New Away Season Ticket

[casbom]

I'm surprised there isn't a poll yet to ask if your likely to pay! (I would but I don't know how!) For me I won't be joining as I know I'll be able to get a ticket for practically any game.

 

[Yorkshire-Seagull]

Apologies if i've missed this, but can I buy an away season ticket if I don't have a home one? Living up north, I can get to 80% of away games but don't often make it to home games.

Unless i'm reading it wrong, it isn't clear in the FAQs....

 

[Hotchilidog]

The scheme seems perfectly reasonable so far. STH pay nothing, the maximum joining fee is £30 which will include a smart card on which I assume can load e-cash and get matchday discounts (not currently available to paper ticket holders), an away ST for those who wish to have one. Plus other unspecified 'benefits', which in all probability will be underwhelming but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Most importantly tickets will still be available to non-members on general sale should any remain (not a problem this year I would imagine). Honestly you would think we were all being held at gun-point and robbed of our life savings they way some people are carrying on. This scheme is all about the club preparing for life at the highest level, getting systems up and running now so that should we get to the PL then the transition should be smoother. What's wrong with that? Membership schemes such as this are common practice in football now, we are not being singled out for harsh treatment by the club.

I get that some people are disillusioned with the way that modern football is these days, ironically if we get to the PL I may become more jaded myself. However that is the world that the Albion inhabits now and it has to get with the programme. I think the scheme is perfectly reasonable and it offers benefits to those who cannot make every game but would like ensure they can get to matches when they wish.

Bloom has invested over £100m in saving this football club and he is going to do everything he can to make sure we can compete at the highest possible level, this is just one small part of that.

I for one do not feel remotely ripped off by this scheme. I am a FAN but customers always get better looked after than fans who always get taken for granted, so I do not get het up about that distinction.

 

[ropey9]

I'm not sure if I'm reading this bit right. Is it saying that the one off season fee of '£10-30' will replace the match by match booking fee? If it does* anyone buying 15 tickets a year will be better off.

*IF it does.

.

IRO the booking fee I suspect that it will go down to say £1, but instead of being per booking it will be per ticket (ala TicketMaster). Quite a shrewd move if so as I always book 4 tickets so this would double revenue from me but a lone wolf buying a single ticket will feel less like they've been fleeced.

 

[Pantani]

Please don't patronise me. I go to 80% of away games and know most of the people that you are talking about. If you think more than a handful of them make literally every game a season you are deluded.

This. I am one of the people that sells TSLR home and away, and try to get to every game but there is always one or two that I cannot do, no matter what. All of my group are the same, but there is no way any of us would commit to an away season ticket. Why would we? We have not sold out a single away trip, other than Palace and Charlton in the last two seasons. If you have the number of loyalty points an away regular has you will never miss out anyway. I would guess that not one person will join the away season ticket.

 

[Pantani]

The difference with an away season ticket is the tickets will be real tickets instead of being downloaded onto the smartcard. In theory if you cannot get to a specific away game you can pass the ticket onto a friend. We do have a number of diehard fans who are addicted to 50+ Albion games a season.

Yes we do. I am one of them, so are several of my friends, plus lots of faces I recognise from away days. Why would anyone commit to every away game before the season starts though? If they waived the booking fee for the season, you would save £46, maybe add a few cup games in to make it up to £50, that is at best 2 match tickets. That is pure speculation and the best they could offer, as they cannot discount away tickets. So get an away membership and commit to missing two or less games to save a bit of money, or don't and still get all the tickets you want. We always buy our tickets in bulk anyway so the £2 fee is not the true cost anyway. So away season tickets are completely pointless.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

The scheme seems perfectly reasonable so far. STH pay nothing, the maximum joining fee is £30 which will include a smart card on which I assume can load e-cash and get matchday discounts (not currently available to paper ticket holders), an away ST for those who wish to have one. Plus other unspecified 'benefits', which in all probability will be underwhelming but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Most importantly tickets will still be available to non-members on general sale should any remain (not a problem this year I would imagine). Honestly you would think we were all being held at gun-point and robbed of our life savings they way some people are carrying on. This scheme is all about the club preparing for life at the highest level, getting systems up and running now so that should we get to the PL then the transition should be smoother. What's wrong with that? Membership schemes such as this are common practice in football now, we are not being singled out for harsh treatment by the club.

I get that some people are disillusioned with the way that modern football is these days, ironically if we get to the PL I may become more jaded myself. However that is the world that the Albion inhabits now and it has to get with the programme. I think the scheme is perfectly reasonable and it offers benefits to those who cannot make every game but would like ensure they can get to matches when they wish.

Bloom has invested over £100m in saving this football club and he is going to do everything he can to make sure we can compete at the highest possible level, this is just one small part of that.

I for one do not feel remotely ripped off by this scheme. I am a FAN but customers always get better looked after than fans who always get taken for granted, so I do not get het up about that distinction.

Top post !!

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

The overall changes seem relatively reasonable, but just bloody pointless.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Yes we do. I am one of them, so are several of my friends, plus lots of faces I recognise from away days. Why would anyone commit to every away game before the season starts though? If they waived the booking fee for the season, you would save £46, maybe add a few cup games in to make it up to £50, that is at best 2 match tickets. That is pure speculation and the best they could offer, as they cannot discount away tickets. So get an away membership and commit to missing two or less games to save a bit of money, or don't and still get all the tickets you want. We always buy our tickets in bulk anyway so the £2 fee is not the true cost anyway. So away season tickets are completely pointless.

I often speak to a customer at work who is a Leeds fan who has a home ST and an away ST and he paid roughly £700 for his last away season ticket. If he cannot get to the odd away game he passes on the ticket to other Leeds fans in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area so the ticket isn't wasted. If Paul Barber has identified a demand for something he won't let it pass by.

 

[NS Herald]

In a word I think it's bollocks

As someone said earlier in thread why the club can't consult with it's fans (customers) on a regular basis about its commercial, logistics, catering, merch and a whole range of things is mystifying. It's not difficult at all. In any other business customers views are regularly sought before a product/service launch, during the development and after.

Seems to me the club is becoming increasingly arrogant

Agreed about the lack of consultation particularly as they've 20k+ STH's and it's surprising they haven't sought any large scale feedback but they seem to know what we want.

I also think it's very poorly written and in many ways poses more questions than answers

 

[Pantani]

I often speak to a customer at work who is a Leeds fan who has a home ST and an away ST and he paid roughly £700 for his last away season ticket. If he cannot get to the odd away game he passes on the ticket to other Leeds fans in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area so the ticket isn't wasted. If Paul Barber has identified a demand for something he won't let it pass by.

Leeds average double what we do away from home and have several potential sell outs a season. We have one. There is no need or demand for this, I will be surprised if even one person takes up the away season ticket.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

The overall changes seem relatively reasonable, but just bloody pointless.

Is this not just as much about having a ticket /membership structure in place that will better cope with the increased interest we would get if (when?!) we are in the Premier League?

I agree they don't seem neccessary now, but there will be plenty more people wanting to buy say 4 or 5 tickets per season if we go up then do now.

 

[yxee]

In a word I think it's bollocks

As someone said earlier in thread why the club can't consult with it's fans (customers) on a regular basis about its commercial, logistics, catering, merch and a whole range of things is mystifying. It's not difficult at all. In any other business customers views are regularly sought before a product/service launch, during the development and after.

Seems to me the club is becoming increasingly arrogant

The market is very simple, people go to games and pay their money. The club have clearly found a method of price discrimination and they're proceeding to extract the maximum they can from every consumer. Will the membership fee paid by those who get the first pick of the seats subsidise the ticket prices of those who pick last? Not a chance. The club is making more money out of exactly the same product by selling the it-at a higher price-to those willing to pay more for it.

I don't think arrogance enters in to the equation, they're just trying to maximise profit. It's not a charity, although when we get a £120m stadium built for us it might feel like it.


Blame the game of modern football, not the club.