Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:46:22 +1000 From: Leanne Bischof Subject: Re: Movie tickets?? > At the end of last year we got a CPSU Bulletin announcing a price increase > on 1st Feb to $8.00(adult ticket). But I'm sure there was a later email > (from either Peter O'Donoghue or Powell??) saying they were still the old > price of $7.00 - did I imagine this? > > Prue If you buy your cinema tickets from the head office of CPSU - CSIRO Division in Melbourne, you pay the proper CPSU negotiated price of $7 for adults and $5 for children. However, because they have to buy the tickets in lots of 10,000, they only order when they have a big backlog of orders. So the service can be appalling e.g. I ordered ~80 tickets (for a combined order for staff from my site) in mid-February and they didn't arrive until late April. The alternative is to order from the NSW Branch of CSPU in town. But they were so overwhelmed with large numbers of requests for small numbers of tickets, that they decided to put the price up to $8 to reduce the number of requests. I imagine this would have worked very effectively, as you can buy movie money directly from the cinemas for exactly the same price and much more conveniently. Good luck trying to get good service for your members. If anyone else finds this as irritating as I do, then please let me know. HO in Melbourne may just need a push to make the effort to get together with some other CPSU Division so that they can share the cost of doing bulk orders of tickets.