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25 Year 'Season Tickets' (Now with Suites Poll)

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Bronco, May 22, 2021.

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VALLEY PARADE SUITES USE

  1. I use them as part of my 25 year ticket

  2. I have a 25 year ticket but don’t use them

  3. I buy a Suite pass but don’t have a 25 year ticket

  4. I use to use the Suite but don’t anymore

  5. I have never used a Suite

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  1. NorthernMonkey

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    Imagine you signed up to an energy deal of £100 a month up front but in the end they went bust and offered you the same deal but for £60 a month.

    After 10 years would you be celebrating the £400 you'd saved our would you be pissed off?

    Once you've found your answer, you'll realise why your post is daft.
     
  2. Storck

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    but you got a refund for your £100 a month upfront.

    I agree you haven’t got the deal you signed up for. But you got a refund for it. The club offered the new deal due to fans being out of pocket. Those that got the refund were not out of pocket
     
  3. Storck

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    so the deal is £100 a month up front each month? So you give them £100 on the first of each month? Then they go bust and offer you a deal of £60 a month? So £40 less a month. So over a year you save £480. So over ten years you are £4800 better off than paying £100 a month, which you got refunded because you paid by credit card.

    Id be celebrating I was best part of £5k better off. Not sure how that is similar in anyway to the 25yr deal
     
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  4. Offcomedun

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    Only if the original £2500 was all we paid. But it isn't.

    The idea was that we paid a lump sum of £2500 - which equated to £100 per year - and then paid nothing else for the next 25 years. But, apart from the first few seasons, we've been paying a 'discounted' fee for our season tickets, on top of the £100 per year that we've already paid. EG, this season I've paid £120 + £100 = £220, which is £22 more than a standard ST fee. Last year I paid £120 + £100, which was £70 more than the standard price.

    So those of us who paid by cash or cheque upfront and therefore got no refund, have ended up paying out more over the full period than if we'd simply bought year on year STs.
     
  5. Loyalbantam

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    Yes the people who received no refund have effectively paid twice for the same product and I do feel sorry for those
     
  6. Silverbantam

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    Please close this thread it’s pointless
     
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    Very well put Offcomden, we are treated as freeloaders and a liability to the club from some supporters, indeed Mark Lawn seriously considered scrapping them when he joined Rhodes in 2007 but changed his mind. I bought two using cash and a loan so certainly got no refund. We do at least now get the option of suite upgrade which also indirectly gives the club extra cash as my other son who didn’t get a 25 year ticket pays for a suite upgrade so he can sit with us.
     
  8. Gardscoigne

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    Something which is also forgotten. For example I have been buying three kids season tickets on the back of my season ticket (25 year), which are now moving into the youth category. That goodwill has meant I’ve carried on going and so have three others - as well as friends and their kids who started going with me.
    It’s a bigger picture than ‘oh well 25 yearers get discount and are costing the club’.
    Quite the contrary - the club are probably getting a dozen season tickets on the back of my one 25 year ticket - plus merchandise, match day costs - the club are well and truly quids in.
    It’s a strange thread - point scoring and holier than thou attitude for which I don’t really understand the intent of!
     
  9. NorthernMonkey

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    Yeah, I was completely drunk when I posted.

    This site should have a breathalyser on log in :joy:
     
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    Not at all , theres some really good points put across for people like me that didnt get involved helps understand the situation better
     
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    It's not pointless, it's highlighting people like you getting shamed and rightly so. You've had your refund yet continue to enjoy the benefits of a 25 year ticket. You guys are the ones giving 25 yearers a bad name.

    All other 25 yearers have ended up paying more overall than regular season ticket holders. You guys pay less! Not only do you want to have your cake and eat it, you spit the crumbs in our faces!
     
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    Being completely drunk is the best time to pose maths-based conundrums.

    Good job, buddy!
     
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  13. Storck

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    Just ignore it if you aren’t interested. There is even a like button to click so you don’t even know about it
     
  14. Silverbantam

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    You probably enjoy it. You sound like a masochist.
     
  15. Offcomedun

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    I'd never previously understood the resentment about us 25 yearers. I've seen comments over the years on here, and on C&B, suggesting that we are somehow leeching off the club; that never made sense to me since I knew that for most of the lifetime of the deal I've been paying an annual fee for something I'd already paid for.
    This thread has helped me understand why some City fans resent 25 yearers. Hopefully it has helped some of those fans understand that those who never got a refund have actually lost money.
     
  16. Loyalbantam

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    And even the ones who’ve had a refund aren’t exactly leeching off the club when they only receive a £20 discount off the price everyone else pays.
    The true leeches are the whole fanbase happy to pay such low prices when the true value is around £400 per season.
     
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    True value of £400. Give over man, its been about £2.50 and a Mars bar since 2017
     
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    And you think that’s okay then?

    I’d accept the gripe if the cost of a ST was say £300 and 25 yearers only paid £120 but as it stands we get no quantifiable discount.
     
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    Considering I am also a 25 year season ticket holder then you have the answer
     
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    I’ve been away for some time and I’ve only just caught up with this thread. I’m a 25 yearer. I never got a penny back and I’ve never taken the suite upgrade. I’ve followed City on ifollow for a number of years choosing to see Club video’s on my subscription rather than on a freebie. I subscribe to the T&A to read about City because it’s important to the club that the T&A survives. I watched virtually all away games on ifollow last season paying £10 for each one rather than joining with other friends to get a freebie. I’ve purchased flexi ST’s for family, some were never actually used but I felt I was encouraging attendance and helping the club. It’s only now I realise I might be a blood sucking parasite robbing the club I have watched each season since 1976. Oh and I don’t steal from Netflix, Prime and the like. Just so you know.

    Jesus fecking Christ!
     

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