Selling City Tickets To Make Money Off Fellow Blues

[Franny Lee's Barrel Chest]

I seem to remember during the £5 Hamburg time, a poster saying he had a spare and wanted offers and straight away a MOD ( De Niro maybe ??) came on and give him an instant ban? Apologies in advance if I have my facts wrong.

It is against the rules of this site to post tickets for sale at anything above face value.

It's also a criminal offence. Technically it's illegal to sell them on even at face value, but I remember watching that the cops view on it is that they don't mind the odd ticket changing hands at face value between fellow supporters, which would make the ticket exchange here no problem at all. It's when people are making big sums that they become interested. So if you're looking at making a profit, I wouldn't advertise it!!

 

[cyberblue]

Before this guy is hung drawn & quartered on here .how much is he ripping a fellow Blue of for .My mates paid £46 for there tickets from the club .getting a pint out of it aint the grearest crime

 

[salfordpaul]

me and my mate went to bolton away in the cup a cple of years ago. we had 2 spare tickets in the city end!

Guess what we saw 2 blues outside asking for tickets and we gave them the tickets for free. They offered us money, the tickets had been paid for but we didn't want anything for them!

Thats the way business with blues should be done!

 

[bluejean1]

Bloke behind me always sells his ticket on the exchange if he can't make a match but I have never done that - personally I would rather lend my card to family or friends if I can't go - but thats just me.

 

[Superbia]

Never been in the position where I have been unable to make a home game, if I was I would prefer to give the ticket to a friend for face value or less but if someone shows a bit of enterprise and makes a few quid to soften the blow of missing a Derby of all games surely it is not the crime of the century?

Lot of talk about treating fellow Blues fairly by selling tickets face value but how fair would an e-mail to the club be with the possible consequences? Smells of a witch hunt to be fair

 

[sneakitawc]

usually ask for a tenner if trying to give away my/my dad's ticket. it's mostly at short notice and, at the expense of sounding soppy, doing someone a good turn beats having a few $'s in my back pocket.

 

[buzzer1]

Never been in the position where I have been unable to make a home game, if I was I would prefer to give the ticket to a friend for face value or less but if someone shows a bit of enterprise and makes a few quid to soften the blow of missing a Derby of all games surely it is not the crime of the century?

Lot of talk about treating fellow Blues fairly by selling tickets face value but how fair would an e-mail to the club be with the possible consequences? Smells of a witch hunt to be fair

Think he was pissing about when he said he'd posted to the club mate.

 

[buckshot]

People do this all the time in the States. My buddy has season tickets for the Phillies and was selling some of them for $1,500 for the world series (they only cost him $250). He had plenty of tickets so he would attend also. He made a fortune considering he had seven games to sell in 2008 and eight in 2009.

I didn't like it but it was hard to argue with him making $10-15,000 a year. I don't think it's right to make a little money but $10,000 is nothing to sneeze at.

I actually had a situation a few years ago when one of the players left me ten tickets for a game and everybody backed out except my brother. I decided to give out the tickets to fans who didn't have good seats or didn't have seats at all. We even gave one to a bus driver who brought a bunch of people to the game but didn't have a ticket himself. It turned out to be a great ploy because they bought us beers all night long.

 

[salfordblues]

I Think the point with this is that although we would all pay over the odds to go and watch our beloved blues we should always try and help a fellow blue out where we can. Just because someone is willing to pay more than face for a ticket doesn't mean you have the right to charge them so.


That is not to say we should give them away for free because at the end of the day you've spent your hard earned money on them but face value
should be the maximum you should charge.

 

[mr t]

The tickets cost about 50 quid anyway - if you can get one.

And at least he's not selling it to a rag for double the money.

I've never sold mine by the way - I've always given it away. I believe what goes around comes around.