Ticket Sales Policy

[squirtyflower]

Don't understand why it upsets so many people.

I was there and thats all that matters, I dont give a fuck if Dave Paul or Sharon cant be arsed to go.

If the swamp or Anfield ect had thousands of empty seats we would be taking the piss .Sponsers pay a fortune & they want a good image .a stadium with empty seats is not a good image .the sorry thing is people would go if the opotunity presented itself

I'm not convinced mate, the costs are too high for most people who randomly want to go to a game, and they often don't find out till they are after a ticket.

I think Viagogo is wrong. I think the ticket prices are too high.
I have a SC and it works out at about £38 per game. Whether that is too expensive is open to debate, but I'd forgo other luxuries before giving up on City, my money my choice. Other people have other priorities.

If you were to offer tickets in my section for £40 for passing trade, what's the point of having a seasoncard? I could just buy tickets for the big games and not for the ones I don't fancy, or the weather's a bit inclement or I'm on holiday.
I believe the reason there is such a mark up is to avoid this scenario, so fans who get a SC get a great deal, relatively.

Getting rid of Viagogo, as some have suggested, would get my vote and the club do an internal transfer, but the club will only do this at face value for the game, which could be way above the SC cost and above what most will pay.

Those picking and choosing games may go to ten games, @£50 a piece is £500
That's still a good £200 less than I pay and I can't make all 19 usually. So it would seem that even with this price differential the buying ticket by ticket is attractive as opposed to a SC.

If I can't make a game I will offer my ticket out to others, sometimes it's taken, other times it's not. I couldn't make the Liverpool at home or Stoke at home this season and have a guess which one I had my hand bitten off and which one nobody would touch with a barge pole.

 

[cyberblue]

It remains to be seen if they have a complete revamp when the extra seats become available

 

[Del_Bosque]

I genuinely think the reason there are so many empty seats is the kids ST's are so cheap

They're also not easy to pass on to friends etc

 

[TFS]

I genuinely think the reason there are so many empty seats is the kids ST's are so cheap

They're also not easy to pass on to friends etc

I think you are right. I have real problems getting seats together in the family stand for me and my son unless I buy within about an hour of them going on sale to Blue members/City Kicks. However, there are lots of empty seats in that stand whenever we go. The number of empty seats v Southampton was almost embarrassing.

Kids' season tickets in that stand were so cheap that it was worth having one even if you could only go to about 6 or 7 games. I didn't buy one because he plays football on Saturdays (and I coach his team) and his KO times vary enough that we would have to miss about half the games. It seems that a lot of season tickets have been bought for kids who have similar constraints though. Some kind of internal ticket exchange is bang on what we need IMHO.

On another note, individual tickets for West Ham still don't seem to be available. Anyone know what's going on? I think someone said on this thread that they were going on sale on 9th April but there is no sign of them online.

 

[blueparrot]

I genuinely think the reason there are so many empty seats is the kids ST's are so cheap

They're also not easy to pass on to friends etc

I think you are right. I have real problems getting seats together in the family stand for me and my son unless I buy within about an hour of them going on sale to Blue members/City Kicks. However, there are lots of empty seats in that stand whenever we go. The number of empty seats v Southampton was almost embarrassing.

Kids' season tickets in that stand were so cheap that it was worth having one even if you could only go to about 6 or 7 games. I didn't buy one because he plays football on Saturdays (and I coach his team) and his KO times vary enough that we would have to miss about half the games. It seems that a lot of season tickets have been bought for kids who have similar constraints though. Some kind of internal ticket exchange is bang on what we need IMHO.

On another note, individual tickets for West Ham still don't seem to be available. Anyone know what's going on? I think someone said on this thread that they were going on sale on 9th April but there is no sign of them online.

I've heard they will now go on sale on 21st

 

[woodleyberksblue]

Maximising number of 'final 3 bundles' they can sell right up until WBA game

 

[bluestevei]

Don't understand why it upsets so many people.

I was there and thats all that matters, I dont give a fuck if Dave Paul or Sharon cant be arsed to go.

If the swamp or Anfield ect had thousands of empty seats we would be taking the piss .Sponsers pay a fortune & they want a good image .a stadium with empty seats is not a good image .the sorry thing is people would go if the opotunity presented itself

I'm not convinced mate, the costs are too high for most people who randomly want to go to a game, and they often don't find out till they are after a ticket.

I think Viagogo is wrong. I think the ticket prices are too high.
I have a SC and it works out at about £38 per game. Whether that is too expensive is open to debate, but I'd forgo other luxuries before giving up on City, my money my choice. Other people have other priorities.

If you were to offer tickets in my section for £40 for passing trade, what's the point of having a seasoncard? I could just buy tickets for the big games and not for the ones I don't fancy, or the weather's a bit inclement or I'm on holiday.
I believe the reason there is such a mark up is to avoid this scenario, so fans who get a SC get a great deal, relatively.

Getting rid of Viagogo, as some have suggested, would get my vote and the club do an internal transfer, but the club will only do this at face value for the game, which could be way above the SC cost and above what most will pay.

Those picking and choosing games may go to ten games, @£50 a piece is £500
That's still a good £200 less than I pay and I can't make all 19 usually. So it would seem that even with this price differential the buying ticket by ticket is attractive as opposed to a SC.

If I can't make a game I will offer my ticket out to others, sometimes it's taken, other times it's not. I couldn't make the Liverpool at home or Stoke at home this season and have a guess which one I had my hand bitten off and which one nobody would touch with a barge pole.

so nobody wanted to watch Liverpool

 

[squirtyflower]

If the swamp or Anfield ect had thousands of empty seats we would be taking the piss .Sponsers pay a fortune & they want a good image .a stadium with empty seats is not a good image .the sorry thing is people would go if the opotunity presented itself

I'm not convinced mate, the costs are too high for most people who randomly want to go to a game, and they often don't find out till they are after a ticket.

I think Viagogo is wrong. I think the ticket prices are too high.
I have a SC and it works out at about £38 per game. Whether that is too expensive is open to debate, but I'd forgo other luxuries before giving up on City, my money my choice. Other people have other priorities.

If you were to offer tickets in my section for £40 for passing trade, what's the point of having a seasoncard? I could just buy tickets for the big games and not for the ones I don't fancy, or the weather's a bit inclement or I'm on holiday.
I believe the reason there is such a mark up is to avoid this scenario, so fans who get a SC get a great deal, relatively.

Getting rid of Viagogo, as some have suggested, would get my vote and the club do an internal transfer, but the club will only do this at face value for the game, which could be way above the SC cost and above what most will pay.

Those picking and choosing games may go to ten games, @£50 a piece is £500
That's still a good £200 less than I pay and I can't make all 19 usually. So it would seem that even with this price differential the buying ticket by ticket is attractive as opposed to a SC.

If I can't make a game I will offer my ticket out to others, sometimes it's taken, other times it's not. I couldn't make the Liverpool at home or Stoke at home this season and have a guess which one I had my hand bitten off and which one nobody would touch with a barge pole.

so nobody wanted to watch Liverpool

why do you think I went on holiday? Unfortunately it clashed with Stoke

 

[bluestevei]

IN MY OPINION THIS IS THE WAY THE CLUB SHOULD GO, IN THIS DAY AND AGE WITH EMAILS AND COMPUTERS, if someone who has a s/c ,can not go to a game they should get in touch with club and tell them. they would get the ticket price of the s/c EG £25 the club will then sell card for say £38 to cover cost and make a few more £s for the club. It will be first come first served for that ticket/ tickets. but as others have said, the season ticket holder could only do this for say 4 games. it wont matter if its a big game or a game against say man utd they would only get the £25

 

[mannycity]

Better still don't give the money to the season card holder,credit to them,for following year season card,also think tickets for away games ,and finals etc a percentage should go to a ballot system,for season card holders out side of points otherwise we are creating a closed shop,for all those with the highest points,ie