Re: season ticket deadline ? : Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:09 am  

I detest subsidised ticketing, always have.

Apart from some careful targeting of the young I find it utterly counter productive.

I could write loads on it but I won’t ill just say this.

It de-values your product and you never get it back. The sort of people generally (not all I accept) who turn up because it’s cheap expect it to stay that way. Once the club tries to recoup it investment they generally scarper, leaving real fans to dig deep to save the day.

Far better the trickle effect. It’s not much and I’m sure MC wishes it were more, but every pound is real and most new fans are in it for the long haul.

Do the math as to which is better, I know which one adds up better to me.

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Sat Oct 19, 2019 9:29 am  

Fishermanscap wrote:

I detest subsidised ticketing, always have.

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I'm with you on this, in fact I like the idea of extra costs on top of the basic tickets in return for extra benefits. The membership with the freebee polo shirt is one I take up every year. Don't know how it could be expanded though?

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:43 pm  

Dreadnought you’re out of your depth here this isn’t paperclips and staples (consumables) it’s a totally different product, it’s in essence a service, you do not end up with something physical you can hold or use. A whole different sales philosophy from discounting and bog offs needs to be used, building the value and benefit (sponsorship and advertising are a couple of these)
Also just going back to the HKR 12 month plan being cheaper, unfortunately it doesn’t give you the chance of winning £13,000 plus numerous other weekly prizes (USP’s ) don’t come back with the same old responses, the club is doing loads, I’ve already stated this and am privileged to know what some of those things are and their direct results. All your posts seem to belittle the club and your responses to people’s criticisms of your responses shows a total dismissive viewpoint, which in sales is a big no no, I always say “two ears for listening and one mouth for talking” so in sales you should listen twice as much as talk and then take that away with you to improve
You seem to be the only person on here with your views, are you suggesting the rest of us are wrong?

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:09 pm  

TheDreadnought wrote:

Have you actually read anything I’ve put?

Of course I have, I had to go back 5 pages to pull out your "troll" post because I thought it was indicative of your actual thoughts on the relevance of the "facts" you are citing, supposedly to support your "debate".
Without going around the houses and in plain speak terms, I think you're having a bitch about nothing just for something to do, you have no facts of any relevance and are digging a deeper hole just for arguments sake.
Whilst I wouldn't out that as trolling on a grand scale, heck, this entire board is full of that and much worse, I'm just exceptionally bored with the constant faux outrage Wakey bitch-a-thon, backed up with FA, yet laced with insults directed at either the club, its players or staff.

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:51 am  

OP: "A 3 month payment plan is too expensive for lots of fans."
Replies: "There's a 6 month payment plan to spread the cost."

End of thread.

But no - the dynamic paperclip salesman has a whole range of additional criticisms of the business model, based on assumptions that we should a) see a club in Melbourne, Australia as our direct competitor b) seek £millions in state funding and c) reduce our ticket prices to match Huddersfield, despite the fact that policy has had no appreciable impact on their attendance figures.

It's a crazy world.

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:30 am  

bren2k wrote:

OP: "A 3 month payment plan is too expensive for lots of fans."
Replies: "There's a 6 month payment plan to spread the cost."

End of thread.

But no - the dynamic paperclip salesman has a whole range of additional criticisms of the business model, based on assumptions that we should a) see a club in Melbourne, Australia as our direct competitor b) seek £millions in state funding and c) reduce our ticket prices to match Huddersfield, despite the fact that policy has had no appreciable impact on their attendance figures.

It's a crazy world.

I'd add state funding from a country we are not in, I imagine that should we ever actually leave Europe said poster will be demanding we seek EU grants.

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:44 pm  

bren2k wrote:

OP: "A 3 month payment plan is too expensive for lots of fans."
Replies: "There's a 6 month payment plan to spread the cost."

End of thread.

But no - the dynamic paperclip salesman has a whole range of additional criticisms of the business model, based on assumptions that we should a) see a club in Melbourne, Australia as our direct competitor b) seek £millions in state funding and c) reduce our ticket prices to match Huddersfield, despite the fact that policy has had no appreciable impact on their attendance figures.

It's a crazy world.

made I larf!
...... also there is the Commit 6 over a massive 12 long months!

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:42 am  

Back to season tickets.
How are we doing with sales of S/T's for next season ?
With the deadline having been brought forward for early bird platinum sales, you would hope that sales have been going well and it would be great if there has been an increase on last season.
Also, what about kids and regular S/T sales ?

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:33 am  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Back to season tickets.

Indeed.

I don't buy one any more. Instead, despite the saving I could make with a ST, I pay to walk up - and I attend most home games, usually with a +1, because my eldest has rediscovered his love of WT, so we go together - at my expense.

I like to think that compensates for my lack of merch purchases, because I'm not a replica shirt kinda guy.

Re: season ticket deadline ? : Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:52 am  

bren2k wrote:

Indeed.

I don't buy one any more. Instead, despite the saving I could make with a ST, I pay to walk up - and I attend most home games, usually with a +1, because my eldest has rediscovered his love of WT, so we go together - at my expense.

I like to think that compensates for my lack of merch purchases, because I'm not a replica shirt kinda guy.

Replica shirts, now there's a whole new can of worms.
It is sacrilege to throw replica shirts away but, what are you supposed to do with them ?