10 Not if they use the Automated Clearing House system. If it's a wire transfer, the incoming bank can (and usually does) charge whatever it wants. I've gotten hit with $15 fees for the privilege of having money go into my account with no action required by the bank. I finally wised up to using ACH, which has no fee (yet).
Wasn't there some story floating around that they really only will see something like $30 million of it after taxes get taken out, or something ridiculous like that?
Even so, I agree that renovation to the Seibu Dome won't help as much to draw fans as just trying to do a better promotion campaign within Tokorozawa and the rest of Saitama prefecture. Get the locals, not the schleppers. Actually bothering to put more Lions stuff in the Seibu department stores couldn't hurt either. I was astounded after seeing the gigantic Hanshin Tigers shop in the Umeda Hanshin department store that the equivalent Lions shop in the Ikebukuro Seibu department store was literally like, one tiny rack of stuff in a corner of the sports section.
I wonder if they're thinking of doing anything with the "outfield slanted turf seating", though.
The carpet? I dunno, I thought sitting in the Seibu outfield "seating" was a fun experience and made me feel a lot closer to the rest of the other crazy Fighters fans, but at the same time, balancing myself or anything else on slanted ground like that for a whole game is a pain, and several times beers were spilled by people on the hill by accident. I'm not sure I'd want to do it again.
I wonder whether more people fit in there with or without seats, actually.
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Don't do it Seibu
They'll never draw more fans unless they play in a place where it's not an overland trek to get to.
Even so, I agree that renovation to the Seibu Dome won't help as much to draw fans as just trying to do a better promotion campaign within Tokorozawa and the rest of Saitama prefecture. Get the locals, not the schleppers. Actually bothering to put more Lions stuff in the Seibu department stores couldn't hurt either. I was astounded after seeing the gigantic Hanshin Tigers shop in the Umeda Hanshin department store that the equivalent Lions shop in the Ikebukuro Seibu department store was literally like, one tiny rack of stuff in a corner of the sports section.
I wonder if they're thinking of doing anything with the "outfield slanted turf seating", though.
Hey, that's Boras Talk!
I wonder whether more people fit in there with or without seats, actually.
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