I dont think anyone out of any maliciousness wants other fans to get a poor deal, just that incentives are exactly that, an incentive to get in early and garner a personal benefit.
I also wouldnt be surprised if the deal is different next year, this is very much a shot in the arm and hopefully many fans that came for a couple of games we have effectively got more £££ out of them than we would have otherwise, obviously if everyone who came week in week out has bought one we have lost about 60% of our ground admission revenue so its a very fine balance, short term gain possible long term pain???? we will see.
Our club hopefully will be in a much stronger situation in both finance and playing squad after a year of sound business practice, something we are still suffering the negative effects from, from the Richardson era.
As you say the more of us the merrier.

I wasn't intending to suggest that this was malicious, mate - I just struggle with the idea that people seem to need to compare their own good fortune with the prospect of less good fortune (for someone else) at a later stage to see the value of the deal. The incentive is already there in the deal itself. As someone else has already said, as long as no one gets the same for less at a later point in time, then it has to be a winner.

I can see both sides of the argument here:

I do not necessarily want people who haven't yet bought to have to pay more than me, I'd be quite happy for them all to get a ST for £100

however,


if prices are maintained at £100 for everyone then we have an issue next time for the same reason we had to time limit the initial offer this time. The club need to know how much income they have to play with in order to recruit players and build a team (if we are to be anywhere near sustainable). As we have already seen with this offer, lots of people have left it as late as possible before buying, if they think they can leave it even later next year without it costing them more then they will and the club are back to a position of guessing how much income will come in from ST's instead of having a known figure to play with.

It's not that much different to buying a suit for £100 (M&S of course) and then finding next week that it's on sale for £50! You take the deal available on the day on it's merit - if you bought at £100 then ou must have thought it worth it, but had you known that there was a better offer coming, you'd wait. You'd even wait IF you thought you weren't going to lose out and you could keep your £100 for a couple of months more.

I fully understand the argument for wanting more and more people signed up, but at some point you have to make those who already have feel like they are rewarded for their efforts, otherwise the incentive is removed and the cynic will view future offers in such light.

We've seen countless arguments about 'freebies' and 'freind for a fiver' type deals devaluing the cost of a season ticket. Now we have real 'bargain basement' offer, but with parameters and I beleive that, in the event of hitting the 2,500 mark, they should stick with them - albeit, the differential can be relatively small going forward.

Thats incentivisation (made up word!!!) for you, the earliest bird gets the biggest juiciest worm, as long as everyone gets a go at the worms after thats fair enough.

The best bet would be to extend the deal for say 6 weeks, but stipulate after that time the prices will rise to a certain amount. That way, some will find themselves lucky enough to get a ST at reduced rates and those who chose not to, only have themselves to blame and next season will be aware that if they don't commit early enough they won't reap the benefits of others.

Increase the price by £10 a month right up to kick off time.

Or perhaps £10 a week until it reaches the standard £200 at approximately the begining of December.

We done it yet?

Yes they have

Anyone official told you? Nothing announced yet (although would be surprised if we haven't hit the target).

if we have done it, then the club should announce it as " xxxx percentage increase on last years figures". they then don't have to give the exact figure for the number, and it is ore positive than we have sold 2500 (as other fans will prob say - is that all??)

If we have done it then lets not stop there, keep it at £100, and push on keep it like that until Dec/Jan, and push for 3000+

Target met! Confirmned on the website. Free shirt for 2500th ticket.

www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news ... t/2011/09/

www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news ... t/2011/09/

70% increase! Thats the figure to go with.

Without wanting to get carried away, I wonder if, with a decent season under our belts, the club could offer £50 season tickets next year but make the target 5,000?!

Wildycat has to have a mention for doing his part in the promotion

That's on our entire ST Holders for last season, so god know's what we'll end up with!!!

I thought we had 600 season ticket holders last year. Thats a 400%+ increase!

Just short of 600 full price tickets, and a few cons plus juniors.

Give or take a few about 1500 in total.

don't want to be a kill joy but that just gos against what we have been talking about, next year I'll hang on till the last minute

No harm in it in my view. Everyone who has bought a membership did so because of the price. The prize (free shirt) is just a bonus, and its a concept that is widely used in business.

Perhaps next time, if there is one, prizes could be offered for every 500th ticket sold.

Not forgetting there is a discount on the new shirt and also a free MOT iny event.

I have no problem with a give away, perhaps a draw from the first 2500 would have been a better idea with loaded entries for the earlier you get your ticket eg 1-1000 3 entries 1001 to 2000 2 entries and over 2000 1 entry the better the prize more may buy earlier

Cant see that, its just giving them away. If we reach the target 5000 then its only brings in the same ST money as 2500 at £100 but with a figure harder to achieve.

It should be the same again next year but with a target of 3500. Assuming ofcourse that we have a good season.

Im sure the aim will be to make Trinity as self sustaining as possible and reducing ST to £50 is just throwing money in the fire.