To fast track or not to fast track, once again I am asking myself this question on the very last day to make the choice. After the experience I had collecting my costume this year I swore I was doing fast track for 2008, however I did not expect the fast track deadline to be so early and I am thinking the longer I hold on to my money the better it might be. Call me paranoid but I keep thinking “what if”, what if I get in accident before Carnival and I can’t play mas, how am I going to sell my costume at the last minute and recoup allll my money? When you have to fork over $2,500.00 and not get the product in hand until the next month that’s when the questions arise; is fast track really worth it, how much faster do you really collect your costume, with TRIBE being VERY organized there really isn’t that much of a wait unless you happen to be collecting on Carnival Saturday!
This year it was so easy to collect hubby’s costume, which we did during the week, however collecting my costume on Carnival Saturday was another story. I am hoping the fact that costume collection is slated to end on Carnival Friday , February 1st as per the emails from TRIBE that Carnival Saturday might be reserved for persons who could not collect on the days set aside for each section and that frontline masqueraders will be able to collect on a day during the week as well. Of course I am hoping this so that it will save me a trip to the mas camp today! The other thing is that I can stay at home and pay the balance via credit card BUT then there is that SENVIA credit card fee!
The incentive to pay off early, apart from the speedy collection, is the added prize of wining your costume free, however I highly doubt that I would win, I mean would it not look very suspect if I win a free costume? When I sold my costume this year and got into Sailor the Anti-Saucy Crew took the position that TRIBE did me a favor to shut me up (still laughing at this one) so you could imagine the uproar if Saucy wins her costume free!
Anyway I still have a few more hours to decide whether or not I am going to pay off my costume today, but how many of you have decided on the fast track route for 2008.. .or not to fast track?
EDITED TO ADD:
After all this contemplation I bit the bullet and paid off for my costume!! Thanks for all the comments, you guys made me realise that it is easier to just have this over and done with. Now it's MY costume paid in full! lol
This year it was so easy to collect hubby’s costume, which we did during the week, however collecting my costume on Carnival Saturday was another story. I am hoping the fact that costume collection is slated to end on Carnival Friday , February 1st as per the emails from TRIBE that Carnival Saturday might be reserved for persons who could not collect on the days set aside for each section and that frontline masqueraders will be able to collect on a day during the week as well. Of course I am hoping this so that it will save me a trip to the mas camp today! The other thing is that I can stay at home and pay the balance via credit card BUT then there is that SENVIA credit card fee!
The incentive to pay off early, apart from the speedy collection, is the added prize of wining your costume free, however I highly doubt that I would win, I mean would it not look very suspect if I win a free costume? When I sold my costume this year and got into Sailor the Anti-Saucy Crew took the position that TRIBE did me a favor to shut me up (still laughing at this one) so you could imagine the uproar if Saucy wins her costume free!
Anyway I still have a few more hours to decide whether or not I am going to pay off my costume today, but how many of you have decided on the fast track route for 2008.. .or not to fast track?
EDITED TO ADD:
After all this contemplation I bit the bullet and paid off for my costume!! Thanks for all the comments, you guys made me realise that it is easier to just have this over and done with. Now it's MY costume paid in full! lol
10 comments:
good morning sauce
just got done reading your post. i however had to opt for fast track because i do not get to trini until jan 30th. so if my parents or my friend has to collect my costume for me, they will not have to fork out the money to collect the costume and wait for me to get to trinidad and pay them back.
if i win my costume i would be the happiest person in the world. stuff like that never happens to me anyways.
hope you have a great day and happy new year in advance.
Hey Saucy!
I opted for Fast Track because last year costume collection for me was the pits! Even though I collected on the right day for my section and there were only 2 sections SUPPOSEDLY being distributed that day, I encountered a long line and spent 2 hours there because they also entertained people who were there collecting costumes for OTHER sections on the WRONG DAY. That ain't right or fair. Those people should have been turned away and told to come back on Carnival Saturday because they missed the assigned distribution day for their section.
Standing in a long line for 2 hours is so anti-everything that Tribe stands for. I not trying to do THAT again so is fast track for me.
I opted for Fas Track, and paid off for my costume on December 24th 2007. Apparently there's a a steady trickly of people coming in to do that, as I went there around 1pm and there was someone ahead of me paying off their costume, and someone came in just after me to do the same.
My decision was based on the thinking that since I have the money in hand now, before I go on a spree and blow it all (my b'day is in a couple weeks nah!!), let me pay off the costume now.
Grrrrrrrrr@all the ppl paying early. Imagine getting that money back nuh *sigh*
But is YOU Mystique who convince me to fast track and going "yayyy" yuh costume paid of for LOL. I do feel great having it done though :)
Allyuh talking bout Fast Track and paying off fuh costume and I eh even pay down yet! LOL.
Congrats Saucy :)
Fast track indeed!! I paid off my balance in mid-December because money has a way of disappearing fast! So I paid for it while I had it. Even if something happens and I can't make it, I'm sure to sell it cause Tribe is so popular this year. Seems like a win-win situation. Doesn't it feel like a weight lifted off your shoulders Sauce?
ahmm are you really worried about getting your costume sold??? lolol i doubt you will have that problem
If I was going I would do the fast track route. It seems so easy to me and it's one less thing I'd have to worry about after the holidays.
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