27 Sep 2013 11:47:01
Hi
not really a rumour but wondered what everyone felt about Celtics link with stubhub, the ticket agency who sound to me a bit like legal ticket touts.
Can't get a champions League ticket for Celtic Park? No worries, stubhub will sell you one if you have a spare £100 or so!
If people are daft enough to pay £100 for a football match then it's up to them. Celtic arny forcing people to pay these prices.
@1 .No but Celtic are willing enough to give them the tickets that are handed back and let them sell them for over the odds prices . Why couldn't Celtic ticket office sell them themselves . Will they send them all the unsold tickets for home league games . I doubt it as there is no profit to be made for the touts . DH
If they pay Celtic the money for the tickets then I don't have a problem stadium was 15k short against st johnstone so clubs got to make money.
I agree the clubs got to make money, and I'm all for certain prudence, but I don't agree with this. Morally I don't think its right, I'd prefer we gave the tickets away free (that'sassiming that they buy non CL match tickets as part of the deal ) than to parasites / profiteers lie, them. Our CL matches are always sellout - so why do we need them to sell to big game hunters? And if they do take x among of SPL games you can be sure they aren't marketed and are written off - hence big blocks of empty seats that could be full of school kids / oaps or anyone who can't afford a ticket. I worked on the centre court as a service steward opinion Wimbledon many moons ago- rows and Row's of empty corporate hospitality seats- they never turned up or where on the bar (I used to let the grannies /real sport fans in as long as they realised they had to move when Giles / Farquar turned up).
Jumping to conclusions again. Celtic have said that the tickets will be sold at face value. Stubhub charge a 15% handling fee. It's all a commercial enterprise allowing celtic to sell in markets they otherwise wouldn't have access to as easily. It's quite simple. Buy your ticket direct.
MgC