Third party ticket sites and City (dodgy site ticket claims - p32)

Alex - City Matters said:
I've reported this particular website to the Club.

That said, with the new Ticketing Compliance Officer in post, the Club have created the following email to report all similar instances to. If you see anything like this, please report it to: touting@mancity.com
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Unofficial ticket touts not welcome, official ticket touts embraced with open arms.

Absolutely disgusting state of affairs

All tickets should go to blues at face value, period.
 
jrb said:
I’d be very surprised if you or anyone outside the club ever found that out. The club will want the person to be as anonymous as possible.
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Or the person may be less effective in their role if it is widely known who they are.
 
If there was an agency with over a 1000 illegally obtained City tickets for sale for a home game in a little over a weeks time - the compliance officer would have a busy few days on his hands.

Unless of course those 1000 tickets had come directly from City to be shifted at much higher prices, but all unofficial to avoid the club getting any heat.

It’s not just City - all the big clubs have their snouts in this trough.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Or the person may be less effective in their role if it is widely known who they are.
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Why would they be less effective if it is known who they are? If someone is appointed to do a job that is, allegedly, helping genuine fans then don’t genuine fans need to know who they are?
Secrecy in this instance could breed more suspicion surely?
 
Prophet of Doom said:
If there was an agency with over a 1000 illegally obtained City tickets for sale for a home game in a little over a weeks time - the compliance officer would have a busy few days on his hands.

Unless of course those 1000 tickets had come directly from City to be shifted at much higher prices, but all unofficial to avoid the club getting any heat.

It’s not just City - all the big clubs have their snouts in this trough.
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Perhaps this is where the independent regulator could get involved by banning clubs from selling via third parties?
 
Eccles Blue said:
Why would they be less effective if it is known who they are? If someone is appointed to do a job that is, allegedly, helping genuine fans then don’t genuine fans need to know who they are?
Secrecy in this instance could breed more suspicion surely?
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I don’t know the specifics of the role but if the person needs to do undercover type investigations, then it’s better that they are not widely known.
 
I’m surprised nobody’s questions the posters who expected the new Ticket Comiance Manager to have sorted ticket touting within a week. That said’ I’m glad this forum is interested in ticket touting because that wasn’t always the case.
 
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Tim of the Oak said:
I don’t know the specifics of the role but if the person needs to do undercover type investigations, then it’s better that they are not widely known.
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I’m not sure I understand why they would be doing undercover investigations. Maybe I’m completely misunderstanding what the title Ticket Compliance Manager means. From what I’m reading so far it seems it should just be a Private Detective or maybe the job title Ticket Investigator?
As I say I’m obviously not understanding all this.
Nowt new there then. I mean I expect there to be peace in the world so what do I know!!! ;-) :-)


p.s. by the way @Tim of the Oak did you mean solved rather than sold in the post above this one? ;-)
 
Eccles Blue said:
I’m not sure I understand why they would be doing undercover investigations. Maybe I’m completely misunderstanding what the title Ticket Compliance Manager means. From what I’m reading so far it seems it should just be a Private Detective or maybe the job title Ticket Investigator?
As I say I’m obviously not understanding all this.
Nowt new there then. I mean I expect there to be peace in the world so what do I know!!! ;-) :-)


p.s. by the way @Tim of the Oak did you mean solved rather than sold in the post above this one? ;-)
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I do t know what the role will be like in practice. You are probably right.

These touts make their money bending rules and avoiding the authorities. I just don’t think we can expect instant results.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
I would ask the club how Livefootballtickets - a company with thousands of positive reviews on trustpilot - appears to have over a thousand tickets for the Ipswich match available for sale.

Would love to the see the new compliance officer explain that one away
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You don't seriously believe that this illegal site is in possession of over a thousand tickets that the club has given them do you?

Has it not occurred to you that an unauthorised ticket selling site that said they had no tickets but would do their best to get hold of one, would be extremely unlikely to get anyone using them? Of course they're going to claim they've got tickets.
 
Perhaps we should all ask unknown fans sitting around us how they got their tickets. Just a quick "hello" then ask the question. Most people talk to those next to them at games and it might give a bit of an insight.
I heard a story about a Blue at Arsenal about six or seven years ago asking an American couple how much they'd spent and it was over a couple of hundred each for tickets in the away section.
 
City & Blue Brazil said:
Perhaps this is where the independent regulator could get involved by banning clubs from selling via third parties?
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I don't think the role of independent regulator covers any aspect of the game that involves match-going fans.
That's not me being a bitter old cynic, it's how I read the initial brief.
 
Touting is illegal, yet Touts operated with impunity in the vicinity of the old ticket office before the building work started. ( Not sure where they are now) There were always City staff in the area and even Police but nothing was done. IMO the club do not want to know where some of these tickets come from incase it is from someone connected with the Club or a Corporate member.
 
Just a selection of what one site supposedly has available for Chelsea. Not sure how they have a mobile ticket when we all have paper tickets. This site https://www.livefootballtickets.com/ appears to have tickets in all away sections. Given this game sold out at 20k plus how has this site obtained tickets assuming that they are in actual possession of them?

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East Level 2 said:
Perhaps we should all ask unknown fans sitting around us how they got their tickets. Just a quick "hello" then ask the question. Most people talk to those next to them at games and it might give a bit of an insight.
I heard a story about a Blue at Arsenal about six or seven years ago asking an American couple how much they'd spent and it was over a couple of hundred each for tickets in the away section.
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How will you know that they're 'unknown' fans? I got asked about where I got my ticket for the Swamp a few years ago. Told the cheeky fucker I'd had a season ticket since 1975. That seemed to satisfy him lol
 
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