Internationowl Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) I can't be bothered to work out the correct pricing structure, or work out how it would be practically implemented.. (those of you who don't shoot me down as a moron instantly might have ideas on how this might work). I have a basic idea for a ticketing policy that i think would suit all parties. The price of a season ticket goes down as the amount of fans purchasing one goes up. So if 10,000 people buy one it costs £1,000 each and if 25,000 people buy one the price payable becomes £300 each. This would allow the club to set it's budget, and it would encourage more and more tickets to be sold as it'd be by far the best form of marketing. It's an idea that needs some work, but I look forward to the onslaught of "what happens when we only sell 9 season tickets and I owe the club £260,000!?!" Uto. Edited February 6, 2016 by 5318008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigger Guns Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 You've answered your own question really. People won't pay ridiculous prices early doors for the fear other people don't purchase and we'd end up selling no season tickets. There would have to be a ceiling far below the initial £1000 you mention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmowl Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I think anyone who joins yet more ticket price threads is simply bonkers. So.....as Big Guns says your final line is your own answer. I think ST prices are more than fair. All through the leagues prices have risen well above inflation. In fact, all hobby prices have rocketed. Im a tech noddy so dont know how to post a link, but if you google average cost of hobbies the only one that hasnt rocketed is gardening, and even at 53 im too young to take that up. The Liverpool story this week is the latest of many examples. Footie prices will continue to rise. Bill Kenwright is an old school fan first, owner second, so their ticket price policy reflects his love of the club. As soon as he sells to Vladimir Rollokov or Sheik Yabooti their ticket prices will soar. Back to us...ST prices fair. POTG smack of oportunism but hey-ho I'm in. I would have had to drag my kids kicking and screaming last season, even if it was free to enter and a bag of Haribo. Now they cant wait for the next game. And surely thats life...4th rate comedian five quid. Mack or McIntyre fifty quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internationowl Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 I agree with you that ST prices are fair, but we'll only sell 15k ish? this was just an idea to get a lot more fans involved. I don't think I do answer my own question because we wouldn't sell less than 15k ish anyway. just imagine a Hillsborough with 30k ST holders having paid £200-300! I can dream.. I know everyone is sick and tired of ticket price discussions but the problem is right across the country as you said, and I reckon if we don't start thinking outside the box footy's only going one way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmw Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I can't be bothered to work out the correct pricing structure, or work out how it would be practically implemented.. (those of you who don't shoot me down as a moron instantly might have ideas on how this might work). I have a basic idea for a ticketing policy that i think would suit all parties. The price of a season ticket goes down as the amount of fans purchasing one goes up. So if 10,000 people buy one it costs £1,000 each and if 25,000 people buy one the price payable becomes £300 each. This would allow the club to set it's budget, and it would encourage more and more tickets to be sold as it'd be by far the best form of marketing. It's an idea that needs some work, but I look forward to the onslaught of "what happens when we only sell 9 season tickets and I owe the club £260,000!?!" Uto. You might be on to something there. But there are too many unknowns on day one to have a clever scheme in place from the outset. What you could do is start off season ticket sales in the normal way but keep an eye on how it's going and bolt on an incentive scheme towards the end of the close season designed to get attendances up rather than raise more money (assuming you have met financial targets). It would work like this. You announce that "we are tantalisingly close to our target of 16k ST sales, only xx off. If we hit 16k then we will give all season ticket purchasers of a rebate of £yy. If we hit 17k by start of season rebate increases to £zz." etc. So we wouldn't generate more money but sell more STs, get bigger attendances, more support so maybe better results, certainly more people involved with the club and maybe build up our longer term fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhatOwl Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) Won't work Edited February 6, 2016 by PhatOwl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jack Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Should follow Bayern Munich model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internationowl Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Ahh here we go, that's more like it from phatowl. Personal insults, chastising other fans, not capable of any abstract thought beyond what is cosidered "the norm" and expected of us. We don't want 50,000 fans if it means the bloke next to me hasn't paid his way and suffered like me.... Go back to bed and wobble your head bla bla bla... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
since59owe Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Should follow Bayern Munich model. What does SHE look like ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internationowl Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Well edited phatowl. More mature response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the monk Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I think anyone who joins yet more ticket price threads is simply bonkers. So.....as Big Guns says your final line is your own answer. I think ST prices are more than fair. All through the leagues prices have risen well above inflation. In fact, all hobby prices have rocketed. Im a tech noddy so dont know how to post a link, but if you google average cost of hobbies the only one that hasnt rocketed is gardening, and even at 53 im too young to take that up. The Liverpool story this week is the latest of many examples. Footie prices will continue to rise. Bill Kenwright is an old school fan first, owner second, so their ticket price policy reflects his love of the club. As soon as he sells to Vladimir Rollokov or Sheik Yabooti their ticket prices will soar. Back to us...ST prices fair. POTG smack of oportunism but hey-ho I'm in. I would have had to drag my kids kicking and screaming last season, even if it was free to enter and a bag of Haribo. Now they cant wait for the next game. And surely thats life...4th rate comedian five quid. Mack or McIntyre fifty quid. Think you got the McIntyre figures the wrong way round !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey_wells Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Port Vale did this a few years ago I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueblood Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I'm not sure what is being said tbh. I'm reading it as, if you buy a season ticket early you pay a thousand pounds but if you buy it later on you might get it for three hundred quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebneeb Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 You've definitely got the numbers a bit wrong, but something like this could have been done basically as a way to market the tickets better whilst negating the financial risk to the club of making prices cheaper and not getting sufficient sales increases to make up for the cut prices. It's essentially empowering the fans to determine their own price. Turn up in numbers = pay less. It would switch on the best marketing tool the club has, which is it's own fans encouraging others to come. Something like this, or the Derby cashback offer, or any other aggressive strategy to sell thousands more ST's would have been a good idea in my opinion, at least for 1 or 2 seasons to boost ST sales to 25k. At which point the focus should have turned to ensuring there are high renewal rates, and enticing new fans with match day offers. The club just went for making ST's better value by increasing match day prices. Which might have worked long term to a degree, depending on the sale figures for next season. But has clearly not worked in terms of the shorter term of this season, and the number of people who are angry with the match day prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Ainsley Harriott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last_Great_Hope Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I think anyone who joins yet more ticket price threads is simply bonkers. So.....as Big Guns says your final line is your own answer. I think ST prices are more than fair. All through the leagues prices have risen well above inflation. In fact, all hobby prices have rocketed. Im a tech noddy so dont know how to post a link, but if you google average cost of hobbies the only one that hasnt rocketed is gardening, and even at 53 im too young to take that up. The Liverpool story this week is the latest of many examples. Footie prices will continue to rise. Bill Kenwright is an old school fan first, owner second, so their ticket price policy reflects his love of the club. As soon as he sells to Vladimir Rollokov or Sheik Yabooti their ticket prices will soar. Back to us...ST prices fair. POTG smack of oportunism but hey-ho I'm in. I would have had to drag my kids kicking and screaming last season, even if it was free to enter and a bag of Haribo. Now they cant wait for the next game. And surely thats life...4th rate comedian five quid. Mack or McIntyre fifty quid. I wouldnt go to a Michael McIntyre gig even if I was paid £50. Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookone Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 The current season ticket prices are very fair, if we carry on playing entertaining football and improving our position I think more ST will be sold year on year. So I cant see why the club would want to reduce costs - it is a business after all. I wouldnt go to a Michael McIntyre gig even if I was paid £50.Christ. However that man has got to the level he has I will never know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaping Lannys Perm Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I think anyone who joins yet more ticket price threads is simply bonkers. So.....as Big Guns says your final line is your own answer. I think ST prices are more than fair. All through the leagues prices have risen well above inflation. In fact, all hobby prices have rocketed. Im a tech noddy so dont know how to post a link, but if you google average cost of hobbies the only one that hasnt rocketed is gardening, and even at 53 im too young to take that up. The Liverpool story this week is the latest of many examples. Footie prices will continue to rise. Bill Kenwright is an old school fan first, owner second, so their ticket price policy reflects his love of the club. As soon as he sells to Vladimir Rollokov or Sheik Yabooti their ticket prices will soar. Back to us...ST prices fair. POTG smack of oportunism but hey-ho I'm in. I would have had to drag my kids kicking and screaming last season, even if it was free to enter and a bag of Haribo. Now they cant wait for the next game. And surely thats life...4th rate comedian five quid. Mack or McIntyre fifty quid. Has an intelligent adult ever claimed that McEntire is greater than a 4th rate comedian?You'll be championing Mrs Brown's Boys next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocomotiveOwlerton Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I think anyone who joins yet more ticket price threads is simply bonkers. So.....as Big Guns says your final line is your own answer. I think ST prices are more than fair. All through the leagues prices have risen well above inflation. In fact, all hobby prices have rocketed. Im a tech noddy so dont know how to post a link, but if you google average cost of hobbies the only one that hasnt rocketed is gardening, and even at 53 im too young to take that up. The Liverpool story this week is the latest of many examples. Footie prices will continue to rise. Bill Kenwright is an old school fan first, owner second, so their ticket price policy reflects his love of the club. As soon as he sells to Vladimir Rollokov or Sheik Yabooti their ticket prices will soar. Back to us...ST prices fair. POTG smack of oportunism but hey-ho I'm in. I would have had to drag my kids kicking and screaming last season, even if it was free to enter and a bag of Haribo. Now they cant wait for the next game. And surely thats life...4th rate comedian five quid. Mack or McIntyre fifty quid. Lee Mack? Who's paying fifty quid to watch Lee Mack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last_Great_Hope Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Lee Mack? Who's paying fifty quid to watch Lee Mack? His mum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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