This may be better put as contribution elsewhere rather than being a thread in it's own right. So a mod is welcome to move it. Not going to moan (much) but wanted to hear what others think about the prices being charged by firms listed as authorised sellers on the club's website. I understand the need to have corporate seating as this raises lots of money for the club and was instrumental in making the stadium affordable, but I do have concerns about the amount companies are allowed to charge for tickets. As a matter of interest I emailed two companies listed (there are ten in total) and was quoted €430 per ticket by one and the other quoted £299 plus VAT for an executive seat and £199 plus VAT for a regular ticket. A couple of years ago the club ended the deal with StubHub due to sellers charging exorbitant amounts for tickets after a long campaign by fans. I consider it a form of touting. I get that these tickets were never going to be affordable to most fans but as a matter of principle I think the club should place an upper limit on what can be charged by companies authorised to sell tickets. I want to make clear that I am not digging the club out and am not angry that tickets went so quickly as many could not get tickets and I was fortunate to be at WHL for the last NLD, the last European match, the last FA Cup match and the Finale so me and my girls have had our fair share of luck (considering we are not season ticket holders). I just feel that a company being able to charge over £200 for a seat that the club are selling for less than £80 is acting unacceptably.
I could rant for hours on my feelings regarding the selling on of tickets. But I find it staggering that the club so quickly jumped into bed with Stub Hub for a couple of years, yet now has them listed as unauthorised ticket sellers.
If there are "posh" seats that the club wish to effectively do profiteering on via firms etc to those who can afford it, fine. But for the "cheap" seats, then what a ST/member card holder is quoted is the price they should be sold at. An £80 ticket is NOT a posh seat.
The club should do it internally and just charge a flat fee. Making the supporters feel like customers is a bad idea, especially when they feel they're being treated badly even then.
I'm a bit confused by this. I got my premium seat guide today and it says I can sell it on the club ticket exchange only for its face value as determined by the Club plus £10 commission.
A firm is selling tickets for the Upper North Stand for £349 each Inc VAT Tickets in this stand for this match start at £48 and the most expensive is £60 yet this authorised seller is selling at a £300 mark up. I am obviously disappointed that me and my daughter's can't go to the palace game but accept that some fans were always going to be disappointed but I find this really distasteful...genuine spurs fans should be able to buy tickets but after reading online it is clear that many non executive seats will be filled with non dpurs fans who can simply afford a good night out. Edit....the "travel package" part of the deal is a zone 1-4 travel card....about £12!
That looks like one of the Premium options, due to the free half-time drinks, but some of the wording is a little odd. General admission ticket to the North Stand Upper Tier? That's not a thing, is it?
Sorry for a bad screen shot but hat stuff about drinks is from the other package the firm is selling for £599. That is an executive package with drinks and stuff so did not think that was the same tbh. I added that below....but the £349 is for a seat and a zone 1-4 travel card only in the north upper stand where the most expensive ticket for this game is £60.
There are no premium seats in the North or South stands. It looks like this is some sort of a scam where the seat can be sold on at a higher price as part of a travel package that doesn't actually exist. If the Club are colluding with this then that is disgusting.
That Premium Seat package costs about £5.5k a season (or £250 per match) depending exactly where the seat is so it is also a big mark up.
Didn't realise that they were more than doubling the cost of the premium seats. To be honest I fail to see how the club can not know that this is happening...it took me 2 emails on Monday and a 10 minute search today. These firms are listed on the club website as authorised sellers. I complained to the club 3 years ago about the mark up that StubHub were allowing and received a thanks but corporate non answer so have no faith they'll do anything this time either (at least in the short term).
<lwugh> Gonna be bought by twatty types who just wanna brag on social media that they were there...snd they will be both twatty enough and minted enough to spend that sort of money...would rather spend the £1000- £1800 (the vost of three tickets) on a holidsy for us.
Probably clutching at straws but it could just be a contractual mess up. It would be perfectly reasonable for Spurs to sign a deal with someone to market seats plus a travel package. Perhaps either the contract has a loophole that allows this abomination or the ‘partner’ is taking the piss and will come to a sorry end.
I suspect that this is the case...it was what StubHub did...a shame the club was that naive....again.
Pondering more on this, while personal emails to the club is a correct thing to do, IMHO these examples should be sent to the Spurs Twitter accounr. Not nice for supporters to initiate a public PR sh*t storm, but it could get the corrections/offenders done near immediately. I mean, I live in Enfield (TFL zone 5-6) . So if I buy one such "package" , do I have to pay the £3 travel costs myself because I am not in zone 1-4 ??
