I'm a member and go regularly, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they started implementing this at the Etihad one day. When you renew your season ticket the club could make it a requirement you upload a picture of yourself and it links to your SN then A screen on the other side of each turnstile, a steward checking it. Job done.They do, as I work at Costco. Member Services on the entrance check every card, including the picture, as a member goes into the store. The card is also scanned to see if the membership has expired. Green or red light. If the membership has expired, red light, the member has to go to the membership desk to renew their membership before they are let in to the warehouse. Checking the picture is a quick process. I've done it myself when I was briefly on Member Services.
I’ve done the same. Typical that the derby is the only game I can’t make this season. Still, a younger blue gets to experience a derby for the first time.Wow. Our two tickets in SSL2 might both be available. I've already promised them to my mate and his boy at £35 each.
Probably the reason why I'll never be rich.
I'm a member and go regularly, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they started implementing this at the Etihad one day. When you renew your season ticket the club could make it a requirement you upload a picture of yourself and it links to your SN then A screen on the other side of each turnstile, a steward checking it. Job done.
It's very doable.
You'd be surprised mate, they do this at Costco.
Fair point, but it's something I'd imagine would get trailed before putting in place....hope it doesn't happen personally for the reason you stated aboveI’m not saying it’s not physically possible.
But could Costco cope if 55,000 shoppers all turned up within the space of an hour or so?
Regarding the posts above about having photo ID attached to your membership. It wouldn't be too difficult to require a current photo to be uploaded to your account for anyone with a supporter number. That photo could then be displayed on a screen on entry and stewards could either do nothing or stop you for a further check to ensure that you are the person the ticket is allocated to.
I could definitely see that happening.
If only they were only resold at just £70!Just another kick in the teeth to force fans to only use their ticket exchange so they can exploit the 'new fans' by giving us £30 for our bought back ticket and sell it to them for £70.
Yet they will make out we are the crooks in all this.
Not so many of them and the club could just state that it won't apply to those games.It would do away with being able to buy multiple tickets for low key games, without allocating them to someone on their database.