What a diffence a year makes !!!

[Peeman]

First two matches sold out nearly straight away.

Last year a good lot of matches went on general sale.


Any theory's why ?

Price of tickets ?

New Signings ?

Recession not as bad over there ?

Arsene knows ?

[Skooner]

Both catergory C games so people snapping up the cheaper tickets. I notice the first two away games have gone low this year. Stoke to general sale and Liverpool 0 credits & silver membership. That's far more accessible than it used to be.

Will be interesting to see how the Chelsea tickets sell at the new higher Category A prices.

[Simon]

The new category C was a simple work of genius by the club. The cheaper tickets mean nearly all these games will sell out now and give the impression that they are doing something for the fans.

Of course they are fairly confident they will always sell out the Category A games anyway, hence the serious price hike there.

[DB10GOONER]

Watched our match last Saturday night on SlySports and there appeared a good number of empty seats in the lower tiers. Sold out? According to Arsenal yes, real world no?

[Dan_85]

Of course they are fairly confident they will always sell out the Category A games anyway, hence the serious price hike there.

I'm not doing Cat A games any more. This is will be the first time in over 4 years that i've voluntarily missed a home game, I think a minimum of £62 is just obscene. I'd like to think plenty of others will boycott too but i'm not holding my breath.

[mike_stefan]

to be fair, price segmentation is what most businesses do - look at the price of rail tickets (1st class usually for business / paid for by employers, cattle class for students, grannies and the rest of the hoi polloi).

smart move, surprising in hindsight that they didnt do it sooner

[mike_stefan]

and I should add, I was forced to sell my ticket for the Sunderland game (my bird had arranged something for us) and it sold out within a couple of hours of me putting it on the exchange

[Peeman]

Watched our match last Saturday night on SlySports and there appeared a good number of empty seats in the lower tiers. Sold out? According to Arsenal yes, real world no?

I was checking ticket exchange on Friday coz there was someone thinking of coming last minute and there was fuck all up for sale. So I too was surprised to see so many empty seats.

[Red Member]

Of course they are fairly confident they will always sell out the Category A games anyway, hence the serious price hike there.

I'm not doing Cat A games any more. This is will be the first time in over 4 years that i've voluntarily missed a home game, I think a minimum of £62 is just obscene. I'd like to think plenty of others will boycott too but i'm not holding my breath.

I started my boycott of category A league games a while back. I have extended it to all league and FA Cup games this season because of the direction the club is now taking.

yes quite clever of the club to announce that the first 2 home games will be category C, but to be honest a minimum of £25 to see that rubbish against Sunderland is still a rip off. Whoever goes to the category A games now must be really stupid because if they continue to sell out then Kroenke will just keep raising the prices.

I will continue going to CL nights because as category B tickets they represent value for money compared to going to a category B FA Cup game and it will also be a farewell to the competition for Arsenal this season.

[Dan_85]

[a minimum of £25 to see that rubbish against Sunderland is still a rip off.

Would it still have been a rip off if we'd trounced them 5-0? You can't argue whether it's value for money or not based on the scoreline. You pay your money, you take your chance.

I would say that £25 is a reasonable & fair price to all - both to the club and to the fans. However whilst they can milk customers for a lot more than this they'll continue to do so...

[Red Member]

no chance of beating anyone 5-0 anymore though is there?

when you don't have any world class players left at a club in the PL you struggle an plenty of other PL teams will do what Sunderland did at the weekend, knowing that we haven't got the players to break them down no longer.

[Simon]

Bear in mind season ticket holders don't have a choice - the price changes were announced after the renewal deadline IIRC. The club will argue it doesn't make any difference as the annual price of the season ticket stayed the same even if individual match prices changed.

I reckon they will always sell out most of the Category A games - even if real fans stay away, the glory hunters will only be too happy to take their seats (mind you, do we have any glory hunters anymore?!)

[BournemouthRED]

Bear in mind season ticket holders don't have a choice - the price changes were announced after the renewal deadline IIRC. The club will argue it doesn't make any difference as the annual price of the season ticket stayed the same even if individual match prices changed.

I reckon they will always sell out most of the Category A games - even if real fans stay away, the glory hunters will only be too happy to take their seats (mind you, do we have any glory hunters anymore?!)

So if you only go to cat A games you are a glory hunter, what if you only go to cat C games? Are you a real fan or just a cheapskate

[Red Member]

Bear in mind season ticket holders don't have a choice

season ticket holders have more choice than anyone!
if they were stupid enough to pay more money to watch games up to a year in advance to these then that is their problem. I have no sympathy with season ticket holders at all.

[Red Member]

Bear in mind season ticket holders don't have a choice - the price changes were announced after the renewal deadline IIRC. The club will argue it doesn't make any difference as the annual price of the season ticket stayed the same even if individual match prices changed.

I reckon they will always sell out most of the Category A games - even if real fans stay away, the glory hunters will only be too happy to take their seats (mind you, do we have any glory hunters anymore?!)

So if you only go to cat A games you are a glory hunter, what if you only go to cat C games? Are you a real fan or just a cheapskate

that's why I am sticking to category B games so I can't be accused of either.