West Ham Club London have been directly ringing season ticket holders, desperate to sell the Paolo Di Canio Icons event at the O2 on 2 December.
Tickets start at £99 for a standard ticket, with King Row Seats at £199 per person. This is an adult-only event; under-18s are not permitted to attend.
VIP tables are priced at £54o per person, so £5,400 for a table of ten, and go up to over one thousand per seat, so £10,200 for a table of ten to sit on a table with a West Ham legend.
The season ticket holder we spoke to said they were called out of the blue on a 15-minute phone call from a lady desperate to sell the event, but went on to also push tickets at the Club London Boleyn Bar and other Club London products.
She also enquired about the season ticket holder’s match day experience and asked what they thought of the London Stadium in an obvious, pre-rehearsed sales script.
The season ticket holder in question turned down the polished sales pitch, but you have to wonder how many hundreds or thousands the club have called directly in recent days.
One industry insider for West Ham events commented that the event had been overpriced and speculated that the event could even be cancelled if they don’t sell enough tickets to break even.
How else are they supposed to offer tickets for the event?
Lucky season ticket holders are the first to know. That is how it should be. They get first refusal. After them come anyone else that might have shown an interest in West Ham.
If sales don’t go well, then the prices fall. Always the way.
Certainly don’t start with contacting Arsenal, Millwall and Tottenham supporters to judge interest.
I won’t be going – but I am grateful to you Sean for alerting me to the opportunity that exists.
The organisers for this event are living in a fantasy world. Regarding prices, when people are struggling to live in this broken high cost country. Greed at West Ham has never been worse than it is now.
They reap what they sow…