World Cup Ticket Pricing

[K23]

While Wales are still in the mix to qualify for next years WC finals, I came across this video on YouTube which explains how the ticketing will work and it is frightening. If anyone is planning to go, I'd watch this if I were you.

 

[Dewi1jack]

Hope every stadium is empty for every game.
That's just pricing the majority of the fans out of football

Can't whine about the price of a watery beer at the Morfa anymore can they?

 

[KillayJack]

I’ve booked a month out in Florida with my two sons & our family for this next year but if we don’t make it then so be it eh !!

Having been to Qatar in 2022, the Yugoslavia game in 1976, the Romania game in 1993 and Russia in 2003 I am more than accustomed to watching glorious Welsh failure in days gone by !!

Yet through it all we possess that unique Welsh spirit and hiraeth which cannot ever be explained or replicated.

Yma O Hyd

 

[Jackareme]

The way things are progressing it will be hard for fans to get into the Country - never mind the games.
Many Asian African and middle Eastern fans will need to pay what the Orange Turd is calling a "Visa Integrity Fee"
This is how it will affect mostly non white fans
Xiao Wang, CEO of Boundless Immigration, told Newsweek that while most countries viewed tourists, family visitors, temporary workers, and students as net positives for the local economy, the newly implemented visa integrity fee could have the opposite effect for certain travelers.
"Total costs to visit the United States if not coming from a visa-waiver program country will then increase from $185 to $435,"
Add to this the cooling effect of ICE agents (pardon the pun) and the armed National Guard in the streets - and fiesta is not the first word that springs to mind.
I can see some dusky faced fans from Tiger Bay getting disappeared to an El Salvador prison camp for booing the US flag or not taking their hat off during the star spangled banner.
On the plus side, some of the games are in Canada and Mexico - where visitors are still welcome, and the hospitality (outside the Cartels) is warm and friendly.

 

[Pegojack]

The way things are progressing it will be hard for fans to get into the Country - never mind the games.
Many Asian African and middle Eastern fans will need to pay what the Orange Turd is calling a "Visa Integrity Fee"
This is how it will affect mostly non white fans
Xiao Wang, CEO of Boundless Immigration, told Newsweek that while most countries viewed tourists, family visitors, temporary workers, and students as net positives for the local economy, the newly implemented visa integrity fee could have the opposite effect for certain travelers.
"Total costs to visit the United States if not coming from a visa-waiver program country will then increase from $185 to $435,"
Add to this the cooling effect of ICE agents (pardn the pun) and the armed National Guard in the streets - and fiesta is not the first word that springs to mind.
I can see some dusky faced fans from Tiger Bay getting disappeared to an El Salvador prison camp for booing the US flag or not taking their hat off during the star spangled banner.
On the plus side, some of the games are in Canada and Mexico - where visitors are still welcome, and the hospitality (outside the Cartels) is warm and friendly.

Wouldn't it be great if the Mexican and Canadian venues were choka, and the yank ones empty? Feck you, Trump. And your 'Gulf of America'.

 

[J_B]

Trump is threatening to move games away from cities in Democrat states because he falsely claims that they are in unstable cities.
Unfortunately, Infantino is a friend of Trump otherwise FIFA should have reminded him immediately that they decide whether a change is made and political interference in the tournament is not acceptable.
We live in an increasingly dangerous and ludicrous world.

 

[Smurph]

Part of my enthusiasm for the World Cup died after they went chasing the oil money.

 

[MrSwerve]

Sports events are getting ridiculous now. I’m a huge fan of F1 and used to go to Silverstone every year - not any longer. The booking system is rammed and there is dynamic pricing - you’re looking at £500-900 for most grandstand seats. Each. General admission (where you don’t get a seat, you stand somewhere around the track) is £300. For one day. Oh, and if you want to park at the circuit, it’s £120 per day. No, that’s not a typo. £360 to park your car for the weekend.

It’s become an absolute joke, I’m lucky as I could afford it, but it’s really put me off. You’re easily looking at £3k to take a family there for the weekend and that’s before you factor in any accommodation or camping. 10-15 years ago it was something like £100 for general admission for 3 days and parking was something like £20. The price hikes we see aren’t right.

 

[MrSwerve]

Also to add…the problem is these events are selling out. I’m sure Covid just sent people a bit crazy and made them want to shell out anything in order to experience these occasions again. Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but it didn’t seem this bad pre-covid.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

It is starting to get to the point now where big events - a world cup, an Olympics, an Oasis gig, for example - are just an absolute waste of time for an ordinary person trying to get tickets. As well as the rip off of "dynamic pricing", you've got the most miniscule chance of beating the bots and the scrapers, who will then go on and resell the tickets at even more inflated prices.

I had an experience with Ticketmaster last year where I tried and failed to get tickets for something and it convinced me never to even bother again. Life is way too short to waste time getting annoyed by something that's essentially built to piss people off and extract as much £ as it can out of them.

This is a good article about the World Cup fiasco:

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

 

[Neath_Jack]

It is starting to get to the point now where big events - a world cup, an Olympics, an Oasis gig, for example - are just an absolute waste of time for an ordinary person trying to get tickets. As well as the rip off of "dynamic pricing", you've got the most miniscule chance of beating the bots and the scrapers, who will then go on and resell the tickets at even more inflated prices.

I had an experience with Ticketmaster last year where I tried and failed to get tickets for something and it convinced me never to even bother again. Life is way too short to waste time getting annoyed by something that's essentially built to piss people off and extract as much £ as it can out of them.

This is a good article about the World Cup fiasco:

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

That’s a shocker fair play, the beautiful game eh!

 

[Smurph]

It is starting to get to the point now where big events - a world cup, an Olympics, an Oasis gig, for example - are just an absolute waste of time for an ordinary person trying to get tickets. As well as the rip off of "dynamic pricing", you've got the most miniscule chance of beating the bots and the scrapers, who will then go on and resell the tickets at even more inflated prices.

I had an experience with Ticketmaster last year where I tried and failed to get tickets for something and it convinced me never to even bother again. Life is way too short to waste time getting annoyed by something that's essentially built to piss people off and extract as much £ as it can out of them.

This is a good article about the World Cup fiasco:

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

Dynamic pricing should be banned.

The costs of hotels going through the roof when something big is happening is abhorrent.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Dynamic pricing should be banned

Agree, otherwise it won't be long before other parts of the private sector start employing it, like supermarkets for example. "There's a day left until Easter! Get your last minute eggs here for £20"

 

[Smurph]

Agree, otherwise it won't be long before other parts of the private sector start employing it, like supermarkets for example. "There's a day left until Easter! Get your last minute eggs here for £20"

Another one is summer holidays during term time etc. Absolutely scandalous that families are getting priced out taking their kids abroad.

 

[Cooperman]

It is starting to get to the point now where big events - a world cup, an Olympics, an Oasis gig, for example - are just an absolute waste of time for an ordinary person trying to get tickets. As well as the rip off of "dynamic pricing", you've got the most miniscule chance of beating the bots and the scrapers, who will then go on and resell the tickets at even more inflated prices.

I had an experience with Ticketmaster last year where I tried and failed to get tickets for something and it convinced me never to even bother again. Life is way too short to waste time getting annoyed by something that's essentially built to piss people off and extract as much £ as it can out of them.

This is a good article about the World Cup fiasco:

A World Cup preying on Fomo: Fifa’s 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape

NFTs, dynamic pricing and double resale fees have turned the 2026 World Cup into a fintech carnival where fandom meets late-capitalist absurdity

www.theguardian.com

That’s a depressing read.