Should i be entitled to a refund?
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Anonymous
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Signed DD age 4 up for soccer in August for a Fall league that was supposed to start the weekend after Labor. Cost was $60 and included a shirt. Her team was going to be a pre-K/K team. Beginning of Sept we get emails and a phone call saying they need volunteer coaches. No one volunteers so someone in charge says they will coach our team but cant do it every week. They also then inform us via email our team is the only pre-k/K team so they will do drills and scrimmage with each other.
First game was last Sat in Sept and we were away so we missed it. The Saturday after that it was cancelled due to all the rain, we weren't notified though. I sent an email Friday evening and got one back saying yes it was cancelled, but neither I nor my friend got an group email saying it was cancelled. This week we get an email saying that the fill in Coach cant do it this weekend but she can lend one the parents cones and some instructions if one of us can volunteer. I am done at this point. I dont want to volunteer and I wouldnt have signed up knowing there were no other teams in this age range and no coach. I think they should have offered everyone a refund in the begining. On Tues eve this week I sent an email to the fill in Coach/organizer person saying I wanted a full or partial refund. I have not heard back. Thoughts? |
Anonymous
| No you don't get a refund. Volunteer to coach if you want your daughter to play! |
Anonymous
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I think you are being mostly unreasonable.
4 and 5 year olds don't play real games, so scrimmaging and playing with each other is totally appropriate. The first game you missed because of your schedule -- not their fault. The second game was missed because of the weather -- again, not their fault and happens with outdoor sports. So this weekend is the first week that you can plausibly blame them. If that continues, then maybe you have a case, but you don't get a refund because of one weekend. |
Anonymous
| I mean, its frustrating but its $60. Chalk it up to lesson learned. |
Anonymous
OP here, I work every other weekend and DD spends those weekends with Grandparents. So couldnt coach even if I wanted to, which I dont. |
Anonymous
| I don't think you can expect a refund. You joined a volunteer coach league (at that price, you couldn't expect anything else), and it's not the league's fault no one was willing to do it -- you're lucky one of their people was, and should be thanking them for it. It's not their fault at all you decided to skip a game and they can't control the weather, but they still have to pay their fees to whichever jurisdiction they're renting the field from. You're getting exactly what you paid for. |
Anonymous
| The parents need to step up and take turns running the Saturday "games." |
Anonymous
NP. It sounds like you should not have signed your DD up, given these constraints. That's your mistake, not the league's mistake. |
Anonymous
| So much refund do you want at this point? $17.53 or so? Really OP? |
Anonymous
| Was there supposed to be a coach? What is the league? I'm confused. |
Anonymous
Would your daughter just go to games every other weekend, with the grandparents? |
Anonymous
No she would go every week. On the weeks I am off I would take her, and the weekends I work her Grandparents would take her. I get that you all think I shouldnt get a refund, I am coming to terms with that based on all of you agreeing........However, If you sign your kid up for an activity and pay for it, why should it be assumed you will then coach? I know this is kind of a separate issue but I don't get that part of it. |
Anonymous
Yes there was supposed to be a coach. We did it with the same league in the Spring and there was a Coach. It was a little disorganized but not too bad. This fall just seems very disorganized. |
Anonymous
I think this is an issue where you have to chalk it up to ignorance due to your inexperience. When you get to these sports leagues, it's all parent volunteer coaches, which is why you only had to pay $60 for the season rather than $160+. Whether that information was readily available for your league (i.e., was it something you should have known if you'd learned about the program at all before signing up vs. could it be published a bit more clearly for people who don't have any experience with kids sports leagues) isn't something we can tell you since you haven't told us which league it is. |
Anonymous
Are you sure it was a coach from within the organization, and not a parent coach who volunteered when they registered so they didn't need to request one? Also, did you move up to a different level this fall (e.g., from tot soccer to rec)? Things will run differently at different levels. |