Dear Mr. McNally

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

I know you have priced my season ticket renewal at £865- but I would like to offer you £500. Will you sell it to me at that price?

No? Well how about £500 plus another 100 if we o on to win another three EPL games?

No? Well how about £550 plus another £150 if we are playing in the EPL next season?

No, well how about I wait to the deadline to test your resolve, accepting I might end up paying more or lose out altogether.

Get it?!

[Mister Chops 7]

Not really.  Your season ticket can''t leave on a free at the end of the season when you could get it for nothing.

[Constable officer 0]

Maybe it''s about time we end his cutthroat reign on terror regarding our tickets? Perhaps we should let him know what we thank? Pitch invasion protest anybody? It doesnt sound half as wacky as you might think.

[PurpleCanary 6,381]

[quote user="RUDOLPH HUCKER"]I know you have priced my season ticket renewal at £865- but I would like to offer you £500. Will you sell it to me at that price? No? Well how about £500 plus another 100 if we o on to win another three EPL games? No? Well how about £550 plus another £150 if we are playing in the EPL next season? No, well how about I wait to the deadline to test your resolve, accepting I might end up paying more or lose out altogether. Get it?![/quote]

 

Dear Rudolph,


Thank you for the interesting idea. What puts you in a weaker bargaining position that you might have hoped for is that I have 1,800 people on the waiting list who are all willing to sell their entire extended families into slavery for the chance to take your place.


Have a nice day!


Yours in fleecing the customers until they realise it, and then go on fleecing them because they can do sod all about it,


David.

[JF 694]

I think I may head down to the local Ferrari dealership this weekend and offer them ford focus prices!

[Mr Brownstone 0]

I like your Ferrari/Ford Focus analogy.

I''ll turn it around though. It''s well known that I need a new car, I went into the Ford dealership (*1) to buy a Focus (*2), but as they''d heard about my needing a car situation they are trying to charge me Ferrari prices (*3).

Should I show some "ambition" and pay Ferrari prices for a Ford Focus? The issue of whether I can actually afford a Ferrari is another matter entirely.

*1 Celtic

*2 Hooper

*3 £8m

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

On that basis Mr. Brownstone: there is apparently a 1800 season ticket waiting list and new ticket holders will pay a higher price to acquire a season ticket like your analogy but it also seems to work for supporters desperate to hang onto the one they have ie we pay top prices for something we want. Infact, the Club expects us to.

 

But will they?

[Mr Brownstone 0]

We have a choice, as do you the club. If we can''t afford it, or we feel we are being held to ransom, then we don''t have to renew. I still happen to feel my season ticket provides value for money.

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

But I wouldn''t say I''ll be renewing unless I know I can really afford to.

[Mr Brownstone 0]

Your analogy doesn''t work. Your season ticket has a fixed published price, all transfer fees are negotiated.

[Alan_Grey 0]

If the season ticket likes the look of your comfy, fur-lined pocket, it can''t force Mr McNally to push through the sale to you at a lower price by threatening to accidentally fall out of his pocket down the drain.

It is a god awful analogy. Most are.

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

I thought a price was put on Van Wolfswinkle?

 

Usually a negotiation is between an asking and an offer price isn''t it? One party knows they have to pay more the other knows they have to accept less?

 

The thread is about the Club asking fans to make a leap and pay an increase 4 x inflation with no guarantee of where we will play next season whereas they are publically confirming offers for players with the usual undercurrent that we will not pay the going rates.

[Rudolph Hucker 0]

The season ticket appears to have four interested owners.

 

 

[JF 694]

You can choose to pay it or not mr brownstone but you''re gonna be f----d without a new car!

[Mr Brownstone 0]

Firstly, the club aren''t leaking details of these offers, it''s not in their interests. Secondly they''ve not said they''re not prepared to pay the going rates, they won''t be ripped off though and quite rightly so.

[Mello Yello 2,572]

Dear CE......of NCFC,

 

If I voluntarily relinquish, or abstein receipt of my complementary programme, including the half-time liquid refreshment and biccies (if there''s any left, after those regular lounge locusts and biscuit bandits have swarmed, and then proceeded to guffaw, snort and squeal - as they ''yom, yom, chomp and slurp'' around the undersized lounge)....

 

Can I please then be reimbursed the tidy sum of 19 x £3.50 proggy money and 19 x £2.00 (rough guesstimate, for cup o'' molten liquid and cookie crumbs).....(Oh, I''ll return my superfluous plastic pew padding for nowt).....and, I''ll ignore the muted big telly on the wall....

 

That''ll reduce the cost of my season ticket, without those unnecessary perks, by  £104.50......£865.00 minus £104.50 = £760.50.....

 

£760.50 minus the £19.00 optional Academy contribution, is then an acceptable total of £741.50 for my season ticket....

 

How''s about that then?......And by the way, the lounge toilets are too small....

 

[Thirsty Lizard 3,215]

All I can say to your post Rudolph is that I wake up every morning and thank god that David McNally is in charge of our club and not people like you.

Here''s a (hypothetical) conversation between a hypothetical CE of NCFC and Ken Bates taking place about 18 months ago.

Hypothetical CE of NCFC: "We''d like to buy Robert Snodgrass please - how much is the going rate?"

Ken Bates: "8 million pounds."

Hypothetical CE of NCFC: "That sounds a bit steep - are you sure that''s the going rate?"

Ken Bates: "Oh yes!"

Hypothetical CE of NCFC: "Okay then if that''s the going rate we''ll pay it. Here''s your 8 million pounds Mr Bates."