General ticket sales

[ozleicester]

7 minutes ago, Reg Vardy said:

bad traffic problems,Aylestone Rd

Leave at 85 mins - sorted! 

[Guest Lako42]

2 hours ago, lestuhfox said:

£36 to just under £50 says different mate. 

I was joking

 

 

They don't give a ****

[Foxoffice]

22 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

Ticket prices (match by match) need to be reduced dramatically.

If we have 25k season ticket holders with the majority of away teams given 3.3k it only leaves the best part of 4K available, commercially wouldn’t make any sense to reduce ticket prices, with the exception of Swansea the majority of the games have been near enough sold out.

[KrefelderFox666]

2 minutes ago, Foxoffice said:

If we have 25k season ticket holders with the majority of away teams given 3.3k it only leaves the best part of 4K available, commercially wouldn’t make any sense to reduce ticket prices, with the exception of Swansea the majority of the games have been near enough sold out.

If we are reliant on money from those tickets then as a club we are badly run, commercially. You would be annoyed if your employer halved your wages to make more profit. Just because it makes commercial sense, doesn't mean it's right.

 

Let's assume 5,000 tickets every game are available to buy. Multiplied by 19 (going off PL). Assuming every game sells out (which it should in the PL), we are at 95,000 ticket sales for the season. If we assume an average reduction of £10 per ticket, that's roughly £1M gap. What's our wage bill? Pretty sure £1M barely scrapes the edges over the season. How about we reduce our wage bill slightly and don't give out ridiculous contracts and be a bit more sensible with transfer business? The latter will not be such a big deal but saving £10 off a match ticket can make a huge difference to individuals.

 

I see what you are saying, but it's a lazy excuse and simply money making at all costs. It increases the affordability divide in the fanbase and those at the bottom suffer.

[phoneticerror]

2 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

. It increases the affordability divide in the fanbase and those at the bottom suffer.

I see your points mate, but this part unfortunately is life in general. The commercial world doesn’t give a rats arse how much money we all have in the bank. All companies want money, and anybody who argues otherwise within an organisation puts their job on the line when profitability goes down. I don’t see it ever changing. 

[Foxoffice]

2 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

If we are reliant on money from those tickets then as a club we are badly run, commercially. You would be annoyed if your employer halved your wages to make more profit. Just because it makes commercial sense, doesn't mean it's right.

 

Let's assume 5,000 tickets every game are available to buy. Multiplied by 19 (going off PL). Assuming every game sells out (which it should in the PL), we are at 95,000 ticket sales for the season. If we assume an average reduction of £10 per ticket, that's roughly £1M gap. What's our wage bill? Pretty sure £1M barely scrapes the edges over the season. How about we reduce our wage bill slightly and don't give out ridiculous contracts and be a bit more sensible with transfer business? The latter will not be such a big deal but saving £10 off a match ticket can make a huge difference to individuals.

 

I see what you are saying, but it's a lazy excuse and simply money making at all costs. It increases the affordability divide in the fanbase and those at the bottom suffer.

Valid points you make, I thought the FA cup was reasonably priced yet we still only sold 23k to home support, I'm not entirely convinced reducing the tickets would result in much more uptake, obviously the grade A games would sell out regardless of ticket prices, with little interest in the midweek games or those categorised as grade B.

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Foxoffice said:

Valid points you make, I thought the FA cup was reasonably priced yet we still only sold 23k to home support, I'm not entirely convinced reducing the tickets would result in much more uptake, obviously the grade A games would sell out regardless of ticket prices, with little interest in the midweek games or those categorised as grade B.

For me, it's less about increasing uptake and more about making Leicester games more affordable to more people. Although cheaper prices would certainly drive more demand.

 

FA Cup pricing was OK but again, could be better if being picky. It seems a lot of STH's didn't bother. If it was £10 rather than £18 for STH's, would we have sold out? Hard to say for definite but I think we would. The other thing is that we were "lucky" it was Birmingham and not Hull as prices would have been the same but attendance would have been probably 5k less. Still much better value for families/groups attending than a league game for sure.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

3 hours ago, MattFox said:

Less corporates for mid weeks plays a part in low numbers

Corporate/"premium seating" was completely empty on Saturday. But that's what we're expanding the most if the redvelopment ever happens  

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, phoneticerror said:

I see your points mate, but this part unfortunately is life in general. The commercial world doesn’t give a rats arse how much money we all have in the bank. All companies want money, and anybody who argues otherwise within an organisation puts their job on the line when profitability goes down. I don’t see it ever changing. 

Fully understand that, but I don't agree with it. Especially since the football club is part of the wider community. It should be more accessible. As I mentioned above, when you have players on the books earning 6 figure sums on a weekly basis but you can't drop prices by £10, it makes you think. Something isn't right there.

 

Get the same thing with large organisations like banks where the top 10% are probably earning 90% of the money. And the majority aren't worth it.

 

And my main gripe with the pricing is the difference between what a STH pays per match compared to a member/non-member. And I have a ST so don't even fall into that bracket. If you know you can only make half of the home games, you are financially better off having a ST than a membership and buying individual match tickets. Might have this wrong but aren't you a member?

[iancognito]

On 31/01/2024 at 08:41, Sol thewall Bamba said:

It was on general sale last night. The next hurdle is the fact that the tickets are available is hardly advertised, and after 10 or more years of no tickets being available casual fans have given up looking.

After the UFS/FT meeting with the club I had no fewer than 6 texts advertising the General Sales including the day before Swansea saying last few available (blatant lie but at least they're trying). Up til that point I'd never had a text from the club about anything. That just leaves the people out there that aren't in the database/mailing list and how they reach them. I couldn't believe there was an entire block in the North stand empty and no-one had the thought to either give tickets to schools or go Kids For A Quid to fill it. The extra sales on the concourse alone would have made it worthwhile.

 

Leaves you with the impression that they don't give a sh!t

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Tickets still on sale for Swansea this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 February 2024 by Rain King

[grobyfox1990]

Sheff wed on general sale from Sunday