If you'd topped up it's your money and I'd expect to get it back.
What would you expect to happen.....
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IanM
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I'd expect to get it back in "goods" if not cash ....esp if it was a top-up.
Especially as you're a good customer who takes groups of folk there most years.
Especially as you're a good customer who takes groups of folk there most years.
fenwayrich
Assistant Pro
I look at the card in the same way as a solicitor's Client Account, effectively it's my money that the club is holding on my behalf. However, if some of it is a bar levy, then that's part of my membership fee, and if I don't use it I lose it (or return to drink/eat it). We have competition winnings paid onto our card for use in the Pro Shop or the bar. If I left the club, as an amateur I couldn't have the money, but would be entitled to goods in lieu. If it's money I put on the card, to top it up, then I am perfectly entitled to get it back.
spongebob59
Journeyman Pro
That's a good.point,.when I left Canterbury I transferred bar credit to the pro.shop account and spent it there. Expensive but better than nothing
adasko
Assistant Pro
When I left my last club I've asked admin to transfer whatever left on my card to my friend account.
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
Rather than lose it can you not transfer the balance to another member? When a mate left my old club they allowed him to transfer his balance to my account.
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Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Have heard back from the club.
I've got a month to use it, either in the bar or the restaurant.
So a Sunday lunch for two with a bottle of vino is on the cards.
Thanks for all your responses guys
I've got a month to use it, either in the bar or the restaurant.
So a Sunday lunch for two with a bottle of vino is on the cards.
Thanks for all your responses guys
Jigger
Club Champion
leave in style by going in and get smashed.
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
The other alternative is to stay at the club as a "social" member. No golf, but able to use the clubhouse facilities and attend social functions. That way, my club card balance would roll over into my new membership category and I wouldn't lose it.
Seems a sensible idea as the wife and I did attend the odd evening shindig, and Sunday lunch is quite tasty.
Seems a sensible idea as the wife and I did attend the odd evening shindig, and Sunday lunch is quite tasty.
When I joined a previous club there was a mandatory £50 debenture added to membership fees for the first three years. It was levied to support the club financially with “sundry expenses”. Nowhere in any written document did it explicitly set out that it was non-refundable, but the implication was that was the case.
When I left, largely because of the appalling way the then committee and club secretary belittled or ignored members’ concerns, I requested a refund. Initially the club refused, but when I asked them to point me in the direction of anything which advised members that the debentures were non-refundable, and they failed to do so, my money was returned.
When I left, largely because of the appalling way the then committee and club secretary belittled or ignored members’ concerns, I requested a refund. Initially the club refused, but when I asked them to point me in the direction of anything which advised members that the debentures were non-refundable, and they failed to do so, my money was returned.
Troymcclure
Medal Winner
If there’s any chance you might consider re joining in the future there might be another advantage to Social Membership. A few left ours and came back. Social Membership meant no Joining Fee and, I think they were fast tracked through the waiting list, maybe unofficially.
Having said that I’d be cross that a refund isn’t an option for top ups!!
JayB
Newbie
I'd push for a refund, it's not their money and I don't believe they have the right to keep it.
Being forced to spend it at the club isn't acceptable.
