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Buy tickets at the ground? Club backtracks on £2.50 admin charge, retains £3 <2hrs pre-KO charge

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  • Where is that? East stand?
  • seth plum said:

    Well we have some convergence now.
    To extend it, I note your kind advice about not taking time to go to the Valley, but then (possibly in the spirit of piss taking) you explain how I ought to get a bus to the Valley to pick the tickets up, so maybe we can agree on something here.
    Of course people can buy online, they can print out tickets, they can scan smartphone applications, they can be ambivalent about surcharges because they feel flush, they can even get others to do all the stuff for them.
    But.
    Do you think it is really reasonable to charge a personal caller to the ticket office window a surplus for taking the trouble to go to the Valley to buy one or more tickets in cash?
    Someone is sitting at the window anyway. All they have to do is take in the money and hand over the ticket. How does that justify charging above face/advertised value?
    The justification is it's a penalty. It's a discouragement.They are trying to stop you doing it.

    If you want to continue with the "old fashioned way" you will pay more.

    You can't uninvent the internet. It's here, it's cheap, they want you to use it.
  • But it is not fit for purpose.
  • Just got my Dartford FC 2016 / 17 season ticket out of my wallet and said to myself 'yep, right decision'

    So your whinging about Charlton's payment system, when you're not even going to Charlton.

    I think I'll have a look around a few clubs I won't be going to and start moaning about them.
  • The justification is it's a penalty. It's a discouragement.They are trying to stop you doing it.

    If you want to continue with the "old fashioned way" you will pay more.

    You can't uninvent the internet. It's here, it's cheap, they want you to use it.
    I tried using it this evening and it didn't work. I wasn't uninventing the internet either, but using it. Inventing the internet does not mean uninventing common sense.
  • seth plum said:

    I tried using it this evening and it didn't work. I wasn't uninventing the internet either, but using it. Inventing the internet does not mean uninventing common sense.
    I'd phone up tomorrow, say the system isn't working, ask for the tickets and say you're not willing to pay a fee. (as I said previously).
  • For those arguing this is in some way illegal are wrong. The club have the right to do this. They are arseholes but well within consumer law.
  • I'd phone up tomorrow, say the system isn't working, ask for the tickets and say you're not willing to pay a fee. (as I said previously).
    Premium phone line isn't it?
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  • edited July 2016
    seth plum said:

    Premium phone line isn't it?
    No it's free if you phone from a Virgin landline I believe, as it's an 03 number. Standard rate if not Virgin. I'll look the number up for you.
  • My opinion is that an increase of ticket prices on the day makes perfect sense to me. They obviously would prefer not to have a last minute rush, the queues get quite large and means people collecting tickets they've bought can often wait large amount of time while people pick and choose seats etc. To charge people extra for popping down during the week when it's not busy and would have to have staff members there is absolutely outrageous, what sort of moron even thought of that idea.

    Not difficult to guess who said moron might be, CJLC.

  • edited July 2016
    03330 144444. I usually go for option 6, but it may have changed.

    http://www.cafc.co.uk/tickets/ticket-prices/
  • Would it simply not be easier to make the actual ticket price higher and let that cover the staffing and processing and match day selling and all that kind of stuff, or is that too simplistic?
    They can price a ticket at, say, £23 instead of twenty, and then the messing around from the fan point of view can be avoided.
    Indeed if they also keep the smartphone/online/print at home option then each time that is used, they will make extra money because of expense avoided. They might also try friendly persuasion and encouragement to get people to use a system the club would rather prefer.
    The central issue using this method would be the specific price to pitch the ticket at.
  • 03330 144444. I usually go for option 6, but it may have changed.

    Thank you for finding the number.
  • That reminds me - I've got a great photo of you giving Tone a hard time at the POTY do!
    I've never seen that photo, if I remember though you persuaded me, mid giving him a piece of my mind, to pose for a happy with tone photo?

    I don't think I had an arm around his neck or was giving the thumbs up to the camera. God I hope not.
  • seth plum said:

    Would it simply not be easier to make the actual ticket price higher and let that cover the staffing and processing and match day selling and all that kind of stuff, or is that too simplistic?
    They can price a ticket at, say, £23 instead of twenty, and then the messing around from the fan point of view can be avoided.
    Indeed if they also keep the smartphone/online/print at home option then each time that is used, they will make extra money because of expense avoided. They might also try friendly persuasion and encouragement to get people to use a system the club would rather prefer.
    The central issue using this method would be the specific price to pitch the ticket at.

    It would, but unfortunately the stick is more effective than the carrot in this scenario.
  • More effective in what way exactly?
  • edited July 2016
    Haha if they increase the base price of the ticket and everyone has an aneurysm, or they slap on a surcharge for booking/on the day tickets and everyone has an aneurysm. They could do absolutely nothing different to last season, and everyone would have an aneurysm.
    Thought everyone is boycotting anyway, so what's the issue?
  • sam3110 said:

    Haha if they increase the base price of the ticket and everyone has an aneurysm, or they slap on a surcharge for booking/on the day tickets and everyone has an aneurysm. They could do absolutely nothing different to last season, and everyone would have an aneurysm.
    Thought everyone is boycotting anyway, so what's the issue?

    Have you tried breathing through your nose? :wink:
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  • For anyone interested, the next FF meeting is 18th July.

    As you know, I shall not be attending & have sent my apologies....

    However, I'm sure that @rikofold or Ian Wallis would be prepared to pose questions/read a statement on fans' behalf so something to consider.

    So much for a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.

    It's fast becoming a mere pinprick.....with the emphasis on the prick.

    I wonder how many fans will be at the forum.

    It seems there are a lot of club staff at these gatherings.
  • seth plum said:

    Would it simply not be easier to make the actual ticket price higher and let that cover the staffing and processing and match day selling and all that kind of stuff, or is that too simplistic?
    They can price a ticket at, say, £23 instead of twenty, and then the messing around from the fan point of view can be avoided.
    Indeed if they also keep the smartphone/online/print at home option then each time that is used, they will make extra money because of expense avoided. They might also try friendly persuasion and encouragement to get people to use a system the club would rather prefer.
    The central issue using this method would be the specific price to pitch the ticket at.

    I think you have hit the nail on the head with the second paragraph.

    If the idiots who agreed this idea had the nouse to increase the price by £3 to what they were looking to charge customers/fans/morons/racists then this outrage would not have occurred.

    Incidentally, has anybody seen the matchday prices for next season? I daresay that will be another f*** up.

    These people really p*** me off, at the same time upset me at the way they are dismantalling this club brick-by-brick.
  • I've never seen that photo, if I remember though you persuaded me, mid giving him a piece of my mind, to pose for a happy with tone photo?

    I don't think I had an arm around his neck or was giving the thumbs up to the camera. God I hope not.
    When I saw the pic I thought Nigel(ex Eastenders fame) was at the do.

    I thought we had another celebrity fan!
  • sam3110 said:

    Haha if they increase the base price of the ticket and everyone has an aneurysm, or they slap on a surcharge for booking/on the day tickets and everyone has an aneurysm. They could do absolutely nothing different to last season, and everyone would have an aneurysm.
    Thought everyone is boycotting anyway, so what's the issue?

    Apologist.
  • That reminds me - I've got a great photo of you giving Tone a hard time at the POTY do!
    Sounds very wrong......
  • T.C.E said:


    I want to see Meire live on Watchdog, being slowly grilled by Anne Robinson.

    I want to see her live on Masterchef being grilled by anyone who can turn a feckin grill on.

    A spit roast would be more apt.
  • I want to see Meire live on Watchdog, being slowly grilled by Anne Robinson.
    I want to see her live on Masterchef being grilled by anyone who can turn a feckin grill on.

    A spit roast would be more apt.

    Must be the "export" version of Masterchef you watch...
  • sam3110 said:

    Haha if they increase the base price of the ticket and everyone has an aneurysm, or they slap on a surcharge for booking/on the day tickets and everyone has an aneurysm. They could do absolutely nothing different to last season, and everyone would have an aneurysm.
    Thought everyone is boycotting anyway, so what's the issue?

    Apologist.
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