Pedrotheblue wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:23 pm
Yes, it does all feel very underhanded.
I'd considered the premium, but looking at what you actually get for £200 it just feels like another way to exploit fans desperate to get in to the new ground.
Yeah, that and there's tickets on tout sites kind of makes it feel a bit empty when they've said they're trying to out the touts by having a ballot. Sports Breaks and other resale sites have tickets and hotel deals for sale too, I don't know how involved they are with the club but clearly companies like that are getting some sort of access to tickets from the club. Just sell the tickets, if people want a hotel let them sort it themselves but don't force people into having to buy a package if they want a ticket.
Also, I see the West Ham Premium Experience tickets have been sneaked up to £125 now, they were originally down at £99 when it was moved to a Monday night, bit naughty that.
Pedrotheblue wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:43 pm
Need to stop ranting now and accept what a shambles this has been. Not sure I'd class this approach as the fairest one, perhaps if it had better managed and more transparent, I'd feel differently. 100's of tickets on resale sites for silly money isn't helping.
What happens with the next ballot, another not so lucky dip? Will those that were unsuccessful this time be prioritised or will it just be another free for all?
Kind of feels like the club won't give a shit either way as long as the tickets get sold one way or another.
This is what I was going on about last week. Without weighting the number of times you enter the ballot at all, it would be possible (statistically unlikely but possible) to pay your £60, enter all the 19 ballots in the first window and never get a ticket.
I fully accept that a £60 membership isn't going to guarantee a ticket every week but it'd be absurd if it never got you one throughout an entire season but from everything I've read about it, it seems there is nothing put in place by the club to stop that happening.
In a world full of adversity, we must still dare to dream.
Gash wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:57 pm
I still don't mind the not getting tickets to be honest, there was always going to be high demand but hopefully it settles down after the first few games and it becomes a bit easier, I'm a bit fucked off not to get to the last at Goodison or the first at BMD though.
It's more the fact we were lead to believe membership was painted as early access to tickets and said fuck all about any ballot, or that the communication has been fucking amateur, sending out an email 24 hours after fans were meant to get it and telling them that 7 hours earlier they might have got a resale ticket. All that coupled with them flogging "Premium Experience" tickets for £199 to anyone regardless of membership or not (I'd probably have bought one but I'm currently in "fuck you" mode after this week) and even at that it only gets you a seat away in the top corner, a programme, 10% off in the shop but must be used that day, (great a tenner off a £110 shirt!) 10% off a stadium tour that you can't park near and a £10 food voucher which looking at the prices of everything else probably won't get a stale sausage roll.
Pretty much this ^^
I got a "successful" email at 17.02 today.
And just this evening another email at 21.06 informing me of a change of the way ticketing accounts is managed. For whatever reason they have set up a company "within the everton family - Everton Stadium Development Holding Company Limited will now look after the Everton Ticketmaster website and database". I wonder if this has something to do with the arse backwards way everything has been communicated?
During COVID they managed to carry out weighted ballots. It's not beyond them like.
But for the 30 years I've been going the game on my own, the box office at Everton has always been the only thing about the club shitter than the team itself
superpull wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:19 pm
During COVID they managed to carry out weighted ballots. It's not beyond them like.
But for the 30 years I've been going the game on my own, the box office at Everton has always been the only thing about the club shitter than the team itself
I said that to a mate earlier, I can remember spending most of the day trying to get through to the box office to get confirmation that I'd got tickets for the 2007 derby as I'd got cut off just as my payment was going through.
Is there any one on here who is in that fans forum thing?
We need to tell them to sack this shit off. Not that they care.
It's so frustrating. Like Gash said, seeing tickets for sale on tout sites. Its bollocks
I know its going to be high demand (i wont go on about a bigger capacity again) but its the lack of communication, the lack of clarity, of ignoring these issues that is frustrating and sad.
I got an email today offering me a ticket for £125... the one yesterday was there were no tickets left even for forever blue plus. Seriously thinking of fucking them off and becoming an armchair blue for free
Paddockoldie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 9:55 am
I got an email today offering me a ticket for £125... the one yesterday was there were no tickets left even for forever blue plus. Seriously thinking of fucking them off and becoming an armchair blue for free
Yeah, I got one too, Premium Experience "from" £125. I was just looking at it again and I just don't see where the value is or justification in the ticket, Brighton is £199 so even at the most expensive seat a ticket is £75, then you get a £4 programme and a £10 food voucher, where do they justify the other £110, you'd need to spend a fortune in the store to get your £100 discount and the 10% off the tour is kind of pointless because as far as I can see they're not doing stadium tours at BMD at the moment. Oh and you can't redeem the food and drink voucher in that section of the stand, you need to go to the adjacent unit or the Fan Plaza.
It's interesting that despite the game being sold out there's still lots of Premium tickets available, so maybe fans are going to talk with their feet and avoid being ripped off for what is basically an average seat and a 'free' programme for 200 quid. Having said that, if they're still on sale in a couple of weeks I might end up biting the bullet and getting one.
Deano Blue Boy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 12:15 pm
I wonder if they're offering some of the season ticket resales as premium seats
Edit: just read about them. It's in a specific block.
Yeah, they've been advertising it for a while now, it's one of the Seat Unique 'deals'. I think it's the whole of Block 229 but I don't how many seats there will be in total.
I’m thinking that some of those will be media types wanting to report on the experience and maybe some of it is also people coming over from abroad. As a one off big thing to do if you’re coming from America or somewhere, it’s probably more justifiable.
I wonder if self employed people can get these and justify it as a work meeting, 'entertaining clients' kinda thing and then off set it against their taxes.
Sir Stealth wrote: ↑Sun Aug 03, 2025 6:06 am
Only 2 of the £199 premium tickets left, 4 left of the £849 beyond tunnel club package and 8 left of the £849 Domingo’s option for Brighton
Quite shocked that we’ve got so many fans that would actually pay those prices!
I posted a while ago that I am always amazed at the number of American (mostly) Chinese and Middle Eastern that I see on the train up from London match day for just that once in a lifetime experience, they will have bought tickets for an extortionate price from a secondary seller, am sure the new stadium will attract even more and that’s the market for these tickets. I once asked an American couple on the opposite side of the table how long they had supported Everton, they said we don’t particularly support Everton , they were the only tickets we could get and wanted to add a Premier League game to the Beatles tour !
