QPR ticket prices....

[Beefy]

After last weekend’s 4-1 win against Southampton, QPR moved up to fourth place in the Championship table. As an air of jubilation swept around the club, they announced that, from now on, they would categorising matches as A, B or C (depending on the opposition) and pricing them accordingly. Never mind that we are just six matches into the new season. Never mind, indeed, that there was a large price increase during the summer.

Somehow along the line, QPR seems to have got the idea that their club is a premium product of some description. Tickets for this weekend’s match against Derby County will be priced at £50, £40, £30 and £20. You can probably guess which sections of the stadium are more or less sold out and, to give you an idea of the sort of price rises that we’re talking about here, tickets that cost £25 for the Southampton match last week will be costing £40 for the visit of Derby County. On top of this, all away supporters will be housed in a Category B area of the ground, meaning that Derby County supporters will have no choice but to pay £40 for tickets for their match on Saturday. Derby County, for their part, have put up a terse message on their official website stating that they were not putting tickets up for sale due to “problems with receiving the correct stock of tickets”, but rumours are circulating that they are refusing to put the tickets on sale because of the cost of them.

Source :
http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=1070

What an absolute disgrace if true.

 

[BrettieAngell]

£40 for a Championship game is taking the micheal!

 

[Pubey]

crazy prices, but it's simple supply and demand

 

[jerseyshrimper]

crazy prices, but it's simple supply and demand

It's not supply and demand is it, it is daylight robbery and i hope the fans vote by staying away.

 

[Stanbridge]

For it to be case of supply and demand, QPR would have to sell-out regularly under their existing price structure.Loftus Road is not the biggest ground in the world, but I still can't remember the last time they sold out.

The whole thing sounds more like commercial suicide to me.

 

[BoyWonder2]

IF thats true that is awful.

How does it effect exsiting season ticket holders?

The other people I feel sorry for are the away fans having to fork out £40 to watch their team play at a dump. I wouldn't pay £40 to see Southend away at QPR, not a chance.

 

[returningshrimper]

I thought that they now had rich backers, and to put the prices up to this level is just pure greed. As always it is the real fans that suffer, and I hope that they show their feelings about this in an appropriate way

 

[Che's Left Foot]

To think £50 would get you three top-flight match tickets at Wigan.

Bearing in mind, it is Wigan though.

 

[SUFC_Al]

that is a disgrace!

Loftus Road is hardly comfortable and modern is it?

They always go on about eventually being bigger than Chelsea, well at least their ticket prices are catching up!

 

[toellandback]

Sadly football fans are second rate citizens. I payed £37 for the last couple of years at Elland Road and seats in either the west or east for Cat A games are £32 this year, no concessions.

On a side note, how else did QPR fans expect to cover the huge sums of money being thrown at their club. Even the very rich aren't going to chuck their own money at something forever.

 

[Beefy]

On a side note, how else did QPR fans expect to cover the huge sums of money being thrown at their club. Even the very rich aren't going to chuck their own money at something forever.

Whilst that's true, have QPR's owners chucked their own money at the Club? I'm fairly confident in saying that Southend spent more on transfer fees than QPR did this summer.

It's not the home fans I'm too fussed about as they can complain to the Club about it and probably force a change. It's the away ticket prices which irk me.

 

[Beefy]

Derby County have refused to accept the prices set by QPR for the game at Loftus Road on 27 September.

The club said a pre-season price of £30 for adults and £20 for concessions had been agreed but had been sent tickets priced £10 above those amounts by QPR.

Club spokesman Matt McCann told BBC Radio Derby: "We think it's too high and we don't think that's fair.

"We have stood our ground and QPR have exercised their right to appeal that to the Football League."


We will make sure our supporters aren't the victims of this situation

Derby spokesman Matt McCann
A decision on the prices is expected later this week.

"One of our biggest frustrations is the inconvenience it's causing fans," added McCann.

"With going to London supporters may want to book a weekend and make an occasion of it.

"We expect a decision within 24 hours but either way, we will make sure our supporters aren't the victims of this situation."

QPR have recently restructured their ticket pricing with adult tickets ranging from £20 to £50 for league matches.

 

[Pubey]

For it to be case of supply and demand, QPR would have to sell-out regularly under their existing price structure.Loftus Road is not the biggest ground in the world, but I still can't remember the last time they sold out.

The whole thing sounds more like commercial suicide to me.

not necessarily, it depends on the relative price elasticities of supply and demand to determine at what price they set (assuming they're profit maximising). a sell out isn't necessarily the profit maximising equilibrium

 

[sufcintheprem]

My flatmate is a Derby fan living a 20 minute bus journey from Loftus Road with only Fulham (and probably Stamford Bridge closer). It's hard to put in to words the contrast in his mood before and after hearing this news and he reckons he may boycott it for the sheer cheek of it.

It might be supply and demand in the short term but there is a wider impact of destroying interest. In Vegas, the casinos keep a close eye on any big spenders to make sure that they never lose too hevaily in one go and take them out for dinner or to the bar or anything to get them away from the machines to give freebies. Fully refreshed, they return to chip away further at the kids' college funds.

Gambling and football aren't that different economically. The reasons people pay to watch football are as irrational as the reasons people will play a game with an expected house edge. Even when the experience is negative, people will usually go back to both. If the cost of football rises or the casino edge is increased (**ahem, slots**) the same people still come back.

However, if you let a player go broke at the casino, he might leave and never come back. Similarly, if you keep pushing up prices for the football fan, evetually, he'll leave, his elastic demand snapped, and the domino effect on other fans could genuinely be greater than the chairmen in football realise.

 

[Stanbridge]

not necessarily, it depends on the relative price elasticities of supply and demand to determine at what price they set (assuming they're profit maximising). a sell out isn't necessarily the profit maximising equilibrium

I take your point, but price elasticities of demand are notoriously difficult to calculate in the real world. Also, in this case profit maximisation does not only depend on ticket sales revenue. Surely it is better to sell out at slightly lower prices due to the spin-off sales eg.food,drink,programmes,scarves and replica shirts ?

Also, there is the difficult to measure negative impact of poor PR, will the missing priced-out fans return to Loftus Road after the Billionaires have lost interest ?

 

[BLUEBLOOD]

I take your point, but price elasticities of demand are notoriously difficult to calculate in the real world. Also, in this case profit maximisation does not only depend on ticket sales revenue. Surely it is better to sell out at slightly lower prices due to the spin-off sales eg.food,drink,programmes,scarves and replica shirts ?

Also, there is the difficult to negative impact of poor PR, will the missing priced-out fans return to Loftus Road after the Billionaires have lost interest ?

Blimey, thats a bit deep for one of your mob Stanbridge

I thought you were all like that bloke who goes "yarp" from Hot Fuzz :D

 

[sufcalways]

£24 each for when we went there in the CCC. Just looked at the ticket I kept!