Season Tickets

[Flin5tone]

The absolutely infuriating thing about all this is they send out these surveys , we say we want better facilities (most of us just want simplicity and speed) none of our suggestions are put in place and then we end up with a fucking bolt-on package . You can guarantee that the poor fuckers in the upper Doug and Trinity paying the most won't have improvements on the concourses.

Another thing , if we're paying premium prices any chance of having clean toilets that aren't like a dodgy nightclub at 2am. They need monitoring and cleaning...when I'm paying £400 for the season I don't care when it's doubled I want a nice environment and proper facilities .

They could make it so much easier and simple but don't listen. All this fancy chicken etc at a ridiculous price.

why they don't have self serve coffee machines??

[pauliewalnuts]

Fucking hell.

A Flin5tone post I agree with in its entirety.

[pauliewalnuts]

Can't you add something like "2,000 tickets left still for Spurs, disgraceful" just for old time's sake?

Or DISGRACE?

[pauliewalnuts]

HELP

[PeterWithe]

It seems to me that we've gone back to the old days of getting more money from the same amount of people rather than getting money from more people. At least Doug pretended to have our interests at heart; this lot just see us as 40,000 cash machines.

I must say, when reading the notes of the supporters consultation meeting, I was struck by how many people were managers with 'commercial' in the job title, the combined efforts of these people not amounting to much beyond 'lets fleece the usual suspects for a lot more because we know we can'.

[pauliewalnuts]

It seems to me that we've gone back to the old days of getting more money from the same amount of people rather than getting money from more people. At least Doug pretended to have our interests at heart; this lot just see us as 40,000 cash machines.

That’s not right.

We’re - with the new north and the consistent current sell outs - surely getting more money from more people?

I understand the concerns about this lot but if have them above Ellis under absolutely any criteria out there.

[dave.woodhall]

It seems to me that we've gone back to the old days of getting more money from the same amount of people rather than getting money from more people. At least Doug pretended to have our interests at heart; this lot just see us as 40,000 cash machines.

That’s not right.

We’re - with the new north and the consistent current sell outs - surely getting more money from more people?

I understand the concerns about this lot but if have them above Ellis under absolutely any criteria out there.

They seem to be just looking at the match-going supporter, and not going for commercial opportunities.

[Skerra]

Can the Club please reduce the increase now that we have dropped to 6th place!!

[adrenachrome]

The absolutely infuriating thing about all this is they send out these surveys , we say we want better facilities (most of us just want simplicity and speed) none of our suggestions are put in place and then we end up with a fucking bolt-on package . You can guarantee that the poor fuckers in the upper Doug and Trinity paying the most won't have improvements on the concourses.

Another thing , if we're paying premium prices any chance of having clean toilets that aren't like a dodgy nightclub at 2am. They need monitoring and cleaning...when I'm paying £400 for the season I don't care when it's doubled I want a nice environment and proper facilities .

They could make it so much easier and simple but don't listen. All this fancy chicken etc at a ridiculous price.

why they don't have self serve coffee machines??

Based.

[Chris Stares]

I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere on this thread so apologies if I have missed it, but to add insult to the injury of the price hike for STs, I've also lost my seat, along with a hundred or so others in the last four rows of L4, which have been commandeered for the accessibility "upgrades" in the Lower Holte. The way the club has handled this (i.e. tumbleweed) has been nothing short of disgraceful.  No prior consultation with those affected and I, at least, have as yet to receive ANY communication on the matter whatsoever.  I heard the news at the Fulham game from others around me who had contacted the ticket office to renew their season tickets only to be told that they wouldn't be able to, and that someone from the club would be in touch to discuss options - no other information was forthcoming.  I called the ticket office yesterday to be told the same thing.  As yet, still no contact from the club.  It feels as if the club has thought, well, there's only a hundred or so affected, so only a tiny percentage of the fanbase to piss off, but to us in that area, many of whom have had season tickets for years (I've had that seat for the past 9 years), or even decades, it feels like the club doesn't really give a toss about fans actually attending games (other than trying to find more ways of relieving them of their cash through their crappy "gentrification" initiatives), and for those who've had season tickets for longer than the last 4 seasons since we returned to the PL, this is how we're repaid for our loyalty for the largely utter shite we've endured over the past decade or so.  Our little L4 "community" is getting broken up, and that's the saddest part of the whole situation - THAT'S our match-day experience, not all the fanzone bollocks, GA+ facilities, etc. that Villa are peddling now, but I guess that doesn't bring in what the club wants, which is more and more money.  Sadly, my love of the club, and "elite" football in general, has been further diminished by this experience (so far).

[RamboandBruno]

Firstly, like Paulie, I agree with Fred, which is not something i thought I’d ever say.
I will renew soon, like i imagine lots of us will, mainly because the waiting list, exaggerated or not, fucks us all. I will go for the 8 month payment plan as I can’t afford the payment up front. I can just about afford the £30 extra a month compared to last years monthly payments, but its a big outlay, nearly a grand for me and my teenage kids. 
But the rise, the way its been handled by the club, the spin of 15% when kids tickets are a greater increase again, the fact that even on my ticket history last years individual season ticket prices aren’t there to compare, the rise on top of last years rise, being close to 50% for me and my kids and the absolute pettiness of taking the cup games away. It all does leave a very bad taste after such a brilliant few months. It also feels there is no real way to make these feelings known, not that Purslow and his commercial monkeys, would give a shit.

[ChicagoLion]

If enough people wrote to the club and local news papers things might change. What are the various fans forums for if not to raise these issues?

[sid1964]

Listened to MOMs podcast, and the guy on their who attends these meetings said that even senior management at Villa tip toe around Purslow as he is not someone to be messed with.

The supporters group could have all stood up and shouted "disgrace" and walked out, when Purslow mentioned the price increase, and it would not have made a jot of difference.

We have 2 choices, you either buy the season ticket or you don't.

Talking to the people who sit by me in the Lower Holte all are going to renew, because they can see we may be onto something special with Emery as our Manager.

[PeterWithe]

the fact that even on my ticket history last years individual season ticket prices aren’t there to compare

A kind soul explained to me how to do it on the first few pages of the thread.

Go the the History tab, then select Payments from the drop down box. It then breaks down the amounts paid for all transactions for all the ID numbers associated with yours.

[astonvilla82]

The sad reality is perhaps we seen this coming but didn't want to admit it to ourselves, for me it's going down the Villa, not worried about any entertainment or fancy meals, even having a drink in the ground, maybe it's a age thing,