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A lot of the money will be subsidized by corporate boxes that have contracts where an amazing amount of money is paid for every game and then huge catering contracts. Ticket prices depend how close you are. But a lot of cheap seats would be a great idea, should make the atmo better.
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another thing i'd say is that i've never understood the almost total absence of a pricing strategy for tickets at anfield.
there should be cheap seats available, and plenty of them. but there should also be expensive seats, for people with money or who rarely get a chance of a ticket (such as me) and who are happy to pay big once or twice a year. why not have a few thousand premium seats for £80-100? i think the demand would be there.
also, most people without a season ticket will struggle to EVER get to a utd or everton game. they'd be willing to pay through the nose for the privelege of doing it just once, imo. i'd therefore investigate the possibility of having, say, 20k seats set aside for those games for such willing customers priced at perhaps £150 each.
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Fucking Hell peter, that posts sums up exactly whats wrong with football.....
I got an Idea, how about if you go the match every week on the trot you can show your match ticket stubs and get 1st choice for cup matches?
Or shall we just let all the rich fuckers turn up and take any seat they want
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it is to some extent what's wrong with football, yep.
but i don't think you're really being fair. i said there should be plenty of cheaper seats, to recognise the good of getting in younger and poorer fans. but, at the same time - and to compensate for lost revenue - i see no harm AT ALL in catering for people who are happy to pay more but who just can't get a fucking ticket.
i mean what exactly is 'fair' about the same guys going to the big games, year in, year out, and getting the tickets well below what they'd actually be prepared to pay for them, while tens of thousnds of others NEVER get to go to certain matches even once despite being prepared, imo, to pay big big money?
sorry, i guess you won't agree mate, but i'm absolutely convinced that that's a reasonable pricing strategy.
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Couldn't disagree with this more, it's not an auction and it's not Liverpool fault there is more demand than supply, however if someone goes to ten games a year they in my mind have much more right to go to the bigger games, finances aside.
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i disagree. loyalty should be recognised, but i'd still point out that many - perhaps most - fans who rarely go are not uninterested or fair weather but just completely unable to get a ticket.
and even though loyalty should be rewarded, i still don't see why they should necessarily get tickets for the few games like utd, everton and big cup games at maybe a third of their true market value. all i'm saying is to exploit the market a bit more: get poorer fans in with cheap seats, regular fans in with regular seats, and rich (or rarely able to get tickets) fans in with expensive seats.
Asbo: possibly you have a point about exec boxes: i've never pursued the idea of taking one. my suspicion, however, is that they'd be much more expensive than double ot treble a seat in the kop, per person.
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I think Peter's point is defensible. Most fans with means will find a way to get a ticket if they want one, but will likely pay a hefty price to tout. And, I think those fans would much rather pay that fee to the club. I know I would and have purchased tickets for too much money on a couple of occasions in the past.
