Seat Counters - 2024/25

[Greenandblue]

This is the BS we're dealing with, Leicester game midweek Wednesday 2nd April is sold out on the ticket site. So despite paying £35 membership you can't buy tickets from the club, and plan a trip, they give the perception of a sold out event.

BUT the tout sites have 1,000s for sale, £90 in the south stand, no kids or OAP discounts.



Leicester midweek in April would not be rammed even if we were going for the title (think Brentford last year). So the tout sites will not sell out at the extortion prices, thousands will get returned, on top of exchange tickets, and this is why you have available tickets in the numbers we see for Forest tomorrow.

They could sell all the tickets at a fair price, on the official site to genuine blues, but it's worth shifting a few thousand to event tourists at double the price. They genuinely don't care, making a few more quid is what it's about.

Leicester will have thousands of empty seats, guaranteed. They could sell them, at a decent price to members, but they choose not too. Only a few more nights like tomorrow might get their attention.....but I really doubt it. Been going on about 3 years now

 

[M18CTID]

This is the BS we're dealing with, Leicester game midweek Wednesday 2nd April is sold out on the ticket site. So despite paying £35 membership you can't buy tickets from the club, and plan a trip, they give the perception of a sold out event.

BUT the tout sites have 1,000s for sale, £90 in the south stand, no kids or OAP discounts.



Leicester midweek in April would not be rammed even if we were going for the title (think Brentford last year). So the tout sites will not sell out at the extortion prices, thousands will get returned, on top of exchange tickets, and this is why you have available tickets in the numbers we see for Forest tomorrow.

They could sell all the tickets at a fair price, on the official site to genuine blues, but it's worth shifting a few thousand to event tourists at double the price. They genuinely don't care, making a few more quid is what it's about.

Leicester will have thousands of empty seats, guaranteed. They could sell them, at a decent price to members, but they choose not too. Only a few more nights like tomorrow might get their attention.....but I really doubt it. Been going on about 3 years now

Been thinking about this since last night and your thoughts mirror mine. If City hadn’t given/sold thousands of Forest home tickets to the third party ticket sites and instead put them on sale to members back in the summer, a lot of them would’ve been snapped up back then. Sure, it wouldn’t be the most in demand game with it being midweek in December but plenty of tickets would’ve shifted. However, few fans are going to pay those prices now when thousands have been returned to City at such short notice, even if we were in a good run of form.

I’d like to know who at City thought it would be a good idea to shift thousands of tickets to third party ticket agencies for a midweek league game in December against Forest and expecting them all to sell. Whoever made that decision is a fucking idiot.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Ahhh but Prestwich Blue is adamant that the tickets on Livefootball don’t come from City !!! Hahaha

Absolute bollocks of course. City are balls deep with these touts. Good little business model - outsource the tickets, get huge mark up on ticket revenue, and don’t get heat from supporters for charging silly money cause it’s a mystery ticket agent selling them.

Except there’s a bit of problem when the lack of engagement with supporters and the team turning shit kills demand.

The consequence is thousands of tickets appearing back on the clubs ticket site unsold the week before the game.

Shambles.

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

 

[I'm not really here]

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

Yeah ok

 

[Greenandblue]

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

I'm sorry, but I think they almost certainly are. Just dealing with the more reputable ones, but they are using them as sales agents. Those sites have too many tickets, all sat together, and in the same blocks in the ground, often East Stand 3rd tier near the back, hundreds of seats. Most people you speak to sitting there will have paid more than face value from a ticketing site. Rows of seats together. When they don't shift them, you''ll see clusters of empties in those sections, even at big matches.

See Liverpool at home next year, 1,350 tickets available on a site, starting at £250 after fees. I know, maybe these sites are spoofing how many that have, but if you've sat up high in the third tier for a big home game, it's absolutely full of opposition fans and event tourists. And the number available will go down up to kickoff.

Why would City sell me a Liverpool ticket for £72, if they can get 3 times that by using an agency? They don't shout about it, and I'm sure there's a mechanism to distance themselves from it, but I will be humbly suprised and apologetic if i'm proven wrong on this.

 

[TivvyBlue]

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

275 seats in 325 tomorrow - these whole rows aren't due to ST returns

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

Aww bless….if you think that I’ve got some magic beans for sale.

It’s explained perfect above by Greenandblue.

City put tickets for sale for every game in August. They all sell out. Except that is for the thousands of tickets City hand to agents such as Livefootball to sell for ridiculous mark ups to tourists.

Everybody wins - city get huge margins on these tickets - get no grief as they are being sold by mystery agencies - and some tourist gets to pay £250-£400 for a premier league experience.

Except there is a problem when games are not popular. Like Forest tomorrow - where the agents have to hand back 4000 unsold tickets to City a week before the game.too late for most supporters to make plans now - so there will be thousands empty on Wednesday.

They will of course be doing the rounds across local schools to try and get bums on seats.

Every PL team is at it - you can go to any game you want to - home or away end - as long as you have your £400 ready you will get in.

 

[SSL2]

Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts

fuckin hell haha, you've took naivety to new levels there. quite impressive

 

[Prophet of Doom]

275 seats in 325 tomorrow - these whole rows aren't due to ST returns

No further questions your honour…no further questions.

It’s a racket in plain sight. I’m amazed a journalist hasn’t written a big exclusive on this yet as every PL club has their nose in the trough.

The fact that some supporters think that 4000 fans decide on the same day to return their ticket - and not just that - but they all sit in blocks together probably tells you why clubs are getting away with it.

 

[M18CTID]

275 seats in 325 tomorrow - these whole rows aren't due to ST returns

Prime 3rd tier seats as well near the halfway line. Fucking hell, if those had gone on sale to members back in the summer loads would've been snapped up.