Brentford ticket offer

[davidpinder]

We are all looking to save a few quid and spotted this today, 800+ gone which is good

http://www.livingsocial.com/united_...adult-ticket-to-sheffield-united-vs-brentford

 

[Grecian2000]

Just as a matter of interest, how does this work for the club?

Do we flog tickets to living social for a nominal amount (say a fiver) and they sell them on at a profit, or are they acting as an "agent" and we pick up the £9 for each ticket sold?

Good idea getting a crowd in for a televised match but it seems a bit cheap if there's a third party taking a cut along the way.

 

[Balham]

Just as a matter of interest, how does this work for the club?

Do we flog tickets to living social for a nominal amount (say a fiver) and they sell them on at a profit, or are they acting as an "agent" and we pick up the £9 for each ticket sold?

Good idea getting a crowd in for a televised match but it seems a bit cheap if there's a third party taking a cut along the way.

Most sites like livingsocial (Groupon etc) charge a 50% commission on the advertised price with a minimum payment due: basically the risk is almost all on the company using the social discounter rather than the discounter themselves.

I would have thought that United figure that it's worth getting 1,000 tickets sold for what otherwise would have been empty seats.

 

[Crosstownrebel]

Just as a matter of interest, how does this work for the club?

Do we flog tickets to living social for a nominal amount (say a fiver) and they sell them on at a profit, or are they acting as an "agent" and we pick up the £9 for each ticket sold?

Good idea getting a crowd in for a televised match but it seems a bit cheap if there's a third party taking a cut along the way.

I'm pretty sure it's a 50/50 split on everything sold. A special rate might have been negotiated due to the amount that could possibly be sold.

 

[davidpinder]

It can't be as much as 50% surely?? i would expect it to be more like the fee's that ebay and amazon charge 10-15%

 

[Wapping Blade]

It can't be as much as 50% surely?? i would expect it to be more like the fee's that ebay and amazon charge 10-15%

Hmm, I think you need to ask @GreenwichBlade about how much of a cut Amazon take...

 

[Greenwich Blade]

Hmm, I think you need to ask @GreenwichBlade about how much of a cut Amazon take...

Don't get me started!

All I will say to any aspiring authors or publishers is, don't sign up to Amazon Advantage, unless you want to lose money on every book you sell.

 

[Ted Danson]

I thought with Groupon it was something like 50/50 but then there was an arrangement fee ontop too

 

[Ollessendro]

Personally I blame Ryan Flynn for this mess.