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2,500 tickets sold for Saturday (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter Grendel
  • Start date Sep 12, 2014
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Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #1
Alarming and staggering - hoping for a "bit" of a walk up on the day.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #2
So it was 7,000, then it was 6,500 and now it's 2,500.

That's an awful lot of people changing their minds and asking for refunds.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #3
Otis said:
So it was 7,000, then it was 6,500 and now it's 2,500.

That's an awful lot of people changing their minds and asking for refunds.
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Ticket manager on radio now.
 

cov4theprem

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #4
And what about the home end?
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #5
Embarrassing. Makes me think all them times protesting was not worth it!
 
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lamtara2006

Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #6
People haven't been able to get through on the phone or ticketing web-site. It seems the only way to buy a ticket has been to queue up at Gallagher Retail Store - where at times only 1 person was on the desk dealing with both season ticket renewals and general sales. Because of time constraints when I went over on Tuesday, I had to make a second visit on Wednesday! I shan't be doing that again as it's over an hour round trip for me plus queuing time, the club need to sort the logistics if they want to benefit from the current goodwill of fans.
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #7
It's time for the club to drop the match day increase for this game only, or we could have a seriously embarrassing crowd tomorrow.
 
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Eightyseven

New Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #8
Not true at all. You can log on and buy tickets without a problem at all. I chose to collect mine from the store and when I did there were about 5 people in the queue. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it's just a case of the fair weather 'fans' not bothering due to price or whatever else!
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #9
pusbccfc said:
It's time for the club to drop the match day increase for this game only, or we could have a seriously embarrassing crowd tomorrow.
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With some 'die hard City fans' though, you could give away free tickets and they'd still have excuses why they can't go.
 
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Qwerty70

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #10
I couldnt be arsed to queue so I'll just pay cash tomorrow : £2 v a bloody long queue or messing about on a website! Agree though tomorrow they should drop the £2 matchday charge : I would have purchased early but they have made so difficult I haven't. First Saturday game and will be great to get back into Sat 3pm routine : meet in pub @ 1pm
 

westofrayne

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #11
Not living on the area, what did Ticket Office Manager say on the radio ?
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #12
Otis said:
With some 'die hard City fans' though, you could give away free tickets and they'd still have excuses why they can't go.
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Add a free pie and they'd come running back.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #13
pusbccfc said:
Add a free pie and they'd come running back.
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Wobbling back don't you mean?
 
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Seaside-Skyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #14
Got my ticket online in 2 minutes. Tickets arrived to Blackpool within two days. Just as easy as it used to be. I appreciate some prefer physically buying at shop though.
 

skybluepm2

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #15
Surely that's 2,500 over and above the season ticket contingent of say 4,000. Even still that is a pathetic crowd at this stage!

On one hand, it really riles me with the bandwagoners who all pretend to be city fans for special one off occasions such as last Friday, Crewe, arsenal away etc. half of these fuckers posting selfies on Facebook won't set foot in the stadium again this season unless we need a win for the play offs or get through to the JPT area final again when they'll all be scrambling around for a ticket to get to Wembley!

On the other hand, the availability and accessibility of ticketing is a disgrace. Yes they have had the initial rush and fair play to them for selling out the ground for gillingham but why, 3 weeks later are people still struggling to get through? Why are season tickets not yet issued? Why should we have to go to them to collect? Someone higher up the line needs shooting because it is now beyond embarrassing, even more so taking into account the figures stayed by Grendel above.

They initially told me I couldn't sit in the north stand, so moved to the south stand. I was then told that I couldn't sit there so moved to block 17 in the easy stand. They now tell me my seat in the north stand is available and sent me a receipt transferring back tou original position. Had a missed call on Monday but haven't been able to get through to confirm ever since!

Reduced ticket prices would've seen the gates rise dramatically despite the hoo-hah to get a ticket. Back to nothek tomorrow then...i thought the wave of enthusiasm would least for a few games at least!! Saying that, I'll gladly wait in the beer queue for 2 minutes as opposed to the 20 last weekend now that the once a season brigade aren't in attendance!
 

skybluepm2

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #16
pusbccfc said:
Add a free pie and they'd come running back.
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Tim needs 60p in the pound from every pie so that's a non-starter....oh wait!
 
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SkyBlueMatt

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #17
lamtara2006 said:
People haven't been able to get through on the phone or ticketing web-site. It seems the only way to buy a ticket has been to queue up at Gallagher Retail Store - where at times only 1 person was on the desk dealing with both season ticket renewals and general sales. Because of time constraints when I went over on Tuesday, I had to make a second visit on Wednesday! I shan't be doing that again as it's over an hour round trip for me plus queuing time, the club need to sort the logistics if they want to benefit from the current goodwill of fans.
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I bought my ticket online on Monday, took me 5 minutes. No problems what so ever.
 
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Leamington Pete

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #18
A Liverpool spokesman was on the radio talking about their sale of £50k's worth of Balotelli shirts in 24 hours. He said more than anything it was due to anticipating the demand and having systems in place to cope with it. He said when opportunities arise you have to capitalise on them, which is something we certainly haven't done. We have seriously cocked up ticket sales in the last two weeks, and even with minimal sales for Yeovil people are still turning up at the shop and facing queues. Buying tickets should be easy and coupled with paying £2 more on match day you can see why the occassional supporter won't be bothered.
 

cmoncity

New Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #19
Simple soloution just make match day tickets 18 quid tickets max. 24 quid is just to steep for alot of people with kids going aswell.and before you say get a season ticket alot of people cant afford that outlay in one hit. They have missed a trick with the prices.if they haf kept them lowish it would have built some bridges with fans and kept them coming week after week.simple drop the price!
 
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SkyBlueMatt

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #20
Leamington Pete said:
A Liverpool spokesman was on the radio talking about their sale of £50k's worth of Balotelli shirts in 24 hours. He said more than anything it was due to anticipating the demand and having systems in place to cope with it. He said when opportunities arise you have to capitalise on them, which is something we certainly haven't done. We have seriously cocked up ticket sales in the last two weeks, and even with minimal sales for Yeovil people are still turning up at the shop and facing queues. Buying tickets should be easy and coupled with paying £2 more on match day you can see why the occassional supporter won't be bothered.
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Rubbish, people still managed to buy / sell 30000 tickets for the Gillingham game. The problem is that the demand isn't there.
 

We'll_live_and_die

Super Moderator
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #21
Unfortunately alot of fans will now have moved on from CCFC. My facebook was covered in people who support other clubs up at the Ricoh on Friday. They aren't going to go back up.

I guess that's 2500 plus season tickets?
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #22
Rich said:
Unfortunately alot of fans will now have moved on from CCFC. My facebook was covered in people who support other clubs up at the Ricoh on Friday. They aren't going to go back up.

I guess that's 2500 plus season tickets?
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You can't change the team you support, end of!
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #23
Sad if true. I don't buy the not been able to buy line. Like others have said, 2 minutes online and 2 days later they were on my door mat.

SISU clearly have a lot of bridges to rebuild with the fan's and I think tickets doubling in price the minute we got back can be considered bridge building.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #24
Should just make it Gillingham prices on the gate now if the crowd is this low.
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #25
That's grim. I can only assume / hope that's the walk up will be huge. Although this will result in a delayed kick off again due to people paying to get in
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #26
SkyBlueMatt said:
Rubbish, people still managed to buy / sell 30000 tickets for the Gillingham game. The problem is that the demand isn't there.
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27,000 tickets........which we struggled to buy. The demand is much lower but we are still not finding it easy to buy them.

When was the last time that we ever had problems buying tickets when the demand wasn't massive? This looks like an average attendance. How many ticket sales will they have lost by not having enough staff dealing with ticket sales?
 

mattylad

Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #27
Where are all the thoushands of weeping fans who were denied a ticket for the first game. Surely those hard done by souls are all going to attend this game!
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #28
SkyBlueMatt said:
Rubbish, people still managed to buy / sell 30000 tickets for the Gillingham game. The problem is that the demand isn't there.
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Matt, trust you to take the sheen off.
 

ccfcway

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #29
mattylad said:
Where are all the thoushands of weeping fans who were denied a ticket for the first game. Surely those hard done by souls are all going to attend this game!
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Agreed. I couldn't get a ticket for last fri, so watched it on tv and got myself a ticket for tomorrow instead.
 

skybluelee

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #30
lamtara2006 said:
People haven't been able to get through on the phone or ticketing web-site. It seems the only way to buy a ticket has been to queue up at Gallagher Retail Store - where at times only 1 person was on the desk dealing with both season ticket renewals and general sales. Because of time constraints when I went over on Tuesday, I had to make a second visit on Wednesday! I shan't be doing that again as it's over an hour round trip for me plus queuing time, the club need to sort the logistics if they want to benefit from the current goodwill of fans.
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Took me 90 seconds to buy my ticket online.
 

skybluelee

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #31
Oh and they arrived the following morning.

Excuses excuses exucses as always from Coventry supporters.

Yet if we were selling tickets for £15 there would be 20K there apparently (according to predictions on the original guess the Yeovil crowd thread).
 

italiahorse

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #32
Eightyseven said:
Not true at all. You can log on and buy tickets without a problem at all. I chose to collect mine from the store and when I did there were about 5 people in the queue. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it's just a case of the fair weather 'fans' not bothering due to price or whatever else!
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I have been up 3 times to eventually get my tickets. On each occasion the queue was into the middle of the shop and an hour wait.
 

Evans1883

New Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #33
Is this the same guy that quoted 18,000 , then we sold a couple more blocks and all of a sudden it was 27300
, il take what he said with a pinch of salt , they dont normally include , hospitality , away fans or the posh lot either
 

ohitsaidwalker king power

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #34
Grendel said:
Alarming and staggering - hoping for a "bit" of a walk up on the day.
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'Alarming and staggering'.....There is a danger that we can talk ourselves into a recession you know G......well done- thanks for your positive message.

not withstanding.. tickets were not able to be added to basket yesterday on website- despite having customer number, a point I became frustrated with, upon attending the Gallacher store at circa 4pm 11/9/2014- I was met by a queue circa 1 and a half hours in duration, as advised, so I politely declined- was also advised phone lines were "down" by the gent who greeted me at the door of the store along with an acknowledgement that the website was in error.
This morning the website seems to be OK as our tickets are purchased and reserved for collection- I anticipate that a 'collection line' is established at the store.. to expedite throughput.
 
Last edited: Sep 12, 2014

Johnnythespider

Well-Known Member
  • Sep 12, 2014
  • #35
I predict a crowd of 13,500 for this game, on the basis that of the 7 of us at Gillingham only 3 of us will be at this game. Varied reasons for the others not being there.
 
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