Cheapest hospitality for Arsenal vs Citeh is £780 pp!

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

I kid you not. £780! Just look at what you get:

"Pre-match buffet served in a shared Executive Box
Complimentary selected wines, beers and soft drinks throughout the entire matchday
Premium match seats
Matchday programme
An exclusive Arsenal gift
*Please note that the dining experience is informal"

It's a buffet, free bar and a decent seat!

If you want formal dining - that's £1500.

Is this what awaits us? I so hope not.

Why did I look? I have a client who wants to go. *Sigh*

Hamilton · Mar 14, 2014

It's a working class game alright!

Superphil · Mar 14, 2014

Barber out

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

It's made me really angry. £780 is 9% more than a season ticket for next season in the most expensive area of the AMEX bar 1901. One of my guys is a Gooner, he can take the client, and I'll meet him for dinner after the game.

Buckley's Mad Eye · Mar 14, 2014

That sounds pricey for the Arsenal corporate supporters...I feel REALLY sorry for them.

nwgull · Mar 14, 2014

I don't really care how much the executive boxes cost. If a club - and I include the Abion in this - is able to fleece corporate suits that sort of cash for a single game then good luck to them. The more money that they're able to make from this; the less they need to bump up the costs of season tickets to the real fans.

Easy 10 · Mar 14, 2014

nwgull said:
The more money that they're able to make from this; the less they need to bump up the costs of season tickets to the real fans.

Yeah, like THATS gonna happen. Cheapest season ticket at the Emirates ? £985. Rising to £1,995 for the most expensive.

Oh, and they've just announced they're doing a 3% hike on season ticket prices for next season.

Husty · Mar 14, 2014

Buckley's Mad Eye said:
That sounds pricey for the Arsenal corporate supporters...I feel REALLY sorry for them.

Very much this.

My heart is BLEEDING for all the corporates getting ripped off.

Buckley's Mad Eye · Mar 14, 2014

Easy 10 said:
Yeah, like THATS gonna happen. Cheapest season ticket at the Emirates ? £985. Rising to £1,995 for the most expensive.

Oh, and they've just announced they're doing a 3% hike on season ticket prices for next season.

And yet people still buy them.

Simster · Mar 14, 2014

Couldn't care less what corporate hospitality costs really - it's aimed at (big) business.

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

Easy 10 said:
Yeah, like THATS gonna happen. Cheapest season ticket at the Emirates ? £985. Rising to £1,995 for the most expensive.

Oh, and they've just announced they're doing a 3% hike on season ticket prices for next season.

Yep, this was the implication behind my OP. It's just a fallacy to think that a club will load the prices for corporate tickets so that they can keep the prices down for non-corporates. No, they will load the prices for all tickets.

Obviously, if we get promoted prices will go up. I hope to God that the cheapest price for a S/T at the AMEX doesn't get to £985 in my lifetime.

Easy 10 · Mar 14, 2014

Buckley's Mad Eye said:
And yet people still buy them.

With thousands upon thousands of previously regular, loyal fans no doubt simply priced out of watching them now. With the amount of cash flowing into that club, its pretty revolting how they fleece their fans like this (bearing in mind you can get a season ticket at Man City for £299). They'll claim "supply and demand", and point to the fact that they still have season ticket waiting lists, as if this in some way justifies the ridiculous prices they impose, but whatever way you slice it, those prices stink (and I know Arsenal aren't alone in that, but they are by far the worst offenders).

I don't know how anyone could even begin to justify paying those prices. I certainly wouldn't.

The full list of cheapest / most expensive can be seen here

http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...ier-league-ticket-prices-club-charge-the-most

hans kraay fan club · Mar 14, 2014

£985 is £55 per match, for the CHEAPEST ticket in the ground.

:down:

Buckley's Mad Eye · Mar 14, 2014

Easy 10 said:
With thousands upon thousands of previously regular, loyal fans no doubt simply priced out of watching them now. With the amount of cash flowing into that club, its pretty revolting how they fleece their fans like this (bearing in mind you can get a season ticket at Man City for £299). They'll claim "supply and demand", and point to the fact that they still have season ticket waiting lists, as if this in some way justifies the ridiculous prices they impose, but whatever way you slice it, those prices stink (and I know Arsenal aren't alone in that, but they are by far the worst offenders).

I don't know how anyone could even begin to justify paying those prices. I certainly wouldn't.

The full list of cheapest / most expensive can be seen here

http://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...ier-league-ticket-prices-club-charge-the-most

Absolutely. Makes you wonder where the tipping point will be and just how far the money men will push the line?

And how is it possible to watch superior teams (Munich for example) in other countries for a tenner.

Football in this country is a mess. Long live FFP.

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

Easy 10 said:
They'll claim "supply and demand", and point to the fact that they still have season ticket waiting lists

They claim the waiting list is 40,000!

The finances of football are truly screwed in England.

nwgull · Mar 14, 2014

Goldstone1976 said:
They claim the waiting list is 40,000!

The finances of football are truly screwed in England.

Not at Arsenal if they have 60k (plus 40k waiting) to pay over a grand for a season ticket each year!

Green Cross Code Man · Mar 14, 2014

Goldstone1976 said:
Obviously, if we get promoted prices will go up. I hope to God that the cheapest price for a S/T at the AMEX doesn't get to £985 in my lifetime.

There is no reason, given promotion to the premier league, why our prices shouldn't remain stable or even go DOWN. Profits from tickets sold is such a small part of the top league gravy train. It would be lovely if loyal supporters were rewarded.

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

nwgull said:
Not at Arsenal if they have 60k (plus 40k waiting) to pay over a grand for a season ticket each year!

From a purely commercial perspective, you are of course right. However, it does price a load of working class people out of the market and that's very sad. I don't know how it can get fixed though, without manipulating the market.

Goldstone1976 · Mar 14, 2014

Green Cross Code Man said:
There is no reason, given promotion to the premier league, why our prices shouldn't remain stable or even go DOWN. Profits from tickets sold is such a small part of the top league gravy train. It would be lovely if loyal supporters were rewarded.

Agreed, but they'll go up, won't they?

Man of Harveys · Mar 14, 2014

Reading this sort of thing rather makes me a) angry and b) almost wish something would come along to cause the whole preposterousness of the finances at the higher levels of the game to implode and cause this ridiculous, puffed-up bubble to burst. I just can't see what might prompt that though: as long as demand is in place, then it's there to be exploited and ruthlessly so.

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