Robert Jackson
All - as a former race director/promoter and currently active racer, I
would be remiss to not throw my opinion out there. Athletepath is hands
down my favorite. I've seen Embree's (and all of Athletepath's for that
matter) commitment to providing a top notch solution that is athlete
focused from the start.
I will continue to support them and OBRA however I can. I learned long ago
that the value of a dollar goes both ways, how much you keep to yourself
and how you choose to spend them.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Christian Reed wrote:
> First of all, just wanted to let folks know that Athletepath is secure
> with respect to Heartbleed. One of our vendors, Cloudflare, was the entity
> that discovered the OpenSSL vulnerability, so we were one to the first to
> be notified and were in the first wave of companies to implement the patch.
> So your information safe when you use Athletepath registration.
>
> With respect to pricing, Athletepath, like all registration vendors
> (including OBRA) charges to process registrations. Like everyone who
> accepts a credit card (from Amazon.com to your local barista) we have to
> pay transaction processing fees as well as keep the lights on. What
> separates us from most vendors is that we post the final checkout price
> upfront, so you're not surprised by any additional fees and taxes. So it
> may look at first like we're charging you more, but really we're just not
> sneaking in additional charges at the end. [For those who want to get down
> in the weeds, our fee is 6.5% + $1, so the difference to OBRA pricing is
> less than $1 per registration.]
>
> Athletepath is an 11 person company based in Portland, and no fewer than
> four of us hold OBRA licenses and race regularly. We're huge fans of OBRA,
> and the event promoters and racers that flourish in the best grassroots
> racing scene in the country (and we know, because we serve events across
> the country). Event directors that choose our service are generally looking
> for a more full-featured registration system, but OBRA is also a great
> solution that is quite frankly better than many of our national competitors.
>
> But ultimately our goal is to serve the racers, and that's why we offer
> free text message and emailed results, and are constantly trying to improve
> the user experience. We've been really lucky to have Kenji's backing from
> the start (I actually got my job at Athletepath after learning about the
> company from one of Kenji's emails), and the support we've had with access
> to the OBRA database has proved an excellent learning experience for us.
> We've really been fortunate to have OBRA in our backyard with their
> commitment to openness and doing whatever they can to promote participation
> the sport.
>
> If you've ever got any feedback for us, or would like to participate in a
> focus group, please don't hesitate to shoot me an email at
> christian@athletepath.com, or just come talk to us at races. These are
> the Athletepath folks that race regularly:
>
> Christian Reed - Green Submarine Records - Short Track MTB, XC MTB, CX
> Andrew Kreps - (He's the guy on the fat bike =) - Short Track MTB, XC MTB,
> CX
> Kristen Minarik - Bicycle Attorney - Short Track MTB, XC MTB, CX
> Whitney Dawson - Athlete's Lounge - CX
> David Embree - (our CEO) - CX
>
>
>
> Thanks!
> Christian
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Robert M. Jackson
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