Game Fees
KICKABOUT is paid for by players every Session, with current fees per session running at just £3.50 for the postal and premier leagues, with the e-mail leagues running at £3.25 per session. This fee is irrespective of how many games you play in that session as we unlike other soccer PBM’s, can see no reason for penalising players who achieve success and hence have to play more games. On top of this basic cost, there is a start-up fee to pay upon joining the game, which is currently £10.00, for which you get your rulebook, back newsletters, team-sheets and first two sessions. For brand new managers, you may be asked to credit your account with enough money to cover the first FOUR sessions (£14/13.00), as we tend to prefer keeping idle browsers and rulebook collectors at bay. You are in no way losing out with this, as you will still get the sessions you would have to pay for anyway, but it stops the casual players dropping in and out of the game on every other session, and upsetting the flow and feel of league as a result. If you have email though you can get this and your first turn for free. In KICKABOUT, Managers who drop out (or are sacked), are replaced as soon as possible, normally on the same session. Unlike many of our competitors, we cannot see the point in playing computer-run teams we much prefer having real people as Managers running our teams!
A full-season of KICKABOUT, covering sixteen sessions in all (and including your pre-season Session start-up fee), costs £59.50 for the postal and premier leagues; whilst the e-mail leagues all season costs just £55.25. Please note that this payment is non-refundable, as you have reserved your position in the league for the whole season, and if you choose to drop out, then you forfeit your right to any recovery of that money. Our side of the agreement is that we will supply a whole season of KICKABOUT for your payment, which we will always meet. If you choose not to play it, then it is you that is breaking the agreement, not us. And, as a final note, if you submit orders when your account is overdrawn, or does not have enough money in it to cover the current session (i.e. less than £3.50 for postal and premier leagues and £3.25 for the e-mail leagues), you will be charged a double turn fee. This is done to discourage those players who seem to think we are a bank, not a business, and constantly play accounts which are overdrawn. The phrase which sums up our position is
`You must pay to play’
Ignore this, and you will find yourself pushed further into debt. If, after this, you submit a second set of orders without credit, you will be sacked as manager of the team, and your position given to someone else. Try to remember that we are a business, not a hobby; I do have a family to feed after all. If you advise a friend to join KICKABOUT, and he tells us that you did so on his start-up turn, we will credit your account with one session’s turn fees as a thank-you. However, please explain to your friends that they must send in their start-up fee if they wish to play KICKABOUT, as just submitting their name and address will get them nothing at all.
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