City attacking face value sites - cultural war on supporters ?

robsta said:
My adult son’s ticket was available for the derby. Bad timing as he’d booked holiday before fixtures out. Put the ticket on Ticket Exchange and it got snapped up in seconds.
Yesterday the lad who bought it told me he’d paid £200 for it via SeatPick. He said he followed Barcelona and was neither a City nor a united fan. Said he’d never been to a Prem game before so wanted to go to a high profile one. He may have been blagging about not being a rag so not to blow his cover but I’ll give him benefit of the doubt as rest of what he said rang true.
Point is this is another example of the club inviting us to sell spares via Ticket Exchange but passing it straight to a tout site. I’d not experienced it myself before and will make sure I do everything I can to sell any future spares directly.
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Same problem here, i was wary of selling it on here due to City clamping down on it, but lo and behold a rag sat in the seat
 
I sit in East stand level 3 block 302. I generally chat to people on the concourse and this weekend managed to speak to a Brazilian guy living in Ireland who had bought him and his wife tickets to experience the prem for the first time, 3 united fans who to be fair made no issues and kept their heads down and 3 USA "soccer" fans covered in the 50/50 scarf monstrosities. Not 1 person in either 3 groups had ever set foot in the Etihad before and non met the criteria for being able to purchase a ticker officially. The sooner the club admit to having a 2 tier entrance criteria the better , one for local fans who want to pay normal matchday prices and a second with zero criteria for those who are better off and able to spend a higher sum to circumnavigate any selling criteria. They are very open about having 3rd party selling partners as these are listed on the website, but not so open about the fact to purchase from these 3rd parties you don't have to comply with the official match selling criteria "normal" fans have abide by.
 
pride in battle said:
A rag was in my daughters seat in 119, how do you explain
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Does she sit in the hospitality area ?
Because that what I was discussing with the poster.
And do you know if the person sat there had bought it as a hospitality package or just as a match ticket .
 
uwerosler28 said:
I sit in East stand level 3 block 302. I generally chat to people on the concourse and this weekend managed to speak to a Brazilian guy living in Ireland who had bought him and his wife tickets to experience the prem for the first time, 3 united fans who to be fair made no issues and kept their heads down and 3 USA "soccer" fans covered in the 50/50 scarf monstrosities. Not 1 person in either 3 groups had ever set foot in the Etihad before and non met the criteria for being able to purchase a ticker officially. The sooner the club admit to having a 2 tier entrance criteria the better , one for local fans who want to pay normal matchday prices and a second with zero criteria for those who are better off and able to spend a higher sum to circumnavigate any selling criteria. They are very open about having 3rd party selling partners as these are listed on the website, but not so open about the fact to purchase from these 3rd parties you don't have to comply with the official match selling criteria "normal" fans have abide by.
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And don't forget the "5 games in the last 2 seasons" criteria applied to City fans for big game purchases is supposedly for safety reasons......but anyone can buy from the resellers with no prior attendence!!
They are starting to reap the backlash to this nonsense.
 
We often use the ticket exchange and I am becoming increasingly suspicious that our two seats together that sell very quickly never actually appear on the club site to be sold to City fans. For the United game one of them sold within seconds and the other an hour later. I was constantly checking on line to see if it appeared during the period that it was unsold and it didn’t.

City Matters must press this hard. If the club are putting exchange tickets out to resellers we should absolutely know about that.
 
Chappie said:
Does she sit in the hospitality area ?
Because that what I was discussing with the poster.
And do you know if the person sat there had bought it as a hospitality package or just as a match ticket .
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No mate, south stand 119
To be honest as it was a derby i didn't, he went early as i was going to ask him after the game
 
pride in battle said:
No how many games you've been to or membership needed ?
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Just buy a ticket from one of the 3rd party sites and you don't need a City membership. Buy said ticket and rock the fuck up :)

No need to prove who you are, what games you have attended, just flash your QR code and you're in.
 
mexico1970 said:
Just buy a ticket from one of the 3rd party sites and you don't need a City membership. Buy said ticket and rock the fuck up :)

No need to prove who you are, what games you have attended, just flash your QR code and you're in.
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Absolute joke, he"s lucky he didn't get a kicking!! We made him do the Poznan though
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Thanks.

Clear as a bottle of shit to me !!
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Basically it’s an automated tool that can operate much faster than you or I at selecting and buying a ticket. Bots are often used to buy high demand concert tickets and if you ever buy anything on line these days you may see one of those boxes asking you to prove you are a human. Or a selection of images to select. All things to try and counter bots buying them.
 
fathellensbellend said:
I had 2 spares last season for Liverpool, sold to what I believed was a genuine blue, wanker sold them to Egyptian Liverpool fans, I was fucking fuming, I won’t entertain strangers with tickets for big games anymore
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And that’s one of the reasons I put my son’s derby ticket on Ticket Exchange believing it would at least go to a blue who deserved it. A while ago I sold to a member of our OSC and it ended up getting passed on through 2 or 3 hands and ended up with someone who had never heard of the guy I sold to. The guy was a blue and ok but if I sell a ticket I want to know who it’s going to and it’s that person that uses it, that they are a blue and not some idiot who could get me banned.
 
Quinny851 said:
it 100% happens and I don't care what anyone says.
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You claimed that they went to hospitality when they were put on the exchange.
They dont ,they get put on the ticketing sites by City as proved by the last few posts on here.
I have been banging on about this for the last few seasons when others keep blaming the fans for selling them on.
City should hang their heads in shame for this abhorrent abuse of the ticketing system.
 
Chappie said:
You claimed that they went to hospitality when they were put on the exchange.
They dont ,they get put on the ticketing sites by City as proved by the last few posts on here.
I have been banging on about this for the last few seasons when others keep blaming the fans for selling them on.
City should hang their heads in shame for this abhorrent abuse of the ticketing system.
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I claimed that the season tickets that are put onto the exchange by season ticket holders are then resold by as hospitality tickets through their reseller partners. Which is why you can purchase tickets through 3rd party's and sit somewhere in Level 3 (or Level 2 now) and not in the traditional hospitality seats.

It's also very telling that when people buy these tickets, the offsite dining experience is at Tast which we all know is co-owned by Pep, Txiki & Soriano.

I appreciate you're an ex employee but you've not provided any evidence to suggest what I'm saying is wrong apart from "trust me, I used to work there".
 
Oyster28catcher said:
BBC chose a ticket holder from 034 for their headlines.

www.bbc.co.uk

Premier League: Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal black market tickets

Find out what happened when we tried to attend four Premier League games with tickets from "unauthorised" websites.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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They could do with doing a proper in-depth investigation.... there's plenty of stuff to go at with tickets on here for starters. We know they read here so, they could set up an account & pm posters etc and have a major story on their hands.

Part of me wouldn't like the club to get bad press but, part of me also thinks they fucking deserve it on this matter.
 
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