Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:51 am  

This deal to bring a mate for todays game for £11 is a load of tosh.
A mate of mine as just rung saying he will come to game as it is only £11 he last saw them a few years back. But I have just checked and you had to apply for this offer before th 12th of March so you can't just turn up with a mate and pay on the gate.

Lost money and maybe some armchair fans again, I think for Wakefield.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:56 am  

Disney cat wrote: This deal to bring a mate for todays game for £11 is a load of tosh. A mate of mine as just rung saying he will come to game as it is only £11 he last saw them a few years back. But I have just checked and you had to apply for this offer before th 12th of March so you can't just turn up with a mate and pay on the gate. Lost money and maybe some armchair fans again, I think for Wakefield. Why, it clearly states you have to pre-purchase your ticket, if everyone just walked in for £11 how would that benifit the club. http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/tack ... 05237.html http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397677

Disney cat wrote: This deal to bring a mate for todays game for £11 is a load of tosh. A mate of mine as just rung saying he will come to game as it is only £11 he last saw them a few years back. But I have just checked and you had to apply for this offer before th 12th of March so you can't just turn up with a mate and pay on the gate. Lost money and maybe some armchair fans again, I think for Wakefield. Why, it clearly states you have to pre-purchase your ticket, if everyone just walked in for £11 how would that benifit the club. http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/tack ... 05237.html http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397677

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:09 am  

BIGAL1 wrote: Why, it clearly states you have to pre-purchase your ticket, if everyone just walked in for £11 how would that benifit the club. http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/tack ... 05237.html http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397677 Thats fine BIGAL1 But for those fan's undecided what to do. £11 OR £18. Getting a few more intrested people in @ £11 must be better than getting a couple in @£18.

BIGAL1 wrote: Why, it clearly states you have to pre-purchase your ticket, if everyone just walked in for £11 how would that benifit the club. http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/tack ... 05237.html http://forums.rlfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=397677 Thats fine BIGAL1 But for those fan's undecided what to do. £11 OR £18. Getting a few more intrested people in @ £11 must be better than getting a couple in @£18.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:18 am  

Disney cat wrote:

Thats fine BIGAL1

But for those fan's undecided what to do.

£11 OR £18. Getting a few more intrested people in @ £11 must be better than getting a couple in @£18.

The logistics of having such an offer on the gate would make it near on impossible to organise and would cause chaos at the turnstyles. It was a decent offer advertised over about three weeks so there was fair notice for people to take advantage, the club can't cater for every fans spur of the moment decisions, and no other club that has similar offers allows them to be used in a walk up fashion.

Seems like whatever the club does to promote itself there will always be someone who can find fault with it

BTW, if your mate last came some years ago and he's only prepared to come today on the cheap then it's unlikely that he will come again having to pay full price so it's no big loss is it really.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:18 am  

Disney cat wrote:

This deal to bring a mate for todays game for £11 is a load of tosh.
A mate of mine as just rung saying he will come to game as it is only £11 he last saw them a few years back. But I have just checked and you had to apply for this offer before th 12th of March so you can't just turn up with a mate and pay on the gate.

Lost money and maybe some armchair fans again, I think for Wakefield.

What is wrong with some people, honest to god it clearly states the terms of the deal on the promotional letter. That is the deal end of, it's clearly the deal the club wanted to offer - get a grip.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:21 am  

Catnap wrote:

The logistics of having such an offer on the gate would make it near on impossible to organise and would cause chaos at the turnstyles. It was a decent offer advertised over about three weeks so there was fair notice for people to take advantage, the club can't cater for every fans spur of the moment decisions, and no other club that has similar offers allows them to be used in a walk up fashion.

Seems like whatever the club does to promote itself there will always be someone who can find fault with it

BTW, if your mate last came some years ago and he's only prepared to come today on the cheap then it's unlikely that he will come again having to pay full price so it's no big loss is it really.

Spot on, this is why I'm glad we don't do a lot of freebise and cheap deal, it just attract freeloaders who have no intention of ever paying the propper rate. No loss at all - and I for one am not happy to subsidies these people. You pay the going rate in my book, nothing more nothing less.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:30 am  

vastman wrote:

Spot on, this is why I'm glad we don't do a lot of freebise and cheap deal, it just attract freeloaders who have no intention of ever paying the propper rate. No loss at all - and I for one am not happy to subsidies these people. You pay the going rate in my book, nothing more nothing less.

What some don't seem to realise is that rather than being an earner for the club, an offer like this is just as likely to lose them money, if there are say four mates that go to home games together regularly and two are s/t holders and two are not then all that is going to happen is that the two with s/t's are going to get their mates cheap tickets, the only incentive for the club on offers like this is to get more people in the ground and make the attendance look good for a game which historically has a poor attendance.

But as the saying goes 'you can't educate pork'

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:32 am  

Disney cat wrote:

Thats fine BIGAL1

But for those fan's undecided what to do.

£11 OR £18. Getting a few more intrested people in @ £11 must be better than getting a couple in @£18.

I wanted to pick up two tickets for friends but could not make it to the shop in time so i understand what you are saying, i just don't know how the could have done it any other way.

TBH they could have reduced the gate fee today even though i would lose out as a S/T holder.

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:40 am  

BIGAL1 wrote:

I wanted to pick up two tickets for friends but could not make it to the shop in time so i understand what you are saying, i just don't know how the could have done it any other way.

TBH they could have reduced the gate fee today even though i would lose out as a S/T holder.

maybe put two vouchers into the season tickets giving them entry for a discounted rate, then they could choose the game that they would like to watch

Re: Ar5e about promotion by Wakefield : Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:43 am  

BIGAL1 wrote:

I wanted to pick up two tickets for friends but could not make it to the shop in time so i understand what you are saying, i just don't know how the could have done it any other way.

TBH they could have reduced the gate fee today even though i would lose out as a S/T holder.

If they'd have reduced it to £11 as the offer was then for every regular fan that came and got the reduction they would have had to get a newbie to come to balance the books so to speak. don't know how many we have paying on the gates but it must be the majority so the club could have been looking at needing in the region of 8k attendance to stand still, not realistic IMO, and as we keep hearing that we've got no brass there's no point in losing it for an offer that reallistically isn't good enough to attract the non committed in great numbers.