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Just looked to see when Newcastle away tickets might be available and horrified to see price of tickets.

Ipswich are £31 and £22 for concessions, same as our top prices, yet Sheffield Utd are only £19 and £11.

Are Ipswich ripping us off?
 
Mike - True Blue Tinter said:
Just looked to see when Newcastle away tickets might be available and horrified to see price of tickets.

Ipswich are £31 and £22 for concessions, same as our top prices, yet Sheffield Utd are only £19 and £11.

Are Ipswich ripping us off?
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In another thread, you will find that ASDA will sell you 9 pints of Stella for £6. Are pubs ripping us off by charging us £3.50 for a single pint?

Not an exact parallel, I know - but the truth is that pubs and football clubs charge what they think the market will bear. It is then up to the customer to decide whether they will pay the price - or take their business elsewhere.

In another place people are making a lot of the fact that Ipswich are charging us £31 whilst charging their own fans only £26. "Surely this is against Football League regulations", I hear. But the truth is that those regulations say that away fans must not be charged more than home fans for similar accommodation. At Ipswich away fans are accommodated in a stand at the side of the pitch and pay exactly the same as do the Ipswich fans in the stand on the opposite side; the Ipswich fans who are paying £26 are in a stand at one end where prices are always cheaper.

By the same token, if we put away fans in the East Stand, we could charge them the same as the West Stand - but with them up in the corner, we have to charge them the lower prices that City fans would pay in the opposite corner.

I'm afraid that no amount of complaining will do any good. The prices have been set and the only options are either to pay them or to stay away.

Just think how much worse things are going to be when we get to the Prem!





Shorter answer - yes, Ipswich are ripping us off.
 
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In another place people are making a lot of the fact that Ipswich are charging us £31 whilst charging their own fans only £26. "Surely this is against Football League regulations", I hear. But the truth is that those regulations say that away fans must not be charged more than home fans for similar accommodation. At Ipswich away fans are accommodated in a stand at the side of the pitch and pay exactly the same as do the Ipswich fans in the stand on the opposite side; the Ipswich fans who are paying £26 are in a stand at one end where prices are always cheaper.

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It's an absolute joke that they have a designated away end with a lower tier which is cheaper but they refuse to sell first. Instead starting off with the more expensive upper tier ticket than if demand is appropriate, they release the lower tier tickets. That for me is an issue of an argument and it's unclear whether it's approved/ok with the Football League.

I've e-mailed Ipswich asking for justification of their pricing and their selection of upper/lower tier, I've e-mailed the Football League informing them and I've e-mailed a couple of magazine on the hope of publication to further put other fans off feeding the money to the greedy bastards.

Last year I paid £15 to watch us at Stockport, it's over a 100% rise just for the division. Stockport haven't/didn't have a pot to piss in and went into admin. Whilst Arsewhich have a rich chairman yet charge an over the top fee. For all the money being thrown around by these rich fellas, hardly anyone of them have reduced tickets.
 
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It's an absolute joke that they have a designated away end with a lower tier which is cheaper but they refuse to sell first. Instead starting off with the more expensive upper tier ticket than if demand is appropriate, they release the lower tier tickets. That for me is an issue of an argument and it's unclear whether it's approved/ok with the Football League.

I've e-mailed Ipswich asking for justification of their pricing and their selection of upper/lower tier, I've e-mailed the Football League informing them and I've e-mailed a couple of magazine on the hope of publication to further put other fans off feeding the money to the greedy bastards.

Last year I paid £15 to watch us at Stockport, it's over a 100% rise just for the division. Stockport haven't/didn't have a pot to piss in and went into admin. Whilst Arsewhich have a rich chairman yet charge an over the top fee. For all the money being thrown around by these rich fellas, hardly anyone of them have reduced tickets.
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I think it's right to make a fuss about this - and you seem to be making it in the right quarters. Then at least 'football' can't claim to be surprised when attendances do start to drop off.

With the amount of money in the game, money taken on the gate is becoming a less significant proportion of the total income of big clubs. If there wasn't so much money leaking out of the game, it should be possible to let people in almost for free. But the clubs continue to turn the screw on the fans. It's a sign of our addiction that we continue to pay these obscene prices that are clearly not value-for-money.
 
my folks heard that newcastle were going to charge us £37!!!!! if thats the case i say we boycott it and stay at home and watch it in the boozer!!!!
 
bocadillo said:
I think it's right to make a fuss about this - and you seem to be making it in the right quarters. Then at least 'football' can't claim to be surprised when attendances do start to drop off.

With the amount of money in the game, money taken on the gate is becoming a less significant proportion of the total income of big clubs. If there wasn't so much money leaking out of the game, it should be possible to let people in almost for free. But the clubs continue to turn the screw on the fans. It's a sign of our addiction that we continue to pay these obscene prices that are clearly not value-for-money.
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Exactly, and it may seem futile, and it won't change what we have to pay, but I still felt I had to vent my spleen. In fact, I wasn't happy with the automated response (which I believe was word for word the same as Hazza's) and wrote back to let them know it didn't answer my question!!

It may do nothing now, but you never know, maybe at some point in the future clubs do start to pay attention to the fans, I'd like to think I'd done something about it and not sit on my arse waiting for someone else to do it!
 
Probably an initial allvoation and we can have more if sell them out, well that's what I hope.
 
Mike - True Blue Tinter said:
I thought the League rules were 10% of capacity?
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In the Football League the minimum allocation for away fans is 2,000 or 10% of the total capacity, whichever is lowest. Newcastle are therefore giving us 40% more tickets than they need to.
 
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