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[Football] Ticketing Scandal ??













Commander

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Diablo said:
Not 100% sure but friends would also have to be members which they aren`t.
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So you managed to get tickets for 2 people who weren't members to a category A game?
 




Wozza

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GJN1 said:
My son, who's at uni, couldn't go last night so upgraded his U21 ST to an adult, costing an extra £30. he gets an email saying that's been done with a link to the ticket and I forward it to a mate, a Man City fan, who downloads it and comes with me. He didn't have to be a member.
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Yep. Exactly what the OP should have done (and can be done up to six times a season).

Upgrade child tickets to adult, paying only the difference. No names required. No membership required.

Job done.

Next!
 


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sussex_guy2k2

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I’m not a fan of the club’s ticketing policy to be honest. And, as we’ve seen multiple times this year, it often leads to many empty seats at games, and the subsequent loss of sales elsewhere on game day.

But whatever. Now we’re Premier League we don’t have to care about fans as much.
 


Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

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Oct 4, 2003
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Diablo said:
Sounds like I`m in the minority being upset at having to buy our tickets twice.
The 1901 comments were only to point out that transferring or letting someone else go on our tickets would not be illegal as has been quoted in the past.

Not 100% sure but friends would also have to be members which they aren`t.
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You haven’t had to buy them twice as you’ve been refunded for the pro rata cost of the tickets.

Transferring tickets without the permission of the club is illegal under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The club give you options on how they can be transferred with their permission, which differ depending on where in the stadium the tickets are for. It isn’t a scam or a scandal.

Wozza said:
Yep. Exactly what the OP should have done (and can be done up to six times a season).

Upgrade child tickets to adult, paying only the difference. No names required. No membership required.

Job done.

Next!
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Looking at the amount the OP was refunded they look like they were adult tickets so there wouldn’t have been an upgrade option, only ticket share or exchange.
 






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Diablo

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Commander said:
So you managed to get tickets for 2 people who weren't members to a category A game?
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Indeed. put sons tickets on exchange. Then bought them back. They still had their names on tickets (print at home) including all the speel about non transferable. Assumed ok to take friends !! Were we doing something wrong ??
 


Wozza

Wozza

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Commander said:
So you managed to get tickets for 2 people who weren't members to a category A game?
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Club opened it up to all (yesterday morning?) as there were so many unsold tickets on the exchange.
 








Herr Tubthumper

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BNthree

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Most surprising thing about the OP is that any of this came as a shock. It's all there on the club website, in the emails they send, seems there is a thread about it on NSC once every month or 2.
 


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Giraffe said:
So it is the way the system works. So it's not a scam. Is it as nice and friendly as it used to be in the old days when you could just on the day take a friend, no. Technically even then the ticket was non transferable they just never enforced it.
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Yeah, that's my take on it. I never usually like to pass up a chance to lay into the club for introducing/enforcing petty, penny-pinching regulations, but I'm struggling to see what the issue really is. The bottom line is the OP's mates legitimately got to see a PL match for slightly less than £20 a ticket. That's not a scandal or a scam; that's a bargain.
 






Herr Tubthumper

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PTC Gull said:
That will be of no Comfort and will not soften the blow.
I‘ll get me coat from the washing machine !
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Yawn yawn, these washing puns are so Lenor-ing.
 




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