We heard in late August that weeks 1-3 finals prices were frozen.
If you check the price chart this appears to be true. All categories of seating are the same price as last year.
However the AFL have sneakily moved seats between categories at the MCG, for example your seat in M13 open that was category 3 is now magically category 1. So that same seat has gone from $76 to $93, a rise of over 20%, not exactly a price freeze!
Many other M level sections have also been bumped into a higher category. All of N level is now category 1 instead of a mix of 1 and 2. All of P level is now category 2 instead of a mix of 3 and 4. They have tweaked Q level moving some Olympic Stand seats down a category and some Southern Stand seats up a category. The only clear win appears to be the undercover level 1 Ponsford seats up the back which have gone down a category. Overall there has been a clear price rise, yet we were told they are frozen?
Compare the 2 seating charts below.
Have footy fans been deliberately misled?
Week 2 Note: For the Cats/Eagles semi they haven't even released level 4 for sale yet (Tuesday lunch time), forcing members to buy the more expensive seats during the member sale period on Monday and then the public after that. Presumably they will open level 4 up at some point, maybe as a General Admission area on the night at the cheapest price, but why aren't they publicising this properly? Are they trying to trick fans into paying more than they need to? They have however thrown supporters a bone by releasing an extra bay of cheap category 7 seats each side of the cheersquads for this game, you can see this on the Ticketek website.
AFL freezes ticket prices for first three weeks of finals
Grand Final to cost more this year but earlier finals prices to stay the same
www.afl.com.au
If you check the price chart this appears to be true. All categories of seating are the same price as last year.
However the AFL have sneakily moved seats between categories at the MCG, for example your seat in M13 open that was category 3 is now magically category 1. So that same seat has gone from $76 to $93, a rise of over 20%, not exactly a price freeze!
Many other M level sections have also been bumped into a higher category. All of N level is now category 1 instead of a mix of 1 and 2. All of P level is now category 2 instead of a mix of 3 and 4. They have tweaked Q level moving some Olympic Stand seats down a category and some Southern Stand seats up a category. The only clear win appears to be the undercover level 1 Ponsford seats up the back which have gone down a category. Overall there has been a clear price rise, yet we were told they are frozen?
Compare the 2 seating charts below.
Have footy fans been deliberately misled?
Week 2 Note: For the Cats/Eagles semi they haven't even released level 4 for sale yet (Tuesday lunch time), forcing members to buy the more expensive seats during the member sale period on Monday and then the public after that. Presumably they will open level 4 up at some point, maybe as a General Admission area on the night at the cheapest price, but why aren't they publicising this properly? Are they trying to trick fans into paying more than they need to? They have however thrown supporters a bone by releasing an extra bay of cheap category 7 seats each side of the cheersquads for this game, you can see this on the Ticketek website.