So...why should we buy season tickets?

[supaseagull]

If they offered some tickets without travel vouchers, the price of all the other tickets would have to increase to maintain income levels and ensure that the funds were available to pay the bus and train operators.

Sorry, but I find that hard to accept. Surely it's based upon a certain amount of ticket sales across the season rather than a pre-agreed amount otherwise the club would run the risk of running the scheme at a loss which you could then argue for the scrapping of the travel scheme.

You've then got other factors to take into consideration like the £1 for Under 10's...

I'd also be interested to know what proportion of supporters use the travel voucher as if it's under 35% then it's a waste of money...I don't know how anyone else feels, but I think that the club would be better off looking into scrapping the travel voucher scheme and charging £2 for those who want to use the park & ride.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sorry, but I find that hard to accept. Surely it's based upon a certain amount of ticket sales across the season rather than a pre-agreed amount otherwise the club would run the risk of running the scheme at a loss which you could then argue for the scrapping of the travel scheme.

Whether or not it's hard for you to accept ... that's the way the scheme works, as Insider explains:-

Season Ticket Renewals (Pt 3) The Travel Voucher - North Stand Chat

 

[NF9]

Why should we buy season tickets, Hmmmmmm....?

1) To support the players and club, plus Its good getting to the football every week especially for me as my lad is Albion mad!
I Know where he got it from!:yahoo:

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Obviously the one upside to Withdean Wanderer NOT getting a ST, is that the same people wouldn't have to sit by him and listen to him MOANING every single match...*














* ...this is a JOKE, btw. I stood next to him at a game recently, and he actually didn't moan at all

 

[Adopted Brightonian]

Very much agree with the post you've linked from 'Ask the Club' WW.

I have tried to tempt Uni friends along to games, and on telling them it'll cost them £17 they've said no chance.
They'd much prefer to spend a tenner on 5 pints down the bar while watching some Permiershit.

And in a way I can see why, I've been brought up on live football and would choose that over plastic crap any time, but for them at £17 a ticket the bar seems a much better option.

Also what would help things would be some kind of advertisement for the club/matches going on at the universities. (Not my idea, suggested by Dawsey who posts on here. ) It would be bound to bring in a few new faces. Fair enough not the plastic majority but maybe people like myself who have an interest in local football.

 

[Hotchilidog]

I will renew now (on the 5 month repayment plan), but for once I think WW actually has a point with his moaning. Given the cash injection the standard begging bowl excuse doesn't really hold water.

£400 + is still a lot of money to pay for third division football especially when tickets will still be widely available for most games at a reasonable price on the ticket exchange.

I do think the 5month repayment plan at practically no interest rate is a considerable iimprovement on previous years, but it is still a lot of cash to splash out.

 

[sten_super]

Sorry, but I find that hard to accept. Surely it's based upon a certain amount of ticket sales across the season rather than a pre-agreed amount otherwise the club would run the risk of running the scheme at a loss which you could then argue for the scrapping of the travel scheme.

Eh? Sorry if I've misunderstood what you've said; but we KNOW that the club makes a loss playing at Withdean. There's absolutely no argument about scrapping the scheme, only with the scheme in place are we allowed to play at Withdean. If you scrap the scheme, you have to find somewhere else to play until the new stadium is built.

 

[NF9]

I will renew now (on the 5 month repayment plan), but for once I think WW actually has a point with his moaning. Given the cash injection the standard begging bowl excuse doesn't really hold water.

£400 + is still a lot of money to pay for third division football especially when tickets will still be widely available for most games at a reasonable price on the ticket exchange.

I do think the 5month repayment plan at practically no interest rate is a considerable iimprovement on previous years, but it is still a lot of cash to splash out.

Its nothing to do with having a cash injection, we have to pay a set sum for the withdean every year so it makes no difference even if a multi billionaire took over, you still need to break even at least while playing at the withdean and I suspect even with them prices we are losing alot of money every year.

 

[Storer68]

The problem is the travel voucher tho.

Id imagine they are worth about £4 on every ticket, so thats nearly £100 over a season. It could be argued that a season ticket costs £320

Have you bought a bus ticket in Brighton recently - they are bloody pricey.

I think the travel voucher is an EXCELLENT idea (and more clubs should do it ) IMHO. And I think its existance is part of the deal on us playing at Withdean

On matchdays I don't have to faff around for up to half an hour standing in a queue of people trying to buy a ticket.

All I have to do is stroll up to the station in some comfort and pop myself on the first train that comes in I'm not late, I don't miss kick off because someone can't remember a PIN, and I can use it to go into Brighton in the morning for a pre match sherbert thn it works for the too.

and I would have to pay the money anyway to get to the game, so where's the downside?

 

[Kenhead]

Have you bought a bus ticket in Brighton recently - they are bloody pricey.

I think the travel voucher is an EXCELLENT idea (and more clubs should do it ) IMHO. And I think its existance is part of the deal on us playing at Withdean

On matchdays I don't have to faff around for up to half an hour standing in a queue of people trying to buy a ticket.

All I have to do is stroll up to the station in some comfort and pop myself on the first train that comes in I'm not late, I don't miss kick off because someone can't remember a PIN, and I can use it to go into Brighton in the morning for a pre match sherbert thn it works for the too.

and I would have to pay the money anyway to get to the game, so where's the downside?

I've got a year bus ticket that cost me £365, but yes i know that a day saver cost's £3.60 and id imagine a train from Haywards Heath to Brighton would cost around that aswell. My point was once the club has taken away the cost of the travel voucher from the ticket then there income is about £320 (useing the £4 a ticket as a round figure).
Id imagine most on here would be happy to pay that for a season ticket, it just seems that the price is over valued with something the club have got no choice but to add on to the price unfortunetly.

Im quite tempted to do the 2 year deal this year as it works out at £17.06 a game which seems reasonable.

 

[dougdeep]

I thought he was supposed to pay for travel expenses, food, Ibrupofen for the Friday night blues, a hand job and a ham sandwich.

Is it Parma ham?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Is it Parma ham?

I was thinking of the much more expensive variation. The one that goes for £1,500 a leg or something. Bloody Spaniards.

 

[getreal1]

to be a REAL supporter hahahaha

 

[Bry Nylon]

When we get to Falmer, another way of raising money to pay for the transport costs would be to use car parking fees.

Out of interest, roughly how many car parking spaces will there be at Falmer, and who will be eligible to use them?