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Title: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: RocketDan on January 30, 2010, 12:22:54 PM: http://www.mansfieldtown.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10325~1948012,00.html (http://www.mansfieldtown.net/page/NewsDetail/0,,10325~1948012,00.html)

very interesting.

If this happened at Alty, what would you pay? Anyone have the cheek to pay £1 or something?

i think i'd pay £10 but then try and bring 20 friends all paying £1.
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: baldrick on January 30, 2010, 01:04:47 PM: They did this at Catford dog track years ago. The first race was 7.30. The usual price was £3 but anyone arriving before 6.30 could pay whatever they wanted. The idea was to get as many people into the stadium as possible and hope they would spend money on beer, food, parking, programme etc. It was reasonably successful but it never happened again because the police said they needed to attend due to increased crowds and wanted money for it.
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: Jezza on January 31, 2010, 10:33:19 AM: As a serious answer, often the reason I don't go is because I am skint.....however I'd probably pay a fiver in these circumstances...and then load up on John Smiths and pies etc.

The problem is for everyone who comes who would otherwise have stayed away and every regular who would gladly pay the normal admission you would get a regular paying less than he/she would have done anyway....so you'd probably get an increased attandance the gate money I would guess would even out as normal.
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: York Alty on January 31, 2010, 05:49:03 PM: don't miss the point that they have selected Gateshead for this, not Oxford or Luton. This is nonetheless a very interesting idea and hats off to the board at pantsfield for having the imagination.

Lastly, as people will be paying on the way in they don't know what they are paying for so its maybe worth sticking a few buckets outside to collect a few more quid after the game.

Finally I'll try this at Tesco next week.
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: Narcissist on January 31, 2010, 06:19:55 PM: Quote from: York Alty on January 31, 2010, 05:49:03 PM

Finally I'll try this at Tesco next week.

It was free to get in there last time I went?

Match was sh1t tho!
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: chrisrufc on January 31, 2010, 09:34:39 PM: Didn't they do this at FCUM?
Title: Re: Admission Price: 'Whatever you want'
Post by: (S)ALTY on January 31, 2010, 10:19:58 PM: It's not what you pay to get in to watch them that I'd be worried about, it's what they charge to let you out ?