Withdraw Acceptance of Offer

[Anonymous]

Anyone have experience with accepting an offer and making the first installment payment but then wanting to change your mind… I know the deposit is lost but how do you stop any additional payments. With these new systems they do seem to let you turn off autoplay.

[Anonymous]

Legally you can turn off autopay at any time, so if the club won’t stop, call you bank. But do tell the coach. We are seeing girls with 3 offers pay for two and not communicate. It’s a bad look.

[Anonymous]

I would only expect money back if I had a good reason for backing out. This past season DS joined a team that misrepresented everything. I complained and gave very specific examples of issues and was given a refund of the year’s fees minus the deposit and his card was released. That’s pretty rare. It’s a real risk to place the deposit if you are unsure. Better to ask for more time to decide.

[Anonymous]

lol, no. Read the contracts you are signing when you put down your deposit and accept the offer, you are committing to paying for the year. Also, take a look at MSYSA Player Rights and Obligations (if you live in MD): https://share.google/hcgUBNoguSTiLtFVq

And I bet that Virginia has something similar

If you try to leave without paying the full year, the club can hold your card hostage if you owe them money

[Anonymous]

Yep. My philosophy is clubs have no problem screwing over kids in general. So you so whats best for your kid.

[Anonymous]

Club sent a deposit request with no contract

[Anonymous]

I suggest reading the waivers you are signing when you make the deposit, which commits you to the team/club for the year

[Anonymous]

To get around the autopay situation if they won't stop the payments for you - change your credit card on file to a VISA gift card number with a low balance and then just don't update your payment method when the gift card runs out.

It might piss them off but at least they won't be taking a couple hundred from you each month for nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would only expect money back if I had a good reason for backing out. This past season DS joined a team that misrepresented everything. I complained and gave very specific examples of issues and was given a refund of the year’s fees minus the deposit and his card was released. That’s pretty rare. It’s a real risk to place the deposit if you are unsure. Better to ask for more time to decide.

At what point in the season did you complain and ask for your money and his player card back? Currently having some anxiety over the fact that my child accepted an early offer while still in the process with another club. It felt risky to turn it down without another one in hand. But ended up getting an offer from the other club and now it’s hard not to think “what if“.

Was your son able to find a good spot after leaving the other club? I’m worried that my child will be stuck in a bad situation if things aren’t as advertised. It would be a lot easier to just embrace the decision if this other really good option hadn’t materialized shortly afterward.

[Anonymous]

Clubs will almost always release you during the season preceding the season you were accepted for, keeping what they have received up to the date of your withdrawal. They may be more aggressive once the new season starts. But they will never sue for breach of contract on a single player.

This post is put up every year around this time.

[Anonymous]

I just did this. We had every intention of moving over but our circumstances changed. We let the club know and they took care of it for us. We didn’t get our deposit back, but that was expected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just did this. We had every intention of moving over but our circumstances changed. We let the club know and they took care of it for us. We didn’t get our deposit back, but that was expected.

PP here. Change in circumstances sounds more legit than what we are feeling, which is just “what if the other option is better”. The offers are for equivalent levels, we just know more about the environment at one than the other so kind of freaking out that my child will get there and be unhappy. Which could also happen with the other option because it’s not like we know everything. I don’t know, I think this whole stupid process is getting to me because we have been burned with decision making before and now afraid it will happen again. Is it the offseason yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would only expect money back if I had a good reason for backing out. This past season DS joined a team that misrepresented everything. I complained and gave very specific examples of issues and was given a refund of the year’s fees minus the deposit and his card was released. That’s pretty rare. It’s a real risk to place the deposit if you are unsure. Better to ask for more time to decide.

At what point in the season did you complain and ask for your money and his player card back? Currently having some anxiety over the fact that my child accepted an early offer while still in the process with another club. It felt risky to turn it down without another one in hand. But ended up getting an offer from the other club and now it’s hard not to think “what if“.

Was your son able to find a good spot after leaving the other club? I’m worried that my child will be stuck in a bad situation if things aren’t as advertised. It would be a lot easier to just embrace the decision if this other really good option hadn’t materialized shortly afterward.

The season had started. I believe it started Aug 1 and we notified around Labor Day. They dragged their feet so long with releasing the card that he lost the fall season. At least we didn’t lose the money.

[Anonymous]

You'll be fine. We did this with our daughter last year and they gave us back our deposit.. even tho didnt ask.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone done this with SYC? They are telling me I will have to forfeit money for the whole year.

Seems illegal. The deposit I get, but the whole next year too? How can they hold a players card for a year that has not even started yet.