FA Cup R3 | Salford City (H) | Sat 11 Jan 1745

[EastMidlandsBlue]

But I thought we had thousands of fans who have been priced out. I keep reading it on here.
Where the f are they, or do they just want cheap tickets for PL and CL games?

The game is a month away, this will sell out

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

This is a game that shows the demand is relatively price inelastic.

Absolute bollocks

 

[BungleBear]

Absolute bollocks

The demand for the game is the demand, if it was £30 or £5 for an adult it doesn't make much difference, when comparing it to a £30+ game in the FA Cup recently against a lower league team.

Just like people splash out £600 for UCL final or £250 for FAC final, the demand for the game has primacy over the price.

I have no idea why you retort to insults?

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

The demand for the game is the demand, if it was £30 or £5 for an adult it doesn't make much difference, when comparing it to a £30+ game in the FA Cup recently against a lower league team.

Just like people splash out £600 for UCL final or £250 for FAC final, the demand for the game has primacy over the price.

I have no idea why you retort to insults?

The demand is absolutely elastic to price, every time the club lowers the prices for games like this it always sells much better (See Huddersfield last year, and Fulham the year before). This game will hopefully be no different, as its way too early to declare that it hasn't sold out, and once it gets onto general sale I'm sure plenty more will sell.

When calcuting how elastic PED is for any good or service, you compare how demand will change when there is a change in price. This has nothing to do with demand for other goods or services.

So the fact that people are willing to pay more for a UCL final than for an FA Cup 3rd round game vs Salford is completely irrelevant. It would be like declaring that Air Travel is price inelastic because people will pay £400 for a flight to New York, but not for a flight to Dublin.

I haven't resorted to insults, your original statement was indeed "absolute bollocks" and that's not an attack on you personally.

 

[BungleBear]

The demand is absolutely elastic to price, every time the club lowers the prices for games like this it always sells much better (See Huddersfield last year, and Fulham the year before). This game will hopefully be no different, as its way too early to declare that it hasn't sold out, and once it gets onto general sale I'm sure plenty more will sell.

When calcuting how elastic PED is for any good or service, you compare how demand will change when there is a change in price. This has nothing to do with demand for other goods or services.

So the fact that people are willing to pay more for a UCL final than for an FA Cup 3rd round game vs Salford is completely irrelevant. It would be like declaring that Air Travel is price inelastic because people will pay £400 for a flight to New York, but not for a flight to Dublin.

I haven't resorted to insults, your original statement was indeed "absolute bollocks" and that's not an attack on you personally.

No one has ever claimed that football pricing isn't relatively inelastic until you now.

Ken Bates knew this at Leeds when he doubled the prices. Double the prices lose a third of fans, relatively inelastic, make more money.

I didn't compare the two games, I said each game has its own demand, and change in price is greater than change in demand. RELATIVELY inelastic.

 

[give it to gordon]

But I thought we had thousands of fans who have been priced out. I keep reading it on here.
Where the f are they, or do they just want cheap tickets for PL and CL games?

You get out of the habit. I've gone from around 12 to 15 games a season. Got 2 games in April and May. I don't feel part of the support anymore, don't see the point of just doing 3 or 4 games.

 

[pride in battle]

You get out of the habit. I've gone from around 12 to 15 games a season. Got 2 games in April and May. I don't feel part of the support anymore, don't see the point of just doing 3 or 4 games.

Really ???

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

No one has ever claimed that football pricing isn't relatively inelastic until you now.

Ken Bates knew this at Leeds when he doubled the prices. Double the prices lose a third of fans, relatively inelastic, make more money.

I didn't compare the two games, I said each game has its own demand, and change in price is greater than change in demand. RELATIVELY inelastic.

It's something that is completely dependent on factors such as the income of the consumer.

Due to us having a fairly low income fanbase, we're more likely to have elastic demand than Fulham for example, or Liverpool with tourists for days. If our ticket prices were doubled we'd lose a lot more than a third of our local working class fanbase, and we don’t quite have the tourist element to replace them.

As for this game, it's not £25 for a father and son to attend. It's £60 right now as you need at least one £35 matchday membership to buy a ticket. When it eventually goes onto general sale you'll see how many more people are willing to pay £25 than £60.

 

[give it to gordon]

Really ???

Yea, when doing 12 or so games a season we felt we had helped the team, we were part of it.

To do just 4 games per season when I put the mileage (2400miles) the time etc can't get seats next to each other. Perhaps it's my age

I perfer to do at least 10 matches per season....but cost and tickets availability is bonkers now

 

[eyalluvitt]

It's something that is completely dependent on factors such as the income of the consumer.

Due to us having a fairly low income fanbase, we're more likely to have elastic demand than Fulham for example, or Liverpool with tourists for days. If our ticket prices were doubled we'd lose a lot more than a third of our local working class fanbase, and we don’t quite have the tourist element to replace them.

As for this game, it's not £25 for a father and son to attend. It's £60 right now as you need at least one £35 matchday membership to buy a ticket. When it eventually goes onto general sale you'll see how many more people are willing to pay £25 than £60.

Only Everton have a lower income fanbase than us, strange considering Stockport is Gtr Manchester’s wealthiest borough (joke)