Pay on the day

Genuine question, why do people pay on the day?

Just listened to that on we are barnsley and someone tweeted regarding it being £10 to pay on the day on Friday.

If you genuinely can't commit until the day of the game then fair enough. But in today's world where you can print tickets at home or get them loaded to your season ticket, it's easier than ever to be able to buy a ticket from home and not even have to go to the box office.

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Good question, Archey.

I've just booked mine online to print at home. East Stand Upper is getting very full.

 

A large percentage of people, especially older end still don't trust paying over the Internet. They read about scams etc and don't bother with Internet banking or purchasing on-line. Hence, do you go down to the ground twice or just pay on the gate? Also, there are people who decide last minute whether to go or not. Prior to buying a season ticket 20 years ago, I always decided on the day.

 

And the online ticketing is a mess

 

Really? did it the other day and it was fine.

 

I've never had a problem with it!!

 

The few times I've used it, it's been alright.

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Neither have I. My wife always does it for me.

 

Work. My last job I worked Sats. Started at 6am. Could be home for 12-1 o'clock or not til 5-6 depending how busy the day was.

 

Please explain in what way it is a mess.

I am an internet imbecile. But have no problems with bfc ticket ordering.

 

Now that I can understand.

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Not knowing if you can make it/can be bothered to make it/wanting to see what weather is like etc.

Not having the internet/not trusting the internet.

Not having a printer/not wanting to queue up to collect tickets when you can just queue and pay at the turnstile instead after leaving it too late for postage due to point 1/being lazy/being forgetful.

A general feeling of 'why not?' as it's just as viable an option as not doing.

I'm sure there's more reasons but there's some to be getting on with.

Edit: I've found another one. It not even occurring to people (mainly the older generation) to do so after being in the habit for so long. My dad doesn't even consider buying online as an option, to him trekking all the way to town is actually apparently less of an effort.

 

Made the decision on Friday to go to Millwall game. Bought online to save £9 between 3 of us. I've not got a printer at home meaning we had to stand outside the box office in the pissing rain for 15 minutes waiting for a lad with a box of envelopes to come down the queue. It's f'cking stupid.


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My dad phoned me up asking if I wanted to go and offered to go to town after work to buy them. As it happens I'd already bought some as I knew he'd want to go (or I'd drag the hubby along) but it didn't even occur to my dad to even think about buying them online. I've mentioned it to him before when he was going to make the trip in but he'd rather go all the way to town. He's so used to doing it that way for years it doesn't even enter his head to consider not doing that.

 

The times i have used it there haven't been any issues at all.

One of the things the club has got right.

If only the same could be said of other issues

 

^^^This.

Other than my odd weekend off, I can finish on a Saturday at 2pm, 11am, 12. Bit of a lottery, and affects my attendance. No point in paying in advance, and for what, to save two quid?

I heard Ben this evening. His explanation of the prices on matchday seemed to boil down to "if you don't buy a season ticket, tough ****, you pay a premium". I also found his comments about Saturday's game as very dick-headed. He knows we're not selling 10,000 tickets. And so he's trying to make out that reducing prices doesn't work. **** me. Dress it up all you want, but it's a tinpot lower league trophy, it's the first leg, against Fleetwood Town. We'll get our usual home gate. In other words, the regulars.

I dare him to reduce the price the next time we get a Prem club, to a fiver. Or even the Blunts next season. Guaranteed sellout. I'm sorry, we're down to the core of our support now. The 'diehards'. This has been a ******* joke of a season. We rarely win games, at Oakwell or away. If he thinks all of a sudden, off the back of all that we're going to sell 20,000 tickets for a game against Fleetwood, he's kidding himself. It could be free entry this weekend and still not sell out.



Fact is, they are trying to force fans into buying a season ticket. If you don't, you're paying out of your arse on the day. Once upon a time you paid a few quid more on the day. Right now, you pay 100% more than ST holders. That's just wrong.




However, were we in the top flight, they could sell tickets at £100 a pop and sell out. It's a funny old game. But yeh, they're only interested in those paying up front. And reducing the price of **** games, I'm sorry but it proves **** all.

 

The thing with that as well is that it puts people like me in a difficult place - well, in a non-attending place. I can't afford (ok, I can, but I can't justify buying) a season ticket as it's so expensive, it's just not something I could bring myself to do at current prices. However, the flip side of that is that I also can't justify paying £25/£27 for a single match either. Therefore, they've priced me out in 2 ways. If they made the season tickets cheaper, I'd get one, or if they made match day prices cheaper, I'd go to quite a few but less than would add up to the cost of a season ticket. This way I find myself doing neither as I just can't in any way justify spending £54 for one game of football for me and the husband (who doesn't like football). £54!! Two matches and that's over one hundred pounds - I don't care what anyone says, that is fecking ridiculous! If prices were regularly £15 each I'd got to much more as I'd rather spend £210 and us go to 7 matches than £108 and us go to 2. In that scenario I still save nearly £200 (discounting early bird prices) instead of getting a season ticket but I still get to see a few matches, I would also spend double the amount than I would on current prices. I don't get how much I love BFC or how high a level we played at, I still wouldn't pay nearly £400 on a season ticket/£27 regularly for single matches as I'm too tight.

(As it happens I got a half season ticket from my very generous family and so this not doesn't apply to me for the rest of this season thankfully).

 

I can afford a season ticket. But I can only guarantee to make 10 matches at Oakwell, so I refuse to buy summat I probably won't use another 10 times at least. It goes against my brain.

I can afford matchday prices. But come on, anything north of £20 at this level is bordering on piss taking. So £25? Wow. But arr, I've paid it a few times. ******* idiot that I am. Because I can easily afford it. But it stings me, stings my brain paying prices like that to watch football.

I can go watch the missus' lad for free, possibly in the Premier League from next season. Be a shame if I take that route. But I'm still waiting to hear a genuine reason for the 100% increase in prices if you're not a season ticket holder. I love my club, but as I get older I think I'll be less open to getting raped at the turnstyle.