From what I've read it's 40% split between Supporters clubs, Corporate and internal. 60% left for seasoncards holders. Wouldn't suprise if the club is fiddling about with that 60% what's left either.On the subject of aways what about Shalke.
We got 2700 and it sold out in three days.
Speaking to a lot of people yesterday who are regulars at Euro aways they are without tickets.
I smell a bit of a rat here and wonder how many the Club have creamed off.
I will say it again there is a need for transparency and we should be told how many actually go on sale to Supporters
not in SC/Corporates/Sponsers.
Good post, there could well be a few ticket touts who are some of City’s top 2001 Onwards Points earners but in my opinion it’s actually the club will be a big part of this. The club will earn a %age of what Viagogo (and others) sell it for on top of the £30 going rate for an away ticket and the club will give them those 60 tickets for every game going.Having just now read the entire thread from scratch I feel it's time to put my 2 h'pennys worth in. In the old days we turned up at the ground and paid on the turnstyle and when there was a really big game we queued. I queued for over 12 hours for a Wembley ticket for the Gillingham game, not a great system but I was grateful when I got one. And in those days the football was shite, we went because we were City fans not because the team were likely to win or even turn up. There was one season we didn't win a single away game and I went to nearly all of them.
Enough of the nostalgia. My gripe is tout sites. I couldn't get a ticket for Basel away last year and had already booked my flights and accomodation so just to see I checked the likes of viagogo etc. I went through four or five sites and found (if I wanted to pay through the nose) I could have bought around SIXTY tickets IN THE CITY SECTION. So 60 people had managed to get sought after tickets and were trying to flog them for several hundred pounds a go. And this wasn't an isolated occurence, I've checked several other sold out games with similar results. I believe there are touts who have season tickets and maximum points who buy every ticket to sell on for as much profit as possible. It would be easy for the club to find them, all they have to do is buy a ticket off a tout site, trace who it was sold to and ban the perpetrator from buying any more tickets.
And in case you're wondering, I did get a Basel ticket in the end by paying £100, it was the only way I could get one.
Well other people want to reduce the independent fans’ cut, so why not?From what I've read it's 40% split between Supporters clubs, Corporate and internal. 60% left for seasoncards holders. Wouldn't suprise if the club is fiddling about with that 60% what's left either.
Good post, there could well be a few ticket touts who are some of City’s top 2001 Onwards Points earners but in my opinion it’s actually the club will be a big part of this. The club will earn a %age of what Viagogo (and others) sell it for on top of the £30 going rate for an away ticket and the club will give them those 60 tickets for every game going.
Look at the way they give fans money back in the ticket exchange scheme; they wait over 40 days to pay fans back so that the money sits in their account long enough to earn interest.
Don’t underestimate how dodgy the club are when it comes to tickets.
They certainly sell them on to foreign tour agencies. There have been all sorts of randomers in our away ends at loads of places: Hajduk Split fans at Anfield, Dynamo Dresden fans at Huddersfield, Belgians at Arsenal, and also Chelsea/Liverpool/Arsenal(/and I’d bet United) fans in our away ends at their grounds.There's one thing that hasn't been mentioned as far as I am aware on any of the away ticket threads, which is that the club do not own these tickets (unlike home tickets), they are selling them on behalf of the other team. Therefore I cannot see City selling them to the likes of Viagogo as that would make them touts of the first order.
Stubhub and Livefootball already selling tickets in the City end.
Stubhub have even got 4 seats in the City seating allocation for sale.
Wonder where these came from ? will the Club investigate. Will they F
They certainly sell them on to foreign tour agencies. There have been all sorts of randomers in our away ends at loads of places: Hajduk Split fans at Anfield, Dynamo Dresden fans at Huddersfield, Belgians at Arsenal, and also Chelsea/Liverpool/Arsenal(/and I’d bet United) fans in our away ends at their grounds.
Anyway, it’s now 2 aways in a row that are likely to go to general sale so I expect the people who complain most often about away tickets to make at least one of these games!
That's corporates. Well known they apply for tickets for the big games and then flog them on these sites. Pays for their hospitality for the season