones who let you down that is Christine and John. As long as that does not happen then its only natural that your claim (since it did not materialise) of getting a half price to MFF members remains as expressed.
Kaptan - hawn mhux nitkellmu b'mod personali. Din hija realta li 5 euro hija gholja wisq dan kollu biex tidhol tara Boat Show. Ahna hdimna halli l-organizzatri jrahsu din il-mezata. Ghal MALTA FISHING FORUM ahna ilhaqna kompromess ta nofs prezz. Issa jekk huma din ma irrispettawiex mhix tort taghna. Huma waqaw ghac cajt ghax hafna nies ma dahlux!
Il-MECCA MARINE qed jaghmlu dak kollu possibli biex in Namur tal-daghjjes ikun milhuq minn kulhadd u bi prezzjiet ragonevoli. Ghalhekk nahdmu bis-shih biex inkunu cost effectiv, inwaqqaw l-ispejjez imma naghtu ghazla kbira ta prodotti bi prezz li jilhaqghom kulhadd.
Exactly Shanook.
I agree totally with what you are saying. Yet the messages above are melicious against MECCA MARINE and hint nasty things. We are all doing all possible to work in honesty and maintain the lowest possible prices. Our direct clients know this and in a small market like Malta work is not easy at all. In all scenarious we are also offering the largest range under 1 roof. We have NOTHING to do with the Boat Show organiosation!
We only pay hasty fees to be present and offer our products. If people do not go in the fair because of the expensive entrance Fees, it would be so pointless to set up stand at the first place.
This topic has been sent to Christine @ Network Publications as the Events Manager for the Boat Show.
Representing over 1,700 members and approx 6,000 visitors to the site per month, I feel that Network Publications needs to clarify this issue either with a formal response to me via email or posting directly on the forum.
Certainly given the currently feeling, if they do not comment they can expect to lose a large percentage of our 1,700 members who will probably not return to the show, myself included.
well said!
Well done nick :)
Quote from: Meccanic on September 28, 2010, 07:29:35 CET
QuoteThe Gaffer:
Discount my ASS. I was there yesterday, at the entrance, I showed my card to the ticketing lady, who just stared at it!!!. She knew nothing about a discounted entrance for members of the Malta Fishing Forum. Actually her exact words were...NO, there is no discount, who are you, discount only for people with invitation....I was utterly DISGUSTED. No use arguing, there was alot of people around, and I'm not used to begging!. I suggest (actually I insist) that in the future Meccanic, before you come onto this site and raise members expectations (although you're used to that too from what I hear and see....) with alot of BS, get your facts right.
UTTERLY DISGUSTED
Many thanks for nice write up: i really appreciate your views but before your write some comments such as these, check the things right! BOAT SHOW ORGANISER: CHRISTINE 99426747 and owner of NETWORK PUBLICATIONS: Mr John Formosa all confirmed the half price entry ticket with MALTAFISHING Membership card. I put up the post only when all confirmations were in hand - the post was correct and we work alot to see more people at the Boat Show. Did any other importer try to help you get in free or half price? MECCA was only one of the over 50 exhibitors! Bil-malta - mis suba tiehdu l-id! u dak il-grazzi li niehdu.
It is very easy to sit on your chair and write melicious comments about all the service providers - yet our work attitude is so much different.
KAPTAN JNR: is-sena l-ohra ha sehem missierek u hadt gost hafna nara li saqqaf wiccu ghal -MALTAFISHINGFORUM biex jidhlu b'nofs prezz!
Check the things right!!!????....you must be joking mate. I was there. I was the one who was humiliated and disgusted by the way I was treated at the front gate. Unlike you, I don't sit on my chair (God, whoever taught you to write english must be very proud of you!!)...I visited the boatshow together with my wife and child, and me bragging about how Mecca marine are so proactive and getting us members discount entrance fees. Only to be looked at by a bewildered gate attendant as if I was a fart in a space suit!!!....You should see things through!!, if there was an agreement, then you damn well make sure that the agreement is in place, and fuctioning, before you come on this site and write the gibberish you are now so accustomed to writing. If what you say is correct, then the comms line broke down after you had reached an agreement with the organisers. Mis seba niehu l-id.[my answer to that is simple mate]..jien la qatt gejt bzonnok, u miniex bi hsiebi nigi bzonnok!!.
Read again, these are not malicious comments...I am stating facts...you wrote with all the regalia here that you managed to get a discounted entry fee for the forum members...and NONE of us, I repeat, none of us here got the discount...only Baghira, and that was after he argued with the lady!!!....
SO MECCANIC< YOU SHOULD GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT BEFORE POSTING....blehhh...why do I even bother! :-\ :-\
As things are turning out, the best thing to do in my opinion is to wait for the answer by the organisers to skips request. All we have to do is wait and see.
In all fairness Nichol u could have been more proactive when these people let u down and requested a clarification. They slurred your reputation and the irony of it all is that you actually paid them for this?!?!?!?!?!
Baghira is a very lucky boy!!?? Man:-)
Just to ease a bit the tension created......... :P
Baghira can be a very persuasive person to get a good deal. :D :D :D
Quote from: baghira on September 27, 2010, 10:36:48 CET
ohhhhhhhhhh so she just let me in by mistake..or maybe since that I insisted.
She charged me as a senior citizen.
I understand your feeling gaffer.
Or probably she said "Oh my what a good lookin' guy" - x'tahseb Salv :)
Envy ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
well said one like luqa monument
No discount for me either. I still have some hair and its not white yet :)
But the boat show was crap actually. It was more intended for the multi millionaires than for us poor sport fishermen.
I went only one in my life and saw that there are lots of boats not for our needs, so decided not to go anymore. We all know the best boats/service, so like others I think when I go, I go strait to my needs. I don t know as in these shows they give some kind of discount, but personally I like more see the boats in action, then seeing them under a search light.
Another thing is this forum, lot of members ask me for information regards spearfishing and I do the same when I need something or a service from someone. So why have to go there and get an advice from a sales person!
QuoteWe are all doing all possible to work in honesty and maintain the lowest possible prices.
lol........ good joke............
Lest we forget:
Once bitten, twice shy
http://maltafishingforum.com/talk/index.php/topic,2637.0.html
REPLY FROM BOAT SHOW ORGANISERS:
From: Christine Borg [mailto:christine@networkpublications.com.mt]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:59 PM
To: nichol@mecca.com.mt
Subject:
Good Afternoon Nichol,
I am sending this e mail to confirm that before the Boat Show opened I agreed with you over the phone that we would charge the members of The Fishing Forum a discounted entrance fee of 50%, as requested by you, if they were to show their membership card at the door. I am extremely sorry for any inconvenience caused if this wasn't carried out...I myself was at the show at all times and NOBODY brought it to my attention, otherwise I would have intervened immediately.
As a sign of my deepest regret, I would like you (Nichol) to take it in hand that next year we will offer all these members a complimentary ticket to the show.
Apologies once again,
Christine Borg
Events Manager
Angelica Court
2nd Floor
Giuseppe Cali Str.
Ta' Xbiex XBX 1425
T: (+356) 21 316 326 / 7 / 8
F: (+356) 21 323 432
M:(+356) 9942 6747
Nichol, thank you for following this up and persisting with contacting Christine to get an explanation. I have also seen her reply as we were cc'd in her reply to you. It's a shame that her staff at the entrance did not check with her, but it's something for us to all bear in mind in the future. If problems are encountered we could have asked for them to contact Christine.
I will not be taking her up on her offer of complimentary tickets Either the staff employed were not briefed, or they disregarded her instructions. Either way, the agreement was between Meccanic and Christine over the phone, and both should have followed up to see that what was agreed to was infact taking place. There were 3 members, I REPEAT 3 members of staff present at the Cospicua gate when I showed them my MFF card. None of them knew about the agreement.
Also, Baghira posted here on the 24th Sept that he had problems. No account of this incident was relayed back to either the organisers or Meccanic?.
To me this was just a half hearted attempt to entrice MFF members to visit the boatshow, then when you get to the gate, nobody knows you. Immagine you Nichol, turning up for a function after recieving an invitation, only to be turned back at the entrance because nobody knew of your invitation!...well, thats how I felt!
likewise........ my dignity is worth more than 2.50....... either get it right the first time or else screw it.... just couldn't be bothered anymore.
I appreciate that those that went felt humiliated/embarassed infront of people queuing behind them, and it would have been ideal if they got it right on the day.
Bottom line is that those who want to go next year, should be able to get free tickets - I'm sure more details will be posted.
This topic has achieved it's objective - highlighting the problem and discontent at what happened, an official response back from the organisers, and a way forward for those who are interested next.
As such - Topic Closed!