KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum FANS MOANING about price hike

Your making the assumption that there isn't another fan to take your place - but there are plenty. As I mentioned in another thread last week, the club doesn't give a fig about 'you' - as long as 'someone' is sat on their overpriced seats in their derelict ground, they're happy.

Stan, it all depends on the demand (waiting list) and the supply (existing season ticket not renewing because of the increase). If the number of seats increased in price is less than true waitlisters then it would be a good marketing/business decision and if every additional penny is invested in the club, would be also a good footballing decision. If not, LFC and FSG for that matter will be in [oops]. To be followed

People often mention the season ticket waiting list, as I understand it you simply put your name forward with no financial commitment when they day finally comes around you get to the front of the list and they say yeah that'll be £800 quid mate I don't believe many will take the opportunity - How long is the waiting list now? People may have signed up for it before all this global financial meltdown when they could afford it as they were being paid decent wages, the landscape has changed and the prices still rise.

I meant no disrespect to anyone, a a matter of fact I agree with Stanley, what the owners are doing is wrong. I am not taking pot shots at anyone, I just felt that this was a perfect example to prove a point I was trying to make earlier on in the month on another thread.

As far as Stanley' point about FSG replacing the existing fanbase with perhaps less loyal fans, I agree but the fact is, at the moment they can do that and turn a profit for the next couple of years, and when it gets to the point that they are no longer profitable, they will sell. Perhaps new owners might take a different approach but at the moment, what FSG is doing, is obviously making them money, which means they don't are whether it's local fans or and from far away at the matches. This could cause big problems for LFC in the future, and as I said, I am 100% against it, but at the moment they are capable of replacing the season ticket holders who will no longer attend at increases prices.

I would also just like to say that whilst you might feel I am taking pot shots at Faz and Stanley, I am not...I am expressing my view and am ready to change my view if other posters can express valid arguments that show to the contrary. I have no intention of having a go at anybody.

I'm not saying I agree with the price hikes as they are way too much but would you be happy if the prices fell and then we didn't have the turn over to compete even at the mid table level we're at now?

As much as they're ripping us all off, it's just life now that prices will always go up and never come down. We see it every day with fuel prices. As soon as oil goes up you notice it at the pumps. When it falls [oops] all happens at the pumps.

I think that soon enough people, myself included, will be priced out of being able to go out on a liesure trip, heat the house, have nice food or even to get to work.

Also, I guess the only way we will be able to tell is during next season when we see whether Anfield is still full. Stanley, you say that because you are gonna share a ticket now the club will receive 100% less money from you, but the fact is they will receive the same amount, just not from you. You And your friend will still only occupy one seat and someone else will pay for te other seat. At the end of the day they will still sell all the tickets.

Wakka I just want to add that I also find it quite strange and perhaps unfair that you should say this whilst you where nowhere to be seen when Coolflames was having a go at OOT's. Several posters in here took offense, yet now you say this when I make a completely valid point! Yes we are all reds and we are all against the price increase but that doesn't mean I can't have a different point of view.

This not locals vs OOTers or match going v non match goers , this is to do with FSG ripping the fans off , its the whole fabric if the club and what the club means , ok £52 ETC to watch a concert or things like that , they are one offs not twice it even three times a week , this is an unfair and wrong price hike , and fleecing one section of the stadium is unfair and unjust and every red should back this and back fellow reds on this , this price hike will not do anything for transfers its just ripping off and testing loyalty of reds everywhere .

But it's YOUR CHOICE to go and watch, or not. Food prices, taxes, fuel etc are all essentials but they don't go down in price. So why should tickets for something that you choose to do as a hobby be any different?

Carheex i have been going the match since I was. 7 with my dad, grandad, uncle and my brother its not just football its part of my life abstain the club are pricing me out , i can't believe some can't see this , its an unfair price hike ok we expect s pro-rata raise but the is an unfair hike