A disgraceful undermining of the Ticket Points system - again

Corky said:
23 years ago when the points system started people already had 2k points, before it started work that one out.

It was 10 points a game and some were £40, half sunsold allocations and people who bought went.

You would still get 1,500 points on a kids one when the system started, yet don't have 2k yet. Seems very hard to believe.
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No one gave me 2k points 23 years ago, who do I complain to about this? I’ve been going home and away as often as I can since 1995, that should be enough if I’ve found ways to skip the queue. Has anyone checked how many City Clubcard points Noel Gallagher, Curly Watts, Frank Sidebottom or Mr Tumble have?
 
CleverDickson said:
No one gave me 2k points 23 years ago, who do I complain to about this? I’ve been going home and away as often as I can since 1995, that should be enough if I’ve found ways to skip the queue. Has anyone checked how many City Clubcard points Noel Gallagher, Curly Watts, Frank Sidebottom or Mr Tumble have?
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You would have got minimum 1,100 at the switch over, 1,500 if you had a ST since 1998 and every away and cup game since 2001 Norwich to get the 2,000.

Look at your points history. At 10 points ticket , and some were £40 like Birmingham away on a Tuesday, people who bought went. Everton away at 3pm Saturday we took 2,000 in late 2006, no one wanted to go then, who were they selling tickets on to?

The new/lapsed fans make a lot of assumptions as they were not there for decades and back up their own back stories.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Not all new season ticket holders were “plastic” ffs. People’s financial situation changed so they could afford one, others might’ve moved to Manchester, others might have more free time at weekends, there’s a million and one reasons a long standing city fan could be in a position to finally get a season ticket.

I do agree the platinum scheme was a cynical money grab though which is why I’ve never had one, they can shove it up their arse.

Remember the ‘superbia’ ones too. No idea what happened to those.
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I stopped going to aways when clubs were charging in excess of £50 for a ticket 20 years ago. For a few seasons up until around 2009 I could get tickets for derbies at OT but slowly fell behind. I have circa 20k points but these haven’t really accrued much since they stopped awarding points for attending cup or away matches. The windows for accessing tickets are way too long and the barrier too high so how does anyone, never mind a long term ST holder ever catch up? It’s garbage but there doesn’t seem to be any appetite to improve this which is pretty grim by all accounts.
 
Pelegrinni said:
People on the cup scheme already pay for the tickets (home game that is) regardless of whether they attend the games or not. Hence, they should be given priority as it currently stands.
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Totally agree. I’m in all cup schemes and do the hard yards. Too many ST holders swerve cup games.
 
This thread seems to have totally derailed and lost focus, it's nothing to do with OSC entitlements to tickets but lots of people are turning it into that which has been done to death on previous threads, we're even back to the myth that everyone with high points is a fully fledged point hoarder who never attended games.

In reality the thread is only to do with the fact that OSC members who it is accepted have an entitlement to tickets as that is how it has always been, have been given priority access above everyone else with 19995 points or less on the cup scheme especially given the very people who gave them this priority access are those same people who encouraged people to join the cup schemes as that gets you priority over everyone else, it clearly doesn't!!
 
gkmcfc said:
I stopped going to aways when clubs were charging in excess of £50 for a ticket 20 years ago. For a few seasons up until around 2009 I could get tickets for derbies at OT but slowly fell behind. I have circa 20k points but these haven’t really accrued much since they stopped awarding points for attending cup or away matches. The windows for accessing tickets are way too long and the barrier too high so how does anyone, never mind a long term ST holder ever catch up? It’s garbage but there doesn’t seem to be any appetite to improve this which is pretty grim by all accounts.
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A few rickets went over £50 but this started in 2012/13, and some in 2013/14 there £200k subsidy halved some of the costs of these games, which continued until the 2016 price cap.

I stopped going to the over £50 ones but must have missed about 5 due to it.
 
Corky said:
A few rickets went over £50 but this started in 2012/13, and some in 2013/14 there £200k subsidy halved some of the costs of these games, which continued until the 2016 price cap.

I stopped going to the over £50 ones but must have missed about 5 due to it.
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seemed to vary season to season. Always went to Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn etc but even missed two of those due to them charging way in excess of £40 for a seat
 
gkmcfc said:
I stopped going to aways when clubs were charging in excess of £50 for a ticket 20 years ago. For a few seasons up until around 2009 I could get tickets for derbies at OT but slowly fell behind. I have circa 20k points but these haven’t really accrued much since they stopped awarding points for attending cup or away matches. The windows for accessing tickets are way too long and the barrier too high so how does anyone, never mind a long term ST holder ever catch up? It’s garbage but there doesn’t seem to be any appetite to improve this which is pretty grim by all accounts.
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You’re being cheated points are awarded for attending cup games.
 
gkmcfc said:
seemed to vary season to season. Always went to Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn etc but even missed two of those due to them charging way in excess of £40 for a seat
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Wigan was £35 once in 2006 at the most, all other games were below £30.

Bolton was £31 lower £38 upper the most we paid.

Blackburn was £35 at the highest.

These clubs went down in 2012 and 2103 and it became far more expensive to go to aways after that.
 
Corky said:
You would have got minimum 1,100 at the switch over, 1,500 if you had a ST since 1998 and every away and cup game since 2001 Norwich to get the 2,000.

Look at your points history. At 10 points ticket , and some were £40 like Birmingham away on a Tuesday, people who bought went. Everton away at 3pm Saturday we took 2,000 in late 2006, no one wanted to go then, who were they selling tickets on to?

The new/lapsed fans make a lot of assumptions as they were not there for decades and back up
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Corky said:
their own back stories.
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I had one 1996-97 that had to be given up due to a family move to the south coast, ST then picked up again when we moved back and the club moved to the Etihad, which explains why I didn’t get those 1000 extra Nectar points like everyone else. It’s more fun getting tickets without the points and boiling piss among the Clubcard points hoarders in the process
 
didsburyblu said:
This thread seems to have totally derailed and lost focus, it's nothing to do with OSC entitlements to tickets but lots of people are turning it into that which has been done to death on previous threads, we're even back to the myth that everyone with high points is a fully fledged point hoarder who never attended games.

In reality the thread is only to do with the fact that OSC members who it is accepted have an entitlement to tickets as that is how it has always been, have been given priority access above everyone else with 19995 points or less on the cup scheme especially given the very people who gave them this priority access are those same people who encouraged people to join the cup schemes as that gets you priority over everyone else, it clearly doesn't!!
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As pointed out earlier in the thread by a fellow poster City have contravened their own T&C's for Season Tickets/Cup Schemes. Why ?
 
CleverDickson said:
I had one 1996-97 that had to be given up due to a family move to the south coast, ST then picked up again when we moved back and the club moved to the Etihad, which explains why I didn’t get those 1000 extra Nectar points like everyone else. It’s more fun getting tickets without the points and boiling piss among the Clubcard points hoarders in the process
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Make your mind up is it nectar points or clubcard points, you’ll be on about Morrisons more and Lidl plus in a minute, although I’m sure you don’t shop in either of those two with the ‘great unwashed’
 
CleverDickson said:
I had one 1996-97 that had to be given up due to a family move to the south coast, ST then picked up again when we moved back and the club moved to the Etihad, which explains why I didn’t get those 1000 extra Nectar points like everyone else. It’s more fun getting tickets without the points and boiling piss among the Clubcard points hoarders in the process
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I see you resort to asking on here for tickets despite your connections.

You got the 1,000 during the first season as a loyalty bonus for around 10 years after the move, but there weren't awarded straight away, it was just the 190 on purchase.
 
Corky said:
I see you resort to asking on here for tickets despite your connections.

You got the 1,000 during the first season as a loyalty bonus for around 10 years after the move, but there weren't awarded straight away, it was just the 190 on purchase.
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Asking on here is one of the many, many routes to a ticket!
 
CΛL said:
Make your mind up is it nectar points or clubcard points, you’ll be on about Morrisons more and Lidl plus in a minute, although I’m sure you don’t shop in either of those two with the ‘great unwashed’
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Clubcard for aways, Nectar for cup finals I believe, make up whatever you want mate, they’re your points!
 
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