Season Tickets - 2022/23

[Kimaster1976]

I put my season ticket up for resale for the West Ham game a couple weeks ago in A3 in Trinity Road but when you click on the stand it says no seats available.

Unless the whole stadium sells out are they not gonna even offer it for sale then?

This seems a bizarre way of resale of tickets I must say why not just put it as available now?

[charleeco7]

You’ve already paid for yours so they’ll make more money if they sell the ones which are general admission first before yours. Rather than someone buying yours and you getting a cut.

[amfy]

You’ve already paid for yours so they’ll make more money if they sell the ones which are general admission first before yours. Rather than someone buying yours and you getting a cut.

….but they don’t seem to have taken into account that some people won’t buy whatever is available. Some will be looking for a seat in a particular stand or even vicinity and not bother if nothing is available there. So they could actually be losing money.

There is also that some people are putting pairs or groups of tickets back in for sale, but these won’t become available until every single seat is sold. Again - someone who doesn’t want to sit on their own isn’t buying when the club could have made some money in returned ST seats.

It’s shortsighted. I can go with them getting down to single seats before putting ST seats back on sale, & doing this on a stand by stand basis, but seemingly having to sell the last seat in the top of A8 before any of us have a chance of some money back, whilst also forbidding us to sell on, doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the selling point of selling tickets back to the club in weeks you can’t go but I also believe the club lose money by sticking rigidly to this policy.

[Flin5tone]

You’ve already paid for yours so they’ll make more money if they sell the ones which are general admission first before yours. Rather than someone buying yours and you getting a cut.

….but they don’t seem to have taken into account that some people won’t buy whatever is available. Some will be looking for a seat in a particular stand or even vicinity and not bother if nothing is available there. So they could actually be losing money.

There is also that some people are putting pairs or groups of tickets back in for sale, but these won’t become available until every single seat is sold. Again - someone who doesn’t want to sit on their own isn’t buying when the club could have made some money in returned ST seats.

It’s shortsighted. I can go with them getting down to single seats before putting ST seats back on sale, & doing this on a stand by stand basis, but seemingly having to sell the last seat in the top of A8 before any of us have a chance of some money back, whilst also forbidding us to sell on, doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the selling point of selling tickets back to the club in weeks you can’t go but I also believe the club lose money by sticking rigidly to this policy.

Absolutely and there's no mention of this when listing them . They also have the audacity to issue you warnings of a in-house criminal record if you sell or give them out to friends or family

[Flin5tone]

The club have now listed the resale seats and there's hundreds available all over the stadium. Interesting

[Chris Smith]

The club have now listed the resale seats and there's hundreds available all over the stadium. Interesting

Not all that interesting that some people have other commitments over August Bank Holiday weekend.

[Flin5tone]

Interesting for other reasons than the Bank Holiday weekend.

Fans are voting with their feet. I've never seen so many hit resale regardless of public holidays

[Nii Lamptey]

You’ve already paid for yours so they’ll make more money if they sell the ones which are general admission first before yours. Rather than someone buying yours and you getting a cut.

….but they don’t seem to have taken into account that some people won’t buy whatever is available. Some will be looking for a seat in a particular stand or even vicinity and not bother if nothing is available there. So they could actually be losing money.

There is also that some people are putting pairs or groups of tickets back in for sale, but these won’t become available until every single seat is sold. Again - someone who doesn’t want to sit on their own isn’t buying when the club could have made some money in returned ST seats.

It’s shortsighted. I can go with them getting down to single seats before putting ST seats back on sale, & doing this on a stand by stand basis, but seemingly having to sell the last seat in the top of A8 before any of us have a chance of some money back, whilst also forbidding us to sell on, doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the selling point of selling tickets back to the club in weeks you can’t go but I also believe the club lose money by sticking rigidly to this policy.

I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but it also acts as a deterrent from fans taking the piss.

Villa away tickets are a closed shop. Certain groups of fans snap up the tickets regardless of whether they can make it or not, just to keep themselves top of the pecking order, then sell the less glamorous ties on (thus restricting the chance of other fans attending away games).

If Villa let fans sell Home Season Ticket seats with no penalty, the floodgates would open. IMO, you buy a season ticket to secure your seat for 19 games of football (*if that's what you can call it), at a discount price to matchday tickets. It's up to the person buying the ticket to whey up the risk/reward regarding whether they can attend all the games or not.

It's great that they even offer a chance that you can get a partial refund on matches you can't attend. It never used to be an option as far as I can remember.

 

[Flin5tone]

Neither was it made a huge issue about a 'AVFC in-house criminal record' if you borrowed your ticket to Uncle Pete because you were on Holiday or Working.

[Ads]

The club have now listed the resale seats and there's hundreds available all over the stadium. Interesting

Not all that interesting that some people have other commitments over August Bank Holiday weekend.

There's 32 more returns for West Ham than there was for Everton. Circa 548. Given its August, Bank Holiday, its largely unremarkable as you opine.

[amfy]

You’ve already paid for yours so they’ll make more money if they sell the ones which are general admission first before yours. Rather than someone buying yours and you getting a cut.

….but they don’t seem to have taken into account that some people won’t buy whatever is available. Some will be looking for a seat in a particular stand or even vicinity and not bother if nothing is available there. So they could actually be losing money.

There is also that some people are putting pairs or groups of tickets back in for sale, but these won’t become available until every single seat is sold. Again - someone who doesn’t want to sit on their own isn’t buying when the club could have made some money in returned ST seats.

It’s shortsighted. I can go with them getting down to single seats before putting ST seats back on sale, & doing this on a stand by stand basis, but seemingly having to sell the last seat in the top of A8 before any of us have a chance of some money back, whilst also forbidding us to sell on, doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the selling point of selling tickets back to the club in weeks you can’t go but I also believe the club lose money by sticking rigidly to this policy.

I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but it also acts as a deterrent from fans taking the piss.

Villa away tickets are a closed shop. Certain groups of fans snap up the tickets regardless of whether they can make it or not, just to keep themselves top of the pecking order, then sell the less glamorous ties on (thus restricting the chance of other fans attending away games).

If Villa let fans sell Home Season Ticket seats with no penalty, the floodgates would open. IMO, you buy a season ticket to secure your seat for 19 games of football (*if that's what you can call it), at a discount price to matchday tickets. It's up to the person buying the ticket to whey up the risk/reward regarding whether they can attend all the games or not.

It's great that they even offer a chance that you can get a partial refund on matches you can't attend. It never used to be an option as far as I can remember.

They would be better limiting the number of sell backs to achieve that. Thats how it is on the away scheme.

That option exists only because there is money in it for them - money in it they are potentially turning down. For example:
Man City - if I return my ticket (which I’m not) & it gets sold, I would get £22.31. They can resell it at £41.50 making a profit of £19.19 on me not attending the game. They are potentially missing this by not putting it on sale when The Holte is sold out rather than waiting til the whole ground is sold out.

I’m actually less bothered about the £22.31 than just leaving my seat, which is good and someone would appreciate, empty.


My first option when I can’t go is usually to see if a friend can use my ticket, and I pass it on free, & inform the club. This is allowed. It is only selling it that’s not allowed.

If no one I know wants my ticket then so would rather someone was in my seat.

I’ll be putting my Southampton ST on resale because I’ve bought 4 tickets in hospitality for that game. Given the money I’ve spent on that, it’d be nice if they just took the 80% of 1/19th of the price of my season ticket seat off the price of hospitality & resold it for me rather than limiting my chances of reselling it myself. We used to get a reduction on hospitality as season ticket holders - not any more. When I asked to put it on resale at the time of buying hospitality they said I would have to ring back nearer the time. I don’t think that’s great customer service tbh.

[Pete3206]

The club have now listed the resale seats and there's hundreds available all over the stadium. Interesting

Current availability (as I write)
Trinity   118
Witton  78
Holte   210
North  89

Total 495

Hardly a disaster is it? If none of those are sold (which most if not all will be), we'll still have over 40,000 in the ground.

[pauliewalnuts]

It makes no difference if they relist resale tickets - those tickets have already been sold, to the season ticket holders who are putting them on resale.

If there are 300 unsold resale tickets for a match, the attendance is still going to be capacity - because they were all sold in the first place.

If the club do not resell your ST seat for a match, you get nothing, as if you'd just not bothered to turn up.

The ticket is still considered sold.

[saunders_heroes]

The club have now listed the resale seats and there's hundreds available all over the stadium. Interesting

You know, one day we won’t actually sell out and you’ll lose your mind because you’ll be that excited.

[PeterWithesShin]

Flin5tone when he looks online and sees there's still a ticket for sale