This Charming Man

Good for you. I hope your 1 man crusade is successful.

If people are moaning about it but still paying it, why would they drop it? They'd just carry on regardless. So as you originally said, your options are - keep going or stop going and hope enough people follow suit and they are then forced to stop it.

Exactly. So choose one of those options and stop moaning about it.

Now that's a stupid comment. Before choosing to complete the transaction, you are made perfectly aware of the total cost. It's not like you pay £49 for the Man City ticket and then sent an invoice for £1.50 for the 'ticket tax'.

BA's prices are low these days because they're competing with the explosion of budget airlines across Europe. If you think the cost of airline travel is going to come down any time soon, you're crazy. The constant rise in fuel prices and taxes will ensure the cost of air travel is going to keep rising.

The 'ticket tax' is advertised.

Don't be so naive. They'll just add it into the actual cost, so either way you'll still be paying it. They clamped down on airlines charging daft fees to use credit cards etc, so the airlines stopped doing that and just upped their prices. The consumer is now probably paying more than they were before as you can't see how much 'extra' they've added on. Also, they won't be stamping out booking fees and the like as that would then see hundreds of ticket agencies going out of business and a multi-million pound sector would be left with no means to sell it's tickets.

Yes, also the same with most other football clubs. Though according to people on here, we're not allowed to charge it.

Yes?

Lower. The Lower Tier will stand, the Upper will sit. Therefore the atmosphere will come from the cheap seats...

You'll be going on my ignore list soon if you keep starting attention seeking threads like this.

Took me 15 minutes from the comfort of my own desk.

I didn't risk it in the end this time. Wasn't sure if the system would let me, if I'd have to collect or if I could only apply for Under 16 tickets for Arsenal. Need to suss it out before I go back to buying kids tickets.

Imagine you could shift it. Even if it doesn't sell out, I'm sure someone would have it off you for £20 or so. It's barcode scanners there, so they don't have to be Under 16.

The fact they've sold out already justifies it, unfortunately.

Maybe because the billing addresses don't match?

That includes P&P as well. Not too bad really when you compare it to gig tickets. I bought a couple of Kasabian tickets the other week and paid a £7 booking fee and I have to collect the tickets at the venue!

I reckon this will sell out now. Seeing as it's the only way to guarantee yourself an Arsenal ticket. I thought we would have a few hundred left over originally, when I assumed they'd take last season's games into account when buying for Arsenal.

Seems we're rolling out our new website today and they've already admitted there may be some issues with that. Get your Man City tickets quickly, if you're planning on doing it on-line. What a day to roll it out...

Well after all my moaning, that was rather straight forward. Finally got in (after having to reset my password), linked 3 accounts to mine, purchased 4x Man City tickets in a couple of minutes and SFC even sent me a text to confirm it all. Just waiting for something to go wrong though, that was all far too easy...

I've been stuck on 377 for the last 12mins.

I just explained the reason to you. Supply and demand, the demand will be greater for their opening game of the season, rather than QPR on a random weekend.

There was about 4 miles worth of cabling installed for the Olympics Opening Ceremony. If we were to install that, it really would be a statement of intent.

Looking forward to trying to get 4x Man City tickets with this mess. I have some numbers but god knows if they're 'Client ID's' or 'Customer ID's'. As per usual, SFC ticket office - JOKE.

City don't have categories, they just charge what they want per game. As we're the first game of the season and it's their first game as champions, demand will be high therefore ticket prices are high.