Suspended Seasoncard....

Tim of the Oak said:
There's been more fighting in the posh seats than any other area of the ground! Not a great deal but a few families were coined during the Everton semi.

The Club know there will be rags in 93:20 on Sunday and look like they are trying to miniseries trouble!
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What channel is it on ITV, BBC or Sky?
 
Yup they are point whoring and making profits on that site, £299 season tickets being sold for 40-60 quid a ticket depending on what price the match day tickets are, should be shut down.
 
It needs to be closed. The club should stop issuing paper tickets or maybe only one or two per season to stop the sale of cheap tickets for profit, you see it all the time, the same people selling.

I would not mind if it was just selling a ticket you bought and cannot make but they now have people openly asking to get card numbers to buy away tickets for fans who don't qualify on the premise they're "helping fellow blues" ignoring they're not helping blues who should qualify before the ones they're "helping".

And I've said it before, points should only be awarded for attending home games.
 
RichardDunneOwnGoal said:
So some dumb fat Yank, who's likely a bandwagon blue, with money to burn, bought a corporate lite season ticket just to guarantee him a ticket when he fancied making the trip, once a bluemoon, and he spends most weeks trying to shift it for individual games to recoup (or make) some money - many of which it'll be obviously left unsold.

And we're supposed to feel sorry for this mug that his corporate lite season ticket, that he rarely, if ever, uses is suspended for a game he wasn't even going to attend on the weekend - but just intended to sell off again, for "face value" though apparently?

Fuck him.

Hope he gets his card taken off him.

It's tossers like that who bought league cup final tickets only to sell them on to third party websites to make a few quid, which were then sold onto dippers who were then sat in our end - leading to continual trouble throughout the game in our block.

They're also responsible for a lot of the routine no shows we have dotted around the ground every week.

No sympathy whatsoever.

The idea that you can even purchase a season ticket while being on the otherside of the globe is utterly absurd to me. I'd wager those that do only attend a fraction of those 19 league games and as such shouldn't even own one.

Good to see the club take some action.

Now what they need to do is lower the price of individual match tickets for next season, as I think the cost of our league tickets leads to some people who ordinarily wouldn't be season ticket holders (can't commit to the majority of home games etc) just buying a season ticket because buying several individual league tickets can often cost as much as a season ticket in some cases - such is the cost of our individual league tickets now, and the 'Cityzens' membership fee.

That clearly isn't the problem for this Yank though, who has enough money to spend on a £1k+ corporate lite season ticket, and rarely goes anyway.

Glad his card has been suspended, doesn't use it anyway. Will at least ensure that seat isn't empty on derby day.
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Sounds about right. If that's what he's doing then the club are spot on.
 
I would say there is more abuse of tickets in the corporate section than the rest.
The mark up there is much higher as the people who buy them can afford to do so.
A lot of these people are from overseas or very infrequent visitors.
It wasn't so long ago that an ex City player was found to be selling his box for games.
The Facebook website which people refer to is open to abuse as with any form of ticketing.
But in the main does a good job and supplies many tickets at well under face value.
 
It's harsh but the T and C's are clear. If you give your card away or sell it on, don't blag about it, loose lips and ships and stuff. And why risk RAGs getting in there too!
 
The club should take all of our finger prints and on entry to the stadium put our fingers on a pad instead of scanning our cards. Points then only awarded to us if we turn up.

That's the dinner queue system I have at my work. Scan your finger print, get your food.

If we don't turn up to, say, 90% of games, they tell us we'll lose our SC next season if we had a similar attendance record.

Why the fuck would the club sell a SC to someone who lives in Dallas anyway?
 
Strangely, the Facebook ticket exchange group won't allow me to sell my ticket for £16 (£299 /19 ) as they deem it too cheap, minimum sales price is £20. So anyone in the £299 seats makes a profit selling on there, which I don't like to do.
 
PrestwichPeteMcfc said:
Strangely, the Facebook ticket exchange group won't allow me to sell my ticket for £16 (£299 /19 ) as they deem it too cheap, minimum sales price is £20. So anyone in the £299 seats makes a profit selling on there, which I don't like to do.
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The reason for that is we had people agreeing to buy a ticket for say £25 then someone else would offer one at £15 which they would take instead but not tell the original seller. End result original seller waits around buyer doesnt turn up then they are stuck with a ticket its too late to get rid off.

The agreed £20 minimum helps to stop people undercutting each other and stops in the main that issue happening.

And whilst it's above face value as you say based on a £299 ticket we allow tickets to be sold up to the face value of that seat for the particular game as it's swings and roundabouts . You may sell your ticket for the derby for say £55 but it then doesn't sell for stoke and west brom So you win some you lose some.

I doubt it's any different in the ticket page here. People will sell their tickets up to face value of that particular game regardless of what it is actually costing them
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
Except by the club I assume. Don't we have a scheme which allows the club to resell the tickets at over face value?
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Not any more.

If you use the club's ticket exchange system you receive no cash but are credited 1/19 of the season ticket price against your renewal next season.
 
didsburyblu said:
The reason for that is we had people agreeing to buy a ticket for say £25 then someone else would offer one at £15 which they would take instead but not tell the original seller. End result original seller waits around buyer doesnt turn up then they are stuck with a ticket its too late to get rid off.

The agreed £20 minimum helps to stop people undercutting each other and stops in the main that issue happening.

And whilst it's above face value as you say based on a £299 ticket we allow tickets to be sold up to the face value of that seat for the particular game as it's swings and roundabouts . You may sell your ticket for the derby for say £55 but it then doesn't sell for stoke and west brom So you win some you lose some.

I doubt it's any different in the ticket page here. People will sell their tickets up to face value of that particular game regardless of what it is actually costing them
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Why don't they just go? And if you can't make it pass on to a mate. And if you can't make most games, startling idea I know but don't buy a fucking season ticket. To use your example of £55, for one match that's a pisstake however you try to excuse it.
 
Yaya_Tony said:
Why don't they just go? And if you can't make it pass on to a mate. And if you can't make most games, startling idea I know but don't buy a fucking season ticket. To use your example of £55, for one match that's a pisstake however you try to excuse it.
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I wouldnt do it with my card but i can understand what he's saying, sometimes you can't give your card away for certain games or even get a tenner. So if someone has missed a few games through illness or other problems and can get face value for what city are selling at for the one big game, why not, it makes up for the games they have lost on. Don't forget this only involves this one game a season, every other match you can pick up cheaply.
 
Yaya_Tony said:
Why don't they just go? And if you can't make it pass on to a mate. And if you can't make most games, startling idea I know but don't buy a fucking season ticket. To use your example of £55, for one match that's a pisstake however you try to excuse it.
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I have no idea why these people dont go as you put it but they are grown adults we dont need a letter off them or their mum as to why they can't go. Lots of people can't make a game for various reasons , it happens. Not sure why it's a pisstake either the derby is just an example of a game where your ticket would sell and that is the face value set by the club obviously there not selling tickets for that much every game.

My ticket as an example works out at £34 a game. I could sell for the Derby again as an example at £55 and it would probably sell. I could sell for the stoke game as low as £20 which is well under face value however its unlikely to sell due to current lack of demand for run of the mill games so technically I've received £55 for 2 games that cost me 68 so why that is a pisstake I have no idea??

Why should it just be passed onto a mate?.do you assume all season ticket holders are rich? Dont need the Money? Season ticket holders make a long term commitment to the club yet a perk of being a season ticket holder is you should just give your ticket away for games you can't attend? Can't see that as an attractive proposition to any season ticket holder.

Whether it's right or wrong to sell tickets on its done in all walks of life including on here. We put a lot of work in on the site to ensure it runs smoothly. We dont just let any Tom dick or harry on the site they are vetted first and the first sign of trouble they are out of there.

We have only had a couple of issues of people abusing the trust we put in them in relation to dealing like adults in the buying/selling of tickets. In both cases the admins have worked with the people concerned to ensure the issue is resolved and Monies are repaid.
 
JGL07 said:
Not any more.

If you use the club's ticket exchange system you receive no cash but are credited 1/19 of the season ticket price against your renewal next season.
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But the club try to sell it on at a higher price than 1/19 of the season ticket price.
 
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