musingowl

Got through 2 and a half minutes before that AI voice bacame too bloody jarring.

Yes, and if we were shifting 0 physical away tickets and it were a pointless exercise opening the club shop we'd shift the entire operation online/offshore and save on most of those costs.

Not everybody uses this, plenty still buy in person for multiple accounts, no booking fee at the ticket office.

Read my point on that again, but slowly this time. So you think the ticketing software, maintenence, internal IT, electric, MIA, overtime for when they've cocked up and have to work late stuffing envelopes pays for itself? I've already stated, I haven't been away this season, nor to any additional matches.

I've only stated reasoned arguments. The costs associated with selling away tickets outweighs any pre VAT charge. The handling and shipping out of physical away tickets in small time frames is (under current circumstances) the most labour intensive part of the role of the ticket office staff. As things stand, this operation could not be shipped offshore in a cost cutting excersize, as the majority of championship clubs still use physical tickets (try getting 7k tickets from Blackburn to Bangalore, then back to the UK in a 10 day window). Our home ticketing operation could theoretically go down this route and just use e-tickets. It stands to reason that there are 3 reasons why we have not yet made redundancies, 1- the scenario I've outlined above is accurate, 2- we can't afford the payouts, or 3- Chansiri really cares about his staff and the good times are just around the corner. The fact we have to sell away tickets as a rule is an inconvenience to DC, and folk can live with the fact that the £1.30 he gets off of their ticket wouldn't even cover the utility bills... If he's paying them that is. For what it's worth, I've not been away this season, would normally do 12+. I don't think infighting amongst ourselves and getting holier than though really helps anyone.

If the ticket office staff weren't having to process physical away tickets, do you genuinely believe redundancies wouldn't have started?

If there were less tickets to process on a day to day basis, what do you think the first thing he'd do would be? Tbf I'm surprised we've not outsourced this already as he clearly can't afford the operation as is.

Eh?

We'd keep 100% of home sales so that makes no sense.

It's not profit though is it. Let's take the £4,200 as gospel (which the poster clearly stated it isn't). Double it (Pompy and Brum sales) £8,400 ain't covering the payroll of the ticket office staff alone(and I do realise that neither is the pr!ck in charge) , let alone additional costs. I'd be amazed if over the corse of a season if selling away tickets doesn't cost us money.

The pre VAT 5% the club makes from away tickets is FAR outweighed by the cost of selling them (staff, website/CRM software maintenence, ticket office utility bills). Pathetic post.

What's the difference between a casual dinner party and a pirate orgy? At a casual dinner party you come as you are, at a pirate orgy you "arrrr" as you come.

It is not the job of Sheffield Wednesday supporters to ensure casual staff have plenty of work on. And if we were in a position of handing money over faster than they could collect it, recent history shows that those staff/ contractors might not be paid in a timely manner by the club anyway.

That's the entire point. Make it so no business wants to deal with the club (Chansiri). Cut off every available revenue stream to him.

Used to love going in the Tap and dissecting the match with my Dad (no longer with us sadly). Just about the only good match day experience the club offers (presumably it's managed by Thornbridge), owner is a big Wednesday fan so I'm sure more than most businesses he understands. I believe they're opening a flagship bar at the top of Fargate soon, I'll be happy to go and sink a few pints of support in there on a Saturday afternoon (preferably from 3pm onwards).