| Season Ticket News on 20:27 - Jun 17 with 4841 views | love_the_dale |
| Season Ticket News on 19:29 - Jun 17 by hxdale |
Does anybody know how much oaps will be this season.. doesn't seem to be a season ticket offer for them? |
An excellent question. There is quite a big reduction for pensioners paying on the gate, but NO reduction for pensioners buying a season ticket! |  | |  |
| Season Ticket News on 20:32 - Jun 17 with 4830 views | deeplishblue |
Recently OAP disposable income has overtaken that of younger working people. This is due to generous company pension schemes started in the sixties and seventies. And also due to home ownership amongst the older generation.
Perhaps giving discounts based upon age should be stopped or perhaps transferred to young adults up to the age of 25 [Post edited 17 Jun 2018 20:33]
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| Season Ticket News on 20:32 - Jun 17 with 4827 views | hxdale |
| Season Ticket News on 20:27 - Jun 17 by love_the_dale |
An excellent question. There is quite a big reduction for pensioners paying on the gate, but NO reduction for pensioners buying a season ticket! |
It's debtable then whether my dad should buy an adult season ticket at £200 yet save less than an adult who could be earning a wage.. Or if it would work out better for him to pay on gate at each match. Obviously adults savings would be greater as they pay £20 per game and an oap I think paid £12 or £14 who h would be a much less saving for a pensioner who doesn't work |  | | |
| Season Ticket News on 20:42 - Jun 17 with 4806 views | 442Dale |
What about the unemployed adult? What about those on low incomes? What about families with three adult kids living at home who don’t work yet their parents do?
It’s impossible to find a solution that suits everyone, but these prices are excellent and anyone who thinks they’re good value (they are), can afford it and wants to go will surely buy one. If they don’t because others are perceived to be getting a better deal, it’s hard to understand (not saying this is the case in any posts in this thread).
Football clubs will always have the upper hand and use the “fans always moan” when given the opportunity. We need to try and not give them the chance. |  |
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| Season Ticket News on 21:25 - Jun 17 with 4737 views | DaleiLama |
| Season Ticket News on 20:42 - Jun 17 by 442Dale |
What about the unemployed adult? What about those on low incomes? What about families with three adult kids living at home who don’t work yet their parents do?
It’s impossible to find a solution that suits everyone, but these prices are excellent and anyone who thinks they’re good value (they are), can afford it and wants to go will surely buy one. If they don’t because others are perceived to be getting a better deal, it’s hard to understand (not saying this is the case in any posts in this thread).
Football clubs will always have the upper hand and use the “fans always moan” when given the opportunity. We need to try and not give them the chance. |
Agree with this. Like with the country ticket, there'll always be someone who lives 49 miles away and someone who lives 51. You can't please all of the people all of the time. The club have put out a very good vfm package but if it doesn't suit some, they can make the best of it or find the best alternative that does. I didn't want to part with an extra £50 this year, but I did. It is what it is. |  |
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| Season Ticket News on 09:42 - Jun 18 with 4585 views | 1907 |
| Season Ticket News on 20:32 - Jun 17 by deeplishblue |
Recently OAP disposable income has overtaken that of younger working people. This is due to generous company pension schemes started in the sixties and seventies. And also due to home ownership amongst the older generation.
Perhaps giving discounts based upon age should be stopped or perhaps transferred to young adults up to the age of 25 [Post edited 17 Jun 2018 20:33]
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A great post |  | | |
| Season Ticket News on 09:53 - Jun 18 with 4568 views | SuddenLad |
| Season Ticket News on 21:25 - Jun 17 by DaleiLama |
Agree with this. Like with the country ticket, there'll always be someone who lives 49 miles away and someone who lives 51. You can't please all of the people all of the time. The club have put out a very good vfm package but if it doesn't suit some, they can make the best of it or find the best alternative that does. I didn't want to part with an extra £50 this year, but I did. It is what it is. |
Yes, but your match day surroundings are better than most. What's £50 anyway..  |  |
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| Season Ticket News on 13:08 - Jun 18 with 4397 views | aleanddale |
Just two weeks left for people who are undecided... and have yet still to commit.
I cant see us selling many at full price from the 1st July.
Great effort so far lets hope we sell a couple of hundred more between now and a week on Saturday.
Up the Dale!! | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 15:51 - Jun 18 with 4314 views | DaleiLama |
| Season Ticket News on 09:53 - Jun 18 by SuddenLad |
Yes, but your match day surroundings are better than most. What's £50 anyway.. |
When you put it like that …….. £250 for irreparable hearing damage is a snip
(does the shop sell Dale ear-defenders?) | |
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| Season Ticket News on 17:30 - Jun 18 with 4205 views | Nigeriamark |
| Season Ticket News on 20:42 - Jun 17 by 442Dale |
What about the unemployed adult? What about those on low incomes? What about families with three adult kids living at home who don’t work yet their parents do?
It’s impossible to find a solution that suits everyone, but these prices are excellent and anyone who thinks they’re good value (they are), can afford it and wants to go will surely buy one. If they don’t because others are perceived to be getting a better deal, it’s hard to understand (not saying this is the case in any posts in this thread).
Football clubs will always have the upper hand and use the “fans always moan” when given the opportunity. We need to try and not give them the chance. |
Traditionally ticket prices in the UK have been segregated by age group. When I lived in China some tickets were based on height !!
Might be worth a try although in China a tall kid could end up paying full price so it has some flaws
Any other suggestions ( funny or realistic)? |  | | |
| Season Ticket News on 17:48 - Jun 18 with 4181 views | EllDale |
Means test based your ability to pay?
One cynic at Halifax Town a few years ago remarked that you should pay on the way out rather than when you entered the ground.
If you lasted 90 minutes you deserved to watch for nothing, it would cost £20 if you left in disgust at halftime with a sliding scale inbetween. | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 11:47 - Jun 19 with 3910 views | pioneer |
| Season Ticket News on 20:32 - Jun 17 by deeplishblue |
Recently OAP disposable income has overtaken that of younger working people. This is due to generous company pension schemes started in the sixties and seventies. And also due to home ownership amongst the older generation.
Perhaps giving discounts based upon age should be stopped or perhaps transferred to young adults up to the age of 25 [Post edited 17 Jun 2018 20:33]
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That will do wonders for our crowds....putting the price up for old folk. Surely we can be a bit more imaginative than that. | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 12:36 - Jun 19 with 3846 views | D_Alien |
| Season Ticket News on 11:47 - Jun 19 by pioneer |
That will do wonders for our crowds....putting the price up for old folk. Surely we can be a bit more imaginative than that. |
If "old folk" can't afford the massively discounted ST on offer (much lower than an OAP-weighted matchday cost of admission for a seat) then they wouldn't be attending anyway |  |
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| Season Ticket News on 14:28 - Jun 19 with 3756 views | pioneer |
| Season Ticket News on 12:36 - Jun 19 by D_Alien |
If "old folk" can't afford the massively discounted ST on offer (much lower than an OAP-weighted matchday cost of admission for a seat) then they wouldn't be attending anyway |
thats assuming they want to go every game (or to sufficient games to make a season ticket financially worthwhile) and they want to lay out the cash upfront irrespective of how good or bad the teammight play.
Similarly an earlier poster seemed to assme all OAPs have company pensions and are home owners.
I dont think its a good message to be sending, but then just my opinion,. Maybe it is a good marketing tactic not offering a concessionaty rate for OAPs. Ill scan a few economics text books and see if I can find the justification. | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 14:52 - Jun 19 with 3720 views | D_Alien |
| Season Ticket News on 14:28 - Jun 19 by pioneer |
thats assuming they want to go every game (or to sufficient games to make a season ticket financially worthwhile) and they want to lay out the cash upfront irrespective of how good or bad the teammight play.
Similarly an earlier poster seemed to assme all OAPs have company pensions and are home owners.
I dont think its a good message to be sending, but then just my opinion,. Maybe it is a good marketing tactic not offering a concessionaty rate for OAPs. Ill scan a few economics text books and see if I can find the justification. |
I happen to agree with you about Rochdale perhaps not being an example of somewhere awash with well-padded company pension schemes, and possibly less than average rates of home ownership
My point is really that affordability issues stretch right across the age spectrum. Those with mortgages and growing families are arguably less well-positioned to pay standard matchday prices; similarly those trying to save for a deposit on a house or having a lowish income taken up by rent
In short, OAPs can no longer be exclusively considered as less able to afford to go to games
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| Season Ticket News on 15:28 - Jun 19 with 3676 views | TVOS1907 |
| Season Ticket News on 11:47 - Jun 19 by pioneer |
That will do wonders for our crowds....putting the price up for old folk. Surely we can be a bit more imaginative than that. |
Prices haven't been 'put up for old folk'.
Before the first home game of last season, an adult season ticket was £250 for anywhere in the ground.
https://www.rochdaleafc.co.uk/news/2017/august/st-still-on-sale/
As of today, no adult season ticket (executive prices excepted) is more than £250, with the TDS Stand (£200) and Sandy Lane (£150) being substantially cheaper. These prices have been in place for almost two months now.
https://www.rochdaleafc.co.uk/tickets/201718-season-tickets/
How much lower do you realistically expect them to go? |  |
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| Season Ticket News on 15:33 - Jun 19 with 3662 views | TVOS1907 |
| Season Ticket News on 14:28 - Jun 19 by pioneer |
thats assuming they want to go every game (or to sufficient games to make a season ticket financially worthwhile) and they want to lay out the cash upfront irrespective of how good or bad the teammight play.
Similarly an earlier poster seemed to assme all OAPs have company pensions and are home owners.
I dont think its a good message to be sending, but then just my opinion,. Maybe it is a good marketing tactic not offering a concessionaty rate for OAPs. Ill scan a few economics text books and see if I can find the justification. |
Where did the earlier poster assume ALL OAPs had company pension schemes and were homeowners? He was speaking generally, rather than specifically.
Certainly, several of the OAPs I know who watch Dale are a damned sight more well off than people I know who aren't OAPs. | |
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| Season Ticket News on 15:34 - Jun 19 with 3659 views | TVOS1907 |
| Season Ticket News on 14:52 - Jun 19 by D_Alien |
I happen to agree with you about Rochdale perhaps not being an example of somewhere awash with well-padded company pension schemes, and possibly less than average rates of home ownership
My point is really that affordability issues stretch right across the age spectrum. Those with mortgages and growing families are arguably less well-positioned to pay standard matchday prices; similarly those trying to save for a deposit on a house or having a lowish income taken up by rent
In short, OAPs can no longer be exclusively considered as less able to afford to go to games
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As the non-OAPs would say, "This". | |
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| Season Ticket News on 08:55 - Jun 20 with 3354 views | pioneer |
| Season Ticket News on 14:52 - Jun 19 by D_Alien |
I happen to agree with you about Rochdale perhaps not being an example of somewhere awash with well-padded company pension schemes, and possibly less than average rates of home ownership
My point is really that affordability issues stretch right across the age spectrum. Those with mortgages and growing families are arguably less well-positioned to pay standard matchday prices; similarly those trying to save for a deposit on a house or having a lowish income taken up by rent
In short, OAPs can no longer be exclusively considered as less able to afford to go to games
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No problem with your last sentence. I think the club used to offer discounts (and may still do) to folks who had a passport to leisure card or something similar based on low income. But the point about the OAP policy seems to be no discount is offered to them on season tickets compared to full paying adults. I wonder how many other clubs that applies to. | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 08:57 - Jun 20 with 3350 views | TVOS1907 |
| Season Ticket News on 08:55 - Jun 20 by pioneer |
No problem with your last sentence. I think the club used to offer discounts (and may still do) to folks who had a passport to leisure card or something similar based on low income. But the point about the OAP policy seems to be no discount is offered to them on season tickets compared to full paying adults. I wonder how many other clubs that applies to. |
How many other clubs have season tickets as cheap as ours? | |
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| Season Ticket News on 09:15 - Jun 20 with 3323 views | chalky_ncfc |
Can I remind you that I paid £400 for my season ticket to watch football a league below yours,even given that I will be watching the mighty Notts every home game rather than Dale the cost of your ticket is a bargain compared to mine and shouldn't be moaned about,it could be a lot worst | |
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| Season Ticket News on 09:18 - Jun 20 with 3319 views | nordenblue |
| Season Ticket News on 09:15 - Jun 20 by chalky_ncfc |
Can I remind you that I paid £400 for my season ticket to watch football a league below yours,even given that I will be watching the mighty Notts every home game rather than Dale the cost of your ticket is a bargain compared to mine and shouldn't be moaned about,it could be a lot worst |
Who gives a toss what you paid,fook off  | | | |
| Season Ticket News on 09:20 - Jun 20 with 3310 views | chalky_ncfc |
| Season Ticket News on 09:18 - Jun 20 by nordenblue |
Who gives a toss what you paid,fook off |
It's good to be back norden  | |
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| Season Ticket News on 11:13 - Jun 22 with 3043 views | lyberoc |
Renewed my ST yesterday after a phone call from the club to remind me , The lady in the ticket office said that they passed 2000 well over a week ago and that it,s been non stop since then. They are ringing everyone who had a ST last year who have not yet renewed |  | | |
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