Open Letter on Season Tickets and Pricing | Club announce price freeze on "general admission season tickets & PL match tickets" for next season (p163)

[ninjamonkey]

Everton threatening to ban anyone selling to the legal tout sites. While we’re actively courting them as ‘partners’

Everton issue statement over ticket resales as warning sent over banning orders

The club said ticket holders found to have sold their passes to touts and resale platforms could be banned from the club's new stadium

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Don't be fooled into thinking every football club doesn't have multiple ticketing partners be it official or otherwise. They do that because they don't want individual scalpers eating into the profits from their own cushy arrangements

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Without the protests this wouldn’t have happened.

Still pretty poor for non season ticket holders though

 

[BringBackSwales]

Well done 1894 and Alex from City Matters. Without what you did the club wouldn’t have acted. Heroes

 

[ninjamonkey]

I think we should look at making the block or even the next one along as well next to the away fans a special £30 area (ie same as the away fans). Tickets go on sale for the games on a rolling basis to try and entice younger fans in or those priced out back in. Seems odd an away fan is paying 50% or less than a home fan is for a seat 3 yards away?

Away tickets need to be kept firmly out of this. One of the very few things football fans actually grouped up as a collective putting aside rivalries and tribalism and fought together for many years for was the away ticket price cap, there should be no circumstances where that deal is potentially put in the firing line.

 

[Tevez32mcfc]

Not sure how this can be dressed up as any kind of victory, it's a stalemate with no climb down. The ticket prices for non season ticket holders and children remain scandalous, there is no clarity on new season tickets, and the ticket partners will still have 1st dibs on the huge games, i hope the protests continue on saturday as i don't think this a decent resolution. Kids tickets need capping at 20 quid anywhere in the stadium, and no ticket should be above 70 quid for any game, and the lesser games should be 40/45 not 60+

Agreed. Nothing has actually changed? The club have looked at it and frozen prices hoping that will make us all fall back into line and stand down. Part of the protest was about Viagogo and selling tickets to away fans in the home end etc but nothing heard on this.

 

[.db.]

Away tickets need to be kept firmly out of this. One of the very few things football fans actually grouped up as a collective putting aside rivalries and tribalism and fought together for many years for was the away ticket price cap, there should be no circumstances where that deal is potentially put in the firing line.

The bad thing is, that deal with the PL and clubs for £30 cap on away tickets ends at the end of next season.

 

[uwerosler28]

It's lip service in the hope the anger dies down, multiple issues that generated the protests are still outstanding, sadly based on the multiple back slapping and congratulations posts on this forum its seems the club have suceeded in giving nothing yet still stopping the protest.

 

[yatesy94.]

The bare minimum wooo let's get the confetti cannons out in City square, still doesn't address issue for scandalous prices for non season ticket holders/Scalp-agogo partnership

 

[MAG]

 

[hello]

More likely to prevent anyone under-cutting their official arrangements I'd have thought.

Absolutely, Everton like every other club won't give a shit about the actual fan, just looking after their own touting.

 

[.db.]

The bare minimum wooo let's get the confetti cannons out in City square, still doesn't address issue for scandalous prices for non season ticket holders/Scalp-agogo partnership

They know they’ve just appeased 35,000 people (or however many ST holders we have now) and at least that will stop many ditching their ST and being further fans of the many thousands who have fallen away from our support (is it around 6% a season?).

Lots and lots of other issues to get sorted and get answers to, this isn’t the end by any means.

 

[Edghill OG]

Their recent form suggests a kick in the balls is coming for those “general admission” season card holders.

How about a tenner at the bookies on it being something like compulsory cup scheme attendance if you want to renew? Wouldn’t surprise me at all.

That won't happen. I think somebody said there's only 20k on the CL scheme so forcing 15k onto it isn't going to happen. Even with the 20k that are currently on it a high number of them would take exception to being made to be on it. I'd imagine there'd be thousands jack it in and that's just on CL scheme, never mind the League Cup and FA Cup. They can't fill the stadium as it is, never mind forcing ST holders on to cup schemes.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Doesn't mean they won't have official partners themselves though.

Exactly, and it says at the end of the article that "they will be working with Ticketmaster..." which suggests that they're an official partner for ticket resales.

 

[Gray]

That won't happen. I think somebody said there's only 20k on the CL scheme so forcing 15k onto it isn't going to happen. Even with the 20k that are currently on it a high number of them would take exception to being made to be on it. I'd imagine there'd be thousands jack it in and that's just on CL scheme, never mind the League Cup and FA Cup. They can't fill the stadium as it is, never mind forcing ST holders on to cup schemes.

There is no way I am ever going back on the CL cup scheme, I fucking hate the competition.

 

[paulchapo]

Yes I know it's a rag but it's still shameful and has happened here too.

Man Utd fan protests: The 81-year-old fan being evicted from his seat

Michael Carney, 81, has been going to Old Trafford for 74 years but has to leave his seat near the dugout so Man Utd can make more money from it.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ninjamonkey]

The bad thing is, that deal with the PL and clubs for £30 cap on away tickets ends at the end of next season.

Can't see how they'd be able to get away with anything but extending it. It should in theory be far easier to organise mass league wide protests if they dared to threaten to mess with that agreement after successfully doing it once.

The 20's plenty fight seems to have stopped in recent years as inflation hits and £30 is probably the equivalent of that now so surely the smart thing to do is keep the status quo and everybody is happy. There's no chance they can go back to charging £60 for an away ticket nowadays.

 

[urban genie]

 

[kippaxkid74]

While it's great we've had a price freeze as season ticket holders - we MUST keep the pressure up this time next season, as one of the few times we had a price freeze the last 15 years or so they double the increase the year after to make up for it.

(for example if every year it went up £30, then they froze for a year, the year after that they put it up £60 to get themselves back to where they wanted to be) (i have a list somewhere of all my prices since the move in 2004, i'll try and dig it out to show what i mean)

But yes lets keep up the pressure so that this time next year it can be another price freeze.... as it should be..

 

[Edghill OG]

There is no way I am ever going back on the CL cup scheme, I fucking hate the competition.

Especially with the new format. I'd jack it in too and know plenty of others that would as well.

If they thought the Viagogo deal was a large protest, then forcing people on to cup schemes would really see the fanbase mobilise.

 

[urban genie]

There is no way I am ever going back on the CL cup scheme, I fucking hate the competition.

This season was my last on it, I may stay on the europa league one if we are in it as I fancy seeing new teams, but if we finish top 5 I will be dropping the CL scheme.

would not accept forced entry on it.