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Yes but there still are restrictions, season 17/18 I could buy extra tickets as a season ticket holder and did, season 18/19 they stopped this and gates went down (in our promotion season). There are still restrictions tomorrow (I can’t phone up tomorrow and buy 6 tickets no questions asked) I can at Man City. Simple rule of business if you stop people buying your product you will sell less. We won’t sell out Saturday and that should concern all of us!!!
 
Barry Butlin said:
Yes but there still are restrictions, season 17/18 I could buy extra tickets as a season ticket holder and did, season 18/19 they stopped this and gates went down (in our promotion season). There are still restrictions tomorrow (I can’t phone up tomorrow and buy 6 tickets no questions asked) I can at Man City. Simple rule of business if you stop people buying your product you will sell less. We won’t sell out Saturday and that should concern all of us!!!
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You can buy 6 tickets tomorrow. You just need to tell them who they are for. Why is that a 'restriction' ?

Last season, you could still buy tickets as a non member, apart from big games- you just had to register each customer on the system. How did that stop fans buying a ticket last season. ?

Man City won't sell all their tickets when they play us at Christmas. The minimum price is £46.50 for the game against us. Will their 'casual fans' pay this amount to see a game against a smaller ,non rival, in the division ? Do you think they will be concerned if they don't sell out ?

There are plenty of empty seats at many of the premier league games.

The main issues for me are

  • pricing- CAT A games for the first two home games but no 'package to offer a discount if bought two together or even cheap child tickets so they can get a taste of premiership football ( BLUT could have been used for s/ticket holders to swap seats and sit with these new fans if John Street was sold out)
  • the lack of clarity from the club with regards to season ticket sales after the initial deadline. This has pissed a lot of fans off and some won't pay over £40 to watch a game of football when you can watch it for free on TV via the many streams available
  • new ticketing website having teething issues( why not tested)
  • not allowing tickets to be put of general sale sooner and market it to encourage new fans- especially the kids who will be the future fans of the club
  • LP policy for home games- bands are too narrow- , why not just any member can buy a ticket for 2- days, anyone with points for 2 days then general sale especially for the less attractive games( e.g. on Saturday)
 
Keen Blade said:
Look on the website - NO MEMBERSHIP NEEDED , NO POINTS NEEDED , don't even need to be in the database , as long as you can give them some kosher details (perhaps with address ID ?) so they can add you + your family , friends , even if NONE of you have ever been to the Lane ever before.
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Look on the website? When one can post on here slagging the club off about something without knowing the facts?
 
The club are moving slowly in the right direction , perhaps because of dialogue with such as Foxy.

But I naturally want them to go further.

Bartman's ideas for speeding the path to General Sale are positive.

He also mentioned the plight of those ST holders who were deceived (by omission) by the Club into thinking that ST sales would resume , as normal , after the Early Bird period expired.

I'm amazed the Club haven't offered some kind of "amnesty" for those affected.
All they would have to do is check the database for the victim's purchase history + then make an exception to their self-imposed limit on the number of STs available.
I say self-imposed , because I can't imagine the club have gone hard up against an externally-imposed cap.

This leads on to a question which has arisen re the "half-season" tickets which we have always sold at Christmas.
If the club is really up against a hard limit , presumably these will not be available this season.
But if there is no such cap and the club is NOT selling out its home areas against "the other 14" , why on earth would they not release another tranche of STs ?
Come to think of it , why not make them three-quarter STs valid from the 5th or 6th home game onwards ?
 
Shirty Blade said:
What do you think the solution is Barry? How can the club allow blades with less than 500 points to buy tickets and at the same time exclude visiting supporters from obtaining tickets for home areas and at the same time make sure that tickets for deserving fans don't fall into the hands of touts?
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Touts at t'Lane
No chance.

Touts at Wembley all went home early when we played the pigs.
 
Barry Butlin said:
There are loads of blades (for whatever reason) with less than 500 points. The blades with more than 500 points have had the chance to buy.....Now with 2/3 K left can’t they let blades with less than 500 points buy?
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We need to adapt whatever system the San Fransisco Giants use, half an hour after arriving at the hotel we had tickets at face value off a season ticket holder who wasn't attending, this about there hours from kick off or whatever they call it over there.

All this with Barry Bonds looking to beat Babe Ruth's all time home run record.

Hotel having a concierge helped. He got a $20 tip as well. 😁
 
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GRUMPY BLADE said:
We need to adapt whatever system the San Fransisco Giants use, half an hour after arriving at the hotel we had tickets at face value off a season ticket holder who wasn't attending, this about there hours from kick off or whatever they call it over there.

All this with Barry Bonds looking to beat Babe Ruth's all time home run record.

Hotel having a concierge helped. He got a $20 tip as well. 😁
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Didn't you get a bobble head thrown in?
 
Keen Blade said:
This leads on to a question which has arisen re the "half-season" tickets which we have always sold at Christmas.
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I asked this in the ticket office on Friday. The young female member of staff just said "No." Her brusque manner p1ssed me off so I didn't follow it up.
 
Barry Butlin said:
We play Man City end of December tickets are now on general sale, you can buy as many as you bleedin want (no restrictions) now there’s an idea!! Could go to Manchester book in a hotel, spend money round town and boost the economy, no fuck it we’re small town Sheffield!!
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Stop lying
 

If you missed out on a season ticket it's a bollock but how is it deception from United?

We sold out of season tickets, if you hold say 5k of the 25k season tickets available for sale, for sale at a later date at a higher price, surely that's worse than simply selling out? Stopping 5000 people from taking advantage of a lower price for what reason? So you can keep some moaning people on the internet happy?

If you didn't see increased demand coming, and thought they'd have 32,125 season tickets available then more fool you.

If you didn't have the money at the time then I'm sympathetic but as someone who often misses out because of funds and their availability, coming to terms with that is an important part of being professionally impoverished haha
 
bromtom said:
If you missed out on a season ticket it's a bollock but how is it deception from United?

We sold out of season tickets, if you hold say 5k of the 25k season tickets available for sale, for sale at a later date at a higher price, surely that's worse than simply selling out? Stopping 5000 people from taking advantage of a lower price for what reason? So you can keep some moaning people on the internet happy?

If you didn't see increased demand coming, and thought they'd have 32,125 season tickets available then more fool you.

If you didn't have the money at the time then I'm sympathetic but as someone who often misses out because of funds and their availability, coming to terms with that is an important part of being professionally impoverished haha
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I've read, on here, that there must be a certain amount of non ST tickets available per home game. I've seen no actual - definite - figures but if it's true that there are a maximum number of season tickets that we can sell and they've all gone, how can it be the club's fault?

If that is the case, anyone ignoring it is just moaning for the sake of it.

As for not selling out, the big games excepted, how many people will bother paying for restricted view tickets?

I understand that the only restriction for Saturday is that if you actually want a ticket you have to get off your arse rather than just moan. Maybe a step too far for some?
 
bromtom said:
Stopping 5000 people from taking advantage of a lower price for what reason?
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To give a reasonable period of time for the loyal ST holder to be able to renew later than before the penultimate game of the previous season and not expect his/her seat to have gone before that season is even over?
 
NAP said:
To give a reasonable period of time for the loyal ST holder to be able to renew later than before the penultimate game of the previous season and not expect his/her seat to have gone before that season is even over?
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So no new season ticket seats then, or a "ST Loyalty Points" system and yet people never shut up moaning that we need to get new fans in and there should be no barriers for them.

Rock - Sheffield United - Hard place
 
bromtom said:
So no new season ticket seats then, or a "ST Loyalty Points" system and yet people never shut up moaning that we need to get new fans in and there should be no barriers for them.

Rock - Sheffield United - Hard place
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Why not just sell season tickets for seats that were not held by a ST holder, to the new fans , on the Early Bird deal?
 
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NAP said:
Why not just sell season tickets for seats that were not held by a ST holder, to the new fans?
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There is apparently a limit on the number of ST's that can be sold in order to leave x number of non ST tickets available.

We hit that by the first advertised deadline.

It's hardly rocket science to believe the demand for tickets would increase in the PL, together with the reasonable pricing and discount, that most wouldn't wait until after the initial deadline.

The sympathy I have is for those who didn't have the money at the deadline but would have had soon after. Now they didn't have a choice, or, as it's turned out, a chance.
 
Sean Thornton said:
There is apparently a limit on the number of ST's that can be sold in order to leave x number of non ST tickets available.

We hit that by the first advertised deadline.

It's hardly rocket science to believe the demand for tickets would increase in the PL, together with the reasonable pricing and discount, that most wouldn't wait until after the initial deadline.

The sympathy I have is for those who didn't have the money at the deadline but would have had soon after. Now they didn't have a choice, or, as it's turned out, a chance.
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I do think existing ST holders should have had the chance to renew their seat a bit later than the last week in April for the following season- whatever league we ended up in.
 
NAP said:
I do think existing ST holders should have had the chance to renew their seat a bit later than the last week in April for the following season- whatever league we ended up in.
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I see your point, But if we'd hit the limit by 26th April anyway?

The renewal prices were a bargain if we were promoted. At the last day, we were on a run, Leeds were wobbling,
 
Does anyone actually know what our cap on season tickets was and what the Prem rule is on season ticket caps?
 
Pedro's Winger said:
Does anyone actually know what our cap on season tickets was and what the Prem rule is on season ticket caps?
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Villa's appears to be 30k.


They also appear to have a similar membership scheme to us. The bastards.....

Norwich have a 22k cap and Leicester have announced they've reached theirs.

Incidentally, Norwich prioritise away tickets to supporters who attended ten away games or more last season. Which seems perfectly fair.
 

I'm hoping to see all the moaners with loads of kids this Saturday at the lane.
But no they will be back on here shortly moaning because their precious little kids only want to see the big six.
Why didn't promotion from league 1 or the championship bring them out to get enough points.
 
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