Just wanted to share my experience of the ticket office/supporter services over the last week...
Wigan at home. My son couldn't go-Rang up supporter services and upgraded to adult no problem-no paper ticket required as they just upgraded my lads season card.
Napoli at home. My son again couldn't make it. Rang the club 5 days in advance and asked to upgrade again to adult. The girl(sorry but complete airhead) told me that I would have to go to the ground and collect a paper ticket as to quote "We are not doing any upgrades on season cards this year-all upgrades require a paper ticket".
So here goes to quote what I said...
"So how come you upgraded my sons Wigan ticket to adult no problem if you say that there are no upgrades"?
Reply "Oh I am not sure-It must have been an exception so you will have to come to the ground to collect a paper ticket above the City store"
"No problem - I will be down on Monday afternoon"
Monday afternoon I go upstairs and queued up. When I got to the sales girl and explained she checked the season card and said the following "Why have you come down.The card has been upgraded to an adult for Wednesday night"
So off I went home..a little bit mythed that I had made a journey when it wasn't required.
Last night - Walked up to Entrance N1 - My old dear tried to get in the ground..FUCKING CARD HADN'T BEEN ACTIVATED"!!!!!!!
Walked up to supporter services and they allowed my mum access after i had shown the receipt.
I am sorry but this is why so many blues are brassed off. The staff they are employing are just incompetent and it's need sorting...
Just to finish-had the pleasure to meet Danny Wilson at the Wigan game who asked me to call him to collect my Bayern ticket in person. Rang him up and he came down and ticket was delivered in an envelope with name,number on etc...
He is a very helpful guy and any fans with issues should email him at :-
Danny.wilson@mcfc.co.uk