Leinster season ticket rip-off

Clash

For those of you thinking of investing in Leinster Season tickets this year, think again.

Existing Season ticket holders were given the special 'privilege' of booking their season tickets in advance and discovered to their horror that ticket prices have gone up by as much as 75% on last year.

That's right folks 75%

This is Leinster by the way, the perennial underachievers in professional rugby obviously are only in it for the money now.

RuggieBear

just paid 224 for mine compared to 150 last year.

it sucks but i'm not going to not get one:(

damnyanks

Ignorance here, but are there limitations on the season ticket. I'm assumign it doesnt get you in for the big games?

Clash

RuggieBear wrote:

just paid 224 for mine compared to 150 last year.

it sucks but i'm not going to not get one:(

OK Ruggie, That's 50% more and €74 extra. But think of the increase on the Family ticket from €480 to €839!

That's an extra €359, or to put it another way would have got you both a Family Gold and Family Silver last year.

It's not as though we're getting anything extra either. We were in the RDS two years ago, for €440 (Family Gold) and last season we got five matches in Lansdowne Road for our €480.

There's absolutely no justification for it either. The increases vary wildly between 3% and 75%, so it can't be contended that it's to pay for the accommodation in the RDS.

It's just a rip-off, and a real slap in the face to the best supporters in the Magners League.

RuggieBear

damnyanks wrote:

Ignorance here, but are there limitations on the season ticket. I'm assumign it doesnt get you in for the big games?

Access to all home games in the Magners League
• Access to home pool matches in the Heineken Cup
• Priority purchase for away match tickets where available
• Priority purchase for any potential home knock out matches in the Heineken Cup or Magners League where available
• Access to home Leinster “A” matches
• Entry into draw for right to buy home international match tickets
• Exclusive membership Leinster DVD
• Priority purchase for season tickets, 2008/'09
• Access to members’ events
• Avail of discount club reductions
• Access to exclusive bar in RDS reserved for Leinster members
• Access to Leinster Rugby T.V.
• Receive the Leinster Lowdown E-zine
• Receive free Leinster text alerts direct to your mobile phone
• Receive the Leinster team release before each game
• 2007/'08 Squad Poster

RuggieBear

Clash wrote:

It's just a rip-off, and a real slap in the face to the best supporters in the Magners League.

Well that would be Ulster!

yep...The family prices are a total joke. it's expensive enough having children. How are they to encourage parents to bring young fans with prices like that.

i really object to ticketmaster and being gouged 30 euro between myself and the girlie as we have no cheque books.

Clash

RuggieBear wrote:

Well that would be Ulster!

yep...The family prices are a total joke. it's expensive enough having children. How are they to encourage parents to bring young fans with prices like that.

i really object to ticketmaster and being gouged 30 euro between myself and the girlie as we have no cheque books.

Well, I've not received any details about where to send the cheque yet, so I've spend nothing so far, but I really am pissed about this, I've emailed Newstalk, Thornley and have a few more to send out tonight.

I'm not letting this go.

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Kind of ironic isn't it?

That's my arse in the striped pyjamas!

wingnut

Cost €135 for student season ticket to the Ospreys - fantastic stadium covers ML, HC and Anglo Welsh cup.

Clash

Rugby World magazine are going to publish my email to them and are looking for a response from Leinster!

irlrobins

Yeah was thinking of getting one myself this year but it seems a bit more expensive than I thought. I guess the increase is due to it mainly being a mostly all seated affair.

Any idea what the normal entrance fee will be? Presumably higher than the 15e this season?

psicic

I do feel like we've been kind of bitch-slapped by the Branch - not even a free gift of any worth this year.... it didn't stop me ordering my tickets, but it's hard to understand and accept a price increase like this without a clear explaination from the Branch as to why the increases are there and what we're getting for our cash(not just wild fan speculation - we can all kinda of guess what their reasoning is).

In fact, the thing that caused me most concern was that they were using ticket-master with their feckin' huge fees.

buck65

Where are ye next year the RDS?

I bought the 10 year Munster ticket for €5000 thought it was pricey but the way things are going it could be worth it, especially in Munster where Heinken Cup tickets are extremely rare, pity have to wait til 2008 to use it.

RuggieBear

irlrobins wrote:

Any idea what the normal entrance fee will be? Presumably higher than the 15e this season?

i'm assuming 20 euro at least

Marshy

Clash wrote:

It's just a rip-off, and a real slap in the face to the best supporters in the Magners League.

Come on now, we're not in the humour forum here :eek:

Diamondmaker

Have not followed my link yet and I have always had 2 tickets since it began, I think 150 ea, Now there was no indication of this in the email which is very underhanded and this is a shocking increase !

You would at lkeast expect a reason for this such as outlining the costs due to redevelop or for whaterevr reason this hike is.

Thats a real pisser!:mad:

25% increase plus the devils Ticketmasters cut of a tenner each! 210 for the basic bronze ones.

Site wont let me order though and the phone engaged!

Ok sorted now!

What stopping us buying the Junior ones I wonder? Same offer AND access to the bar! ( junior ?! )

RuggieBear

I can see the Headlines....

Leinster promote under age drinking!:D


nothing new there then if one can remember back a few seasons when a couple of young ones at a match had to have their stomachs pumped

Diamondmaker

RuggieBear wrote:

I can see the Headlines....

Leinster promote under age drinking!:D


nothing new there then if one can remember back a few seasons when a couple of young ones at a match had to have their stomachs pumped

juniors going to the cups matches or the discos in DB would never drink!:eek:

justsomebloke

I have to say the price increase is probably down to the fact that they can charge more. I got my first season ticket in the 2003/2004 season, when their was slightly less space in the stadium and the only matches where you would even get next to full capacity was the ulster and munster matches. Now last season even at the small matches they where getting massive crowds with most of the them being season tickets holders.
Now the question is why where the tickets so cheap until now and it is because they wanted to build up there base level of support, which they seem to have accomplished. Also now they are not using donnybrook chances are that the cost of the stadium is going to be more expensive so they will have to increase the ticket price to cover there extra expenditure.
However I am actually pissed off at the fact they used ticket master to sell teh things meaning that at a minimum you had to spend at least €11 on a fecking service charge

Snickers Man

Clash wrote:

OK Ruggie, That's 50% more and €74 extra. But think of the increase on the Family ticket from €480 to €839!

Shiiittt!!!

That's a bite to the head.I wasn't a season ticket holder last year. have been in the past, so I can't buy mine yet. Until you incumbents have all had your wicked ways.

Do they do a "father and son" deal, or is the only family ticket a four-person affair?

Only one of mine is interested in coming along so I don't fancy shelling out for four, two of which I will never use.

Especially at those prices.

cgarvey

Clash wrote:

This is Leinster by the way, the perennial underachievers in professional rugby obviously are only in it for the money now.

I'm in awe of your support and dedication

cgarvey

RuggieBear wrote:

just paid 224 for mine compared to 150 last year.

In fairness, it's widely recognised that last season's 150 was a reduced price. Also, the 224 includes a service fee which you didn't have to pay, and is for unreserved seating, not terrace standing. So it's not quite like with like.

Clash had a point on LeinsterFans re the family ticket, but lost the plot somewhere along the way.

cgarvey

jsb wrote:

However I am actually pissed off at the fact they used ticket master to sell teh things meaning that at a minimum you had to spend at least €11 on a fecking service charge

You didn't have to spend it at all, you had the option of sending in a cheque/draft/postal order to avoid the service charge. Much and all as I hate TM, their system will be a huge improvement on the in-house ticketing that the branch had delivered up until now.

RuggieBear

cgarvey wrote:

In fairness, it's widely recognised that last season's 150 was a reduced price. Also, the 224 includes a service fee which you didn't have to pay, .

I have no cheque book...i had no choice. Drafts/postal orders cost money too...even if i could get to a post office or bank

cgarvey

RuggieBear wrote:

I have no cheque book...i had no choice. Drafts/postal orders cost money too...even if i could get to a post office or bank

That's your lookout, and I'm sure the hassle isn't worth the 15 quid savings to many people. Fact is your comparison is invalid, and not just for the 1 of 3 points I made that you chose to quote.

RuggieBear

imo the comparision is very valid.
1. The price still went up...reduced price or not, the price went up
2. The terrace in the RDS is a joke. you can't see half the pitch with a gazebo in the way. the unreserved seating was the next cheapest option (10 euro more) to get a view of the whole pitch.
3. As already posted I had no option but to pay with credit card. I'd have preferred to pay cash.

uberwolf

well I picked up 3 gold tickets, and got some shock when a 4 figure bill popped up...

after 2 years of attending for free it's something I can deal with.

RuggieBear

uberwolf wrote:

well I picked up 3 gold tickets, and got some shock when a 4 figure bill popped up...

after 2 years of attending for free it's something I can deal with.

bloody corporate!

stepbar

RuggieBear wrote:

I have no cheque book...i had no choice. Drafts/postal orders cost money too...even if i could get to a post office or bank

Dude, €30 vs €2.50 come on!!

uberwolf

RuggieBear wrote:

bloody corporate!

not anymore, and you got a few beers out of it!

that was my 4000th post btw!

RuggieBear

Dude, €30 vs €2.50 come on!!

only options were cheque or credit card so the point is moot.

I never said i couldn't be bought uberwolf...

stepbar

I doubt Leinster would refuse a BOI draft (bank chq) in fairness

RuggieBear

actually it was supposed to be made payable to ticketmaster....reckon they would refuse my cash tho..:D

Anyway if they took other forms of payment they should have said so.

EDIT:Actually, i'm wrong when one clicks on to pay by cheque, on the next page it gives you the option to pay by bank draft postal order.

stepbar

It would look fierce bad on Leinster and BOI if Leinster wouldnt take BOI drafts TBH

cgarvey

RuggieBear wrote:

imo the comparision is very valid.
1. The price still went up...reduced price or not, the price went up
2. The terrace in the RDS is a joke. you can't see half the pitch with a gazebo in the way. the unreserved seating was the next cheapest option (10 euro more) to get a view of the whole pitch.
3. As already posted I had no option but to pay with credit card. I'd have preferred to pay cash.

1. Your ticket price went down. Clash has a point about the family prices that went up, but you couldn't be more wrong about your own ticket. Last year, an uncovered unreserved stand ticket cost 240. This year it costs 224 (including service charge, less if you pay by cheque). There is no other valid comparison.

2. Your personal preference of terrace in RDS vs Donnybrook is irrelevant in the context of this debate. You chose to change tier. It's like saying I don't want a Hill 16 ticket in Croke Park because the net behind the goals obstruct my view, but the thieves are now charging me more to get a Hogan Stand ticket.

3. You had the option of paying by cheque and avoiding the service charge. The fact that you can't be bothered finding someone with a chequebook (or getting one yourself), or that you deemed it not worth the hassle to save 15 quid, is entirely up to you, but the option was there. I deemed it not to be worth the hassle (and I have a chequebook), but the option was there.

RuggieBear wrote:

EDIT:Actually, i'm wrong when one clicks on to pay by cheque, on the next page it gives you the option to pay by bank draft postal order.

In fairness that's not clear from the emails, etc.

RuggieBear wrote:

Well that would be Ulster!

The attendance figures say otherwise!

RuggieBear

we'll just have to disagree.:)

Ah...but the ulster guys will claim it was their 15000 fans down for the last stand that bumped up the leinster figures.

Anyway..still better than munster...no matter what dave wants to say about a two city team.