£2 Counter transaction charge.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

That's modern footba££ for you folks

[PeterWithesShin]

What bothers me is I haven't seen anything about any other club doing it.

[bertlambshank]

It's a pretty shit way of making money.After a good summer from the board this is one step back.

[mr-villa]

The club are doing this to avoid having to reduce the transaction fee they are allowed to charge under these regs.  If they did not introduce the £2 fee for cash transactions they would have to reduce the fee on card payments to just what they the club are charged by the clients bank or credit card company for completing that transaction with that particular card.  I believe the current charge for a debit card payment is around 50 pence per transaction and for a credit card it is about 2.5% of the transaction value.

So others are correct, the club are doing this to avoid having to reduce card transaction charges to their supporters in order to comply with the regulations.  Quite simply this stinks.  What the club are saying in effect is thanks UK Government for providing us with the means of ripping off fans even more that we already do.  They could have chosen to lower card transaction fees to meet the regulatory requirements but chose not to, very sad indeed hang your head in shame Mr Faulkner not your proudest moment as AVFC's CEO.

[richardhubbard]

The club are doing this to avoid having to reduce the transaction fee they are allowed to charge under these regs.  If they did not introduce the £2 fee for cash transactions they would have to reduce the fee on card payments to just what they the club are charged by the clients bank or credit card company for completing that transaction with that particular card.  I believe the current charge for a debit card payment is around 50 pence per transaction and for a credit card it is about 2.5% of the transaction value.


Above utter bollocks, next don't charge you £2 or nore do any other business

So others are correct, the club are doing this to avoid having to reduce card transaction charges to their supporters in order to comply with the regulations.  Quite simply this stinks.  What the club are saying in effect is thanks UK Government for providing us with the means of ripping off fans even more that we already do.  They could have chosen to lower card transaction fees to meet the regulatory requirements but chose not to, very sad indeed hang your head in shame Mr Faulkner not your proudest moment as AVFC's CEO.

[olaftab]

Above is not utter bollox however it is correct that "retailers" don't charge as their margins are inclusive of card charges imposed by card companies. Ticket agencies etc have been charging excessive amount of "transaction fees" so the Government has introduced legislation to curb that but it has  had exactly the opposite effect for us. Like many "opportunistic and sly" businesses, surprisingly,  Villa have decided to get round the legislation by charging a flat fee for all transactions. A dreadful move.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Report Aston Villa to relevant authority to get rid of it. Office of unfair trading or something.

[andyh]

Easy fix...any cash transaction has a £2 discount. The club then offsets this by charging a 'transaction fee'.
No doubt that would be classed as flouting the regulations.

[Titus Aduxus]

By Mr Faulkner's logic all the tickets should have Wages Fee of £2000 to cover the players sallarys.

[mjlions]

although I voted No I would be interested what percentage of transactions are made in cash these days perhaps its so small they decided  they wouldn't actually upset too many people

[JUAN PABLO]

complete rip off like everything else.

The bank charge me 18 p for each transaction when a customer uses a debit card .

I would imagine it would be probably about 5p for AVFC for every transaction.

[richardhubbard]

Correct this fee is no more than profit making, card fees generally 1.25 per cent of transaction costs

[Jeff Green]

You have to accept that the club is the screwer and the fan is the screwee.

Charging fifty quid for a shirt knocked up by a kid in the Far East for 50p is a greater disgrace and a bigger rip-off.

At least these days with the FFP regulations every rip-off now carries the consolation of doing the club some good.

[not3bad]

Annoying.  Villa are known as a club that charge reasonable prices by premier league standards but there's this hidden charge to put on top.  I reckon a fuss should be kicked up.

[Chipsticks]

It's a bit annoying, but honestly not worth getting to wound up over.