Ticket Prices

I took my 7 year old lad on Saturday in the family stand, he enjoyed it and asked if we can go again this weekend. I had a look yesterday, £70 for us both in there.
I deferred my season card for a few reasons but I also planned on taking him to a few games to see how he gets on. If he enjoys going then I'd consider getting him a season card too (hopefully).
Unfortunately £70 isn't doable for us at the moment so I'll just wait and see if any come up on here.
 
We'll get stick from other fans no doubt, but Spurs didn't sell out their game against us, Arsenal didn't sell out their game against Chelsea. I suspect every ground in the country will have more empty seats this season than pre-pandemic. I know lots of clubs are struggling, but I don't know why they collectively set an upper price of, say, £40 as a goodwill gesture. Matchday tickets are a drop in the ocean compared to other cash flows.
 
I can’t complain about my own seat, works out at less than £20 a game. I do, however, have relatives who go to a few games a year and I’m absolutely astonished at the prices they quote.

Surely tickets could be sold off cheap if still available 3 hours before kickoff? I’m sure loads of local fans would go if they could get a ticket for £20.
 
Mike N said:
I can’t complain about my own seat, works out at less than £20 a game. I do, however, have relatives who go to a few games a year and I’m absolutely astonished at the prices they quote.

Surely tickets could be sold off cheap if still available 3 hours before kickoff? I’m sure loads of local fans would go if they could get a ticket for £20.
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How would those committing to 19 games and paying an avg £40+ each feel about that?

The way I look at it my £790 ticket breaks down into roughly this based on opposition attractiveness:

Rags £75
Dips/Chavs/Tarqs £60 (£180)
5 x decent others £45 (£225)
10 x remainders £31 (£310)

£65 for Arsenal for a match ticket where I sit, so it seems about right to me. Personally I'd include a money off voucher to use against one of the lesser teams or a cup fixture, something like that.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
How would those committing to 19 games and paying an avg £40+ each feel about that?

The way I look at it my £790 ticket breaks down into roughly this based on opposition attractiveness:

Rags £75
Dips/Chavs/Tarqs £60 (£180)
5 x decent others £45 (£225)
10 x remainders £31 (£310)

£65 for Arsenal for a match ticket where I sit, so it seems about right to me. Personally I'd include a money off voucher to use against one of the lesser teams or a cup fixture, something like that.
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In my instance I pay £20 a game. I’d rather the empty seat next to me was occupied. If the fan paid £5 I wouldn’t give a monkey’s. It’s the luck of the draw.

Those empty seats will usually be bought for big games anyway and if not it almost certainly will be purchased by different people.
 
Mike N said:
In my instance I pay £20 a game. I’d rather the empty seat next to me was occupied. If the fan paid £5 I wouldn’t give a monkey’s. It’s the luck of the draw.

Those empty seats will usually be bought for big games anyway and if not it almost certainly will be purchased by different people.
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So I could sell my seat on ticket exchange and get 1/19th back and buy it back using another account at a cheaper price? Not such a great business plan.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
So I could sell my seat on ticket exchange and get 1/19th back and buy it back using another account at a cheaper price? Not such a great business plan.
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I think he’s just trying to make a general point that most of us would like to see the ground full irrespective of how much it costs people. However if the seats on general sale were £30 rather than £60 then we could expect a full house on Saturday but with current prices no chance.
 
Absolutely pointless contemplating one-off matches for myself now unless it’s an early cup round where they sometimes reduce prices.

To pay for a ticket and travel to the game is over 1/4 of my monthly disposable income now.
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
So I could sell my seat on ticket exchange and get 1/19th back and buy it back using another account at a cheaper price? Not such a great business plan.
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"Yes"
"Well what did YOU do with it ?"
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Normally worse for Arsenal, they are not in the top category any more, but still far too much.
 
Nothing new about those prices for tickets that's what I've been paying for years,and most will sell. You can argue they should be cheaper but they aren't going to be cheaper than a S/C. So maybe those that defered are surprised and maybe those that want to go to a lot of games especially the dearer games should have done the maths before defering.
 
Beaker said:
I think he’s just trying to make a general point that most of us would like to see the ground full irrespective of how much it costs people. However if the seats on general sale were £30 rather than £60 then we could expect a full house on Saturday but with current prices no chance.
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Let's see. Decent weather forecast, always great to be sat in the warm sun in August watching the game, but there'll be enough there whether it sells out or not. If we were getting 30k then I'd probably agree but we are 45k plus every game. I couldn't afford tickets for 20 years, I just accepted it.
 
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