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A guy is advertising this and I think it's a scam, I wasn't aware of any tour to Melwood, only the academy. And where are the tickets coming from?

 

Hi guys,

 

I have an update for the tour. The one in April will consist of 10 nights split between London and Liverpool, sightseeing in both. All airfares, coach travel, accomodation, breakfast and tours included. Tours will cover The London Eye, Wembley Stadium, The Ultimate Liverpool Experience at Melwood incl lunch, VIP Lunch and seats and meet and greet with Liverpool Legends at Liverpool V Manchester City at Anfield, Beatles Tour in Liverpool, Windsor Castle, Roman Baths and Stonehenge.

 

With this type of Tour with all inclusions you'd usually be looking at around $8000, but thanks to our contacts in the UK we can offer it at the special rate of $6800 including all of the above. Given the limited availability for this game and Melwood training experience we would need to know final numbers ASAP. We need a minimum of 15 people for the Tour to go ahead. It truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity as future tours may be full premier league tours rather than a specific Liverpool experience. The next Tour is likely to run in mid to late September. This is likely to cost a little more and run for longer than 10 nights.

 

If you or anyone you know is interested please feel free to comment below and I will private message you further information.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Michael Taipi,

 

EPL Tour Consultant (Australia)

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as per other thread, if you are thinking of going on trip best be careful with City game likely to be rearranged which may not coincide with trip dates

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  On 18/02/2014 at 11:03, cymrococh said:

This is the closest thing I know of.

 

I did it many years ago, and it did include match tickets for the next day at that time.

 

The guy has now come on and apologised to everyone and linked to that as well, saying he was told duff info! I don't trust him as he was adamant about it being Melwood and he had done it!!!

 

  On 18/02/2014 at 11:09, baz2107 said:

as per other thread, if you are thinking of going on trip best be careful with City game likely to be rearranged which may not coincide with trip dates

 

Interestingly, i had someone email me and had flights and tickets (from Europe) to a game, and now his plans have changed, he said he would like to go to the Newcastle game if LFC could swap the tickets.

 

Apparently lots of overseas people are suddenly having their plans changed and can only get to the Newcastle game now. The club told me that!

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  On 18/02/2014 at 13:55, johngibo YPC said:

If only we had some sort of supports committee connected to the club that could find out these sorts of things...

 

Ha ha....(wanna insert some sort of smiley clappy thumbs up for the irony thing..but can't on the phone !)

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  johngibo YPC said:
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If only we had some sort of supports committee connected to the club that could find out these sorts of things...

 

When I get the definitive response from the club I will post, so far they haven't replied mad.gif

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  On 18/02/2014 at 20:24, downunder said:

When I get the definitive response from the club I will post, so far they haven't replied mad.gif

 

They're probably too busy sorting out the wine order for the lounges.

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Serious question - is it appropriate for a fans representative to use his position for what might be considered his own personal gain?

 

For example, to take time on a trip paid for by the club to peddle his own wine (or his mates) round the Lounge before/after a game, supplying them with free samples etc.?

 

p.s. not looking to cause offence, it's been a question that has been on my mind for a few days.

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:19, RP said:

Serious question - is it appropriate for a fans representative to use his position for what might be considered his own personal gain?

 

For example, to take time on a trip paid for by the club to peddle his own wine (or his mates) round the Lounge before/after a game, supplying them with free samples etc.?

 

p.s. not looking to cause offence, it's been a question that has been on my mind for a few days.

 

...go on..... :popcorn:

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:39, Falconhoof said:

Is he actually marketing his mates wine while the club pays for his visit ? I thought that was a joke.

Where's this from?

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:19, RP said:

Serious question - is it appropriate for a fans representative to use his position for what might be considered his own personal gain?

 

For example, to take time on a trip paid for by the club to peddle his own wine (or his mates) round the Lounge before/after a game, supplying them with free samples etc.?

 

p.s. not looking to cause offence, it's been a question that has been on my mind for a few days.

 

No gain for me what so ever.

 

And he is not a 'mate'. The winery offers our supporters clubs in Aus a discount on the wine. Their sales people are trying to to get LFC to use their wine. And i passed on the wine with to try, which is the way these things happen.

 

I take no offence.

 

 

  On 19/02/2014 at 09:41, cymrococh said:

Where's this from?

 

I met with the supporters club rep 2 days before my committee meetings on unrelated matters, as well, is that untoward too? There is nothing wrong with doing things outside of the official meetings whilst in the UK.

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:44, downunder said:

I met with the supporters club rep 2 days before my committee meetings on unrelated matters, as well, is that untoward too?

Depends what you met about I suppose.

 

As for the wine thing, it's not massively untoward but it does put a bit of a bad taste in the mouth (that's just the aussie wine hahaha). If this company that you do voluntary work for wanted to provide LFC with samples, surely channels for doing so already exist.

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:44, downunder said:

No gain for me what so ever.

 

And he is not a 'mate'. The winery offers our supporters clubs in Aus a discount on the wine. Their sales people are trying to to get LFC to use their wine. And i passed on the wine with to try, which is the way these things happen.

 

I take no offence.

 

 

Conflict of interest, by getting discount to you (or the supporters club) you are kind of gaining aren't you?

 

How is the post going by the way?

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Just doesn't feel right to me - you're promoting wine made by someone you know to club officials whilst on a visit from the other side of the world that ultimately we as fans have paid for. I would have thought that all meetings you had with club officials/on club premises should be recorded/minuted and details made available to the members you represent, at the very least - given the circumstances of the trip.

 

I might be on my own on this - it wouldn't be the first time. As I say, no offence intended - just think that you're leaving yourself exposed by doing something like this (and especially then 'advertising' it on a fans forum) as it could very easily be misinterpreted. :)

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  Hassony said:
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Conflict of interest, by getting discount to you (or the supporters club) you are kind of gaining aren't you?

 

How is the post going by the way?

 

The post is good, we have had some gains and the club do listen to us. I have helped many fans who have emailed to me.

Back to the wine, no conflict of interest, I can buy it at a price like every other LFC fan in Aus. If they do start having it at the club, nothing changes for me. As for if the club wants to serve it, me giving an ex player, and 2 others a bottle probably won't make any difference, the owner asked me to deliver them and I did. I didn't try and sell it to them,

 

  RP said:
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Just doesn't feel right to me - you're promoting wine made by someone you know to club officials whilst on a visit from the other side of the world that ultimately we as fans have paid for. I would have thought that all meetings you had with club officials/on club premises should be recorded/minuted and details made available to the members you represent, at the very least - given the circumstances of the trip.

 

I might be on my own on this - it wouldn't be the first time. As I say, no offence intended - just think that you're leaving yourself exposed by doing something like this (and especially then 'advertising' it on a fans forum) as it could very easily be misinterpreted. smile.gif

 

Interesting as I had never even thought of anything untoward and no one else had, including the committee who knew, it was openly being talked about on FB, publicly a week or so before I went to Liverpool.And the minutes are on the offal, and are produced by an independent facilitator.

 

 

 

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  On 19/02/2014 at 10:08, downunder said:

The post is good, we have had some gains and the club do listen to us. I have helped many fans who have emailed to me.

 

 

yers

 

what's gone on?

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  On 19/02/2014 at 09:57, RP said:

Just doesn't feel right to me - you're promoting wine made by someone you know to club officials whilst on a visit from the other side of the world that ultimately we as fans have paid for. I would have thought that all meetings you had with club officials/on club premises should be recorded/minuted and details made available to the members you represent, at the very least - given the circumstances of the trip.

 

I might be on my own on this - it wouldn't be the first time. As I say, no offence intended - just think that you're leaving yourself exposed by doing something like this (and especially then 'advertising' it on a fans forum) as it could very easily be misinterpreted. :)/>

 

Not like he's manipulating the LIBOR rate is it ;-).

 

That said, reckon someone at the club needs to tread very carefully - at the bare minimum running any such offer or meeting by the club's lawyers. The fact that "that's how these things are done" is why new laws have been put in place...

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  On 19/02/2014 at 10:08, downunder said:

 

Interesting as I had never even thought of anything untoward and no one else had, including the committee who knew, it was openly being talked about on FB, publicly a week or so before I went to Liverpool.And the minutes are on the offal, and are produced by an independent facilitator.

 

Yeah, it's probably a good idea for you to get an official "ok" from the club. Ask them to provide some guidelines for this sort of thing.

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  On 19/02/2014 at 11:54, melia said:

Yeah, it's probably a good idea for you to get an official "ok" from the club. Ask them to provide some guidelines for this sort of thing.

 

Going off at a tangent, if i had given them just any local South Australian Wine no one would probably care. Some organisations don't allow employees to accept gifts of any sort.

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Procurement rules and regulations are a load of balls, so what if someone gets a brown envelope filled with cash for getting the contract of 'cheap wine supplier for LFC'? It's the way things are done and should always be done! I always used to conducted my role as procurement manager within Local Government like this and I now try to bring that sort of professionalism in my role as Sweeper upper at a HM prison for the next 2-3 years

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