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Home tickets reduced for next 7 games (Ed. For rest of season now)

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  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    Until they get rid of the early buy bollocks I'm still out...
    Me too
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    At forty notes a go I can’t see those adult memberships going like hot cakes. 

    The sort of thing that should have been offer in May, not 5 months later. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    edited October 2022
    So unless we go on a good run in the next 13 league games for the rest of this calendar year, will they seriously put the prices back up again, or use a little bit of common sense and leave them as they are from today until the end of the season 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,891
    The price should drop if anything the closer to kick off. They should be open to bids / offers to get any sales. 

    I only partly jest. 

    On a serious note do I recall some vague explanation of this fee / the print at home fee something to do with paying the vendor for the system we use? Maybe I am conflating issues. 
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,739
    edited October 2022
    The price should drop if anything the closer to kick off. They should be open to bids / offers to get any sales. 

    I only partly jest. 

    On a serious note do I recall some vague explanation of this fee / the print at home fee something to do with paying the vendor for the system we use? Maybe I am conflating issues. 
    The online booking fee is there because RD paid out for a new ticketing system that wasn't fit for purpose (as they had been advised) and was quickly replaced. I believe we are paying for it.
  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    shirty5 said:
    So unless we go on a good run in the next 13 league games for the rest of this calendar year, will they seriously put the prices back up again, or use a little bit of common sense and leave them as they are from today until the end of the season 
    I can't see them going back up again this season. It's just by doing it this way perhaps Tommy boy doesn't look like he's made a total u turn on a really poor error of judgement in the summer. 
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091

    £25 you say?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,380

  • The club's hands on this are slightly tied, because the season ticket prices (outside the lower CE and family section) were overpriced, and it's ST prices which set a baseline for matchday tickets.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,739
    edited October 2022
    The club's hands on this are slightly tied, because the season ticket prices (outside the lower CE and family section) were overpriced, and it's ST prices which set a baseline for matchday tickets.
    Don’t totally agree with that. There is plenty of headroom in the middle pricing band and even against the highest price at this point, not least because we’ve played five games at the higher match prices.

    Bigger problem is that the pricing is now incoherent and confused against the 3-pack, as well as previous advance sales, while the membership offer adds a further layer of confusion - two different Meire tax cut-off times, for example.
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  • Pavoren007
    Pavoren007 Posts: 2,525
    There’s now a ‘J’ S too? Who the fcuk is that? Which department do they work in? 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,730
    I think the damage has been done. Cheaper prices will help when, ok if, the team goes on a half decent run. Then people will start getting back into habits. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,380
    There’s now a ‘J’ S too? Who the fcuk is that? Which department do they work in? 
    I assume it’s Joachim Sandgaard who occasionally posts in the big Facebook group. Don’t believe he has a role at the club.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Scoham said:
    There’s now a ‘J’ S too? Who the fcuk is that? Which department do they work in? 
    I assume it’s Joachim Sandgaard who occasionally posts in the big Facebook group. Don’t believe he has a role at the club.
    Head of Public Relations. 
  • Scoham said:

    Is that genuinely a Sandgaard?

    Pretty obvious the problem was ticket prices and shite football.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,523
    It is indeed Joachim Sandgaard, another of Thomas’ sons.

    Very concerning to see such angling to blame fans. 
  • they are quite a vocal family aren't they..
  • Acab
    Acab Posts: 725
    If we were to lose today they could reduce it to £5 a head for Tuesday and still it wouldn’t make a difference.
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,891
    They need to see it as maintaining current levels of spectators not increasing it until the football improves. Too many cost of living issues to be enough on its own. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,853
    edited October 2022
    Wow. Is that Twitter comment for real, or just someone on a wind up?
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,027
    edited October 2022
    I dislike the £3 charge as much as anyone, but if it's removed it may lead to loads more buying on the day prior to kick off and they won't have the staff to cope, leading to loads of queuing.
    Surely a modern ticketing system with electronic point of sale and electronic point of entry would generate high quality data that could very easily profile ticket sales for all matches. I'd think that after a couple of years in operation such a system would be able to generate accurate estimates of how many tickets will be bought, by what means, in what areas and at what times. Such data could be used by the stadium manager to properly plan their staffing for every match.

    Of course the real problem the club has now, is that that prices have been up and down more often than a whore's drawers, so there'll be precious little consistent data to base models on. The one thing we can say with some accuracy is that the product is currently so poor that the elastic in any price elasticity has probably snapped. I'm pleased they dropped prices, if for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. I think the club would be completely wrong though if there was an expectation that this will lead to any great surge in attendance. Product and price need to be right, not one or the other.
  • Too little & far too late IMO, Stig.
  • Are they still got the ridiculous increase a day before a game, putting off walk ups? 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,725
    edited October 2022
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  • shirty5 said:
    So unless we go on a good run in the next 13 league games for the rest of this calendar year, will they seriously put the prices back up again, or use a little bit of common sense and leave them as they are from today until the end of the season 
    Prices have only been reduced to the end of 2022 to give new owners the chance to set their own pricing strategy from Jan 😉
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    shirty5 said:
    So unless we go on a good run in the next 13 league games for the rest of this calendar year, will they seriously put the prices back up again, or use a little bit of common sense and leave them as they are from today until the end of the season 
    Prices have only been reduced to the end of 2022 to give new owners the chance to set their own pricing strategy from Jan 😉
    If only. 
  • I haven't read this in detail but how and when will season ticket holders be rewarded? 

    Lots of free and reduced tickets over the last two seasons but no reward for is mugs Who turn up every week
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    edited November 2022
    Club put itself in an impossible position with its initial bonkers pricing strategy. Good that they have now reduced prices/bowed to the inevitable (delete as appropriate) but inevitably peed off season ticket holders in the process. Yet another example of the basket case we have become. PS good work by the fan advisers. They are on a hiding to nothing. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Club put itself in an impossible position with its initial bonkers pricing strategy. Good that they have now reduced prices/boses to the inevitable (delete as appropriate) but inevitably peed off season ticket holders in the process. Yet another example of the basket case we have become. PS good work by the fan advisers. They are on a hiding to nothing. 
    Provided that no season ticket holders have been under cut, then the club can crack on with it.