Thread: Point to make about this Season Ticket con

As most will know, Celtic have introduced a 10 month payment plan this year to help fans who are skint to pay in instalments. How kind of them.

With this 10 month payment plan, you will be paying 15.9% interest - 15.9% minimum, via an outside finance company, subject to credit checks, and a company that can get the debt collectors in.

A 575 quid season ticket would cost 666.43 with this 10 month payment thing. A season ticket gets you 22 home games a season.?
To summarise, the price per game would be 30.29 quid (that includes what could be argued are two meaningless games - depends what matches they give you).

Each matchday this season you could walk up to the TO pre-game and buy a match ticket for £22-28 (£36 for both hun games).

Just keep that in mind if considering the 10 month payment plan.

Good post mate!

Was looking at that 10 mth scheme last week and thought it looked like a bit of a scam!

Ruthless.

Nice one Z.

So instead of 10 payments of 66 quid odds, you can have 18 payments of 22 quid.

Fucking robbing bastards

That is fuckin scum right there. How can these cunts sleep at night when they're trying to pull shit like this? Oh that's right, one of them was, or is, a politician

Not really if your season tickets £575 then a ticket in that area costs £28, if your season tickets £520 then tickets for that area are £22 or whatever.

Your only paying 16% more on your ticket to get longer to pay it.

Posted this on another board aswell to spread the word, nothing really surprises me anymore. Where or when will the PLC stop trying to screw over the faithful!

Absolute scum.

Originally Posted by Batch_cfc

Not really if your season tickets £575 then a ticket in that area costs £28, if your season tickets £520 then tickets for that area are £22 or whatever.

Your only paying 16% more on your ticket to get longer to pay it.

Ok dokey, point taken.

I'll break it down for you then mate.
This season, we got 21 games on the season book/ticket. 19 League games, 2 friendlies. Before I start with the finance side, your season ticket gets you 19 league games and a guaranteed two other games which they put 'free' on the book (the cost is incorporated into the season ticket). Normally they give you a Euro qualifier or at the very least a home cup game or two as the two 'free games'.

For some fucking baffling reason (greediness), Celtic made us pay for the Dinamo home CL qualifier, the Arsenal home CL qualifier, and the Hearts home cup game. Logic would dictate that we'd be given at least one of the home qualifiers as well as the cup game (most likely Dinamo, and the Hearts game combined). Instead we had to pay extra for all the games. But instead we got a Sunderland pre-season friendly and Alkmaar.
Right I may be wrong on this bit, so somebody correct me if I am, a normal adult match ticket for Sunderland friendly would've cost you around the region of £15, and the Alkmaar game, £10-15.

Maths time: (I'm not going by what you said in your post here, all home matches are priced at the same for match tickets anywhere around the stadium, it's based on the category of the game) I'll go with £25 as it's the in-between figure and most matches are £25/6. Also, there were offers put on adult match tickets around the Christmas time so you could've got match tickets slightly cheaper.

Lets say you have a £520 ST. Tickets for that area would be £25 normally. £25 x 17 (home matches excluding Huns games) = £425. Add on £72 for both Huns games = £497. Add on both friendlies (I'll put cost of both at £35 allowing for £5 over cos I don't know if I was 100% right regarding prices for them) = £532.

So the cost for all of those matches out with a £520 ST would've been £532. Before I even go onto the interest bit, if you missed even one league match, you'd have been better off buying individual tickets.

£520 with 16% interest (15.9% if you want to be pedantic, but 16 is easier to calculate lol). Interest comes in at £83.20. Total cost if you pay over 10 months then comes in at £603.20. Now for each league game you're then paying £31.74 per league game. Add in two friendlies and you're paying £28.72. If you missed even one game then those figures will go up.

Now Batch, does this 15.9% interest to guarantee you a seat in a half empty stadium where buying individual tickets would save you more money still sound so appealing?

You lost me at "maths time", Z

Only joking mate, whatever way you dress it up, it's fucking shocking.

Disgrace from the board. Scamming bastards.

Same example now with tickets priced at £28 (you could've got tickets for cheaper throughout the season, including via Celtic offers etc.). I'm just doing this example to show the point still stands.

Individual Match Tickets: £28 x 17 = £476. Add on £72 for Huns games = £548. £30 for friendlies = £578.
Season ticket = £575.

£575, interest would be £92. This would be £667 in all (done using 16% the 0.1% would save you 57p)
£35.10 a league game or £31 a game including the two shite friendlies. Yet again - economically bullshit.

People may say this is how ST financing works. But Hibs have an instalment ST available - quoted from their site:

Season Ticket Membership is now offered via an extended interest-free payment plan to allow Members to spread the cost of being part of the Family over a 10 month period, making it easier for families and individuals to commit to the season long adventure at Easter Road.

Link to confirm: http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/page/ti...,10290,00.html

When i was trying to get a ST at the start of last season it was for the sole reason of being able to get CL and hun game tickets guaranteed, it's the only way i can see having a season ticket being of any benefit.

Originally Posted by Squire

When i was trying to get a ST at the start of last season it was for the sole reason of being able to get CL and hun game tickets guaranteed, it's the only way i can see having a season ticket being of any benefit.

That used to be the only advantage. This season for the first time ever you could literally walk up to the TO and buy tickets for the Huns games, as well as match packages to the Europa.

Also, the away scheme used to be an incentive but now because Celtic and the Huns teamed up as a business making venture to charge all other SPL clubs 5% extra for distributing away tickets, most away teams now sell on away tickets direct to Celtic fan's and you can get them through CSC's no bother. I could not have a ST for next season and could guarantee right now I'd get tickets to all away matches easily except the two at Ibrox but I'd still be in with a good shout of getting to them.

Just like all people would be better off buying individual match tickets instead of taking the 10 month payment plan lo.

Originally Posted by zmcfc

That used to be the only advantage. This season for the first time ever you could literally walk up to the TO and buy tickets for the Huns games, as well as match packages to the Europa.

Also, the away scheme used to be an incentive but now because Celtic and the Huns teamed up as a business making venture to charge all other SPL clubs 5% extra for distributing away tickets, most away teams now sell on away tickets direct to Celtic fan's and you can get them through CSC's no bother. I could not have a ST for next season and could guarantee right now I'd get tickets to all away matches easily except the two at Ibrox but I'd still be in with a good shout of getting to them.

Just like all people would be better off buying individual match tickets instead of taking the 10 month payment plan lo.

Well for all their 'business acumen' they have made a right cunt of things mate. Why the fuck would anyone need a season ticket if that's the case? I genuinely never knew that about huns games man i'll deffo need to see if i can get to one next season, only one i've been to was at ipox.

tbh, I don't really get why people are saying the board a scum and a robbing us ect.

The more money we make from season tickets the more money we should have to re-invest in the team.

Originally Posted by Steven

tbh, I don't really get why people are saying the board a scum and a robbing us ect.

The more money we make from season tickets the more money we should have to re-invest in the team.

Still no reason to charge us even more money.

16 % is high, but sadly nowadays money it tight, we need to make money where ever we can.


Also, I don't get people why say "i'm not buying anything Celtic because of the board" The board will still be on big wages regardless.