Plzen ticketing issue! Not a happy bunny

[Prestwich_Blue]

The club clearly have a fair number of tickets to shift so SHB might well have a point about the pricing. Perhaps it would have been better to wait to see who we were playing and what the consequences of the game would be before setting a price.

But having said that, they made a pricing decision and have been left with excess stock. It therefore makes sense to try to get a marginal return in order to meet what will be a largely fixed cost of staging the game. Or maybe they're Plzen tickets not being used.

If they'd put them on open sale at £15 then I'd expect a refund of the difference but they haven't. They've put a limited number of tickets out to a limited & restricted subset for one game only. So that's great if you're part of that subset and you fancy attending. It maybe that this price is subsidised so as a paying member of that group you're getting something for your subs.

But from a regular fan's point of view you get a season ticket to guarantee your seat and because it's cheaper than buying on a match-by-match basis. So you've saved far more than the £13 "extra" you've paid.

Also, going on the CL scheme means you're guaranteed to get to games against the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid. There'd be no £15 tickets for those I bet.

DD's analogy is not a bad one. As an alternative imagine being a member of a club or gym then finding subs reduced to half price for new members a couple of months later. That's tough.

 

[aguero93:20]

Has anyone seen an Invoice from MCFC to GMP for the ACTUAL cost of said tickets ??
If not then I suggest you ask to see a copy or STFU.Just beacause A.N.Other belongs to another organisation,who offer them cheaply to either their Staff or Associates as a "thank you",then who the fuck are we to tell others what to do.
However,if someone should be able to disprove that said tickets are being sold by MCFC at a cost far cheaper than those on the Cup Scheme,thats when MCFC have a mighty big question to answer.
So in a nutshell,WHO HAS SEEN AN INVOICE and if GMP are subsidising part of the cost,then good luck to all those people concerned.

Wow. So now we have to see an invoice before people will believe it, do you also want me to scan it and put it on here so that everyone can see it is true. Even then someone will say that it is a fake !
I know for a FACT that GMP are selling them for £15. Are you suggesting City are selling them to GMP for more and a public body are taking a loss, that wouldn't sit well with rate payers...hang on, don't tell me, the City are charging full price and the social club are subsidising there members. Yeh right.

There's such a thing as getting a discount for buying in bulk too...

 

[jrb]

Another thread that splits Blue Moan. For and against.

 

[cheddar404]

Sometimes at the supermarket bakery you can get croissants really cheaply just before the store closes. This is pretty annoying when I pay full price for one during the day but at least I know they'll always have them at that time.

 

[oakiecokie]

Has anyone seen an Invoice from MCFC to GMP for the ACTUAL cost of said tickets ??
If not then I suggest you ask to see a copy or STFU.Just beacause A.N.Other belongs to another organisation,who offer them cheaply to either their Staff or Associates as a "thank you",then who the fuck are we to tell others what to do.
However,if someone should be able to disprove that said tickets are being sold by MCFC at a cost far cheaper than those on the Cup Scheme,thats when MCFC have a mighty big question to answer.
So in a nutshell,WHO HAS SEEN AN INVOICE and if GMP are subsidising part of the cost,then good luck to all those people concerned.

Wow. So now we have to see an invoice before people will believe it, do you also want me to scan it and put it on here so that everyone can see it is true. Even then someone will say that it is a fake !
I know for a FACT that GMP are selling them for £15. Are you suggesting City are selling them to GMP for more and a public body are taking a loss, that wouldn't sit well with rate payers...hang on, don't tell me, the City are charging full price and the social club are subsidising there members. Yeh right.

I assume you`ve NEVER been on a Club Committee ?? I am NOT arguing whether the tickets being sold are £15.The point is that Clubs/Societies up and down the country actually subsidise certain functions out of THEIR funds NOT out of Tax Payers Money !!!
Clearly its something you don`t understand.By the way do you think that people who work for MCFC do NOT receive any form of subsidies from their Employer ??

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The club clearly have a fair number of tickets to shift so SHB might well have a point about the pricing. Perhaps it would have been better to wait to see who we were playing and what the consequences of the game would be before setting a price.

But having said that, they made a pricing decision and have been left with excess stock. It therefore makes sense to try to get a marginal return in order to meet what will be a largely fixed cost of staging the game. Or maybe they're Plzen tickets not being used.

If they'd put them on open sale at £15 then I'd expect a refund of the difference but they haven't. They've put a limited number of tickets out to a limited & restricted subset for one game only. So that's great if you're part of that subset and you fancy attending. It maybe that this price is subsidised so as a paying member of that group you're getting something for your subs.

But from a regular fan's point of view you get a season ticket to guarantee your seat and because it's cheaper than buying on a match-by-match basis. So you've saved far more than the £13 "extra" you've paid.

Also, going on the CL scheme means you're guaranteed to get to games against the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid. There'd be no £15 tickets for those I bet.

DD's analogy is not a bad one. As an alternative imagine being a member of a club or gym then finding subs reduced to half price for new members a couple of months later. That's tough.

A simpler analogy than my earlier one is when you book a holiday, you get there and get chatting to a couple who paid several hundred less by booking one of those last minute holidays where they choose the hotel for you.

To further that analogy, they might have had fairly shit flight times. They certainly wouldn't have got the deal if the hotel had been full. By the same token the few people who've been offered these cheaper tickets (you've hit on the key point: they haven't gone on open sale) are probably in shit seats and won't get any tickets for any games where they are hard to obtain if we happen to do well.

The ones moaning might just be happy they went on the scheme if we get to the semi or the final in Barcalona.

Never was the saying truer: you pays yer money and takes yer choice.

 

[nice neil]

I'm on all cup schemes and I also got stitched regarding the 3 group games for £99 quid deal. I paid £43, £35 & £28 for my seats in the family stand level 2. (i was also called "stupid" by a moderator on here for hoping that this wouldn't happen) "you're (sic) post is stupid" he opined. "that will never happen". Well, it has happened. They've even jumped my lad's ticket for the plzen game up in price because he turned 16 just before they billed us. Even though I effectively made the purchase in August when I signed on the cup scheme. The cheeky fuckers !

 

[nice neil]

The club clearly have a fair number of tickets to shift so SHB might well have a point about the pricing. Perhaps it would have been better to wait to see who we were playing and what the consequences of the game would be before setting a price.

But having said that, they made a pricing decision and have been left with excess stock. It therefore makes sense to try to get a marginal return in order to meet what will be a largely fixed cost of staging the game. Or maybe they're Plzen tickets not being used.

If they'd put them on open sale at £15 then I'd expect a refund of the difference but they haven't. They've put a limited number of tickets out to a limited & restricted subset for one game only. So that's great if you're part of that subset and you fancy attending. It maybe that this price is subsidised so as a paying member of that group you're getting something for your subs.

But from a regular fan's point of view you get a season ticket to guarantee your seat and because it's cheaper than buying on a match-by-match basis. So you've saved far more than the £13 "extra" you've paid.

Also, going on the CL scheme means you're guaranteed to get to games against the likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid. There'd be no £15 tickets for those I bet.

DD's analogy is not a bad one. As an alternative imagine being a member of a club or gym then finding subs reduced to half price for new members a couple of months later. That's tough.

A simpler analogy than my earlier one is when you book a holiday, you get there and get chatting to a couple who paid several hundred less by booking one of those last minute holidays where they choose the hotel for you.

To further that analogy, they might have had fairly shit flight times. They certainly wouldn't have got the deal if the hotel had been full. By the same token the few people who've been offered these cheaper tickets (you've hit on the key point: they haven't gone on open sale) are probably in shit seats and won't get any tickets for any games where they are hard to obtain if we happen to do well.

The ones moaning might just be happy they went on the scheme if we get to the semi or the final in Barcalona.

Never was the saying truer: you pays yer money and takes yer choice.

But, didsbury Dave, the glaringly obvious difference here, and what everyone is upset about is that their loyalty to the club is being ignored. The bloke on holiday who paid too much, probably hasn't spent the last 40 years supporting and giving his hard earned dough to the holiday company.

 

[squirtyflower]

I'm on all cup schemes and I also got stitched regarding the 3 group games for £99 quid deal. I paid £43, £35 & £28 for my seats in the family stand level 2. (i was also called "stupid" by a moderator on here for hoping that this wouldn't happen) "you're (sic) post is stupid" he opined. "that will never happen". Well, it has happened. They've even jumped my lad's ticket for the plzen game up in price because he turned 16 just before they billed us. Even though I effectively made the purchase in August when I signed on the cup scheme. The cheeky fuckers !

And I see you are still unable to differentiate the difference between someone having an opinion that a 'post is stupid' not being the same as calling you being called stupid
Or that it hasn't rankled with you for the last couple of months
I'm not going to reply further, I'll leave the personal abuse to you, you seem to like that.

 

[Blue Mist]

That's your choice in a free market, mate.

But you'd better get on a police training course pretty quickly to make it before next season.

ANY member of GMP, civilian or police officer who is a member of the sports and social can apply for tickets (plural) I know someone within GMP so next year I think I will ask them to get me a ticket. I might even start flogging them on here (at face value of course)
I also spoke at length to someone whose brother worked for Virgin at M/cr Airport, he sorted his family out, (6 tickets.) Both are fact. I do not have evidence myself but others state both the NHS and Uni students have been offered them. I believe this is true.

I paid full price. I did not have the choice of cheaper tickets because of my misguided loyalty.

Go for it mate. You're one smart cookie. Well ahead of the game.

I will bet you have a contingency plan if we get to the final, too.

I don't get into all this name calling shite but I will say that I may or may not be a smart cookie but at least I didn't think I had to become a cop to get a cheap ticket. The simple fact is my loyalty to the club has cost me money. It doesn't matter if we are playing Scunthorpe in the League Cup 2nd round or Barca/Plzen in the group stage I will go. I just don't like paying more money than some student/govt. employee/Virgin bloke just because I am loyal and he is going because he has nothing else to do.

I wonder what your thoughts on Ding Dongs excellent idea are?