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Season Ticket Renewals - small increases (again)
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Stoned Rose
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Dear oh dear.
It’s not though is it mate?
You can’t expect a business to base its pricing on how many kids someone might have?
Do you think Tesco think ‘oooh we can’t have these biscuits being more than a quid in case someone who has 5 kids can’t afford them’?
Kaini Industries
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I think the reaction was based on telling someone not to have so many kids because they disagree with City's pricing policy.
The constant price increases make sense when you realise that the club could not care less about its core support. Not releasing price details until the renewal window opens is another sign of the sheer contempt for anyone who doesn't enter the club shop on every home match day.
And that will still be the case when Pep goes round to deliver someone's ticket or whatever PR scheme they dream up to counter the negative press this time.
The constant price increases make sense when you realise that the club could not care less about its core support. Not releasing price details until the renewal window opens is another sign of the sheer contempt for anyone who doesn't enter the club shop on every home match day.
And that will still be the case when Pep goes round to deliver someone's ticket or whatever PR scheme they dream up to counter the negative press this time.
Your Tesco analogy is piss poor mate. Everyone has a financial cut off point for what they can pay, even you. The fact is some supporters have reached theirs, and it"s a shame that those who have the audacity to have the next generation of City supporters in the form of kids can no longer afford to pay up.It’s not though is it mate?
You can’t expect a business to base its pricing on how many kids someone might have?
Do you think Tesco think ‘oooh we can’t have these biscuits being more than a quid in case someone who has 5 kids can’t afford them’?
PragueBlue
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Everyone has a financial cut off point for what they can pay, even you. The fact is some supporters have reached theirs, and it"s a shame that those who have the audacity to have the next generation of City supporters in the form of kids can no longer afford to pay up.
That's always happened. It's a shame but I'm sure some were priced out last year, 5/10/15/20 years ago etc. Whatever the prices are, there will be always some that can't afford it.
Season cards for kids are generally reasonably priced from what I remember.
Grealish’s Shinpads
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Any news on when relocation will be available?
Stoned Rose
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Your Tesco analogy is piss poor mate. Everyone has a financial cut off point for what they can pay, even you. The fact is some supporters have reached theirs, and it"s a shame that those who have the audacity to have the next generation of City supporters in the form of kids can no longer afford to pay up.
But you’re expecting City to have the audacity to not increase their prices for what is the best product in the game just because you might have kids?
Can’t have your cake and eat it mate.
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Ticketing provides the club a small percentage of overall income. We are now a profitable club and aren’t scratching around every possible bit of income to pass FFP.
They do not need to keep increasing ticket prices. Simple as that.
For all the fantastic work the club are doing in many other areas, this is the one area they are doing things wrong. It’s men whose names we may never hear of, working on their Excel spreadsheets, justifying their wages, as they maximise ticketing profits for no reason than just maximising them. Doing it for the sake of doing it. Just to show those extra “+” and “£”s in the Deloitte money league table.
There are some very reasonably priced tickets at City, but it’s not many. Bayern have 12000 reasonably priced tickets. I’d be surprised if it’s 1/6 of that at City. Yes, the Bundesliga is a different animal but at the end of the day City could charge every fan behind the goals £500 and every fan along the sides £650 and be no worse off. Mine is over £800 now. I’ve been in that seat well over a decade and have mates and good people around me where we all join in with the singing every game. We’ve already lost two lads from my row in the last three years due to cost.
All tickets for City games should be sold by City to City fans at good prices. None of this passing them on to third party websites to sell on at huge cost, none of this £60 match day tickets, none of this 1000 at £299 and “fuck everyone else let’s charge them as close to a grand as possible”... be fair to everyone outside the corporate areas, not just a tiny percentage.
They do not need to do it.
They do not need to keep increasing ticket prices. Simple as that.
For all the fantastic work the club are doing in many other areas, this is the one area they are doing things wrong. It’s men whose names we may never hear of, working on their Excel spreadsheets, justifying their wages, as they maximise ticketing profits for no reason than just maximising them. Doing it for the sake of doing it. Just to show those extra “+” and “£”s in the Deloitte money league table.
There are some very reasonably priced tickets at City, but it’s not many. Bayern have 12000 reasonably priced tickets. I’d be surprised if it’s 1/6 of that at City. Yes, the Bundesliga is a different animal but at the end of the day City could charge every fan behind the goals £500 and every fan along the sides £650 and be no worse off. Mine is over £800 now. I’ve been in that seat well over a decade and have mates and good people around me where we all join in with the singing every game. We’ve already lost two lads from my row in the last three years due to cost.
All tickets for City games should be sold by City to City fans at good prices. None of this passing them on to third party websites to sell on at huge cost, none of this £60 match day tickets, none of this 1000 at £299 and “fuck everyone else let’s charge them as close to a grand as possible”... be fair to everyone outside the corporate areas, not just a tiny percentage.
They do not need to do it.
Eccles Blue
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I was priced out for a number of years when my kids were growing up many years ago. It happens to us all. I was upset but managed to get to a few games with a couple of them now and again.
It's that little thing called life I'm afraid.
It's that little thing called life I'm afraid.
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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I was priced out for a number of years when my kids were growing up many years ago. It happens to us all. I was upset but managed to get to a few games with a couple of them now and again.
It's that little thing called life I'm afraid.
It’s not life though is it. If the club price tickets at an affordable rate most people with kids would be able to go.