Crowds - The thread of Australian whining

If you are employed as glass cleaners then doesn't the BB pay you to clean the glasses, not the other way around?

i wouldn't mind getting paid to dirty the glasses

Shandy of the five phalanges variety?

do you guys eat at the rof ?

last time i checked a burger and fries was like $16

#howdoyousleepatnight

I buy a Wiener. Much more affordable and way more tasty.

Beer and food is enough to make me consider a Fever Whip-a-round for the money to build a Soccer specific stadium across the road from the stadium.

saw this on the Phoenix website

so clicked on it and it took me to the ticketek page and look at the prices

course I don't know the password, but these prices look good.

Wouldn't be a bad move, offer kids tickets for free and $10 entry for everyone else. Would hey a bumper crowd and the chance to end the season on a high. 

Got a tweet back from TranzMetro

I keep telling everyone... Park across the road !!! It's free !!!

Offering dirt cheap tickets is better than having a crowd of 500 turn up. 

$10 tickets for everyone! Yay!

 Kids free.  Adults a tenner.  Even better.

Crazy that you can't buy a ticket if you don't have a password, even if to get one at standard price. 

Is that the "We'll charge you to use your own printer" fee? ;)

Seriously after targeting the airlines Credit Card fees, surely the ticket companies "fees" should be next

I could be wrong but, isn't their only income from the fees they charge? The rest goes to the club/stadium.

Sure, add "value" taxes for credit card payment and courier tickets, etc., but the basic cost of ticketing should be incorporated into ticket prices.

Agreed. It's weird that they don't just do that, would make people less aggro about it too as they wouldn't even know it was happening.  Plus it'd stop embarrasing situations like this where people can plainly see that its a 50% booking fee. Instead they'd just think "a $15 ticket, wow that's cheap!" 

Oh yeah I see your point now. I guess I've just purchased enough tickets for things I just don't notice it anymore.

Agree that we wouldn't complain if our $25 contained a "hidden" $2 fee. It's understandable that someone has to pay. But when you tell someone it costs an additional $5 to print their own tickets or download a barcode to their smartphone, then people think you are taking the piss.

 A flat included $2 fee would probably work out better for them as well as currently if someone buys $20 they only get a $5 handling fee, at a couple of bucks a ticket that would be $40.

Flat fees make it a hell of a lot easier to manage large group bookings too.

Incorporating it into the price would solve that too though. You wouldn't think you're getting ripped off 10+ times over, and paying $50+ in booking fees, you'd just think 'Thats the price of the ticket - fair enough'

Better option than a flat fee for them as that would cause them to lose a fair bit of money. 

Surely it's such an easy thing for them to do, and makes a whole lot of sense.

Using my iPhone, I cannot seem to see these cheap prices anywhere - using the Ticketek app, or going to the website?

Is there a link? 

When I enter the 'dontstopbelieving' password, it doesn't seem to work either.

So, anyone actually bought these cheap tickets yet?

The link is from Wellingtonphoenix.com

Statistics. Bundesliga average attendance per game 45.000. Average ticket price $55 and 0.5l beer costs around $6,50. Not sure how much they charge for a bratwurst.

Not on the mobile site.

So, great gesture to fill the stadium, however making it as difficult as possible to actually find these cheap tickets is not great. Why can't they just have the tickets at these prices on the Ticketek site and not bother with passwords etc. Just make all adult tickets $10, end of story!

The password doesn't work anymore... FFS Ticketek.

As Patrick says, password doesn't work.

Ticketek really are a shambles. From what they said to me on Twitter, I think they treated this as a 'members pre-sale' rather than as special pricing for members. Shambles.