City Announces Global Partnership with Viagogo

[blueandy1mac]

The packages the club and other sellers will use will be cheap add ons, programme, pie n pint, dressed up as hospitality. Cost to club a fiver, add on £100+.
Not rocket science and they'll have others ready as we write. Too much money being made for them to give it up. Government legislation putting big companies out of business, not in my lifetime.

 

[jrb]

The packages the club and other sellers will use will be cheap add ons, programme, pie n pint, dressed up as hospitality. Cost to club a fiver, add on £100+.
Not rocket science and they'll have others ready as we write. Too much money being made for them to give it up. Government legislation putting big companies out of business, not in my lifetime.

There's only a limited market for that. Your average fan isn't going to be tempted or interested in that.

Big companies out of business?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The club cannot sell every seat with hospitality. That's impossible. It won't happen. How many fans are going to buy a ticket in SSL1 with hospitality for £250?

The club will find ways around selling more expensive tickets with added on hospitality, but there is only so much of an uptake for those kind of tickets.

Selling a listed ticket on the ticket exchange for £65 instead of £42, 1/19, that the club give me, is a markup by the club. If the club are giving me £42 for my match ticket, the club should sell that match ticket for £42 to another City fan. Yes, the club could add transaction fees to the sale, but the fees have to be resenable.

As others have said the other alternative for the club is to raise match day and season ticket prices again, but do the club want to be seen skirting around the new ticketing laws, and pissing the fans off again, and possibly starting another fan protest about ticket prices?

It’s not a mark up by the club especially as they offer ‘guaranteed refunds’ for up to 12 matches. On those occasions, the club takes all the ‘risk’ (a small risk, admittedly) to ensure you get your £42 back, regardless of whether the ticket resells.

 

[jrb]

You're correct on the hospitality bit, there's limited room for meals & drinks for starters. You are wrong on the "face value" of your ST though, you're getting a discount on it, the "face value" is the matchday ticket price so not a markup.

Why? If the advertised individual match price for members for a seat in your block is, for example, £65, and City sell the ticket you don't want to a member for £65, how much you were reimbursed is irrelevant as your ticket was part of a different package (season ticket).

As far as I'm aware City don't charge fees on individual tickets, Viagogo and the likes are of course another matter and hopefully they are about to get the slapping they've had coming for years.

We don't know what the resale law will be for resale season tickets on a match to match basis. The resale ticket law may or may not apply to resale season tickets on a match to match basis.

City might start charging ticket handling fees to claw some money back. There's a lot of money to be made via ticket handling fees, which in itself is another money making scam.

 

[dadnlad]

They won't piss off ST holders if they have trouble selling the additional seats when the North Stand extension opens. - There are only a limited number of tourists and returning lapsed supporters, and both are far below the number of ST holders.

we need it open and see them struggle to sell tickets if goes unopened till end of season then they'll try it on

 

[Sky Blue Mon]

Ha ha saw the thread post, thought City had a partnership with Viagra

 

[city68]

So am I right in thinking if you are in a foreign country you can book a ticket from them for a match of your choice.If so what's wrong with that we have extra seats to fill now...

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Ha ha saw the thread post, thought City had a partnership with Viagra

Doubt it, they would have to beat stiff opposition...

 

[oakiecokie]

Ha ha saw the thread post, thought City had a partnership with Viagra

City are already an upstanding Company.

 

[tweety]

I started watching City in the 70/71 season as a young lad. My uncle took me, my dad used to give him £1, that paid for train fare, dinner at Lewis's and the match. Everyone is being royally ripped off for everything these days, well done to the government for trying to control the parasites that are ripping people off for sports and entertainment tickets.

 

[Centurions]

We don't know what the resale law will be for resale season tickets on a match to match basis. The resale ticket law may or may not apply to resale season tickets on a match to match basis.

City might start charging ticket handling fees to claw some money back. There's a lot of money to be made via ticket handling fees, which in itself is another money making scam.

Since it's not made it past parliament yet, no we don't know what the rules will be yet. Yet I'll guarantee you it will be based on the matchday price on the individual games. The "ticket handling fees" are also mooted to be capped.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Ha ha saw the thread post, thought City had a partnership with Viagra

Keep up

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Ha ha saw the thread post, thought City had a partnership with Viagra

we did have one not long ago with Tinder!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

So am I right in thinking if you are in a foreign country you can book a ticket from them for a match of your choice.If so what's wrong with that we have extra seats to fill now...

Nothing wrong with it apart from everyone else has to pay for a membership to purchase a ticket and Viagogo don’t know / don’t care if away fans are buying them too.

 

[jrb]

City could change the 1/19th?

City will look at every option to claw back money.

It’s not a mark up by the club especially as they offer ‘guaranteed refunds’ for up to 12 matches. On those occasions, the club takes all the ‘risk’ (a small risk, admittedly) to ensure you get your £42 back, regardless of whether the ticket resells.

The club can take the risk as a large percentage of ticket exchange tickets do sell. Not all. All of my tickets that I have listed on a few occasions have always sold. I stand in block 115, SSL1. It will be harder for the club next season to shift those ticket Exchange tickets as an extra 8000 seats go on sale. And another 4000 F/G season tickets. The club might eventually revise the 1/19th offer?

 

[jrb]

Since it's not made it past parliament yet, no we don't know what the rules will be yet. Yet I'll guarantee you it will be based on the matchday price on the individual games. The "ticket handling fees" are also mooted to be capped.

Save your money. Don’t bet unless you know the outcome. We don’t know anything yet. The government isn’t working with the tour opertators, clubs, or ticket touring websites. However, they are listening to music artists who have got the best interests of their fans at heart, or so it seems that way. Regardless of what happens, hopefully tickets will become cheaper across the leisure industry?

 

[uwerosler28]

So am I right in thinking if you are in a foreign country you can book a ticket from them for a match of your choice.If so what's wrong with that we have extra seats to fill now...

Its ok until you factor in there is no sales criteria so for games where this are no extra seats these sites are allowing those fans who can afford to pay more to jump the que ahead of fans who actually fall just short of the official selling criteria and miss out but cans afford the 3rd party prices , or you play a well supported foreign team in Europe and end up with swathes of away fans in the home end.

 

[jrb]

Originally posted by Nerd on SSC-MCR.

The Guardian has learned that the proposed PSL model being considered by United permitted seat licence holders to sell on their match or season-tickets at a profit to other fans but that will now be outlawed by the government in proposed legislation due to be introduced in next year’s King’s Speech.

The government had originally proposed capping secondary ticket sales for sport, music and arts events at 30% above the face-value price of a ticket, but have now set the limit at the original cost in an attempt to combat touts. Officials at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) claim the change will make the cost of each resale ticket £37 cheaper on average, saving consumers a combined total of £112m every year.

Manchester United’s seat licence plan threatened by ticket tout clampdown

Manchester United’s plans to sell personal seat licences to supporters to help fund the £2bn redevelopment of Old Trafford has been put under threat by the government’s clampdown on ticket touts

www.theguardian.com

 

[city68]

Nothing wrong with it apart from everyone else has to pay for a membership to purchase a ticket and Viagogo don’t know / don’t care if away fans are buying them too.

That could cause a lot of trouble..... Thanks MES

 

[city68]

Its ok until you factor in there is no sales criteria so for games where this are no extra seats these sites are allowing those fans who can afford to pay more to jump the que ahead of fans who actually fall just short of the official selling criteria and miss out but cans afford the 3rd party prices , or you play a well supported foreign team in Europe and end up with swathes of away fans in the home end.

Buy our sell any ticket.... I've heard that before guess where .......Thanks uwerosler28