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Nearly 22,000 season tickets sold already for 2016/17
- Thread starter Moshe Gariani
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no way
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,222
I am assuming from this that you are either (a) richer than Montgomery Burns, or (b) planning to make the trips on company expenses.
Either way, the answer is "yes".
Hope this helps.
Other thing that interested me on this thread is the poster who said he parks at Brighton station. The car parks at the station are amongst the cheapest in Brighton (unlike the £24-for-over-four-hours one in Church Street, say), so, for the sake of four quid or so, I'd be interested to know if that works out quicker than queuing for the P&R on occasion.
Eggmundo
U & I R listening to KAOS
- Jul 8, 2003
- 3,466
Last season was the first season at the Amex I didn't buy a season ticket.
I missed 3 home games in total sat with various friends in different areas - WSL, WSU, 1901, N, S, EL. and had a marvellous time!
A season ticket is so restrictive, same seats, same faces and same view.
I missed 3 home games in total sat with various friends in different areas - WSL, WSU, 1901, N, S, EL. and had a marvellous time!
A season ticket is so restrictive, same seats, same faces and same view.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Share your ticket around when you can't use it? Plenty of people that struggle to pay ticket prices.
You can get a bus through Seagull travel that starts near Woking. My son gets on at Worplesdon. You could book for a whole season or per game basis.
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
Careful, she could be playing away herself!
Absolutely. I've had a season ticket every year at the Amex but there's not been a single season where I've attended every game. thanks to holidays, work or childcare, I've always missed at least one game (last year it was the Sheff Weds one - a good one to miss). There must be 100s of people in the same boat
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Good point. I'd never looked at it like that before.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Would be good if the club could set aside a group of seats for oversea fans so you could buy 1-5ish match tickets in advance ie a mini s/t (could extend this to fans living several hundred miles from the amex)
Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
You've got to be a mad man! Kelowna is over on the far reaches of Western Canada, that has to be a 12 hour+ flight?
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Hillian1
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Sussex Nomad
Well-known member
nip off on 85 and you'll be ok
I guess a 12 hour+ flight home after using Southern Railway would be a breeze.
Was that all, or in part, 'borrowing' spare seats from those mates and either getting it for free or for the pro-rata'ed season ticket price for a match?
I ask because buying match by match from the club, even if you 'only' make 20 games in the season would see you paying more than a season ticket. For many people, the economics involved in a season ticket paid via interest free direct debit, are quite compelling.
It's the only reason we're all season ticket holders.
My flabber is truly agast at the fact that every club didn't adopt the same policy after the first season, let alone still dithering 6 seasons later.
Us too. I couldn't pay what must be £700-800 for an adult and U-18 for the WSU in a lump sum. In fact, that I don't actually know how much it is indicates just how well the DD scheme works.
Perhaps having an existing season ticket holder base paying up front in cash is an important part of their cash flow, and they don't have the ability or expectation of significantly increasing the number to compensate for the costs of such a scheme? We managed to do it at the ideal time moving from a small toilet of a ground to a luxury purpose built stadium.
seagullwedgee
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- Aug 9, 2005
- 2,984
"Interest free monthly payment option" is a Barberism that really gets on my tets.
So you start to pay for your product 5 months before you actually get it (first direct debit in March, first match in August), and you finish paying for it 3 months before you finish using it (last direct debit in February, last match in May). I wonder what the club is doing with all that advance money? Surely someone as savvy as Barber would be getting interest on it, perhaps. That is of course assuming we don't pay player wages 5 months in advance, since that is the biggest outgoing.
So you start to pay for your product 5 months before you actually get it (first direct debit in March, first match in August), and you finish paying for it 3 months before you finish using it (last direct debit in February, last match in May). I wonder what the club is doing with all that advance money? Surely someone as savvy as Barber would be getting interest on it, perhaps. That is of course assuming we don't pay player wages 5 months in advance, since that is the biggest outgoing.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
That would be dedication. A return flight would cost more than the season ticket though.