Newcastle Have Done What City Should Be Doing

Citizen of Legoland said:
Before the article was amended with this new info it had a quote from the reseller on there who mentioned they provided schools with tickets for Newcastle and City. Interesting that their name has now been removed and their website is “under development”.
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Interesting.

We do get a lot of school kids and coach parties coming from Scotland. They normally sit in the North stand.
 
The High School of Dundee believed it had bought tickets from an approved provider, and offered pupils the chance to travel to Newcastle and watch the match for £295.

"These tickets will be made available to Newcastle United supporters through the club's existing ticket sale process. Supporters who suspect unauthorised reselling are urged to send relevant information to supporter.services@nufc.co.uk."

ChronicleLive understands that 4,500 membership accounts are being watched due to suspicious activity, and around 750 supporters are currently being actively monitored for potential touting and unauthorised selling.

A total of 78 memberships and season tickets have been cancelled so far this season. The club added that it is actively purchasing unauthorised tickets in an attempt to identify a source.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk

Newcastle United cancels tickets for Barcelona clash amid Dundee school row

The club has cancelled several tickets for next Thursday's Champions League match, as well as a number of season tickets
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jrb said:
Interesting.

We do get a lot of school kids and coach parties coming from Scotland. They normally sit in the North stand.
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I cannot remember the name of the company but they also sell to schools/football teams in the Dorset area as I know a guy who’s sons football team gets tickets this way.

They charge an exorbitant fee, add in a tour of the ground/training session for the kids and sell the package for £150-200.

No winners in this, besides the club, as the dad has to pay a small fortune just to get tickets.
 
City should clamp down heavily on profiteering beyond face value. The good news for the travel budget is that they won't have to look very far at all to resolve a significant proportion of it
 
franksinatra said:
I cannot remember the name of the company but they also sell to schools in the Dorset area as I know a guy who’s sons football team gets tickets this way.

They charge an exorbitant fee, add in a tour of the ground/training session for the kids and sell the package for £150-200.

No winners in this, besides the club, as the dad has to pay a small fortune just to get tickets.
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GB Sports Tours was the named business on BBC this morning.
 
franksinatra said:
I cannot remember the name of the company but they also sell to schools in the Dorset area as I know a guy who’s sons football team gets tickets this way.

They charge an exorbitant fee, add in a tour of the ground/training session for the kids and sell the package for £150-200.

No winners in this, besides the club, as the dad has to pay a small fortune just to get tickets.
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I thought the name of the company might be in the Chronicle article, but it isn’t.

I’ll Google it and find it.

On the plus side, Newcastle have listened to their fans, cancelled the tickets, and resold the tickets at face value back to Newcastle fans, who can now go and watch the match and support Newcastle.
 
jrb said:
Some people will say and argue in favour of a ticket touting website as it allows fans to buy a ticket. I’m sure loads of tickets for the derby this weekend have been bought that way. Tickets bought by fans who don’t support City or United, and just want to watch the match.
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Yesterday you could buy a pair of tickets direct from the club for this Sunday. £495 per ticket including one night hotel accommodation.
City are the biggest tout out there
 
dan136 said:
Am i missing something?

It Seems a strange story to me, 45 tickets sold to one school, presumably all together. It would take a lot of fan organisation to get 45 seats next to each other all resold via individual season ticket holders.
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Are they all part of the same supports club, or similar? That's the only explanation I can think of
 
Xhavenjoe said:
A few years ago , I met up with a few lads who had bought a hotel and ticket package.
It was very reasonable price.
They collected the tickets in the ticket office at the ground and were given one of the old style tickets.
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You can get tickets for all our games with some £149 for hotel and ticket. Hotel is the Holiday Inn Express at the airport though so not that great but price wise it’s ok. That’s with one of our “partners”
 
johnnytapia said:
Yesterday you could buy a pair of tickets direct from the club for this Sunday. £495 per ticket including one night hotel accommodation.
City are the biggest tout out there
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Viagogo (one of our partners) has a few at £180 plus fees which includes offsite hospitality at Vermillion. All it says is away fans are not permitted. Presumably they don’t check that so as long as don’t roll up in colours you are in.

There was a young foreign touristy woman in SS3 last year. Probably paid top whack for some shit package and nearly got lynched when she celebrated a rag goal. She certainly didn’t look like one of the Mibs and probably didn’t have Clue what the “rules” are.

Ultimately the club are putting people at risk by selling tickets to anyone via third party sites.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Viagogo (one of our partners) has a few at £180 plus fees which includes offsite hospitality at Vermillion. All it says is away fans are not permitted. Presumably they don’t check that so as long as don’t roll up in colours you are in.

There was a young foreign touristy woman in SS3 last year. Probably paid top whack for some shit package and nearly got lynched when she celebrated a rag goal. She certainly didn’t look like one of the Mibs and probably didn’t have Clue what the “rules” are.

Ultimately the club are putting people at risk by selling tickets to anyone via third party sites.
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dan136 said:
Am i missing something?

It Seems a strange story to me, 45 tickets sold to one school, presumably all together. It would take a lot of fan organisation to get 45 seats next to each other all resold via individual season ticket holders.
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That was exactly my point
The school will NOT be paying tout prices and maybe not even adult prices per ticket.
There is something fundamentally missing in this story.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Agreed. They'll be begging the fans to come back if/when they get relegated.

I remember the days when they had to rely on the 'big clubs' visiting and were getting sub-20k attendances.

All owners have the same aim... maximise profits at any cost. They don't give a shit about traditional fanbase etc.
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Don't forget the buy one get one free half season tickets they were doing fairly recently, absolutely shite fans
 
mrtwiceaseason said:
I'm thinking the only way they have got 45 seats together is through Newcastle ,my guess is with big demand Newcastle will have called them back as it's not a good look selling to a Scottish school when locals carnt get a sniff.City do exactly the same selling to Scottish schools .
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Also think this. Smacks of the club being behind it and now trying to safe face.
 
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