Seasoncard Renewal thread 2016/17 - Prices Frozen

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

I better get onto the ticket office then ha

Still nothing

 

[crmcfc]

Hope they have fixed the leak above my seat if they are expecting to get £700 out of me!

Give you that one it pisses in near me as well.......

 

[blingy]

And for those fans that don't have kids or have shown their loyalty by signing up to the cup scheme at the start of the season, what's in this deal for us? I'm not being facetious or anything but as someone who has been on every single cup scheme ever since the club introduced them over a decade ago I'd have thought there may have been something in the offing for us. I know we get 100 or 200 loyalty points for signing up to the scheme plus priority over non-cup scheme members for away tickets in that competition but not everyone on the cup scheme will be high enough up the pecking order to get tickets for certain European away games.

I would also add that the ST price freeze is a welcome step in the right direction, although I his twouldn't mind betting that recent pressure from the fans has played a part in that decision. That's actually a good thing because it shows that the club does listen to the fans.

Yea your righ with the away tickets for cup scheme members but like you say we get priority and double points as the reward, don't know what the answer to that is apart from ueafa upping the away allocation like we do in th cups here. but it is a free option not costing anything with the option to pull out with the only consequences being loses the free points they give as a reward. So no harm no foul ..

In Reality me lad his psg ticket for a £5 rather then the original £15 we paid plus a food voucher, I'd have to pay the £45 if he wasn't going so I'm in the same boat as everyone else when it comes to my ticket for psg ..

We will never know what part the fans played in the ticket freezing, but I'm incline to think that the club is decent and had planned a freez all along, everything points to us having decent owners, players, structure, community , and not seen anything indicating otherwise so I'm happy standing behind them on this but accept that everyone has there own views.

 

[blingy]

The only reason that has happened is because of very very poor sales for the family stand
Look at the planner. It's nowhere near selling out

http://tickets.mcfc.co.uk/events-choose-seats-flash.aspx?eid=16827&sid=44087&pid=5286&vid=61

I bet there's still nearly 2000 tickets to be sold

Agree, but that's what all business do, try shift what you not sold in crafty marketing ploys, do it myself in my own componeny when somethings not selling.
Glad they had the morel to give me the difrence back as they could have easly marketed it in a way where they wouldn't have to give money back to those already sold, and with all the discontent there is a chance they could lose more in refunds then they actuate make on sales.

I think (and only my opinion) that a lot have been put off by the noise makers rather then the price.. I know a couple that have not bought as they became upset at the price after reading others was upset at the price, even though they was happy paying the same for Barca a couple of year ago and happy to pay more for arsanel and Chelsea away along with other away games..
Didn't have a answer when I pointed out that there happy to put more money then we are asking for in in arsanel / Chelsea's pocket (even Birmingham city's a few years back ) but not in our own clubs

Just wonder if anyone who pays to go away and are boycotting this game had a answer to why there happy putting there money in other clubs coffers but not our own ..

 

[ped]

One of the biggest stars in the music industry is Adele
If she rocked up in Manchester to play 25 gigs at the Arena over the course of 9 months, would the same 45,000 people pay £50 to go to every one?

no becouse it would be groundhog day ,

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Yea your righ with the away tickets for cup scheme members but like you say we get priority and double points as the reward, don't know what the answer to that is apart from ueafa upping the away allocation like we do in th cups here. but it is a free option not costing anything with the option to pull out with the only consequences being loses the free points they give as a reward. So no harm no foul ..

In Reality me lad his psg ticket for a £5 rather then the original £15 we paid plus a food voucher, I'd have to pay the £45 if he wasn't going so I'm in the same boat as everyone else when it comes to my ticket for psg ..

We will never know what part the fans played in the ticket freezing, but I'm incline to think that the club is decent and had planned a freez all along, everything points to us having decent owners, players, structure, community , and not seen anything indicating otherwise so I'm happy standing behind them on this but accept that everyone has there own views.

I agree with you Blingy about the price freeze being likely anyway. With the £30 aways it's like me saving a tender a week over the season.

Credit to the guys who helped to secure savings for youngsters in the family stand though for PSG!

There may also be cheaper tickets knocking about e.g. for adults offered to public servants etc who can pass them on at the price they paid

 

[blingy]

A freeze is decent but those whinging about the TV deal and saying the prices could have been reduced, get a reality grip. This is a business, providing by and large top draw entertainment. What would you pay for top draw entertainment elsewhere? A decent gig; £50 and more, ten pin bowling for two hours will fleece you a fair bit too and that's the dullest thing on earth. Do people expect it for free? City have been pretty damn good at subsidising cup tickets in recent seasons and there are thousands of so called loyal fans who still don't turn up, you know who you are.

FFS, look at what we have achieved in recent seasons, you can't expect it for nothing. And as any business does, they will push the boundaries, that's price elasticity and I think you will find a level has been found. There will be a few years of relevant flatness on price. The club in all fairness did warn of increases about 3 years back, they were hardly thrust out of the dark. What's an average ST at City, £600 for 19 games? Works out at just over £30 a knock, come one , most of could piss that up the wall in little over an hour, I know I could.

Laters.

Loving the post but loving the " price elasticity " all day long
Easy beats the buzz word of the day (can't remember what it was ) someone was pushing out this morning on here...

My task for the week at work is now to slip " price elasticity " in to a conversation with someone ;-)

 

[blingy]

I don't understand comparing the price of football tickets to gigs/theatre etc. For me they're entirely different things. I don't feel a compulsion to go and watch a play or a band as I do with City, and you're not being asked to fork out 2,3 or 4 times a month to see a band.

Plenty do feel that way about bands as we do about football and will take in 2/3 gigs a month..
I pity the ones having the passion for both,, my cousin is one but chose music when it became clear he couldn't afford both, now takes in a couple of games a season , and I'm betting he and his mates say the same thing about us.

 

[City & Blue Brazil]

Agree, but that's what all business do, try shift what you not sold in crafty marketing ploys, do it myself in my own componeny when somethings not selling.
Glad they had the morel to give me the difrence back as they could have easly marketed it in a way where they wouldn't have to give money back to those already sold, and with all the discontent there is a chance they could lose more in refunds then they actuate make on sales.

I think (and only my opinion) that a lot have been put off by the noise makers rather then the price.. I know a couple that have not bought as they became upset at the price after reading others was upset at the price, even though they was happy paying the same for Barca a couple of year ago and happy to pay more for arsanel and Chelsea away along with other away games..
Didn't have a answer when I pointed out that there happy to put more money then we are asking for in in arsanel / Chelsea's pocket (even Birmingham city's a few years back ) but not in our own clubs

Just wonder if anyone who pays to go away and are boycotting this game had a answer to why there happy putting there money in other clubs coffers but not our own ..

We have no influence over other clubs but we hopefully do over city .

 

[blingy]

They haven't actually reduced the ticket price in that deal for level one vs PSG either: it was always £40 adult, £10 under 16, in the lower tier of the Family Stand with the £5 season ticket/Cityzen membership reduction.

That's your £50 deal right there. Nothing has changed apart from a food voucher being thrown in.

What the club has done however is bring the price in the upper tier of the Family Stand down to match that of the lower. So level two of the FS was £45 adult, £15 under 16 with the £5 membership discounts included.

Now they've matched upper with lower so it's now £40 + £10 with the £5 membership discounts included. A £10 saving together on the original prices.


Sign up to the cup scheme, you pay top whack, and then miss out on all the late deals the club puts out as they try to reverse their initial error in the pricing of tickets for a cup fixture.

Really don't get how the bean counters in charge of ticketing can get it so wrong.

You say nothing has changed but what's changed is that kids are getting tickets for £5 rather then £15 /£10 so yes there is a change and another change which is a big one, is that this is open to those who are not on the cup scheme so the savings there are bigger , is this not also a change..

Where are these deals everyone is missing out on ?

Nobody is missing out on any last minute deals as the deal is for kids at £5 a ticket which you and everyone is entitled too !!

I understand beleave it or not that you have a downer on ticket prices and kinda get why, I don't want to get into name calling again like children (maybe we could both get a £5 ticket for past behaviour ) but can't understand why you are taking every opertunity to make a negative out of a positive
Surely you cause would be best served taking a difrent approach ..