| Resale Tickets 09:00 - Oct 1 with 1531 views | tractorboy19 |
Hi Everyone,
Has anyone used a facebook profile under the initials C.M. To buy resell tickets? Just want a bit of certainty before booking my match tickets/ train tickets etc |  | | |  |
| Resale Tickets on 21:56 - Oct 1 with 144 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Resale Tickets on 21:46 - Oct 1 by DarkBrandon |
Ok then:
My view in short is that it isn’t fair that season tickets holders get the best seats in the house, for all games at a discount, whereas non season ticket holders get (in general) the worst seats in the house, which cost more per ticket, and they have to pay a membership fee which doesn’t even guarantee them a single ticket. Last season I had a membership and for a variety of reasons made it to a single game. Expensive ticket.
I’d switch this. Season ticket holders should be the ones paying a supplement.
Secondly I’d make many more seats available for casual fans. Season tickets holders were this once. Most kids are now. It makes sense to allow them in, at least occasionally. Personally I’d make season tickets only grant access to 17 or 18 of the home matches. The rest can be sold in the normal way, or as a ballot. Maybe STHs could nominate which games they’d miss.
As I say, my views aren’t universally held.
I was a season ticket holder myself for maybe 10 years, under Burley, and then later under Keane (with my son). Now … I’m a member and an occasional visitor, although I’ve done well for tickets this season. Mostly because I go to games by myself. If I wanted to visit with friends/family I’d have not seen a game, |
Thanks for replying. Some interesting thoughts.
I get why season tickets have always been cheaper and since there is higher demand than supply, lowering the price of non-season ticket seats will only drive up demand for them.
How would you prevent season ticket holders buying tickets for the games they are giving up?
I get we all have our own story. I was a season ticket holder under Roy Keane (and a good number of seasons before that)! Generally I have always been a casual fan who has accepted it is difficult (never impossible) to get tickets when the team is doing well.
I can see why your suggestions aren't popular. I wouldn't agree with them but can see what you are aiming for. I don't think it would particularly achieve it, though. |  |
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| Resale Tickets on 21:57 - Oct 1 with 144 views | DarkBrandon |
| Resale Tickets on 21:56 - Oct 1 by Plums |
I'm in a slightly different place and would suggest that tickets that are still available on match day home or away are available on general sale so the casual fan can pick them up.
It's maddening to see empty seats at a game you could have made it to.
Members could have all the sales windows they want up to midnight on the night before a game. In the digital age, there's no reason whatsoever for that not to work. |
Yeah, I’d support that. |  | | |
| Resale Tickets on 22:03 - Oct 1 with 131 views | DarkBrandon |
| Resale Tickets on 21:56 - Oct 1 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Thanks for replying. Some interesting thoughts.
I get why season tickets have always been cheaper and since there is higher demand than supply, lowering the price of non-season ticket seats will only drive up demand for them.
How would you prevent season ticket holders buying tickets for the games they are giving up?
I get we all have our own story. I was a season ticket holder under Roy Keane (and a good number of seasons before that)! Generally I have always been a casual fan who has accepted it is difficult (never impossible) to get tickets when the team is doing well.
I can see why your suggestions aren't popular. I wouldn't agree with them but can see what you are aiming for. I don't think it would particularly achieve it, though. |
I’d hope that with digital tickets, and logins you could prevent STHs buying up extra tickets.
To buy a ticket they’d need an itfc account, a credit card and an address for that card unknown to the club. Maybe they’d need to pay for a membership too. Depends how you set it up. Certainly possible (get a relative to buy it) but I’d hope that the numbers doing this would be fairly small. Maybe I’d be wrong about that.
Edit: the mistake the club made (in my eyes) was in selling too many season tickets when we first went up to the PL. That meant that there are so few other seats to go round, once you take out away fans, corporate etc etc. I can see why they did that. The paradox now is that as it is so hard to get into games without a season ticket it incentives people to hold onto them even more. [Post edited 1 Oct 22:08]
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| Resale Tickets on 22:06 - Oct 1 with 119 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Resale Tickets on 22:03 - Oct 1 by DarkBrandon |
I’d hope that with digital tickets, and logins you could prevent STHs buying up extra tickets.
To buy a ticket they’d need an itfc account, a credit card and an address for that card unknown to the club. Maybe they’d need to pay for a membership too. Depends how you set it up. Certainly possible (get a relative to buy it) but I’d hope that the numbers doing this would be fairly small. Maybe I’d be wrong about that.
Edit: the mistake the club made (in my eyes) was in selling too many season tickets when we first went up to the PL. That meant that there are so few other seats to go round, once you take out away fans, corporate etc etc. I can see why they did that. The paradox now is that as it is so hard to get into games without a season ticket it incentives people to hold onto them even more. [Post edited 1 Oct 22:08]
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I am quite certain that lifelong fans who have attended every game would very easily acquire alternate addresses and credit cards to enable that. It wouldn't be at all difficult.
That's before addressing whether it is a good idea to try to prevent there being such a thing as an ever-present fan. | |
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| Resale Tickets on 22:12 - Oct 1 with 107 views | DarkBrandon |
| Resale Tickets on 22:06 - Oct 1 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I am quite certain that lifelong fans who have attended every game would very easily acquire alternate addresses and credit cards to enable that. It wouldn't be at all difficult.
That's before addressing whether it is a good idea to try to prevent there being such a thing as an ever-present fan. |
You may be right. I hadn’t considered that, but I’d hope it is a solvable “problem”.
I’d also consider making all the tickets for away games accessible only to people entering a ballot.
Say 1000 reserved for this seasons very regular away fans, 1000 to occasional away fans, 750 to season ticket holders 250 to members.
I’m less sure about this though [Post edited 1 Oct 22:13]
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| Resale Tickets on 22:13 - Oct 1 with 100 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Resale Tickets on 19:33 - Oct 1 by Swansea_Blue |
Yes, but I ended up with Laurie McMenemy. I’m sure it was just a misunderstanding. |
Was he a Saint at the football ground and a Sinner in the bedroom? | | | |
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