All this really stops is people passing on their ticket to someone they didn't know before, through the medium of NSC. That's quite a narrow category of people, really - hard to believe this ties in with a thought-out strategy on the part of the Albion administration.
It'd be more alarming if...
Good question. But the Arsenal one has been running in the open for some time now. So either their club doesn't have a problem with it (eg it's easier for them that there's an unofficial way of distributing unwanted 'away season ticket' tickets than actually running sales themselves? I don't...
The @arsenal_tickets account in Twitter acts as a clearing house for Arsenal spares. It's a brilliant model to follow (clear rules such as face value only; blacklisting people who try to use it for touting, etc). A similar thing for Albion would be great. But (and this is a big BUT) it needs a...