msc
Dennis Stamp
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Post by msc on May 22, 2022 13:13:48 GMT -5
Just to put the financial hit into perspective, without stating a single political opinion, person a few posts up got a ticket for £67. That ticket and transport to Cardiff and back alone (so no eating during the trip, no hotel, just sleep in the railway station till the train shows up and leave again) would cost this household about 2 weeks pay. Combined.
And that's spending none of it on the ever rising food bills, general bills, children, etc.
And we're in a considerably luckier position than quite a lot of people around here.
Unfeasible from a starting point, absolutely no chance with those prices.
This is rapidly becoming the biggest inflation crisis in the UK in over 40 years. We have grandmothers sitting on buses to keep warm, kids going hungry, and a fuel bill disaster which is only going to be immensely worse by time of this PPV.
People can't afford McMahon Prices like this.
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ssdrivin
ALF
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Post by ssdrivin on May 22, 2022 14:04:05 GMT -5
Looks like it's going to be fairly well packed out at this point, now we're at the general sales, there's not a massive amount of choice left on the seat maps as far as I can see. I'm happy with my £40 ticket, because it was "cheap" (compared to all the others), but I really don't think many price tiers above the one I got in at are reasonable. As I said in an earlier comment, even the ticket I have isn't very good for the price I paid, and that's the dirt cheapest ticket they had, right up in the arse end of the roof seats, but at least I could tolerate paying that price to be there, even if I should probably be getting a better seat for the same money. My excuse is it's an excuse to get out of the house, experience a huge event for the sake of being there, and perhaps have a social drink or two with fans hanging around the area. £40 isn't a massive price to pay to convince myself I should go there and do that, after the past two years of not doing any of that. But if the only accessible prices are the limited number of "cheap seats", that surely means that all of the rest of the overinflated prices are doubled or tripled to a level that most people can't afford, or certainly can't comfortably afford, leading to stress (especially in families) and having to deal with debt. That really sucks. It's fine having premium seats for people who can and will pay, it's fine having a select few special areas for the people who can pay for the very best, but the rest of the venue should be varying levels of accessible to normal everyday fans - you can't pack out a stadium with people who can afford thousands of pounds (without even considering accommodation or travel), especially in Wales of all places. I don't think it's reasonable, especially in the current financial climate, to force people to make those choices when those tickets could've been - and should've been - cheaper. I get you, it might be different if I lived on the mainland or could drive to it and back in one night, but having to get a flight, hotel and tickets at a dumbass price for me and my wife (would only go alone if i didn't have to do all these other things to get there). But aye, £40 for a nosebleed seat is different for footy or rubgy becuase they use all the pitch but £40 for that seat is still mental. But hey, if my situation was different and say this was at Croke park in Dublin, I might take the hit on it just to be there. Oh yeah, I get it, there's only a limited number of circumstances where I could see attending/travelling to the event being acceptable. Luckily it happens that I can manage it, but as I said in another comment or two, if you've got a family to bring with you, maybe a wife like yourself, perhaps a couple of kids, maybe you wanted to go with a couple of buddies or something instead, whatever it is, that's gonna add up real quick, especially if you've got a long train journey, ferries, planes, whatever it is between you and the venue. I saw a couple of people on Twitter looking like they're coming from mainland Europe, and power to 'em, but I don't know if I'd be making that trip. All that travel, accommodation, tickets, food and drink, probably other events/checking out places around Cardiff to make a weekend of it... I don't disagree though, my ticket should've been half the price it was, and so should all the others. As some others have said, the tickets may not be the bulk of the costs overall - although for the prices of some of those tickets, they very well might be - so there's more to it than WWE/Ticketmaster's part in all this, but the tickets being expensive just because is kind of a kick in the balls.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jul 27, 2022 10:37:09 GMT -5
Update on ticket sales that I missed last week. According to WrestleTix, they’ve already sold over 60,000 tickets to this show.
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