£10 ticket trial starting for tomorrow nights game

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if we were all let in for free and given a pie and chips we'd still have people moaning and saying we should be given expenses to get to the ground.

 

[warpig]

has this game sold out now?

 

[davymcfc]

has this game sold out now?

really should be.

 

[Soulboy]

And rest assured that come Thursday morning there will be a host of people on here moaning that "I went all the way to the ground... huge queue... waited ages... and they'd sold out by the time I got to the front..."

The club has cocked up again!

I weary sometimes reading how selfish some City fans are.

We've got a full house, 2,000 more Blues than would have gone (who will generate something like £40,000 on the night), the club will have done what most Blues have been clamouring for, for years now, that we fill the place come what may.

It's strange that we've been handed the luckiest deal in football history with the takeover, that everything we wanted is now on our agenda, yet still some have to find a reason, any reason, to have a snipe at the club.

The club have done brilliant with this offer. Everyone wins. No one loses.

But some on here sound like Everton or Spurs fans whining about how "it's just not fair"... "we need a level playing field..." ... "we need new laws to make it fairer".

This is how capitalism works. We have benefited hugely from it. So the fact that 2,000 fortunate Blues are getting a deal really shouldn't have brought out such a surge of envy.

It could lose money tonight, and in the long run. Myopic.

So, Lord Keynes, how do you work it out that we could lose money tonight?

Better we just leave 2,000 seats empty... and that makes sound economic sense!

In the long run? We're all dead.

 

[Jnr Kisby]

I think football tickets should be free, its a fucking disgrace we have to pay to go watch a game, I mean really!

 

[Corky]

We normaly have fans buying on the day paying three times as much.

Unless we get three times as many as normal we lose money.

People who could only afford to go with massive reductions won't have money to spend inside either.

Then in the future most single match ticket fans will not buy early.

 

[Dubai Blue]

That analogy is only at all relevant if these £10 tickets are being sold only for the final 10 minutes of the game.

Mammutly's right, so I don't know why you're all jumping down his throat. He's simply saying that from a purely economic point of view the club's ticketing policy has clearly failed for this game. That really is an indisputable fact. If the pricing policy had been a success, they wouldn't have any empty seats left to basically give away. No matter what business you're in, having to sell something for a quarter of its original face value means you've fucked up somewhere along the line.

Whilst it may look like a great altruistic gesture, it is also a real kick in the teeth for a lot of people. And again, no matter what line of your business you're in, you don't want to make a habit of going around kicking your customers in the teeth. Not everyone who pre-booked a ticket is necessarily rolling around in bundles of cash, and likewise, not everyone who takes advantage of this offer will be on the breadline.

It is a fuck up, and I'm sure if you were to have a private, off-the-record conversation with anyone at the club, they'd tell you the same thing. The club won't want to be repeating this "gesture" because it will simply serve to throw the whole ticketing process into chaos. The plus side, though, is that it should lead to cheaper tickets across the board. Chances are, had tickets been priced £7 or £8 cheaper for this game, this thread wouldn't even exist. This is the lesson the club will have learnt from all of this, not that it's ok to piss off a load of people by rewarding a few every time they get their prices wrong.

Utter bollocks and shows your usual lack of feeling (probably due to your distance from City).

That example of only getting the last ten minutes of the game is totally wrong. If I buy a loaf of bread on a reduced price, it doesn't mean I cannot enjoy the whole loaf, just that I have less time before.

It is no fuck up. Those that were happy to pay £30-40 yesterday were happy to do that. They are no worse off today are they? They are happy they got their seat.

Those that couldn't afford it and now can, while sat up in the gods are also happy.

It is due to moaning shits that those on this thread that nothing ever gets done. The clun knew they wouldnt sell out so sorted it accordingly. If people are upset that other people got a better deal then they are the sort of wanker I don't want sat anywhere near me anyway. I am a ST holder so I didn't gain from it (other than a perhaps full house and better atmosphere).

You don't know the first thing about me or what "feeling" I have. I've got my season ticket, and it doesn't particularly bother me either. But I can see this for what it really is: a bit of a fuck up that the club won't want to be repeating. If you think this will become a new long-term altruistic strategy, then you'll be sorely disappointed.

As you're so keen to use the supermarket analogy, do you think they just shrug their shoulders every time they over stock and are forced to flog it all off at vastly reduced prices? No, they don't. They go back through all their processes and try their best to correct it. This is exactly what City will do.

I expect prices to come down across the board for games we traditionally struggle to sell out on, as the club certainly won't want to get involved in this sort of thing on a regular basis as it will completely distort the ticketing process.

Nothing in either of my posts has been "utter bollocks" as you so poetically put it; it's been pure common sense. Good luck to those who will get hold of a cheap ticket tonight but the club is asking for trouble if it pursues such a strategy on a regular basis.

 

[Barntonblue]

Can I ask one question! when did these tickets go on sale? At the start of the season or 3 weeks ago when it got announced. If its the latter then I can see why its taken till now to shift them!

Answers please

 

[cibaman]

I buy my season ticket in the hope that it will give me priority for games that are sell outs, cup finals etc. I'm disappointed that I havent really needed it for that purpose yet. But it doesnt bother me that the club are selling cheap tockets to fill the ground, other than that I wish that they didnt have to.

 

[Soulboy]

Dubai Blue... what you say makes eminent sense... if this is intended to be a long-term ticketing policy of off-loading tickets at bargain bucket prices on the basis of last day sales.

But there is absolutely no indication that this is the case.

In my humble opinion, this is just a one-off to try to fill the ground out, to sell 2,000 tickets that wouldn't have been sold otherwise, and a win-win for all concerned.

I'm sure the club won't do this again in the near future... but that's not the issue here.

The issue here is that the Club have done it NOW and a lot of City fans will benefit, yet too many on here are whining that it's not fair.

It is. It's the same if you buy a ticket for a theatre in London when you can spend £60 and be guaranteed your seat or pay £30 on the day if you're perpared to take your chances.

I salute the club for this initiative. I'm amazed that everyone else doesn't.

And if people are claiming they'll wait in future to see if the price drops... then so be it. That's how the free market works. No one is forced to buy a ticket at a price they don't agree with.

I used to follow City home and away for years, then slowly realised that some clubs were taking the mick by charging ludicrous prices. So I stopped going to those games. If I had carried on paying the ludicrous prices I would have had no cause for complaint as I wan't being complellled to pay that price.

If fans pay daft prices, then clubs will continue to charge daft prices.

If you think the price is too high... don't pay. The clubs will eventually revise their prices then.