The £3 Booking Tax

[dune]

not really..the £1 booking fee was great way to pay it at the end of the month/pay day...

 

not really a dimwit when I can afford a whole £1

 

Would you be happy for this to go to a poll?

[Thedelldays]

Would you be happy for this to go to a poll?

at the end of the day stanley/chester/dune...

 

I will be going more than you next season it seems...like I said, give me a shout if you want me to get you a programme...I may even treat you to it

[dune]

at the end of the day stanley/chester/dune...

 

I will be going more than you next season it seems...like I said, give me a shout if you want me to get you a programme...I may even treat you to it

 

Don't get rattled dulldays.

[Thedelldays]

Don't get rattled dulldays.

cheers chester...

 

whens the march in protest against Cortese..?

 

let us all know so we know who to throw human crap at

[JonnyLove]

So OK. This only applies to the sale of tickets either on-line and telephone booking tickets.

Price of normal pre booked ticket is (Goals) £22. With Booking Fee £25. If purchased on the day at the ground. £24 (£2 surcharge for on day sales). So it is actually better to turn up on the day and purchase your ticket as it is £1 cheaper. Ok you may not get a ticket but I am sure we will not sell out every week.

 

The alternative option is to get a season ticket which carries no extra fee to purchase and does provide a rather large saving. (If you have the money in one go though).

 

I do feel the club have shot them selves in the foot with the booking fee.

[dune]

So OK. This only applies to the sale of tickets either on-line and telephone booking tickets.

Price of normal pre booked ticket is (Goals) £22. With Booking Fee £25. If purchased on the day at the ground. £24 (£2 surcharge for on day sales). So it is actually better to turn up on the day and purchase your ticket as it is £1 cheaper. Ok you may not get a ticket but I am sure we will not sell out every week.

 

The alternative option is to get a season ticket which carries no extra fee to purchase and does provide a rather large saving. (If you have the money in one go though).

 

I do feel the club have shot them selves in the foot with the booking fee.

 

Financially they may not have shot themselves in the foot becuase if the football is winning/promotion football we the punters will cough up, but the club have lost a lot of good will and moves like this eat away at the feelgood factor. What price can be put on that? Treating fans like mugs is not a smart move in the long run because we all have good memories when it comes to little things like this. I rememeber going to Fratton Park the season we went down and parking at the SMS car park. For the first time the club charged everyone £1 to park. Bugger all in real terms, but it was the principle of the thing and everyone who had to pay it felt cheated. Instances like this are really not worth the financial gain because that single £1 gain for the club can cost them more in the long run because from that moment on I thought two can play at that game and made a conscious decision to cut back on spending on matchday extras.

[Give it to Ron]

So OK. This only applies to the sale of tickets either on-line and telephone booking tickets.

Price of normal pre booked ticket is (Goals) £22. With Booking Fee £25. If purchased on the day at the ground. £24 (£2 surcharge for on day sales). So it is actually better to turn up on the day and purchase your ticket as it is £1 cheaper. Ok you may not get a ticket but I am sure we will not sell out every week.

 

The alternative option is to get a season ticket which carries no extra fee to purchase and does provide a rather large saving. (If you have the money in one go though).

 

I do feel the club have shot them selves in the foot with the booking fee.

 

 

Or get relatives/family/friends/lovers/current sh8g partner/whore/wife/boyfriend/soul partner to get their ars8 down to SMS and buy it at the window before matchday for no extra fee.

Now I know Stanley/Dune/Chester has none of the above so he is totally buggered and has to pay the £3.

[dune]

Or get relatives/family/friends/lovers/current sh8g partner/whore/wife/boyfriend/soul partner to get their ars8 down to SMS and buy it at the window before matchday for no extra fee.

Now I know Stanley/Dune/Chester has none of the above so he is totally buggered and has to pay the £3.

 

I am not Chester Perry. I've already told Dulldays this and now i'm telling you.

[Thedelldays]

stanley/chester/dune..with the team we will no doubt (and already) putting together..

 

I would be amazed if we...

 

A. dont go up top 2

B. Have a higher average attendance

 

both will mean the club and fans both win

[greg_hill]

So let me get this straight...

now that we have lost the worst chairman in the history of the club, and past an era where we were totally broke, playing rubbish football and skint to the point that we were minutes away from being wound up, we are now complaining about an ambitious, articulate and efficient new chairman who is overseeing us build a strong team with some excellent relatively big money signings because of a three quid booking fee that apparently can be avoided by some forward planning!

 

What is wrong with some people?

[dune]

So let me get this straight...

now that we have lost the worst chairman in the history of the club, and past an era where we were totally broke, playing rubbish football and skint to the point that we were minutes away from being wound up, we are now complaining about an ambitious, articulate and efficient new chairman who is overseeing us build a strong team with some excellent relatively big money signings because of a three quid booking fee that apparently can be avoided by some forward planning!

 

What is wrong with some people?

 

The booking fee is a con. You can dress it up any way you like, but it's still a con.

[JonnyLove]

The booking fee is a con. You can dress it up any way you like, but it's still a con.

 

I bet you read the daily mail as well.

 

It may be a little out of order but it is not a con. Actually quite clever as if you nip down to SMS to get the ticket you may purchase something from the store as well.

 

Anyway. We are meant to become self sufficient and with the investment in the club and squad things have to be paid for from something so it's not really a bad thing.

 

I suppose they could of just stated that tickets were £25 and thats it, might of been a more suitable option.

[mcjwills]

So let me get this straight...

now that we have lost the worst chairman in the history of the club, and past an era where we were totally broke, playing rubbish football and skint to the point that we were minutes away from being wound up, we are now complaining about an ambitious, articulate and efficient new chairman who is overseeing us build a strong team with some excellent relatively big money signings because of a three quid booking fee that apparently can be avoided by some forward planning!

 

What is wrong with some people?

 

the 6 P:'s **** Poor Planning Prevents Proper Performance or in our case does not save £3.00

 

Why don't those that turn up knowing they are going to the next game just buy next matches game as you are going to the current game and then no booking charge is made. Simples

[djharvey]

the 6 P:'s **** Poor Planning Prevents Proper Performance or in our case does not save £3.00

 

Why don't those that turn up knowing they are going to the next game just buy next matches game as you are going to the current game and then no booking charge is made. Simples

 

They wouldn't have anything to moan about before the next game!

[djharvey]

Don't get rattled dulldays.

 

ROFL!

[Hedgehog]

the 6 P:'s **** Poor Planning Prevents Proper Performance or in our case does not save £3.00

 

Why don't those that turn up knowing they are going to the next game just buy next matches game as you are going to the current game and then no booking charge is made. Simples

 

Then this will cause the queues that they were hoping to avoid, all it will mean is the queue will be 2 weeks early, or whenever the next games is.

[SET]

Match tickets purchased online or through the telephone booking service will carry a £3 booking fee. This will not be applicable to season ticket purchases. Tickets bought on the day of a match will be subject to an additional £2 surcharge over the match ticket price as the Club looks to encourage the pre-purchase of tickets to reduce match day queues.

 

That makes no sense whatsoever.

 

They want to reduce matchday queues, but do the exact opposite by charging for online sales. The matchday queues will not be reduced as people will queue on a matchday, to buy tickets for the following match.

 

I can understand telephone bookings incurring a fee even if i dont agree with it, but online sales make no sense whatsoever.

[View From The Top]

I am not Chester Perry. I've already told Dulldays this and now i'm telling you.

 

Dune is Stanley and not Chester.

 

Chester was the very strange Matt.

[bristolsaint29]

Just to put another spin on it, how much has your fuel costs travelling to the ground gone up in the last few years, no one is complaining about that extra cost, just seems like another reason for people with not much else to do to have a whinge about something.

 

 

Tin hat on

[SET]

wtf has fuel costs got to do with Saints ticketing policy

[Ewell]

Dune is Stanley and not Chester.

 

Chester was the very strange Matt.

 

You found the correct thread about booking fees then!

[bristolsaint29]

wtf has fuel costs got to do with Saints ticketing policy

 

Because of all the people whinging about a slight increase in the cost of going to a game, seems to me it's just something else to whinge about as there's no football on, couldn't givea toss about an extra £3 booking fee, if people have an issue with it buy on the day - simples

[dune]

Just to put another spin on it, how much has your fuel costs travelling to the ground gone up in the last few years, no one is complaining about that extra cost, just seems like another reason for people with not much else to do to have a whinge about something.

 

 

Tin hat on

 

That's because there's nothing we can do about fuel prices, but the ticket tax is an issue we can do something about by lobbying the club and making Cortese realises how unethical it is.

[bristolsaint29]

That's because there's nothing we can do about fuel prices, but the ticket tax is an issue we can do something about by lobbying the club and making Cortese realises how unethical it is.

 

HA HA HA do you actually think that would work, this is a very successful businessmen we're talking about.

 

Don't really think he'd be that bothered by a few people off a forum waving some nice home made signs at him when he comes to work, do you?

 

SFC is a business investing in the future with bigger wages and transfer fees, we need extra income.

 

Support the club you love and look at it as helping the club rather then them alledgedly ripping everyone off FFS

[SET]

Because of all the people whinging about a slight increase in the cost of going to a game, seems to me it's just something else to whinge about as there's no football on, couldn't givea toss about an extra £3 booking fee, if people have an issue with it buy on the day - simples

 

Again, what do fuel costs have to do with saints ticketing policy, i'd like to hear how you justify comparing the two, or how you believe Saints have an influence on fuel costs.

 

And buying on the day will mean a £2 fee.

 

Fact of the matter is to charge for online booking by any industry is a rip off, to provide that service is a fixed cost, fixed costs should be factored into your product pricing. Any accountant responsible for pricing would have already factored that fixed cost into the ticket pricing, meaning the £3 charge for online sales is covering no cost, its just pure profit and greed.

[bristolsaint29]

Oh we'd all better boycott Ticketmaster and Wembley and Twickenham and every other ticket company I think I've ever used!

[bristolsaint29]

Again, what do fuel costs have to do with saints ticketing policy, i'd like to hear how you justify comparing the two, or how you believe Saints have an influence on fuel costs.

 

And buying on the day will mean a £2 fee.

 

Fact of the matter is to charge for online booking by any industry is a rip off, to provide that service is a fixed cost, fixed costs should be factored into your product pricing. Any accountant responsible for pricing would have already factored that fixed cost into the ticket pricing, meaning the £3 charge for online sales is covering no cost, its just pure profit and greed.

 

I have not mentioned anywhere saints can influence fuel all I was pointing out is the cost of things increase all the time it is commonly known as inflation, many times due to this other costs have to be added on to cater for these increases. It may be the online sales has no cost increase but hows about those things we keep buying called players and that thing called investment in Staplewood or should that all come from someone elses pocket.

 

For crying out loud do you load of whingers not remember these are the people who saved our club from going down the pan ONLY 1 YEAR ago, I am now off to talk to my 2 yr old who makes more sense than most of the drivel written here about being ripped off.

[SET]

Oh we'd all better boycott Ticketmaster and Wembley and Twickenham and every other ticket company I think I've ever used!

 

Brilliant so you cant come back with reasoned argument, so you throw that pearler in.

 

If it helps i refuse to pay a booking fee for anything. Especially as most event i'd want i can buy cheaper from a tout than face value.

[Chez]

Just to put another spin on it, how much has your fuel costs travelling to the ground gone up in the last few years, no one is complaining about that extra cost, just seems like another reason for people with not much else to do to have a whinge about something.

 

 

Tin hat on

 

they are going to go up if people have to drive to the club to buy their tickets from the front desk rather than online. Good point my son.

[bristolsaint29]

Brilliant so you cant come back with reasoned argument, so you throw that pearler in.

 

If it helps i refuse to pay a booking fee for anything. Especially as most event i'd want i can buy cheaper from a tout than face value.

 

Did you miss this comment then

 

I have not mentioned anywhere saints can influence fuel all I was pointing out is the cost of things increase all the time it is commonly known as inflation, many times due to this other costs have to be added on to cater for these increases. It may be the online sales has no cost increase but hows about those things we keep buying called players and that thing called investment in Staplewood or should that all come from someone elses pocket.

 

For crying out loud do you load of whingers not remember these are the people who saved our club from going down the pan ONLY 1 YEAR ago, I am now off to talk to my 2 yr old who makes more sense than most of the drivel written here about being ripped off.

[SET]

I have not mentioned anywhere saints can influence fuel all I was pointing out is the cost of things increase all the time it is commonly known as inflation

 

Your right, if the cost of a ticket went up inline with inflation then i'd agree. But this is not an inflation rise, its an introduction of an unreasonable charge.

 

It may be the online sales has no cost increase but hows about those things we keep buying called players and that thing called investment in Staplewood or should that all come from someone elses pocket.

 

Again all costs that should be covered by ticket pricing, not introducing a charge to provide a service, the club say they want to reduce queues at the ground and reduce costs. Pushing people online achieves both of these, but charging £3 to buy online means there will still be queues and costs invloved on a matchday.

 

 

For crying out loud do you load of whingers not remember these are the people who saved our club from going down the pan ONLY 1 YEAR ago, I am now off to talk to my 2 yr old who makes more sense than most of the drivel written here about being ripped off.

 

And why should that matter, I'm grateful they came to the clubs rescue, but i'd rather a club that's run to the benefit of its fans and community with responsible pricing. Than a club that is hell bent on getting to the promised land (sic) of the premier league at whatever cost to the fan.