Durham Giant wrote:
I don’t think it would annoy everyone.
The earlier you buy tickets the better the seat you get .
The later you buy tickets then you are likely to get the worst seats. Only at the end do you offer a cheaper price to sellout but that way you will be up in the rafters so anyone waiting to get a cheaper ticket will be getting a worse view.
If I want to see a game or even the theatre I look at what I can afford and then the best seat available. I think most people do that.
I would not resent someone getting a cheaper seat than me knowing they are up with the bats , with a restricted view or have to climb 12 flights of stairs to get there.
Even if they have paid cheaper I would feel pleased that it has become a great event with a better atmosphere which is what you get in a full stadium.
For me it is simple it is about growing the game . If you resent someone getting a a £10 cheaper ticket than yourself it is pretty petty minded knowing it is for the benefit of RL which will have a marked benefit to your club.
It would annoy the vast majority. You only have to look at other events. WWE ran their first big event here for 30 years and people were excited, but it got a tonne of bad press because they opened with ridiculously expensive tickets and priced loads of people out. Then when they realised they weren't gonna be selling out at those prices, they slashed the ticket prices and vexed everybody off even more, even having to offer people that bought early the chance to make new orders. Me personally, I bought 3 tickets first and got really annoyed about it, and ended up being allowed to make an order for the same price as my original... Got 8 seats in the same bracket for the same price as my 3 original. Not a great look is it, and Twitter talked about nothing else and the event didn't sell out, for an event where 150k people signed up for a notification when tickets went on sale. It will now likely effect the attendance for any future events they run, as it left a bad taste in the mouth.
It's been a pretty similar story with the Harry Styles tickets recently. Ticketmaster call it "dynamic pricing" and it's gotten bad enough to the point that BBC have been doing pieces on it.
Definitely don't think that's the answer when RL desperately needs some good will and not pissing off more people. They should have just found a middle ground between mass discounts and premium pricing. I don't think it's that hard.
