Aidan11 wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:Aidan11 wrote:Albondiga wrote:I think that prices to major sporting events are as much as they are because people buy them anyway. One day you would hope that people will understand that 20000 ticket sales at £20 each is better business than 5000 ticket sales at £50 each ................................ or have we got to wait until it happens?
Hopefully the drop in attendances this summer has alerted the ECB to the fact they can't go on like this. They have all those millions in the bank, it's time they gave something back to the paying public - reduced prices.
no chance Aiden.
if anything the drop in Attendances is bigger this season.
The prices are charged as high as they are to try and make a profit after the ludicrous bidding process.
That has changed now although I think 2020 is the year ECB allocation begins. Maybe then we will see something more reasonable.
yeah hopefully the counties set the prices.
guessing if they did it would probably be 10 pounds more than they set t20 blast tickets.
been to a couple of T20 blast games this season and been impressed with the ticket prices and what they been doing to attract people into the game, you get the impression the counties are more in line to what the crowd wants and how to get the most crowd, thinking of going to some one day games as well although do think the 4 day game tickets are expensive but then again the member tickets and season tickets are good priced so can't really complain about that, haven't actually been to a domestic game since 2009 when I saw middlesex in Chelmsford.
Where as I feel ECB are getting too complacent and assuming people would still pay and watch cricket.
Nice to see people voting with their feet although the signs have been their since 2012, but ECB had to organise 3 money making years to pay for the Stamford scandal can't believe people actually brought all the world cup crap lol, they didn't have the double ashes for the World cup lol they had it because ECB needed the money.
they had 4 money making series in 5 years.
Do remember most people saying after the disastrous winter ashes to wait for this particular season and saying crowd might not be great since Sri lanka and pakistan would be a hard sell especially if the prices are still high.
Next year might also be a tough sell since I doubt SA would get many supporters if pakistan was a tough sell.
WI will be empty as well.