Discount on usold Tickets 24 hours before kick off

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cyberblue

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For certain games if we have loads of tickets left 24 hour befor kickoff would it be a bad business model to offload them cheap ?
Airlines, Hotels,Restaurants,Supermarkets,Holliday companies & am sure other sporting bodies also offer discount to get shut if they not selling well
Not talking about a regular thing but if it obvious a night game against say Burnley ain't selling well would you rather fans got tickets at a discount or the Club didn't get any revenue for un sold tickets
It would make business sense as people buying tickets might also buy other stuff in the ground
If say 500 were sold at £20 each it is a few extra bob in the coffers
Supose some will think it a good idea while people paying full price won't
 
cyberblue said:
For certain games if we have loads of tickets left 24 hour befor kickoff would it be a bad business model to offload them cheap ?
Airlines, Hotels,Restaurants,Supermarkets,Holliday companies & am sure other sporting bodies also offer discount to get shut if they not selling well
Not talking about a regular thing but if it obvious a night game against say Burnley ain't selling well would you rather fans got tickets at a discount or the Club didn't get any revenue for un sold tickets
It would make business sense as people buying tickets might also buy other stuff in the ground
If say 500 were sold at £20 each it is a few extra bob in the coffers
Supose some will think it a good idea while people paying full price won't
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Don't airlines, the budget ones anyway, work the other way round, cheap tickets sold first then last minute bookers get the expensive one ?
 
cyberblue said:
For certain games if we have loads of tickets left 24 hour befor kickoff would it be a bad business model to offload them cheap ?
Airlines, Hotels,Restaurants,Supermarkets,Holliday companies & am sure other sporting bodies also offer discount to get shut if they not selling well
Not talking about a regular thing but if it obvious a night game against say Burnley ain't selling well would you rather fans got tickets at a discount or the Club didn't get any revenue for un sold tickets
It would make business sense as people buying tickets might also buy other stuff in the ground
If say 500 were sold at £20 each it is a few extra bob in the coffers
Supose some will think it a good idea while people paying full price won't
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City already discount tickets on a somewhat random basis. Tickets on my row in EL3 for Southampton that originally sold at £53 for adults are now £45 on the ticket site. Seats on the section of 303 closer to the front are down to £30.
 
easy just bring back the walk up fans and pay on the gate

so so simple in modern life to pay by card or mobile or even cash at the turnstile ?
just have a person outside with a passkey and a card reader and a cashbox job done
 
cyberblue said:
For certain games if we have loads of tickets left 24 hour befor kickoff would it be a bad business model to offload them cheap ?
Airlines, Hotels,Restaurants,Supermarkets,Holliday companies & am sure other sporting bodies also offer discount to get shut if they not selling well
Not talking about a regular thing but if it obvious a night game against say Burnley ain't selling well would you rather fans got tickets at a discount or the Club didn't get any revenue for un sold tickets
It would make business sense as people buying tickets might also buy other stuff in the ground
If say 500 were sold at £20 each it is a few extra bob in the coffers
Supose some will think it a good idea while people paying full price won't
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If that happened people would just wait until 24 hours before if they knew they could get a cheap ticket. Our ticket office can’t cope sending tickets out days before never mind less than a day !
 
Has this thread been set up by rags or what. Fuck Pep, 38 thousand in a dead rubber is a decent crowd, bet he didn't lament Barcelona when they were knocking the ball around in front of 15 thousand in a 90 thousand stadium. They only filled the place for Madrid.
 
Franny 1234 said:
If they did that then we won't re-new next season and purchase discount tickets every game. CTID
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It would only be the odd game & against unattractive oposition say on a night game in November ,If it gave someone who couldn't normally afford to go ,a chance of seeing the Blues I would say it a good thing
 
BolinCell said:
Has this thread been set up by rags or what. Fuck Pep, 38 thousand in a dead rubber is a decent crowd, bet he didn't lament Barcelona when they were knocking the ball around in front of 15 thousand in a 90 thousand stadium. They only filled the place for Madrid.
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This has nowt to do with what Pep.said & I couldn't give a flying fu*k what he thinks best if you read it again
I thought the crowd on Wed was excellent as I said on other threads we will have had 130.000 fans at the Etihad in less than a week most clubs in Europe couldn't dream of them figures
 
Aye a brilliant plan to allow resident tightwads to hold off buying tickets until the last minute. That will also clog up the ticket office and lines and prevent those with genuine issues from getting through.

To sell more tickets, it would be better to put more resources into ticketing and get rid of some of the obvious bottlenecks in the system.
 
BolinCell said:
Has this thread been set up by rags or what. Fuck Pep, 38 thousand in a dead rubber is a decent crowd, bet he didn't lament Barcelona when they were knocking the ball around in front of 15 thousand in a 90 thousand stadium. They only filled the place for Madrid.
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Would it be a bad business model? No it would be disastrous one.

Let's look to flog a few more tickets last minute by shitting on all the loyal fans who buy well in advance at full price.

The other businesses you mention do it because they don't typically look for repeat customers to form the core of their sales. People go on holiday/flights/hotels once a year maybe twice if they're fortunate, city have around 30 home games a season to fill and can't just magically appeal to a whole new audience should they piss off the people loyal to them. Supermarkets are different because what they sell is crucial to our survival and everybody needs them. There's a reason no football club do this.
 
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