Maybe at Subi but in Melbourne it's all about who turns up compared to what seats are sold off to the medallion club and MCC etc.
Club reserved ticket holder seats are fine. Once that seat is sold the money is in for both the stadium and club and everyone is happy.
Well sure, until the guy that paid $50 a game for his face value $65 reserved seat finds out that the club is now flogging the seats around him off for $30. Then he's going to be pissed off that he's being screwed, and he probably won't get that reserved seat next season.
It's generally considered good business practice not to piss off your regular customers.
My understanding with places like the medallion club was that the clubs only make money if those people attend for their match day and the stadium makes money regardless. If so if there are large blocks that dont attend, work out some way of selling those tickets for people like me who would've paid a bit more to sit a level lower. The ticket exchange is a way for the stadium to keep their existing medallion club money and for the clubs to make money by people turning up and using the best seats.
First i've heard of that. Not sure how often you visit the Footy Industry board, but there's plenty of speculation there as to what the deal actually is. Reality is that no-one around here knows about it, although from piecing together little bits of information that come through the media now and again, it appears to be a revenue sharing type arrangement as opposed to pure numbers through the gates. The more you charge, the more profit the club makes. I doubt the stadium would really sign an arrangement where it gives an incentive for the home club to sell tickets as cheaply as possible. Essendon make lots of money because they have the whole ground as reserved seats. No bargain basement tickets there.
But as has been suggested before, there is a ticket exchange for Medallion Club - ebay (or probably a few other sites like Gumtree) . The person that pays thousands for the ticket can sell off any individual game. There might be an argument to allow a more official way to do it, but at least it's something.
Anyone please correct me if that logic is wrong. I know for the MCC that they pay the home club for every MCC member who turns up. I presume Medallion club and axcess one would be the same.
When the SCG, Metricon, Gabba or AAMI stadium are half full is it that all the premium seats are vacant whilst people sit above or below them? Or is it the worse seats that are mainly empty. I understand some of the expensive seats being missing in line with the general emptiness but Etihad is just incredibly strange seeing so many good seats go to waste whilst people sit in bad ones. It tells me something is broken.
I've noticed at Metricon that tends to be the case. But GA there are the shitty seats on the bottom level behind the goals. All the other venues you mention either have no GA or GA is a very limited section of the ground. You certainly can't park yourself on the wing like you can at Etihad.