realistically i'm going to struggle to make more than 6/7 games next season. Does anyone know if theres a limit on seat exchanges?
and second question, does using the seat exchange and selling your seat count as the seat being 'used'?
Don't want to receive an email saying i'm banned due to the seat not being used enough.
This is an interesting question and one where the club got themselves into a bit of a muddle initially by having two separate, competing objectives.
On the one hand, they don't want empty seats, so they want to encourage people to sell their unused tickets on the exchange whenever possible. On the other hand, they didn't want people buying season tickets they weren't going to use for the majority of games, therefore they restricted the number of times you could list tickets to 6 at first.
You can't really reconcile the two objectives so we agreed to compromise and increased it to 10, which is just over half the games. But I don't think the club are going to be too prescriptive about enforcing this limit for the moment at least. And listing your ticket is all you need to do. It doesn't matter whether it sells or not (obviously it does to you but not to the club).
In the discussions we've had with the club, it's been clear that tickets listed on the exchange will sell in the vast majority of cases. Maybe not for Watford on a Wednesday night but they will for most other games. We're also discussing other options that we feel will make listing on the exchange more attractive to fans, including how much you get for selling the ticket. They've already introduced guaranteed full refunds for Category A games and faster reimbursement, as
@mancityvstoke has kindly highlighted. Our view is that (a) Ticket Exchange is easy to use and (b) once people use it, they'll use it again. So we're telling the club to focus more on marketing the exchange more aggressively.
Also, is there a way we can accommodate people like yourself, who can only make a small number of games, without forcing you to give up your seat? For example, something like a 1-2-3 ticket, that allows you to priority book one Cat A game, two Cat B and 3 Cat C (or 3 Cat B and 2 Cat C).
