Sneaky increase in ticket prices

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

They are, it's either £68 or £70 a ticket anywhere available with a small handful of blocks at £75.

Edit: tell a lie, it's £85 for 209, 210 & 221.

Wow.

 

[bladdered]

I fully understand that it's a "seller's market", but that's way too much, in my opinion. £50 per night would be more than enough for a 3* hotel.

Travelodge Ancoats £29 for Spurs and Wolves games. £25 at Central Arena tho bit more of a walk.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Yes mate, 140 & 241 just had a look at, both £70 a pop for regular single adult seats dotted about for that Thursday evening game vs Spurs.
Amazing tbh, and not in a good way.

Edit. If you’re happy to go SS3 it’s only £68. Bargain innit.

SS3 £68! Christ that is ludicrous.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Yep. The hotel where I normally stay (a 3 star hotel, nothing flash) is asking £185 for two nights.

You can get the Midland on secret escapes for £109 on a Sunday Jim! Breakfast for two & a bottle of fizz, I’m doubling up for the Villa game & calling it a valentines prezzie for the Mrs :) it’s them bloody Saturdays that are expensive, I normally stay over for midweek & Sunday games and book a days holiday, but this season we seem to have a fair few

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

SEVENTY quid for a matchday ticket in the North East corner for Spurs now. Prices like that, coupled with few new STs being released, will kill us as a fanbase as young Manchester families will be totally priced out of going regularly. You'd hope that City will continue to price games more affordably at the beginning of the season and keep Cat C games priced on earth, but that's still going to pose a problem for fans without STs who can't afford to buy all their games upfront before the season. Frightening.

It’s been going on for years. The club couldn’t care less about ordinary city fans or people from the area. Problem is we have no one standing up for the fans.

 

[bluesmith]

I get the principle, but I’m amazed they think they’ll sell those isolated single seats at £70 a pop for a Thursday night tv game in Feb, but we shall see I guess.

The problem is they've sold out for the game once and cant reduce the prices after thousands have already paid that. And they wont care as the isolated seats are likely to be season ticket holders putting on the exchange.

They'll be hundreds on sale on the day of the game but 99% will disappear 3 hours before kick off as exchange seats are taken off sale.

 

[jimharri]

You can get the Midland on secret escapes for £109 on a Sunday Jim! Breakfast for two & a bottle of fizz, I’m doubling up for the Villa game & calling it a valentines prezzie for the Mrs :) it’s them bloody Saturdays that are expensive, I normally stay over for midweek & Sunday games and book a days holiday, but this season we seem to have a fair few

I can't book a day's holiday, unfortunately. The factory shuts down for two weeks in the summer, and two weeks at Christmas. If you take a day off at any other time, you take the hit. That, along with the flights, accommodation and money for a lemonade or two make it a too expensive weekend.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

I suspect they're applying some sort of dynamic pricing. Higher the demand, the higher the price. Great if it lowers prices when demand is low but not so good when it means prices go up. I think we're the only PL club who do that.

Even united, not known for their propensity to willingly give up the chance of a few extra quid, charge the same price for a seat regardless of the opposition. So you pay the same whether it's Southampton or us/Liverpool.

If that's right then it's disgusting. Like trickle down economics, dynamic pricing rarely suits anyone other than the profiteers.
We are in a savage cost of living crisis with millions striking and losing pay to get better outcomes for them and families yet here are City fleecing us.
It leaves a truly dreadful taste in the mouth - match day ticketing makes very little difference to profit so why do it?

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I could probably afford it but wouldnt pay it. cup games for me now which I think are still decent value

Been an issue for last ten years prices however doesn't seem to have affected crowds to be fair as the teams doing so well so why wouldn't they fleece us for all we have any other business would and thats what they are at end of day

It’s not where we should be at though, is it. The club is much more than a business - it’s a community asset made for the people of Manchester. At the moment large numbers of working class people aren’t benefiting from it or able to attend.

We shouldn’t just accept being priced out. Without the fans the club is nothing.

 

[jrb]

It’s been going on for years. The club couldn’t care less about ordinary city fans or people from the area. Problem is we have no one standing up for the fans

City Matters!

If anyone mentions a ticket price protest, you're called a Rag, told to f*ck off, told why these tickets prices are necessary, told about the limited number of cheap season tickets in SSL3, told about the cheap tickets via the tied in cup schemes that guarantee you loyalty points for 'away tickets', if you can get an away tickets, and a whole host of other reasons to make you feel like an ungrateful moaning c*nt! :-)