[Albion] Ticket Exchange

swindonseagull · Aug 21, 2021

Is it open?

I listed mine over a week ago and when checking have never seen them on sale...

just a few single ones dotted around.....surely the club dont wait until every single seat is sold before opening exchange? ( exchange virgin here only missed a couple before )

Bozza · Aug 21, 2021

There's a load of seats in E1H (245), E1I (84), E3G (53), S1G (95) and W1A (274).

Unfortunately any tickets put into the exchange won't be listed and sold for today's game.

sully · Aug 21, 2021

Crazy, isn’t it. I’d wager that virtually every season ticket listed would be more likely to sell than the ones currently available. Why are the club so stubborn on this? Surely they can see the benefit of more people in the stadium even if they don’t make anything out of the resale (which I’m sure they would, as there’s absolutely no admin cost but they still have a differential between what they get in and what is passed back to the ST holder).

timbha · Aug 21, 2021

I don’t see it as crazy. Why would the club want to sell a ticket for someone else instead of one of their own?

Bozza · Aug 21, 2021

With there being a large number of season tickets available for sale currently, this means there will be more match-by-match single tickets available for sale too.

I'm guessing an implication of this is limited chance of the ticket exchange being activated for anything other than the "glamour" games.

BNthree · Aug 21, 2021

timbha said:
I don’t see it as crazy. Why would the club want to sell a ticket for someone else instead of one of their own?

They'd make the same profit on it as their own seeing as they refund the STH pro-rata amount and sell it at full price. Means they'd actually be making more money than they had before as obviously the full price is more than the season ticket price.

BNthree · Aug 21, 2021

Still about 1000 tickets unsold today. Curious to know how many exchange tickets were waiting to be sold too.

swindonseagull · Aug 21, 2021

timbha said:
I don’t see it as crazy. Why would the club want to sell a ticket for someone else instead of one of their own?

I would have thought bums on seats would be as important as that puts more through the shops tills and on the concourse, Im only thinking about my tickets of course but prime seats are more likely to sell than individual seats dotted around or in stands that no one seems to want to buy?

The club must have some kind of algorithm that tells them how fast their own tickets are selling and if people are looking and not buying ( they will know each time the website is opened) ?

nwgull · Aug 21, 2021

BNthree said:
They'd make the same profit on it as their own seeing as they refund the STH pro-rata amount and sell it at full price. Means they'd actually be making more money than they had before as obviously the full price is more than the season ticket price.

So they make less profit then!

timbha · Aug 21, 2021

BNthree said:
They'd make the same profit on it as their own seeing as they refund the STH pro-rata amount and sell it at full price. Means they'd actually be making more money than they had before as obviously the full price is more than the season ticket price.

Your explanation is only valid if the “new” ticket buyer will only buy an exchange ticket. Surely the club does better if they sell two tickets rather than one

BNthree · Aug 21, 2021

nwgull said:
So they make less profit then!

Explain please? If they sold it for £25 to a STH, refund then STH and then sell it for £45 that's £20 more than they had previously. How do they make less profit?

BNthree · Aug 21, 2021

timbha said:
Your explanation is only valid if the “new” ticket buyer will only buy an exchange ticket. Surely the club does better if they sell two tickets rather than one

Yes that's the flaw in my explanation; assuming the club want to help out the STH that can't go.

timbha · Aug 21, 2021

BNthree said:
Yes that's the flaw in my plan; assuming the club want to help out the STH that can't go.

Ha ha - now that’s another matter!

*Gullsworth* · Aug 21, 2021

BNthree said:
Explain please? If they sold it for £25 to a STH, refund then STH and then sell it for £45 that's £20 more than they had previously. How do they make less profit?

I suppose theoretically the fan who purchased the season ticket seat creating a profit of £ 20 for the club may.....may have purchased a seat on sale for £45 therefore making 35 quid more than the ST seat.

nwgull · Aug 21, 2021

BNthree said:
Explain please? If they sold it for £25 to a STH, refund then STH and then sell it for £45 that's £20 more than they had previously. How do they make less profit?

I’m talking about them selling one of the 900+ tickets they have left on general sale. They’d rather sell them, or most of them, at full profit before they start selling STH returns at lower profit.

Weststander · Aug 21, 2021

Always difficult in August.

Tons of empty seats at Amex EPL games (pre Pandemic).

Weststander · Aug 21, 2021

nwgull said:
I’m talking about them selling one of the 900+ tickets they have left on general sale. They’d rather sell them, or most of them, at full profit before they start selling STH returns at lower profit.

Obviously.

Paulie Gualtieri · Aug 21, 2021

I am not there today and have put my pair on the exchange in the north.

Am I right that the club would look to sell all of the non season ticket seats in say the east and south before offering mine for general sale in the north?

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swindonseagull · Aug 21, 2021

London Black Cab said:
I am not there today and have put my pair on the exchange in the north.

Am I right that the club would look to sell all of the non season ticket seats in say the east and south before offering mine for general sale in the north?

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As far as I know....thats why I asked in the OP....lots individual seats ( but not our 2)

Da Man Clay · Aug 21, 2021

London Black Cab said:
I am not there today and have put my pair on the exchange in the north.

Am I right that the club would look to sell all of the non season ticket seats in say the east and south before offering mine for general sale in the north?

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Yes - they’ll look to sell the vast, vast majority of their unsold seats (East, West, North and South) before opening up any exchange seats regardless of where they are.

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