Season Tickets - 2022/23

[chrisw1]

Just logged on, went on list in Nov 2019 with my son and about 5300 in the queue!
Daughter went on list in May 2020 and circa 6300

I'm amazed you and your son are still at 5k, that sounds wrong given where others are and when they joined

[Pat Mustard]

So despite joining 2 years ago, we still stand somewhere around 10,500 on the non-existent waiting list.

If you joined 2 years ago you should be significantly higher than that. People who joined in Jun-21 seem to be at 7k ish.

So this is interesting. 

We were on the list from the 2019-20 season, but I'm now having a look on my digital account and in my season ticket history which is linked to my wife and daughter's ID it is saying that our request expired on 14/6/21 and was not renewed.  I do remember signing up a second time at some point, but I thought this was just confirming that we still wanted the place on the list - it's probably my fault and I missed some communication, but has anyone else had to renew their place on the list in the past?  This is what is in there:

14/06/2021 12:48   Expired      Not Renewed   2019-20 Season   Season Ticket Waiting List            
14/06/2021 12:48   Expired      Not Renewed   2019-20 Season   Season Ticket Waiting List

Right, this is complicated, but when people went on this list around Jun-21 it incorrectly stated this was for the 2019-20 season.  I know this as my brothers says exactly the same and I put him on the list in Jun-21.  The summary looks exactly the same as yours above, ie

02/06/2021 13:07   Expired      Not Renewed   2019-20 Season   Season Ticket Waiting List

I can confirm he is still on the list notwithstanding the wording in this summary.

From the above I'd say you joined in Jun-21 and are now prob 8k ish on the list?

We definitely originally joined the list prior to June 21 - I'm fairly certain it would have been when we bought our first memberships, which was around Christmas 2019.  I might try to contact the club to find out what happened to the original applications - with the Covid interruption happening not long after I'm concerned I missed something at that point.

[AVFC_Herts]

Must admit I'd expected an email from the club this summer.

26th Nov 2019 placed 5321
9th May 2020 placed 6300 (Daughter)

Just wanted to gauge people's own experience before I approached the club and they fob me off!!

Heard stories of people being on the list for less time and offered a ticket but I put that down to nonsense!

[astonvilla82]

Must admit I'd expected an email from the club this summer.

26th Nov 2019 placed 5321
9th May 2020 placed 6300 (Daughter)

Just wanted to gauge people's own experience before I approached the club and they fob me off!!

Heard stories of people being on the list for less time and offered a ticket but I put that down to nonsense!

just discussing this with my son, he went on the waiting list about June 2020 and got a season ticket about July 2020,he said must have been on the waiting list years before, but I told him we didn't have one till we got promoted, still received July 2022 email asking him to apply for a season ticket and have informed them that he has one and because he had 2 ID'S, they would change his details, but only this week he received another email that he was about 3100 on the list

[astonvilla82]

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[AVFC_Herts]

Will drop the club a message but suspect by the email yesterday it isn't up for discussion.

Will continue attending via our memberships and hope for a rapid completion of the North Stand.

[eamonn]

Haven't been in a geographical/financial location to do so before but I think i'll apply for a season ticket now...and hopefully get one in time for the first season with our new North Stand and adjacent stadium upgrades.

[amfy]

My nephew is 14997 on the list. I’m pretty sure he’s been on the waiting list for 2 years! …..but it was said it be about 30,000 when he joined so we’re getting through it!

[purpletrousers]

So rather embarrassingly it took me about 5 months after her birth to get my youngest on the ST waiting list.

That was 2/7/21 and the club have told me she is today 12,553 on the waiting list.

I’ve encouraged a few people to be on the waiting list just in case their circumstances change and they can afford/it makes sense to have STs by the time they come to the top, so agree there would be a minority who are less likely to take up, but hope this gives a picture of where things are at…

Do we have any sense of the ‘natural wastage’ of how many don’t renew in recent years?
I’m guessing I’ll be sharing one ST between two little ones for a few years…

Waiting list position:
2/7/21 joined
1/6/22 12533 of 26,000
7/9/22 12136

Doesn’t look like I’m going to be struggling with juggling two little ones any time soon…

So are we clear if it depends which stand is selected to how much movement you manage in the queue, or how does it work?

How many years does anyone think It’ll take to get to 12k? I guess it depends on natural wastage, people on the list who don’t actually take up, the extra ?4,500 in the new N stand etc

[ChicagoLion]

It’s a list, you don’t nominate a stand. Well I didn’t.

[amfy]

I did

[Lastfootstamper]

If you go on there now it asks you which stand

[pauliewalnuts]

Pretty amazing (and a bit weird).

30,000 on a waiting list to be able to buy a season ticket at the current significant cost.

I never thought that would happen.

We've not even had anything remotely resembling success. We haven't even finished in the top half for over a decade, and for three of those years, we weren't even IN the top flight.

[Pat McMahon]

I did

Me too. And I picked the north stand because I figured it would be the least popular, even though I don’t like it there.

[purpletrousers]

Yep I nominated Trinity for #2 as I shifted to the Family Zone.

It's an arse that the seats next to us are free but labelled as 'ambulant' or somesuch, apparently kept there to support wheel chair spaces behind which makes no sense as they are a couple of rows away.

I guess (given there are so few Saturday games / at times I can actually take #1 to) maybe I'll have to try to prioritise getting in first if they are still free when I'm brave enough to take eg a 2 yo and a 3 yo towards the end of the season, might need to recruit Grandpa along to manage that I think!

On the whole waiting list thing, I think whoever at club created it deserves a medal in a business/marketing sense. I distinctly remember being a floating voter on whether to act, but I think the whole Fear of Missing Out psychology thing kicked in, I was only briefly on the w list, i think they didn't *really* need it at that stage, but it's very creation changed the psychology around STs, all of a sudden it made them seem more inaccessible.

Additionally it being free and easy to be on the list, even if you were uncertain when signing up (overlooking of course those whose finances sadly shifted to mean they can no longer afford) the very being kept waiting/something being unattainable probably means you are more likely to bite when your place comes up in some ways.