Corporate Season tickets/Executive boxes (9 Viewers)
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WW2 scholars are generally agreed that of all Hitler’s crimes, hiking the corporate box costs to a point where even Surprise Shirts were priced out was his most reprehensible
If they sell out, based on the numbers quoted, I make that about £5k a week on the wage bill. Not bad.
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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Makes you wonder what prices the Corporate season tickets would have been if we had got promoted to the premier league.
100% this. People have this weird notion we've been paying cheap prices, we haven't. Even ST prices last season were par for the league.
Fairly astronomical, and rightly so.
SkyblueDad
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A lot more.
That is not what he is saying. It the the level of increase in one hit that is the issue.
Some weird takes on here. People positively delighted that the local businesses that have stuck with the club through dark times (while many on here were nowhere to be seen) have been hit with 200% increases.
These are scaffolding companies and the like, local blokes who have worked hard and treat themselves to a corporate box at the football club they love, and here they are being told to fuck off and stop moaning.
There should have been a conversation with these people. Informed them that prices needed to rise and gave them options of special deals in Club Coventry, some sort of gesture that at least made them feel they were valued.
Get relegated to League One and the club have the begging bowl out again. Why piss these people off?
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Didn’t recall anybody moaning when we played Birmingham
And? So what. People will pay for big occasions, they won't pay that for a mighty mid table clash with Stoke City in November. We saw that with the shocking turnout against Burnley. It's about balance. A hike in matchday prices will make us potentially the most expensive ground in the league for those games. If anything I would put Cat A prices down and perhaps scrap cat C to compensate.
Tbf, there are only 150 seats available for the Mill membership, and the other seat maps haven't altered much all day. Very little available anyway owing to st reserves, so very difficult to gauge uptake.
Perryccfc
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To watch the best league in the world week in week out? I’d hope at the very least double what they are now.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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Price increase is very annoying. I've supported the club for many years as has my family and this is a less than positive way of showing appreciation. It's astonishing why we weren't consulted beforehand but that's neither hardly surprising as they treat us with utter contempt anyway.
DK is trying to align our prices with other Championship clubs which is understandable but to hike the price to this level is bordering on the moronic and only serves to alienate his highest paying customers - many of which are regular sponsors also. It should've been staggered incrementally year on year dependant on where we finish. If the product is shit not sure who's realistically paying £25k for a box.
Also more market research should've been done on the price position other than what everyone else prices their hospitality boxes at. Businesses in and around the city traditionally are SMEs, not particularly awash with cash - having my own service based business I can attest to this as I no longer bother marketing myself locally anymore as it's futile given if I do land a local client the fees are nominal - even from the county's larger enterprises. The corporates also have had no interest in partnering with the club - that could change with some common sense but not holding my breath. So I really can't see local businesses lining up to renew or purchase for the first time.
Plus for those that band together and pitch in for a box this effectively prices them out.
Very strange move but it is what it is. I'll be looking for an alternative option.
DK is trying to align our prices with other Championship clubs which is understandable but to hike the price to this level is bordering on the moronic and only serves to alienate his highest paying customers - many of which are regular sponsors also. It should've been staggered incrementally year on year dependant on where we finish. If the product is shit not sure who's realistically paying £25k for a box.
Also more market research should've been done on the price position other than what everyone else prices their hospitality boxes at. Businesses in and around the city traditionally are SMEs, not particularly awash with cash - having my own service based business I can attest to this as I no longer bother marketing myself locally anymore as it's futile given if I do land a local client the fees are nominal - even from the county's larger enterprises. The corporates also have had no interest in partnering with the club - that could change with some common sense but not holding my breath. So I really can't see local businesses lining up to renew or purchase for the first time.
Plus for those that band together and pitch in for a box this effectively prices them out.
Very strange move but it is what it is. I'll be looking for an alternative option.
They can still watch the club they aren't priced out of going. They have had multiple years of a cheap box in the championship. Its up to them if its worth it or not.
GIMOC
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I know many in the same boat as you. Several businesses who have for many years bought a box. They have today sent emails to Suzette stating their disappointment in the price hike with no consultation. A lot of businesses are struggling at the minute and the luxury of a box up the city will now be too much.
GIMOC
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You’re not wrong, they can now go for the cheaper option but the issue is, Will there be the uptake to take on all these vacant boxes.. that’s the potential issue
SkyblueDad
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Price increase was inevitable.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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The club is likely losing at least 75% of its box holders. From the 10 I know including me, 1 is renewing.
It's not about benefitting from a cheap box it's about the club increasing the prices incrementally to ensure they've got customers to sell the boxes to. Almost tripling their price is ridiculous, naive and stupid.
I'd be astounded if they sold more than 25% of the current 40-odd.
SkyblueDad
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KenilworthSkyBlue
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Well obviously. Thanks for pointing that out.
I've said before I'd be more than happy to have paid an extra 30-40%.
What they've done is ridiculous.
Ccfcisparks
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They will sell them out
clint van damme
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Well one of thems pissed off because King asked him to do something which is part of his remit and ended up having to intervene and do it himself. No loss of they piss off.
Kingokings204
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what was it last season May i ask?
No, they have had one season of cheap prices. The post COVID season was always going to be cheap, many clubs offered big discounts, and many companies had paid for a box the previous season that they hadn't used once. They had to take that into account.
Last season there should have been a rise, that was a mistake.
Do not understand this 'fuck em' attitude though. For me, the club builds for the long term by engaging with supporters and with local businesses, by carefully balancing pricing between affordability and raising revenues with an eye always on maximising attendances.
The short term, charge what you think you can get away with policy is risky, especially as the uplift in revenues really isn't that big. Things change quickly in football, we may well find ourselves back in the 3rd tier in a few years. Need to build bridges, not knock them down.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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Well they won't.
Go on…
Ccfcisparks
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Of course they will.
if they don’t go for £25k they will drop them in price till they do.
why should the club contact customers asking them what they would pay, when it’s likely a lot lower than what they could get for them.
GIMOC
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why is it? Many of the the customers speak regularly to the corporate team. They have built great connections. it wouldn’t have taken long to propose prices to see what the feedback would be.
Well King will soon find out won't he! If they end up vacant it won't impact the atmosphere. Obviously would lose cash on it but it's his call.
KenilworthSkyBlue
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Genius. So some box holders pay full whack and others have them half price later on in the summer because the club can't sell them.
GIMOC
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thats a strange take. It’s not an auction. that would be very amateurish if the club went down the route of dropping prices if they don’t sell out once the season starts
clint van damme
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I've no skin in this game because I wouldn't be in corporate at any point but while I understand the need for price increases I have alot of sympathy for the argument that it should have been done incrementally. It's a big hike in one hit.