New stadium seats

[Goat]

Sadly yes. A company called sportsbreaks supply tickets all seated together plus 2 rooms at holiday inn, Albert Dock. Our first time using this company cost around £550 for 4 of us plus 2 rooms, a couple of years ago. The company now has almost doubled the cost.

I get it mate, but they are con men.

But I get it.

 

[hallamblue]

Utterly ridiculous that people won't be able to get tickets for the new stadium. It just shows they've built it with a capacity that's too low.

 

[chippy1722]

Utterly ridiculous that people won't be able to get tickets for the new stadium. It just shows they've built it with a capacity that's too low.

In 5 years the novelty will be gone and the waiting lists will disappear.

 

[Dddddd]

Sadly yes. A company called sportsbreaks supply tickets all seated together plus 2 rooms at holiday inn, Albert Dock. Our first time using this company cost around £550 for 4 of us plus 2 rooms, a couple of years ago. The company now has almost doubled the cost.

£250 a head including hotel isn’t cheap but it’s not horrendous either for the odd occasion

 

[Joey66]

Fetch standing terraces behind the goals with computerisation it should return imo

 

[paultheblue]

In 5 years the novelty will be gone and the waiting lists will disappear.

That's not much consolation when you are in your early 70s and 30 odd thousand down the waiting list

 

[DanB90]

Hoping for blue cushions.

 

[Charlie Sweet]

Fetch standing terraces behind the goals with computerisation it should return imo

Eh?

 

[hallamblue]

In 5 years the novelty will be gone and the waiting lists will disappear.

Or we'll be in Europe and selling out every game. I understand the desire to create demand but I think the capacity should have been based on how many people would want to see us play the biggest teams rather than the middling ones. Then again when I was growing up you just turned up and paid on the gate, different times

 

[Tom Hughes]

The waiting lists were started because of a combination of factors. Really cheap tickets for kids were introduced over 13yrs ago. Other ticket prices were also frozen for years. Footy is more popular than ever and soon the full house signs started to appear more and more regular. Goodison's relatively low capacity and high number of obstructed views meant even more people began to clamour for season tickets as that supply/demand profile began to get squeezed.... a bit like panic buying at the supermarkets at any suggestion of limited supply. The waiting lists grew, but we have to remember that it is a 2 tier list and only a proportion of them have paid to be on it, and many are on the list based on those original low prices. No-one believes that the full 30k+ would take up the offer of a season ticket at the old prices, nevermind the new prices. Also, the club have been trying to push a few thousand very expensive hospitality/corporate seats at the new ground..... what better way than to tell everyone there's a massive waiting list, that you can bypass if you commit to spending £2-3k per year for 3 yrs? Apparently only a few thousand will come off that waiting list when all season tickets have been allocated..... it will be interesting to see if that list expands, shrinks or even still exists over the next few seasons. Of course on-the-pitch success/failure will influence that too, but just increasing availability of seats by 30%+ might yet test that price-elasticity of surplus demand.

 

[barneygumble]

The waiting lists were started because of a combination of factors. Really cheap tickets for kids were introduced over 13yrs ago. Other ticket prices were also frozen for years. Footy is more popular than ever and soon the full house signs started to appear more and more regular. Goodison's relatively low capacity and high number of obstructed views meant even more people began to clamour for season tickets as that supply/demand profile began to get squeezed. The waiting lists grew, but we have to remember that it is a 2 tier list and only a proportion of them have paid to be on it, and many are on the list based on those original low prices. No-one believes that the full 30k+ would take up the offer of a season ticket at the old prices, nevermind the new prices. Also, the club have been trying to push a few thousand very expensive hospitality/corporate seats..... what better way than to tell everyone there's a massive waiting list, that you can bypass if you commit to spending £2-3k per year for 3 yrs? Apparently only a few thousand will come off that waiting list when all season tickets have been allocated..... it will be interesting to see if that list expands, shrinks or even still exists over the next few seasons. Of course on-the-pitch success/failure will influence that too, but just increasing availability of seats by 30%+ might yet test that price elasticity of surplus demand.

I mean... talk about nail on head.

And I believe that the list will dwindle more than anything in the next few years.

I think a lot of the clamour (and retention - despite the dross being served) was due to the last and first seasons of Goodison and BMD.

 

[Kurt.]

You need to get a kopite mate who’s got a printer

 

[Tom Hughes]

I mean... talk about nail on head.

And I believe that the list will dwindle more than anything in the next few years.

I think a lot of the clamour (and retention - despite the dross being served) was due to the last and first seasons of Goodison and BMD.

Yes the new-stadium-effect is the other enticement and waiting list builder.

 

[davies1878]

I do believe once the novelty wears of so will the demand, think some people only still go and routine, goodison, same pubs etc once that's gone and extra hassle for some of getting to town and raised prices.

 

[OneTrueLegend]

Just wondering how difficult it may be to get tickets at the new stadium. We gave up with memberships as we were not always successful in getting seats together and ended up with crap views. It was never a problem in the past but since martinez era it became impossible to get tickets in the Parkend and decent seats elsewhere at goodison.
I understand 31,000 season tickets are available, may be more? Then there's bound to be a good few thousand corporate seats (prawn sandwich seats) so getting membership is the best way again considering there are no bad seats now.
We've been using SPORTSBREAKS last 6 games but at £1000 a pop including hotel stay makes it expensive. Does anyone know of any better ways to get match day tickets come August?

Has it gone up this season, because its the final season at Goodison? I would guess those websites just work off a "surge pricing" kind of thing where the more traffic and bookings on the site the higher the price goes.
In the new stadium I would imagine our prices would be cheaper than that on sportbreaks, if you look at Spurs stadium that same website are doing tickets for £140 per game, which includes; hotel, padded seat, lounge access, pre match food, halftime drink, etc.