£ 15,000 for Everton Tickets

[Thracian]

I think it is OK to sell a ticket as long as you don't charge more than face value.

 

 

That's not specified as being the case on the ticket - as far as I can see!   

[smr]

You said it yourself. They wont make the trip to sell it at face value. Got to make it worth their while. I would guess some Everton fans would be making the journey with the intention of selling their ticket to the highest bidder. It will feel like Bargain Hunt outside the stadium. Going to be surreal.

 

Oh I meant Everton fans selling over the Internet, but yeah, if any Everton fans are going to make the trip down to sell tickets they would be selling over face value.

[onekeithweller]

Can't we just move this to the Nou Camp? We have to get used to playing there anyway.

[Foxy_jim]

No there isn't the club sold 2000 Gold memberships.

 

But in case you missed it, here's the official line from the club as of yesterday afternoon.

 

Someone I know has managed to track down someone at the club.

He's the official albeit 3 hand explanation.

23000 season tickets.

Everton have taken a full 3300 allocation.

Hospitality for this game is 3000 Inc approx 300 for players. Being allocated 15 each.

Leaving roughly 2700 for sale to members. Apparently we have 2000 gold and 1000 Fox family or whatever they are called.

Hence today's carnage. They are claiming however most gold and family members got tickets.

Unless tickets are returned by companies/sponsors nothing is going to change.

Bottom line is theres more members than there were tickets on sale, so people are going to be disappointed. I wont argue with you, you might be right but i was told by a reliable source theres a lot more than 2000, sold at the start of the season. 

[nnfox]

That's not specified as being the case on the ticket - as far as I can see!   

 

I stand corrected.  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/part/XII

 

S..166 makes it an offence to sell a ticket, or even give it away to someone else.  I guess it is to stop people with banning orders getting in?

 

In reality, it is near impossible to police - there is no way you would get done for giving your ticket to a mate - who would know?.  However, when people put their tickets up for grabs on the web, then there is an audit trail and all the evidence to bring a prosecution is available.

[grandpa]

Yes,it's disgusting and I agree with all of the angry comments but the blunt truth is; that's the free market for you. This has always happened and always will. Supply and demand,and all that. Absolutely no way that the club can stop it. Nobody,last summer, foresaw what was going to happen this season. Hard to imagine the current level of success being maintained so when we drop back a little [hopefully not too much] tickets will cease to be a problem.Make the stadium bigger and issue more season tickets in anticipation of more success? Isn't that what Cov City did? Hmmmm......

 

Not being at the Everton game will be as frustrating as hell but,at the end of the day, doesn't make you any less of a fan.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Yes,it's disgusting and I agree with all of the angry comments but the blunt truth is; that's the free market for you. This has always happened and always will. Supply and demand,and all that. Absolutely no way that the club can stop it. Nobody,last summer, foresaw what was going to happen this season. Hard to imagine the current level of success being maintained so when we drop back a little [hopefully not too much] tickets will cease to be a problem.Make the stadium bigger and issue more season tickets in anticipation of more success? Isn't that what Cov City did? Hmmmm......

 

Not being at the Everton game will be as frustrating as hell but,at the end of the day, doesn't make you any less of a fan.

It's not a free market though is it, it's breaking the law. 

[dannythefox]

I don't agree with these sites selling tickets but they must be aloud to do because there's so many of them and sky are even talking about it. Surly sky would mention its illegal to sell or buy these tickets if it was but instead there just promoting it.

[Ollie93]

Haha mate, I don't need to justify myself to you on here and neither does anyone else. If someone says that the distance they live away from Leicester is stopping them from attending games, then that's their decision, it has nothing to do with you. 

I'd tell you to get down off your high horse but it looks like a few others have done it for me. 

 

I think most were a just bit annoyed at that Ollie lad's insinuation that it was a peace of piss to live miles away and have a season ticket, rather than actually griping about this specific predicament.

 

tbf it's not that tricky to travel distances to games. some people obviously can't or never previously wanted to "make the effort" to travel 3 or 4 hours most weeks to watch us lose to barnsley or watch us draw with yeovil, but are now upset they aren't being given the chance to travel just as far for our bigger games. that's tough luck really. 

 

i know from experience that it is a ball ache to get up at 9 on a saturday and get on the first of three trains that you've paid about 50 quid for once a fortnight. or to book things off work weeks in advance and then games get moved. i get and fully empathise with people who live too far away to justify a season ticket, but if you haven't got one then i can't see why you'd be crying about not getting a ticket for this. you don't have a season ticket because you can't go very often, and you want one of your few visits to be the one where we get presented with the premier league trophy for the first time ever? join the queue. 

 

Apologies if I offended anyone, but I think Scouse summed up what i was trying to get across a lot better than how I said it/went about saying it. I also never said it was a piece of piss to have a season ticket and live miles away, I was just stating it was do-able if you really wanted to, as there is plenty of good people on here who would pay face value for specific games so you're never out of pocket.

[nnfox]

I don't agree with these sites selling tickets but they must be aloud to do because there's so many of them and sky are even talking about it. Surly sky would mention its illegal to sell or buy these tickets if it was but instead there just promoting it.

There is an exception (s.166A I think) which says companies can sell online if they aren't based in the uk or something along those lines.

[smr]

Yeah and no doubt some looney old Earl of Winchester types will scoff them up.

[fuchsntf]

Yes,it's disgusting and I agree with all of the angry comments but the blunt truth is; that's the free market for you. This has always happened and always will. Supply and demand,and all that. Absolutely no way that the club can stop it. Nobody,last summer, foresaw what was going to happen this season. Hard to imagine the current level of success being maintained so when we drop back a little [hopefully not too much] tickets will cease to be a problem.Make the stadium bigger and issue more season tickets in anticipation of more success? Isn't that what Cov City did? Hmmmm......

 

Not being at the Everton game will be as frustrating as hell but,at the end of the day, doesn't make you any less of a fan.

I wonder where the supply and demand, plus the entrepenuer spirit is, towards the Everton weekend

for public viewing.Council could make money, Club could make money, Loughborough uni could

LCC could make money.Some other sports club could set up something.

Where is the Leicester enterprising spirit.How about Abbey park, with a King Richard theme, plus Indian

mix, something like diwali.I am sure Asian and Other small businesses would be interested.

[Voll Blau]

Apologies if I offended anyone, but I think Scouse summed up what i was trying to get across a lot better than how I said it/went about saying it. I also never said it was a piece of piss to have a season ticket and live miles away, I was just stating it was do-able if you really wanted to, as there is plenty of good people on here who would pay face value for specific games so you're never out of pocket.

 

Easy to say that now, and it is true, but not so sure it was any further back than two seasons ago. Did we sell out every game last season?

 

Don't get me wrong I know I'll always find a mate to take my ticket whatever our situation/division, but it's probably not that simple for someone more far-flung.

 

Bayfox's post was spot on for me, just because something's "doable" in theory doesn't mean you wouldn't have to make a shitload of sacrifices in order to make it so.

[Bayfox]

Apologies if I offended anyone, but I think Scouse summed up what i was trying to get across a lot better than how I said it/went about saying it. I also never said it was a piece of piss to have a season ticket and live miles away, I was just stating it was do-able if you really wanted to, as there is plenty of good people on here who would pay face value for specific games so you're never out of pocket.

What's your idea of do-able? Just out of interest?

3 years ago if you lived 4 hours away. You could pick and choose your games based around time, cost, other commitments.

Then 2 years ago season tickets became a closed shop.

Now is someone living in Scotland or on the south coast expected to come camp over night just to have got one of the 7k that went on general sale at that point.

Yes maybe some did. But you can't honestly tell me you saw this success coming and expect people to have travelled that far to get a season ticket on a what if.

I managed to get several spares even for the Doncaster game.

For Everton my only hope is my toffee supporting sister and putting people in the away end.

I guess despite my protests expansion now does seem the only way.

But to expect a normal working bloke who lives miles away to have forked out about 3 months wages a season in tickets, travel etc.

Maybe do-able to you. But to some it's not.

And that comes from someone who has had the luxury of travelling away since the 90s but I have dropped a lot of other interests for that reason.

[Jack1993]

I don't get all the arguments about when people started supporting the club or how many games they've been to etc... those that have shown their loyalty season after season, game after game and stuck with the club the whole way through will be at the game. If you had a season ticket at any point before we were promoted then you could have one now if you renewed every season, if you didn't for whatever reason then what are the club supposed to do?

 

I understand there are exceptions like moving away, having kids, lack of money etc but again how are the club supposed to account for that? The way they see it, if you stuck with them and invested your money over time with them you are guaranteed a seat this season, if you didn't then unfortunately there's no guarantee. This is literally how priority works isn't it?

[Spudulike]

The netted off no mans land between the Family Stand and the Southampton fans was huge. Does it really have to be that wide ?? Must be loads of seats that can be sold with just a thin line of stewards for security. I appreciate that we are supposed to be 'high risk' but I can't imagine much trouble with our remaining opponents ??

[Dan]

I wouldn't take £15k. I'll own that one day. I won't see this again. Not in these circumstances.

[GaelicFox]

I wouldn't take £15k. I'll own that one day. I won't see this again. Not in these circumstances.

Ain't that the truth

[Birrt]

Can I first say I am thrilled to bits for my Leicester family connections about the position they find themselves in, which is remarkable BUT massively deserved.

I desperately want Leicester to box it off ASAP , before the Everton game .

However, before paying a bizarre amount money for 2 football tickets - which is mind boggling to the majority of football supporters, wouldn't any rational person wait on the favourable outcome of the next 3 Cup Finals And the the reality of beating West Ham (who are a very good away side) and then Swansea (who recently won at Arsenal), then Man Utd away ( more beatable or drawable than in previous years, but Old Trafford is still a potentially daunting place to go to )

......And then and only then pay your mega money (lucky so and so) for the "I was there moment"

I'm going of course , being an evertonian (in the away end), but I will inwardly for only the second time in my football watching life be rooting (praying) for the opposition to win (for my grandson, his dad and his family and all you good people), but my fear is that despite most posters on the forum dismissing the Everton game as a turn up and win game - trust me I've spent my life wondering why Everton never follow any script!

Anyway, Let's all hope that by the time May 7th comes round you're looking down the gun barrel of the most historic game in your illustrious history ;-)

Here's hoping- up the Fosse

[fuchsntf]

I don't agree with these sites selling tickets but they must be aloud to do because there's so many of them and sky are even talking about it. Surly sky would mention its illegal to sell or buy these tickets if it was but instead there just promoting it.

Actually Skysports when reporting on it on several occasions after midday, said themselves

and asked a few outsiders, to clarify the legal side.

They werent promoting anything..just reporting.

[Guest Bilo]

I wouldn't take £15k. I'll own that one day. I won't see this again. Not in these circumstances.

 

I was saying this to someone at work today.

 

This season could mark the start of a new era where we win three league titles on the bounce, and titles two and three wouldn't hold a candle to the first time. Not a chance.

 

Some things are worth more than money.

[Dan]

I was saying this to someone at work today.

 

This season could mark the start of a new era where we win three league titles on the bounce, and titles two and three wouldn't hold a candle to the first time. Not a chance.

 

Some things are worth more than money.

 

Yep. £15k genuinely wouldn't be that life changing to me and I don't mean that in a sense I'm already loaded or anything like that (far from it) but I've put far too much time and money into football for me to turn down the ultimate return from it, for something I'll own one day anyway.

[nnfox]

Can I first say I am thrilled to bits for my Leicester family connections about the position they find themselves in, which is remarkable BUT massively deserved.

I desperately want Leicester to box it off ASAP , before the Everton game .

However, before paying a bizarre amount money for 2 football tickets - which is mind boggling to the majority of football supporters, wouldn't any rational person wait on the favourable outcome of the next 3 Cup Finals And the the reality of beating West Ham (who are a very good away side) and then Swansea (who recently won at Arsenal), then Man Utd away ( more beatable or drawable than in previous years, but Old Trafford is still a potentially daunting place to go to )

......And then and only then pay your mega money (lucky so and so) for the "I was there moment"

I'm going of course , being an evertonian (in the away end), but I will inwardly for only the second time in my football watching life be rooting (praying) for the opposition to win (for my grandson, his dad and his family and all you good people), but my fear is that despite most posters on the forum dismissing the Everton game as a turn up and win game - trust me I've spent my life wondering why Everton never follow any script!

Anyway, Let's all hope that by the time May 7th comes round you're looking down the gun barrel of the most historic game in your illustrious history ;-)

Here's hoping- up the Fosse

 

To anyone hoping that Everton will return any of their allocation, this is why they won't.  Yes it will be a nothing game for Everton, but there are a lot of fans, including those from Everton who would love to be there to witness history IF we complete the job.

 

Thanks for the words Birrt.

[Danizen]

I was saying this to someone at work today.

This season could mark the start of a new era where we win three league titles on the bounce, and titles two and three wouldn't hold a candle to the first time. Not a chance.

Some things are worth more than money.

Or it could be the only top flight title we win which would make it even more valuable. It'd be hard to turn down crazy money but I know I'd regret it the minute the ticket leaves my hand.

[Guest]

Yep. £15k genuinely wouldn't be that life changing to me and I don't mean that in a sense I'm already loaded or anything like that (far from it) but I've put far too much time and money into football for me to turn down the ultimate return from it, for something I'll own one day anyway.

Spot on. This could be a once in a lifetime event, a real 'i was there when....' moment. I'd never even consider giving my ST up to make a few quid.

Suppose it's personal choice but I can't imagine people who do sell theirs will look back fondly on the decision.