Ticket price changes

[mikeyb772001]

well i think it's good that they dropped prices for some games - obviously due to lack of demand, and the ticket transfer scheme seems to fix the problem of the old bill swiping you for passing a ticket to a mate outside teh ground.

Just another money spinning way that leaves you no excuse if you pass your ticket on. Can only transfer to existing members who have to pay £40 for the "privilege" of being able to buy a ticket.

Seriously think that its time for the BSM to follow on from their march before Villa in 2011 and get something in place for Sunderland at home. I'm sick of it and if this and the RVP saga was announced before Season Ticket/Away Membership deadlines I wouldnt have renewed.

mate - you paid for your st! If you want divide the costs between games and sell for 35 thats your choice.

Im going to. End of the day 35 for a good seat in the lower tier is a good deal and still at our face value. All the people i know will still buy from me at that price. FUCK THE CLUB

[hugh jardon]

Same old, same old, moan moan moan on an interweb forum but do nothing.

Has anyone even done the very least possible and emailed or written to the club to complain?

[clockender1]

Same old, same old, moan moan moan on an interweb forum but do nothing.

Has anyone even done the very least possible and emailed or written to the club to complain?

yes. i wrote to them yesterday about the 'mcdonalds' kit and asked as i do every year, when are they going to have a public consultation with the fans about a new crest to replace the current atrocity.

I also pointed out that they promised to only change one strip each year, and they broke that promise with the two new kits.

[arseofacrow]

well i think it's good that they dropped prices for some games - obviously due to lack of demand, and the ticket transfer scheme seems to fix the problem of the old bill swiping you for passing a ticket to a mate outside teh ground.

Just another money spinning way that leaves you no excuse if you pass your ticket on. Can only transfer to existing members who have to pay £40 for the "privilege" of being able to buy a ticket.

Seriously think that its time for the BSM to follow on from their march before Villa in 2011 and get something in place for Sunderland at home. I'm sick of it and if this and the RVP saga was announced before Season Ticket/Away Membership deadlines I wouldnt have renewed.

mate - you paid for your st! If you want divide the costs between games and sell for 35 thats your choice.

Im going to. End of the day 35 for a good seat in the lower tier is a good deal and still at our face value. All the people i know will still buy from me at that price. FUCK THE CLUB

It's not face value if you're selling the ticket at above what the club are selling it at mikey.

For my money, when I was trying to sell some most of my old man's tickets on a game by game basis, I sold them for the price at which the club were selling an individual ticket. This included games against Chelsea and Man Uted

Otherwise, in effect what you're doing, is having other people subsidising your attendance at the big games (which let's be fair 99% of ST holders will sacrifice a wigan over a spurs).

If the club are selling the tickets at £25, then how can you justify charging £35? (and cos it's your season ticket doesn't count as a justification, more an excuse)

[North-Bank-1987]

well i think it's good that they dropped prices for some games - obviously due to lack of demand, and the ticket transfer scheme seems to fix the problem of the old bill swiping you for passing a ticket to a mate outside teh ground.

Just another money spinning way that leaves you no excuse if you pass your ticket on. Can only transfer to existing members who have to pay £40 for the "privilege" of being able to buy a ticket.

Seriously think that its time for the BSM to follow on from their march before Villa in 2011 and get something in place for Sunderland at home. I'm sick of it and if this and the RVP saga was announced before Season Ticket/Away Membership deadlines I wouldnt have renewed.

mate - you paid for your st! If you want divide the costs between games and sell for 35 thats your choice.

Im going to. End of the day 35 for a good seat in the lower tier is a good deal and still at our face value. All the people i know will still buy from me at that price. FUCK THE CLUB

It's not face value if you're selling the ticket at above what the club are selling it at mikey.

For my money, when I was trying to sell some most of my old man's tickets on a game by game basis, I sold them for the price at which the club were selling an individual ticket. This included games against Chelsea and Man Uted

Otherwise, in effect what you're doing, is having other people subsidising your attendance at the big games (which let's be fair 99% of ST holders will sacrifice a wigan over a spurs).

If the club are selling the tickets at £25, then how can you justify charging £35? (and cos it's your season ticket doesn't count as a justification, more an excuse)

Interesting discussion, but to be fair if Mikey sold all his tickets at the prices he listed (including cups) he would tot back £985 - the same it costs, so in theory over a season it is selling at F/V.

[Simon]

Peter Hill-Wood commented: "Well done chaps. Trebles all round!"

[arseofacrow]

well i think it's good that they dropped prices for some games - obviously due to lack of demand, and the ticket transfer scheme seems to fix the problem of the old bill swiping you for passing a ticket to a mate outside teh ground.

Just another money spinning way that leaves you no excuse if you pass your ticket on. Can only transfer to existing members who have to pay £40 for the "privilege" of being able to buy a ticket.

Seriously think that its time for the BSM to follow on from their march before Villa in 2011 and get something in place for Sunderland at home. I'm sick of it and if this and the RVP saga was announced before Season Ticket/Away Membership deadlines I wouldnt have renewed.

mate - you paid for your st! If you want divide the costs between games and sell for 35 thats your choice.

Im going to. End of the day 35 for a good seat in the lower tier is a good deal and still at our face value. All the people i know will still buy from me at that price. FUCK THE CLUB

It's not face value if you're selling the ticket at above what the club are selling it at mikey.

For my money, when I was trying to sell some most of my old man's tickets on a game by game basis, I sold them for the price at which the club were selling an individual ticket. This included games against Chelsea and Man Uted

Otherwise, in effect what you're doing, is having other people subsidising your attendance at the big games (which let's be fair 99% of ST holders will sacrifice a wigan over a spurs).

If the club are selling the tickets at £25, then how can you justify charging £35? (and cos it's your season ticket doesn't count as a justification, more an excuse)

Interesting discussion, but to be fair if Mikey sold all his tickets at the prices he listed (including cups) he would tot back £985 - the same it costs, so in theory over a season it is selling at F/V.

But if he sold every game, then there wouldn't be any point in averaging the price, would there?

So, it comes back to my point that it sounds like selling some tickets will subsidise other games.

[mikeyb772001]

I don't care what the club charge. If I sell the odd game at 25 quid, I lose out.

35 is still face value, my st is 990! So no chance will I sell at 25

[Simon]

I suspect that as far as this forum goes, the old rule will remain, i.e. season tickets offered at the same price that silver members are charged depending on the category of the game.

[g88ner]

I don't care what the club charge. If I sell the odd game at 25 quid, I lose out.

35 is still face value, my st is 990! So no chance will I sell at 25

no it's not.

If you sell for £35, when the real face value is £25, you're basically using them to subsidise your cat A ticket by overcharging some poor soul to watch Wigan or Sunderland.

You say you're "losing out" by selling at real face value, but you're not - you just don't like the idea of paying more to watch cat A games... and I can assure you, we all feel a bit aggrieved at cat A prices, but I'm not sure the answer is to ask someone else to help you lower that cost by overcharging them for less glamorous games.

Yes, maybe people will still buy from you at above face value, but it doesn't make it right, I'm afraid. No matter how you dress it up.

[tel]

Only cat B&C games for me from now on and even those will be non televised games. I'm disgusted that after 35 years of supporting our club that I can see a time very soon where I no longer go at all. Its time for BSM to mobilise the troops and as for AST and AISA they can go and fuck themselves for supporting this.

[franksav63]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... sfeed=true

Arsenal's most expensive Premier League ticket for 2012-13 to cost £126

• Average price for 'A' category games rises to £62

• Cheapest tickets for 'C' games drops to £25.50

The most expensive ticket at Arsenal next season will be £126, the club have announced.

Ticket prices for "A" category games, of which there are two before the end of the year against Chelsea and Tottenham, will be on average £62, an increase of 23%.

However, the top price of £126 will apply to around only 1% of available tickets in the "A" band.

The regrading of games into "A", "B" and "C" categories will create approximately 90,000 lower-priced tickets for non season-ticket holders during the season.

Prices in the "C" band will be on average 28% lower than last season's equivalents with tickets against Sunderland on 18 August down to £25.50 compared to £35 last term.

The lowest priced matchday ticket for next season will be £25.50.

"We constantly aim to strike the right balance between offering tickets at affordable prices, while ensuring we have sufficient income to reinvest in the squad," said the Arsenal chief executive, Ivan Gazidis.

[Dan_85]

"We constantly aim to strike the right balance between offering tickets at affordable prices, while ensuring we have sufficient income to pay Diaby, Chamakh & Squillaci their astronomical wages" said the Arsenal chief executive, Ivan Gazidis.

It makes you wanna weep doesn't it?! Still, nothing is changing until these *word censored* start taking a serious hit in the pocket.

[Tomáš]

Same old, same old, moan moan moan on an interweb forum but do nothing.

Has anyone even done the very least possible and emailed or written to the club to complain?

Hello,
yepp...ticket prices have become now also in Germany a big problem.

The campaign 'Football must be payable' is still going on http://kein-zwanni.de/en/index.html and it looks like BVB will boycott the away game in Hamburg again, since ticket prices went up again.

Here is another article from the guardin which compares ticket prices in the PL http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... ket-prices

In Germany we are still somehow ok...but when you look at the increase over the last years not really. Seat prices went up over 70%. This is the current BVB price structure http://www.bvb.de/?%98Y%1B%E4%F4%9D

So on the standing ground you can have a season ticket (17 games) for 190 Euros, which is fair. But the seat tickets are paying for it.

I think we need a european wide movement against high ticket prices.

Cheers,
Thomas

[Dan_85]

In Germany we are still somehow ok...but when you look at the increase over the last years not really. Seat prices went up over 70%. This is the current BVB price structure http://www.bvb.de/?%98Y%1B%E4%F4%9D

£150 for a standing ST for all home league games & CL group games? Yes please!