Ask The Club - Sunderland questions

[hitony]

Thats enough questions about Sunderland tickets and the Admin fee, I have left the ones that are on there and will leave it up to Insider how many he wants to answer, but any more that are about the same subject will be removed, the point has been made.

 

[WeAreTheAlbion]

beef.

 

[matthew]

I will rather go to a away game at that price if i'm honest

 

[hitony]

By all means use this thread to put your feelings down, I don't doubt Insider will see it, hence why i made it a sticky, I just don't want any more on the AtC section.

 

[gollum]

I tried to book tickets for two of us, both registered as friends and family. When I go to reserve my own seat, I can only see my own seat and no friends and family. The only way I can book our two seats is to log on twice using each of our logins. However this counts as two transactions and we end up paying two lots of admin fees. Is there any way around this? We don't get this problem when we book for away games.

 

[hitony]

I tried to book tickets for two of us, both registered as friends and family. When I go to reserve my own seat, I can only see my own seat and no friends and family. The only way I can book our two seats is to log on twice using each of our logins. However this counts as two transactions and we end up paying two lots of admin fees. Is there any way around this? We don't get this problem when we book for away games.

In all honesty you will be better off ringing / visiting the ticket office, they are the ones that will sort out the issue.

 

[WeAreTheAlbion]

will the prices get changed?

 

[hitony]

will the prices get changed?

Logic says no, how can they change the prices when many have already purchased at the present price, I accept it can be done by way of refunds, but that would create a vast amount of work for them.

I personally would say there is no chance of that happening.

 

[WeAreTheAlbion]

Logic says no, how can they change the prices when many have already purchased at the present price, I accept it can be done by way of refunds, but that would create a vast amount of work for them.

I personally would say there is no chance of that happening.

Expect bad capacity,
Do they not understand, cheaper prices means more tickets sold more tickets sold means more refreshments sold, its simple.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Expect bad capacity,
Do they not understand, cheaper prices means more tickets sold more tickets sold means more refreshments sold, its simple.

I'm fairly certainly it'll sell out (or get close enough to it) with this price structure to be honest.

 

[hitony]

I'm fairly certainly it'll sell out (or get close enough to it) with this price structure to be honest.

I agree with you, it's also a chance for many who have not been to go, aside the fact it is a premiership side, albeit I doubt their first team will be entirely fielded, that said Steve Bruce won't be wanting a loss to a championship side at this stage of the season, not good for moral and all that, so I would expect the big guns to be on the bench at least.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I think a lot of people are being a bit thick about the whole subject. I know that's a strong word, but it's true. The game is against Premier League opposition, who are going to take the League Cup seriously (Sunderland want to get into Europe, the cups are the best way) and the game will be the biggest so far staged at the Amex. Which, by the way, happened to cost a lot of money and for all the wealth of Tony Bloom, he's going to want to set the club up to make a big return and by charging these prices, they will make a good amount of money from the gate receipts. It's not just up to our club, by the way, to set a pricing structure. Sunderland will have had a say aswell. Maybe they had no interest in the game being billed as being a cut price cup match for us, why should they? The reality is we'll probably sell 20,000 tickets for the match, there are plenty of people who will want to see Sunderland, who will want to see a night game at the Amex and who will appreciate how hard it will be to get a ticket for a league game. Do I want to pay £30 for a Carling Cup match? No. I'm a tight bastard. But I will, and hopefully I'll have female company with me because it will be one of the rare games I might get to see with her. Expensive yes, but you have the choice. If you don't think the deal is right for you, then don't go. Don't moan at the club if you can't, or won't, afford to go, it's not their fault.

 

[El Presidente]

If only we had drawn someone such as Morecambe at home, then it would have been far cheaper. I blame whoever took the balls out of the bag.

 

[trueblue]

There will be plenty of decent players even in Sunderland reserves this season after their summer spending. And I reckon they'll put out a decent team anyway in a competition they could win.

The prices don't seem that outrageous to me but the attendance will give us the answer. If it's anything over 20000, people can complain all they like but the club will probably feel they got it about right. They're the same as for a Championship match aren't they? Even if Sunderland's side is weakened they should be of that standard so what's the big argument.

As for people saying they'd rather go to an away game for that money - well, it can't be a cost issue really then - not once travel's taken into account too.

 

[Bwian]

If only we had drawn someone such as Morecambe at home, then it would have been far cheaper. I blame whoever took the balls out of the bag.

And they weren't even proper balls either-bloody cubes they were.

 

[mwrpoole]

I think a lot of people are being a bit thick about the whole subject. I know that's a strong word, but it's true. The game is against Premier League opposition, who are going to take the League Cup seriously (Sunderland want to get into Europe, the cups are the best way) and the game will be the biggest so far staged at the Amex. Which, by the way, happened to cost a lot of money and for all the wealth of Tony Bloom, he's going to want to set the club up to make a big return and by charging these prices, they will make a good amount of money from the gate receipts. It's not just up to our club, by the way, to set a pricing structure. Sunderland will have had a say aswell. Maybe they had no interest in the game being billed as being a cut price cup match for us, why should they? The reality is we'll probably sell 20,000 tickets for the match, there are plenty of people who will want to see Sunderland, who will want to see a night game at the Amex and who will appreciate how hard it will be to get a ticket for a league game. Do I want to pay £30 for a Carling Cup match? No. I'm a tight bastard. But I will, and hopefully I'll have female company with me because it will be one of the rare games I might get to see with her. Expensive yes, but you have the choice. If you don't think the deal is right for you, then don't go. Don't moan at the club if you can't, or won't, afford to go, it's not their fault.

Summed up very well.

The reality is if a STH can't afford to go but someone else can & buys their seat and the ground is sold out then as harsh as that seems, that's life.

 

[NS Herald]

Summed up very well.

The reality is if a STH can't afford to go but someone else can & buys their seat and the ground is sold out then as harsh as that seems, that's life.

Disagree with the pricing and disagree with your view. The point is that many STH's may well decide to stump up the money but they won't be happy 'having' to do it.

Yes it's their choice but it's their team that they support through thick and thin. The point is that this has clearly alienated a lot of fans and in the short term lost some goodwill.

There is nowhere else to moan except at the club who many consider to be taking advantage when a 'better' approach would have been more reasonable pricing.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

now it's about the music played when you're on hold!FFS c'mon people have a look at the news, half of Africa's starving to death

 

[Bwian]

now it's about the music played when you're on hold!

They do have a point though-I was on hold for about 75 minutes last week and was ready to put out a contract on the inventor of Musak after 150 x 30 second loops of I don't know what.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

They do have a point though-I was on hold for about 75 minutes last week and was ready to put out a contract on the inventor of Musak after 150 x 30 second loops of I don't know what.

Yeah I s'pose it's a valid point, could have just been put forward better