Membership dept is Crap!

Have anyone ever thought that the higher tcketing prices are a result of the obscenely high payments players are demanding to play NRL? Just one example is the $600,000 a season demanded by Michael Jennings.
It also brings up the question as to just what is the NRL doing with the money they are making from TV and radio rights and other cash cows from the game. The NRL forgets that this game began as the working man's game. Horse and greyhound tracks today manage only a very small percentage of crodsa comapred to what they attracted years ago. The NRL must realise that Foxtel is a double edged sword which may result in the same outcome.
 
@innsaneink said:
They couldnt justify this crap even if we'd won the comp…the product is the same next year as it is this year...games of footy
What are they gunna do, keep screwing everyone like the OP until theres nothing but gold members?
Wasnt that long ago c/course in front of LR stand was GA
Rort rort rort
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Actually the justification would be a simple case of economics. Demand is increasing for reserved seating, supply is limited, therefore they have to increase the supply of the Gold Seating (which means a rise in price) to meet demand and maintain relatively steady prices for the Gold memberships. It also has to do with the seating at SFS and Campbelltown, and trying to meet demand there in conjunction with the seating at Leichhardt.

If you think it's a rort, the answer is simple, don't purchase it. Or would that not give you something else to whinge about?
 
LMFAO!!!!

therefore they have to increase the supply of the Gold Seating

Theyre NOT gold seats though

Theye were 6 or 7 short years ago GA…...theyre the same seats in the same spot, just with a new exorbitant price

Some are parallel to the dead ball line.....$45 to sit in the corner behind the dead ball line

Theres a sucker born every minute
 
@Benjirific said:
@innsaneink said:
They couldnt justify this crap even if we'd won the comp…the product is the same next year as it is this year...games of footy
What are they gunna do, keep screwing everyone like the OP until theres nothing but gold members?
Wasnt that long ago c/course in front of LR stand was GA
Rort rort rort

Actually the justification would be a simple case of economics. Demand is increasing for reserved seating, supply is limited, therefore they have to increase the supply of the Gold Seating (which means a rise in price) to meet demand and maintain relatively steady prices for the Gold memberships. It also has to do with the seating at SFS and Campbelltown, and trying to meet demand there in conjunction with the seating at Leichhardt.

If you think it's a rort, the answer is simple, don't purchase it. Or would that not give you something else to whinge about?
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Your simple case of economics is flawed. There was a huge demand for tickets at the Olympics and using simple ecomomics the Olympics people, because of this demand and the limited number of seats could have chagred many thousands of dollars for seats and sold them without any trouble. But the Olympics is not for the elite high society and leaders if industry who could afford such extravagant amounts. The Olympics, just like Rugby League, are for everybody. Hence the tickets were sold on a ballot system and the Olympics still more than covered their expenses through the money made through the TV and associated media. Rugby League today more than ever before is benefitting with money from TV and associated media. Should not they use this money to ease the costs of families who look forward to watching a game of footbal at the ground it is being played?
 
The Olympics got more in sponsorship dollars from Coca Cola then the NRL generates in a season so not really an apt comparrisson
 
I am fuming at this…. Silver seats turned into gold overnight

Can't believe they would do it. Love our seats at Lo and cambo, but sorry humpty they ain't worth another 600 bucks...
 
@Tigermac said:
I am fuming at this…. Silver seats turned into gold overnight

Can't believe they would do it. Love our seats at Lo and cambo, but sorry humpty they ain't worth another 600 bucks...
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That is an insult especially to the struggling families doing it tough . They don't realise that the footy is the escape from the struggle life for most families, the one thing that they look forward to (going to the footy) .
That is the result from a season of missing out on the 8 , the extra revenue it would of created but it's o.k let the fans pay for the players bad form. :imp:
 
@Tigermac said:
I am fuming at this…. Silver seats turned into gold overnight

Can't believe they would do it. Love our seats at Lo and cambo, but sorry humpty they ain't worth another 600 bucks...
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That is an insult especially to the struggling families doing it tough . They don't realise that the footy is the escape from the struggle life for most families, the one thing that they look forward to (going to the footy) .
That is the result from a season of missing out on the 8 , the extra revenue it would of created but it's o.k let the fans pay for the players bad form.
 
That is an insult especially to the struggling families doing it tough. They don't realise that the footy is the escape from the struggle life for most families , the one thing that they look forward to (going to the footy) .
That is the result form a season of missing out on the 8 , the extra revenue it would of created but it's o.k let the fans pay for the players bad form.
 
@smeghead said:
The Olympics got more in sponsorship dollars from Coca Cola then the NRL generates in a season so not really an apt comparrisson
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When you take into account that the Olympics budget is thousands of times bigger than the NRL the ratio of Coca Cola sponsorship dollars to the Olympics budget would be in the same ballpark as the ratio of what the NRL budget receives from TV/radio rights.
 
@foreveratiger said:
That is an insult especially to the struggling families doing it tough. They don't realise that the footy is the escape from the struggle life for most families , the one thing that they look forward to (going to the footy) .
That is the result form a season of missing out on the 8 , the extra revenue it would of created but it's o.k let the fans pay for the players bad form.
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So true….Love the wests tigers to death, and even after the debacle of the last few months,I knew I would always
re-new our 5 memberships, but not at those gold prices, forget it.

GA now for all of us......
 
@innsaneink said:
LMFAO!!!!

therefore they have to increase the supply of the Gold Seating

Theyre NOT gold seats though

Theye were 6 or 7 short years ago GA…...theyre the same seats in the same spot, just with a new exorbitant price

Some are parallel to the dead ball line.....$45 to sit in the corner behind the dead ball line

Theres a sucker born every minute
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Our seats that they are taking of us were on the 10m line they are now gold seats , the new seats if i renew are on halfway on the hill side but are silver ,the reason they gave me for this is the old seats are closer to amenities and shops , therefore they are classed as gold seating , my response thats fine if they are a now a gold seating area , but as a long time renewing member i should be able to keep my silver seat in this gold bay .
There answer "sorry sir if you want to stay there then you need to be a gold member

Rort, rort, rort
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I have posted this previously, but now that the seating map of LO has been posted you can follow along at home with what happened to our membership.

We had seats in Bay 3 for 6 years.
Suddenly we were moved to Bay 11, front row. Same price.
We were told there was a system issue (this after my wife being told "clearly you did something wrong" and "Sorry, there is nothing we can do") after emailing Humphries directly.
We were moved to Bay 1\. same price.
We were also told sorry, you won't be getting your old seats back.

Bay 1 is not worth the same price as Bay 3\. We won't be paying for it.

I tried to renew our memberships online at a lower level. The system still doesn't recognise us.
I was thinking of giving up on it. Then yesterday Benji Marshall left a message on my mobile. And my work phone. And my wife's phone.
Now I'm absolutely sure I'm not renewing.
 
In terms of the supply/demand argument - did the silver seating for members even sell out this year? We have seats in bay 10 and at each match had plenty of new faces and some opposition supporters sitting around us. I assumed it meant there were a fair few seats still available to the general public, so it's a bit surprising to see the whole section upgraded to gold.
 
Yes I've found the membership department to be be rigid and 'textbook' like… They seem to be doing a good job as numbers have been increasing over the pasta few years. I suppose they're only taking the Humphries approach of 'everyone wants to be at Leichhardt oval games' (before last shears Sharks game he threatened it may be a realitity one day that only members set to attend LO games...).

One positive that I found with the membership, department was that they produced a decent hat last year (2010 was like a Hi-Vis hat you see one the workplace-Ugly,).
Vote with your pocket pal!
 
@Blackandwhite said:
@shadow said:
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Hey Shadow…..Found that extra $500 yet ? Don't want to miss out !
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I have had to conceed defeat , its either move or pay the extra , i tried all the loyalty thing even quoting the terms and conditions hasnt helped .

I think we are going to stay silver and move , we will try it for 2013 if we mot happy with our seats then we wont renew for 2013

I tell you what if i ran my business with the same attitude that members dept have , i would go broke !
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@shadow said:
I think we are going to stay silver and move , we will try it for 2013 if we mot happy with our seats then we wont renew for 2013
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Wests Tigers 2013 Membership target figure is 12,000

2011 total was 9,154
http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showpost.php?p=8116270&postcount=1397

2012 was 10,248
http://www.talkingfooty.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3043
 
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