What do you Think.

[bennymacca]

agreed ondie, it is always the responsibility of the patron to remain sober, not the venue. if you cant get carded up while drinking alcohol and remain under the limit THEN DONT DRINK AS MUCH. even if it means drinking 4 pints of coke or orange juice or something. but a meal, 2 beers and a coke should get you stamped up and should keep you under the limit.

[Dug]

why even get a drink in the first place.

Why cant the venues just take $20 from players and stamp up thier card, this way the customer doesnt have to drink 2L of softdrinks, doesnt have to binge drink and get caught driving, and the venues are saving themselves stock.

Surley this is the best way to "help out the venues"

[bennymacca]

why even get a drink in the first place.

Why cant the venues just take $20 from players and stamp up thier card, this way the customer doesnt have to drink 2L of softdrinks, doesnt have to binge drink and get caught driving, and the venues are saving themselves stock.

Surley this is the best way to "help out the venues"

pretty sure this is illegal dug

[David]

why even get a drink in the first place.

Why cant the venues just take $20 from players and stamp up thier card, this way the customer doesnt have to drink 2L of softdrinks, doesnt have to binge drink and get caught driving, and the venues are saving themselves stock.

Surley this is the best way to "help out the venues"

Because it's illegal mate.

Buying drinks/meals gets AROUND the fact it's illegal.

[Dug]

ok fair enough why not then have a special NPL drink where it costs 20 for a coke or something.

[David]

ok fair enough why not then have a special NPL drink where it costs 20 for a coke or something.

Fine line mate, fine line

I must say though, I have paid more for stamps ..

$4.50 for a pint of light, as I was driving... yet $5 for two stamps.. so I asked "Can I please have a pint of light and pay $5"

[Chelsea4thewin]

what about venues with a bottle shop attached giving out stamps for buying alcohol there, this would promote responsible drinking?

[bennymacca]

what about selling meat tray / chipset / chook raffle tickets or something? costs u 20 bucks to enter, get the cards stamped up.

there is NO obligation for you to buy the ticket, just the same as you dont have to buy drinks or meals when you go to a venue, but it might be another way to get your cards stamped without alcohol and still support the venue

would this be legal?

PS this would be a venue organised thing, not an NPL-wide thing.

what about venues with a bottle shop attached giving out stamps for buying alcohol there, this would promote responsible drinking?

bottleshop or takeaways is also a good idea

[Ondie J]

The bottleshop idea is a great one. I actually, half cut, tried to asked this at one venue and was told that I couldn't do it. I tried to argue it but it looked like they were getting quite cranky with me and I left to go back inside before I was thrown out

On the profitablity angle though... I think they'd make far less selling at the bottleshop than in the pub itself

[bennymacca]

On the profitablity angle though... I think they'd make far less selling at the bottleshop than in the pub itself

yeah much less i would think

but maybe the stamp prices could be more in the bottleshop? i.e 30 bucks to get cards stamped instead of 20 for instance.