Wembley Season Ticket Prices

[riggi]

Apparently it was police advice not to put the remaining seats on sale, so as to avoid any Chelsea fans getting them.

I feel like we could see that happen quite a lot this season.

 

[Phischy]

The flip side being that if you sell your tickets for a Cat C game, you technically make more money than if you sold it under the "face value" method... Swings and roundabouts.
It will weed out those who sell to make money off it rather than those with genuine reasons not to attend.

While it's true, in theory, cat c games simply won't see Wembley get close to full, meaning that there will be no chance to sell the ticket, I have a cat c game when I'm on hol, one of the few I'll look to sell and I can't see it getting bought.

I agree about those who have it to make money, but with better pricing overall (too late for that) and a fairer system on ticket resales it'd be better for everyone.

EDIT: Also, Chelsea is a Cat A and fans are getting much less than the club are charging for a standard ticket. Plus a cursory look on the website shows the club is actually charging more than Face Value for a ticket when buying on the exchange. It strikes me that fans are the net losers from this change and the club are net beneficiaries. This is probably all calculated as an effort to replace the guaranteed income associated with the StubHub deal.

 

[RicOfPeace]

By looking at the amount of tickets available and the amount people have put on the ticket exchange we could be looking at quite a poor turn out for sundays game and i hope that we don't bring that into the new stadium -_-

 

[davidmatzdorf]

My main concern is not how much the club (or StubHub) is making. My main concern is that I can sell our tickets and get 1/19 of the ST cost back when we can't attend a match and can't sell them on to friends.

StubHub was just impossible to deal with - either you put too much and no one went for it, or you put too little and didn't get your cost back. Unless you're an expert on the ticket-touting market, of course, which I'm not. Plus they gouged both the buyer and the seller for direct fees.

I don't know yet if the tickets will sell this way, but listing them was straightforward and I'm not being directly charged fees for the service. On the face of it, it's better for the seller than StubBloodyHub.

I just wish they hadn't cut it so fine.

 

[Spurs 1961]

That difference in price is ridiculous and totally unjustified. Just swapping one mistake (StubHub) for another (Silly fees and sales for 1/19 of ST price, not the face value price for the game, made even worse by the fact it will only be for big games the exchange will ever be open).

I don't mind it being 1/19 as I didn't buy my ticket to make money out of selling them. But I do think this is what they charge supporters as well, plus a fee to cover admin. I have a pretty good seat so I hoped to sell them for the games I could not make because of work etc. However it looks like I would only be able to sell for the top games

 

[WalkerboyUK]

My main concern is not how much the club (or StubHub) is making. My main concern is that I can sell our tickets and get 1/19 of the ST cost back when we can't attend a match and can't sell them on to friends.

StubHub was just impossible to deal with - either you put too much and no one went for it, or you put too little and didn't get your cost back. Unless you're an expert on the ticket-touting market, of course, which I'm not. Plus they gouged both the buyer and the seller for direct fees.

I don't know yet if the tickets will sell this way, but listing them was straightforward and I'm not being directly charged fees for the service. On the face of it, it's better for the seller than StubBloodyHub.

I just wish they hadn't cut it so fine.

Why can't you sell it on to a friend?
So the season tickets have photos on them?
Highly unlikely there will be major ID checks. It will be scan the card and in you go.

 

[DogsOfWar]

I have no doubt Sunday will be a sell out and see us break the Premiership attendance record.

If there is one thing Levy knows how to do it's maximise our income.
And if he can sell out Wembley for the Europa he will certainly do it for Chelsea in the Prem.

 

[guiltyparty]

If there is one thing Levy knows how to do it's maximise our income.
And if he can sell out Wembley for the Europa he will certainly do it for Chelsea in the Prem.

Arsenal sell out most games. Still full of holes virtually every game. Not mutually exclusive

Europa was a sell out against Gent coz we slashed prices to as low as a fiver and 10 quid general sale. Don't believe the hype

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...eague-last32-clash-against-gent-a3425026.html

There will be gaps unless they rethink the pricing

 

[DogsOfWar]

Arsenal sell out most games. Still full of holes virtually every game. Not mutually exclusive

Europa was a sell out against Gent coz we slashed prices to as low as a fiver. Don't believe the hype

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...eague-last32-clash-against-gent-a3425026.html

Yes, I went to the Gent game which is why I know Levy and Co know how to price a game to sell out!

That's why I also have no doubt we'll sell out on Sunday even with the middle tier at £75 and the top tier at £45 for adults.
That's a category A game that will see us bank more than £4million.

Looking at Burnley and Swansea (certainly not category A) they will follow suit but at lower prices which is why I don't understand all the doom and gloom regarding attendances.
As I say, if there is one thing you can trust Levy with it's filling a stadium to make the most cash. If people don't turn up then that's up to them but as long as the club have their money I couldn't give a monkey's.

 

[marion52]

By looking at the amount of tickets available and the amount people have put on the ticket exchange we could be looking at quite a poor turn out for sundays game and i hope that we don't bring that into the new stadium -_-

Why do you say that? Most of lower tier is red and that will show most on TV

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Why can't you sell it on to a friend?
So the season tickets have photos on them?
Highly unlikely there will be major ID checks. It will be scan the card and in you go.

As I noted earlier in the thread, I have about 5 friends who use our season tickets when we can't. But this season two of them, including my no. 1 guy, whom I go with frequently when my partner can't go and who takes his nephew when neither of us can go, got their own season tickets - and two more are out of London at present. No takers.

I even had a Chelsea-supporting mate asking to use them with his friend, but the challenge of keeping schtum for the whole match ended up being too much for him!

Both of our tickets were resold on the new ticket exchange, mine in less than an hour, my partner's in less than two hours.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

By looking at the amount of tickets available and the amount people have put on the ticket exchange we could be looking at quite a poor turn out for sundays game and i hope that we don't bring that into the new stadium -_-

Both of our tickets sold within 2 hours of being posted on the ticket exchange late this afternoon. I'm not sure what all the worry and wailing is about.

 

[Don_Felipe]

Both of our tickets sold within 2 hours of being posted on the ticket exchange late this afternoon. I'm not sure what all the worry and wailing is about.

I had a quick look on the ticket site - in the lower tiers at least there's only a few exchange tickets available - 10 per block max - it'll not be the exchange that keeps numbers low, if they are.

 

[therhinospeaks]

Yes, I went to the Gent game which is why I know Levy and Co know how to price a game to sell out!

That's why I also have no doubt we'll sell out on Sunday even with the middle tier at £75 and the top tier at £45 for adults.
That's a category A game that will see us bank more than £4million.

Looking at Burnley and Swansea (certainly not category A) they will follow suit but at lower prices which is why I don't understand all the doom and gloom regarding attendances.
As I say, if there is one thing you can trust Levy with it's filling a stadium to make the most cash. If people don't turn up then that's up to them but as long as the club have their money I couldn't give a monkey's.

errrrrr we're looking at over 15k empty seats for Sunday......not sure where you confidence is coming from. Gent was priced correctly...this isn't.

 

[Parklanerob]

errrrrr we're looking at over 15k empty seats for Sunday......not sure where you confidence is coming from. Gent was priced correctly...this isn't.

67,000 spurs fans seem to think the pricing is ok. Why would the club reduce prices when the issue is the restricted general sale?

 

[Lighty64]

but I bet the Cat C games never go to exchange. Unless the club closes sections of the ground.

no but when you buy a season ticket it is not broken down into 3 categories, and it's not their fault if you can't go

 

[DogsOfWar]

errrrrr we're looking at over 15k empty seats for Sunday......not sure where you confidence is coming from. Gent was priced correctly...this isn't.

I'm not sure where the 15,000 is coming from as this is the current map with all the orange down to single seats (at least from the half a dozen I looked at):

 

[Don_Felipe]

I'm not sure where the 15,000 is coming from as this is the current map with all the orange down to single seats (at least from the half a dozen I looked at):

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The ticket site does make it look healthy, it depends how many rows at the back of the top tier they haven't sold - if there's 50 blocks with 30-40 seats in a row, then each row they don't put on sale is 1500-2000 seats (or something like that)

 

[Phischy]

It's 10 rows at the back of about 32 blocks (the 18 at each end). That figure is imperfect as some blocks have fewer rows and therefore fewer have been closed. Perhaps average 8 rows in 32 blocks at 35 seats per row for a ballpark, which is 8,960 closed seats. It's probably actually 10,000 (seems like a sort of sensible number to plan to close) giving a capacity of possible sales at circa 80,000.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Have to say, the ticket exchange vs actual sold is not nice to see.
Suggests to me a lot of people have season tickets they don't intend to use.
I wonder if spurs will look at this towards the end of the season and decide whether those such fans should be allowed to renew?