From Anon : Season tickets
There’s something odd going on at Arsenal with regards to season tickets.
A person I know phoned recently after waiting for 6 years on the waiting list.
While they were on the phone, they went from 17,000 in the queue, to 13,000 to 10,000, which was “the best [they] could do”. Within days a ticket was suddenly available, and the person is now a season ticket holder.
It’s almost as if phoning up and asking where you are on the queue helps bump you up the list…very odd.
From Ian M : Season tickets
Myles,
As I am sure you know, the season ticket queue figure is there for a very good reason: to intimidate current ST holders not to relinquish theirs.
I have lost count of the number of those who have said they would give it up, but the thought of trying to get one in the future at the back of a queue of ‘40,000’ deters them.
So they are blackmailed into keeping them and coughing up, even against their better judgement.
Nice sales technique.
I think the words ‘captive market’ were never more appropriate.
When will English clubs allow their ST holders some voice in the running of their club, since they are its bedrock?
From Mat : waiting list
Similar thing happened to my mate a few years back but what happens is the club offer you whatever ticket is available, and if you were hoping for a cheaper ticket and reject it, you go to the back of the queue again.
Spurs do few things better than us but at least you can go into different waiting lists for each price category and wait for the one you can afford to become available.
I think it’s a little unfair to assume people are giving up tickets for a team in the top 4 just because they are not doing as well as we would like. The current economic climate may also be a factor as people don’t have £1,200 plus to spend on a luxury.
The doom and gloom surrounding Arsenal at the moment is utterly ridiculous.
Yes we may lose the injury-prone Fabregas for huge profit.
Yes, we lost a left back who can’t cross, can’t defend and can’t score. We may well lose Nasri who gives up playing half way through a season. We may lose Walcott who hasn’t developed into the player we had hoped.
It’s easy to forget Jack Wilshere, Robin Van Persie, Bacary Sagna, Thomas Vermaelen, that we thrashed Chelsea, won against Man U & City, beat Barcelona in one leg and were prevented from he next round by a dubious decision against RVP.
Before you bang on about how outplayed we were by Barca’s 8 million passes and the amazing Lionel Messiah, just remember that Robin would have scored that chance that Bendtner missed in the last minutes, and then we would have gone through on away goals against an in-debt club who can’t afford our Captain and haven’t finished paying for other players they have bought on HP from us.
So it’s not just fans who can’t afford to buy luxury items at the moment.