Cost of living v Season ticket renewal

I picked this up from a comment on another thread by @Hooky feller,

Should BFC be offering lower ticket prices for the lower paid or unemployed?

If you can afford it should you pay more for a season ticket than someone who cant?

Is a season ticket a luxury in life and as such you just have to miss out, if times are hard or does a supportors passion and committment for their team mean the club should help in some way?

 

Do you get a discount at the cinema or bowling if your unemployed?

 

I have no problem with giving low income/ unemployed a discount, £150 maybe.

 

I think as more become unemployed there will be more discounts offered. I've no problem with there being a lower price.

 

You may be unemployed today then get a high paid job next week.
Or vice versa of course.
I was able to buy a seniors ticket on the 31st March, on the 30th I couldn't. A bit picky I know.

 

Unlikely.

 

How do you police that realistically?

Does a club employee have to see physical proof of unemployment?

We all know there would be more than a few claiming to be unemployed when they aren't to try and get somert a bit cheaper.

I think competitively priced tickets is about the only way that the club can do it, and I do think our tickets aren't bad value versus others.

 

I haven't seen the thread/post you reference, but to me, offering a discount on something like a season ticket to people on low incomes/unemployed is encouraging them to potentially live beyond their means.

Whilst on the face of it, giving them say £150 off might seem a decent gesture, it's still £150+ for something that should be seen as a non necessity purchase.

 

It could apply to season ticket holders only showing their last 3 months payslips for a low income threshold, a job seekers pass for the unemployed, if thats still going all linked to your home address. This to be offered when all season ticket holders paying early bird or full price time has elapsed. Would that do it? It would increase our attendance figures and offer something back to our town.

I do know people on medium and larger salaries who are also skint through circumstances affecting their ability to buy a season ticket.

 

I think its a luxury same as the cimema but im looking at the bigger picture of giving a bit back, helping people and getting Oakwell attendance up.

 

Non necessity shouldn't bar you from the odd luxury surely. Most of those in poverty. Will not put football over putting food on the table. But there are those that still have a few quid in their pockets at the end of the month after living expenses to chose the odd luxury, be it fags. Ale or the odd bit of entertainment. Why not let's help em out. Btw unlike duntpasstome I'm not talking about lumping out £200 for a season ticket. It's about matchday pricing.
Where Duntpasstome falls down imo is you could be in receipt of benefit. On the 1st issue date and be gainfully employed in a well paid job the week after.

 

Btw People in receipt of a certain disability allowance (I'll try find out what it is) can purchase a carers season ticket for free alongside theirs.

A lady I know is in receipt of that allowances. But never claimed a carers ticket. She assumed they had to be sat together and only in the ponty end. Not true.

She prefers east stand and her husband (rip) chose to sit in the ponty. Both paying for season tickets.

 

Plenty of jobs about.

 

I can see your point but given were one of the cheapest season tickets definitely in the top 2 divisions maybe the top 3 divisions i cant see us doing this gesture to unemployed. I like the ticket offers we used to do season ticket hokders bring a mate for a fiver or a quid or kids for a quid n all that.

 

Not sure on this one.

We have amongst the lowest ticket prices already, and I'm pretty sure that ones who actually can't afford it, would have already made the decision it being a luxury.

I think it would be too much to organise right now, the board have enough to deal with.

Maybe look at it next year maybe, with a more realistic timescale to get something right, rather than rush to get something out now and it be unworkable...

 

I seem to remember the club doing something for miner's and their families during the miners strike, with regards cheaper entry

 

Did they? I seem to remember the club refusing to aid the striking miners in any capacity. They even refused to allow bucket collections outside the ground.

 

You sure this wasn't the Passport to Leisure scheme thing?

 

What a disappointing paternalistic attitude. "They can't be trusted to budget their money so we're actually doing them a favour by not reducing prices."

Eugh.

 

That's my understanding as well mate