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Private Seat Licence
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BensGrandad
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Nobody has yet convinced me that they are a benefit to me and worth £500 mind you we have until June to decide I think.
I couldn't see the point unless you have a pair, or even better a block of seats in a prime location. Otherwise if you want an odd one, or if you are not too fussed on location I can't see people paying much of a premium for them. There will often be seats available, and if it really does sell out regularly, they will try and expand the capacity (and hence reduce the price for oridinary PSLs... I guess PRIME location ones might always have a premium price attached??)
Anyway... we'll see when they open the 'market' for them... if they really look like taking off, you can always buy it later (although as a slightly higher price).
Anyway... we'll see when they open the 'market' for them... if they really look like taking off, you can always buy it later (although as a slightly higher price).
Drumstick
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Got one brought for me as a present, In the seat I've stated in my location, my brother has the one next to me.
Guess the idea was I guess if it does do well then two seats in the back row of the Northstand will be like gold dust.
Guess the idea was I guess if it does do well then two seats in the back row of the Northstand will be like gold dust.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
In my opinion, a owning PSL will never be worthwhile unless we become an established Premier League club, expand the capacity to 30k, and are STILL regularly selling out. We're a long long off having waiting lists for season tickets.
It isn't impossible of course. But its a bit of a stretch.
It isn't impossible of course. But its a bit of a stretch.
Storer68
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I ummed and ahhed about one and then said yes.
Having been locked out of big games before (well Jimmy Case's testimonial) £500 seemed a small amount to guarantee me my seat (yes I know, on top of a ST) for life. And its MINE to sell on (NOT the club's).
I grant you that at this stage of 6-7000 crowds at Withers it might seem an extravagence but if the Gus Bus carries on like this, we may be a club like, say Leeds, and looking at top half Championship/bottom half Premier League games in ayera or two. And after all the suffering we've endured over the past 15 years, those are games i want to see!
Having been locked out of big games before (well Jimmy Case's testimonial) £500 seemed a small amount to guarantee me my seat (yes I know, on top of a ST) for life. And its MINE to sell on (NOT the club's).
I grant you that at this stage of 6-7000 crowds at Withers it might seem an extravagence but if the Gus Bus carries on like this, we may be a club like, say Leeds, and looking at top half Championship/bottom half Premier League games in ayera or two. And after all the suffering we've endured over the past 15 years, those are games i want to see!
drew
Drew
two seats in the back row of the northstand will be like gold dust! More like iron pyrates.
Personally, am waiting to see how season ticket sales go. If we sell out then PSL may be worth the investment but let's be honest, the valuable ones are going to be those near the front and at the halfway line in West Upper. Unfortunately, I'm in C block of west upper so don't see too much demand.
Personally, am waiting to see how season ticket sales go. If we sell out then PSL may be worth the investment but let's be honest, the valuable ones are going to be those near the front and at the halfway line in West Upper. Unfortunately, I'm in C block of west upper so don't see too much demand.
You CAN see those games... simply by renewing your season ticket each season. They won't sell a PSL for your seat to anyone else. And, I assume, the PSL is only yours for as long as someone does buy a ST for that seat - otherwise the club would be losing revenue.
To me, the only way to benefit from a PSL is to sell it. And I don't intend on giving up my ST for years to come.
I presume only the incumbent season ticket holder can by the PSL for the seat to which the season ticket pertains?
But you are guaranteed a seat for every game provided you renew your ST, and if you don't renew your ST you'll lose your PSL anyway, so what have you gained?
Not true.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Exactly.
Its going to have no resale value whatsoever UNLESS the demand for future season tickets outstrips supply to the extent that we have waiting lists. Or if your seat is in a particularly valuable spot and someone wants to buy it off you. If you're intending to just keep renewing year-in, year-out though, then I really don't see the point of buying a PSL.
The only other instance I can think of where it *might* be useful is a few years down the line, if you have friends/family who decide to start going but cannot get tickets where you are sitting and so buy their tickets elsewhere in the stadium. If you wanted to join them, then you could sell your PSL (assuming there's a demand for it), and use the proceeds to buy your new season ticket elsewhere in the ground to join up with them.
Two friends of mine who support, and are STHs at different clubs (Chelsea and Watford), have both been adversely affected when the clubs extended the areas of their equivalents to the 1901 club to include my friends seats. The Watford STH was simply told he had to move to an inferior seat and the Chelsea STH was allowed to keep his seat for £6000 pa. If The Albion decided to get up to these tricks in the future would a STH be better protected if he/she had purchased a PSL?
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Yes it is.
STH's will ALWAYS get first refusal on renewing their season ticket seat each year, as happens now. It will never be offered up as a PSL to someone else before you get the chance to renew. That was one misconception the club were keen to quash at the presentation.
Icy Gull
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I was assured that the seats for life, were exactly that and would not be moved under any circumstances, unlike Newcastle where they shifted premium seat holders to further down the stand to introduce more expensive super premium seat holders
Whilst I admit it is highly unlikely Brighton would not invite you to renew your exact seat, this is not a right enshrined in contract. It's at the club's discretion. There are a few examples of clubs who have reconfigured their grounds and shunted punters about. Newcastle had a high profile case a few years back. I also think Leeds and Man U have done the same.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Well, anythings possible I suppose. At the clubs descretion they could treble the cost of a season ticket and insist you attend the match dressed as Barney Rubble. On the whole though I genuinely don't believe the club are out to shaft us.