pete.young Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 If this venue is run by Harrow Council, I can absolutely see why they are trying to think of every way possible to raise some more revenue, caught as they are between the rock of increasing costs for everything and the hard place of central government reductions in budgets and demands for savings. Would probably have been simpler to just put their charges up by 10% but hey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 44 minutes ago, pete.young said: Would probably have been simpler to just put their charges up by 10% but hey. Can't be seen to be the villans. Unlucky for them that their underhand tactic would seem to be biting them in the donkey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zbd1960 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 As someone noted earlier, it's the kind of nonsense that gets dreamt up by MBA types - all theory and no real world experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilorius Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 (edited) $hit happens. Edited July 13, 2022 by nilorius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 2 hours ago, zbd1960 said: As someone noted earlier, it's the kind of nonsense that gets dreamt up by MBA types - all theory and no real world experience Defo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Interesting to see that Google is hiding reviews… to go along side the venue removing the Facebook ones. Censorship and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 6 minutes ago, EBS_freak said: Interesting to see that Google is hiding reviews… to go along side the venue removing the Facebook ones. Are they? They seem pretty damning when i look at them. Their current rating is 2 stars, are you looking at the right Great Barn, there are a lot of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 They've hidden most of the ones from earlier. The only negative reviews you see now are ones left in the last few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 (edited) 21 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: Are they? They seem pretty damning when i look at them. Their current rating is 2 stars, are you looking at the right Great Barn, there are a lot of them! Yes. There was about a hundred… edit - 150ish Edited July 13, 2022 by EBS_freak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Well, it actually makes sense that they remove them as although you could call it censorship, they are not actually reviews of the venue, they are people complaining about this post. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonesy Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 The volume of reviews could be the issue here rather than Google purposely hiding them. Their algorithms will remove anything they think is spam, so a business getting 150 odd reviews in the last few hours is getting logged as suspicious and probably banked for review to make sure they're legit. They might come back. I thought some of the reviews were harsh though tbf. It's a crappy thing that they've done, but some of the reviews were written by people saying they were just going to go for a look at the venue and they've cancelled because they found out about the charge. They hadn't actually used the barn, but reviewed it anyway. It'd be a bit like giving a bass a bad review because of an issue you heard about, without actually playing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downunderwonder Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 6 hours ago, Thump said: How does something like that even happen? who could possibly have thought that is a good idea?!? This happens in many industries. The venue knows they are in the position to deny access to vendors. A tame captive crew is ripe for taxation. On the other hand the vendor is free to add to his quote for a taxing venue. The venue has to be extra good to make up for the inflated prices being charged. The venue banks on them being the best so the best vendors are happy to charge a bit more or eat the tax on their significant fee to get in. If neither is true they wind up with 2nd or 3rd tier vendors and their own status falls. This naturally favours monopoly venues such as stadiums, airports, destinations, and the big in demand function venues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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