Bit different to 100,000 people at an average of $600 per year!!
Reduce the size of the MCC reserve
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You can always get a pass out and move from MCC to gen admin.
But with the GF, would need to ascertain if standing bays in Southern Stand are ticketed.
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Yeah that’s the new trend. Medallion club is similar. Go after the corporates.
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Medallion Club brings in more than 20 million in revenue on its own. 1/3rd of the entire stadiums revenue from 5,000 seats.
Looks like they tried to address it and sold tickets from under full members patiently queuing
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Full members received an email on Wednesday warning them to get to the ground early otherwise they risk missing out.
Update on website at 9:45 this morning stated tickets would go on sale at 11 to restricted members.
Any full members who missed out only have themselves to blame.
Cluster funk. Reports are everyone was very confused, and half thought there would be another ticket release
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100,022. Hats off to the MCC.
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Who the **** would pay $5,000 for the medallion club? Lol
Someone who’s writing off entertainment on their business?
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It's companies. It's hardly ever individuals. AFL also buys back the medallion club tickets that they sell to companies who don't necessarily want to go to a game (some are only in it for the major games) then on-sell it to the public for about $60-70 a pop.
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When your ticketing procedures are so archaic and nonsensical that you have to totally confuse and disadvantage your own members just to avoid the embarrassment of empty seats.
Been to an Essendon home game lately?
Game set& Match.
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No one who was queing had tickets sold from under them, the queue was gone by 8:30. Restricted members didn't gain entry until 11am, people had plenty of time to arrive.
OK just people being outraged for no reason then? Not surprised
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Sounds like it. People who arrived 3 hours after gates opened complaining that there were no seats only have themselves to blame. Restricteds being let in is irrelevant, as the reserve could've also easily filled with full members in that time.
It'll be interesting to see how many restricted members were given access though. Based off a second hand story I heard about someone in the restricted queue, it was only a few hundred.
About 700 apparently. No full member missed out and the reserve wasn't a lock out - all walk up seats went but there was still standing room so a full member could have gained entry to the reserve at any point.
Those that are "outraged" are the restricted members that lined up to buy tickets at gate 2 when they went on sale at 11. Some of whom missed out because people, like myself, bought them online for the comfort of our couches. They only have themselves to blame though, at no point did the MCC state Restricted members would need to line up and from mid week said tickets would be sold online and that would be quicker, should they be released.
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Plenty.
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Ah, that makes more sense. To be fair, I had no clue how those tickets would be sold and naturally assumed that with the crowd lined up by the window that that was the only way to get them.
Tough that late but I did walk in 10min after the bounce in 2010 for the draw and got a seat.
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Any way of finding out the % composition of yesterday's game?
As the crowd was two short of the official capacity of the MCG (100,024) and the MCC wasn’t locked out I wonder if two more people walked into the MCC the shutters would go down and it’d be declared a lock out or could another 50 or so have walked in?
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Um...no. If you are a full member you don’t need a ticket. You just scan in.
The line was restricted members ‘hoping’ for a ticket. They got released online and sold out before those in the line could by. Not sure why they sold them online, they should have just sold them at the gate. Am sure the stupid contract between MCC and ticketek is why...
