Hoops

my idea to increase attendances

I chose Platinum seats to get a comparable seat to what I enjoy at the Dome. I didn't pay anywhere near that much for my seat here at home on a per game basis. If you go to an event once in your lifetime, you will pay those prices. If I had to pay that for every game at home, then it would be a different matter. I am comparing apples with apples. As for Port Power tickets, I did go last season to one game and 3 or 4 the year before. I always purchased budget seats that were over $20. Can't remember the exact amount but do remember comparing it to basketball prices and thought it wasn't any cheaper.

A lot of the fuss about prices to the basketball has been based on buying individual seats and booking through VenueTix. If you purchase a season ticket, it does work out less.

As for the Official Sixers site, you'll get no opposition from me. I think the site is terrible. The lack of information is a big problem there. I agree that more people would be interested in buying tickets if more information was available to them.

The only advertising I have seen for the sixers games was on the side of a Pura Milk Carton. If anyone new to the club gained any interest whatsoever from these ads, they may have gone into the Sixers site to get more information only to find that there is not much there at all. These are the people that the club should be targetting by offering a lot of information that would take their interest and at least come to one game to try it out.

Isn't SANFL the same level of football as ABL in Basketball? The top level in both sports are AFL and NBL. No wonder tickets to the SANFL are cheaper. They are cheaper still if you go to ABL games. Going to a Port Power or Crows game is just as expensive as going to an NBL game. In fact, the last time I checked it was around the $23 mark for the cheapest seats. When you compare prices of NBL games, you need to compare them with other sports at the same level. You will find that Basketball generally is no more expensive. I've just purchased 2 tickets for the 3rd November game in Sydney. They were $40 each plus $3.75 booking fee. We don't have the most expensive tickets in the NBL.

Well I worded my statement incorrectly in a mad rush to post it. Yes I can see how people can be angry, but given the options of a terrible atmosphere all year long, versus the option of cheaper tickets and a full house I'd rather have the latter, and couldn't be angry towards the club if they did that.

Maybe if the club did discount tickets, they could possibly offer a reduced rate for next season's memberships for people with memberships this year.

I can't see why anyone should be angry if they lower prices for the rest of the year. I'd rather have a full house, great atmosphere etc rather than an empty place where everyone paid the same as me.

And Rocket Scientist:

4400 x $27 = $118,000

7000 x $17 = $119,000

Bigger attendence = more sponsorship, more singlet sales, better atmosphere (which will make people want to come to games again and then when people are interested ticket prices can go up).

At the moment we had 4400 fans last night and I'm not sure how many of the casual fans there actually feel like coming back.