Ticketing Compliance Manager - Man City

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Too bad the club can’t actually be arsed investigating things like violence and racism in the stands or rampant drug taking which leads to the above.

But let’s focus on the things that really matter, Gary from block 325 skimmed 20 quid by using an OAP ticket instead of a full price one, let’s have a crackdown.

I’m so so so close to telling them to get fucked and watching Maine Road FC every other Saturday instead.

 

[Ashleymcduff]

Bournemouth on Saturday in row in front of me were 2 young Chinese lads in kdb shirts they were filming the whole game on their phones. They were with their little old mum.

Know there was loads of lads in here desperate for tickets.

Touts are having a field day.

Fair play to the mum must of cost her fortune £450 plus to get her lads in .

 

[Lowtower]

Hopefully watching the game via your phone will be on this Ticket Gestapos hit list.

 

[jrb]

Given the choice of either selling your ticket to the club for a minimum return or giving your ticket away free of charge to a family member and mate or selling a ticket at face value to a fellow blue, the choice is clear and obvious, regardless of what the club wants to do and wants to implement on transferring and using tickets.

But don’t worry, when the Pep’s winning cycle is over and he goes back to Barcelona, and the team starts to stagnate, which will happen, and there’s an extra 8000 seats to fill and sell at the Etihad, let’s see how quickly and quietly the club backtracks on their new ticket policy. The site of 1000’s of empty seats will have Mansour, then Khaldoon breathing down Soriano’s neck, along with the other directors who are bringing in all these new ticket policies to drive more match day revenue whilst Pep is still CIty manager and the team are still winning trophies.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Bournemouth on Saturday in row in front of me were 2 young Chinese lads in kdb shirts they were filming the whole game on their phones. They were with their little old mum.

Know there was loads of lads in here desperate for tickets.

Touts are having a field day.

Fair play to the mum must of cost her fortune £450 plus to get her lads in .

How do you know they aren’t local?

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

or selling a thicket at face value to a fellow blue

It's hard to put a price on a thicket as they can be so varied and it depends on location very much too.

 

[jrb]

How do you know they aren’t local?

They probably are local now after moving from Hong Kong. Our Hong Konger support has exploded since the Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong and 10,000’s of Hong Kongers deciding to move to the UK and Manchester.

Without trying to be funny, as all new City fans are welcomed, I can’t ever remember seeing 2 young Chinese lads and their mother together at a City away match. Especially not at Bournemouth, which is a very small allocation, and tickets sold out at high loyalty points. But good luck to them, as they managed to source 3 extremely difficult to get away tickets for Bournemouth.

 

[jrb]

It's hard to put a price on a thicket as they can be so varied and it depends on location very much too.

Ha! Noticed that. :-) Corrected it. Bloody iPad.

 

[Stephen230]

They probably are local now after moving from Hong Kong. Our Hong Konger support has exploded since the Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong and 10,000’s of Hong Kongers deciding to move to the UK and Manchester.

Without trying to be funny, as all new City fans are welcomed, I can’t ever remember seeing 2 young Chinese lads and their mother together at a City away match. Especially not at Bournemouth, which is a very small allocation, and tickets sold out at high loyalty points. But good luck to them, as they managed to source 3 extremely difficult to get away tickets for Bournemouth.

There were thousands of them at the Charity Shield. It was surreal. And I did notice there seemed to be absolutely loads of mothers with young children but no men. Which made it an even stranger demographic.

I’ve no problem with it on that occasion , as no one else wanted them for a variety of reasons. Would be fascinating to know how they all came to be there though.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Given the choice of either selling your ticket to the club for a minimum return or giving your ticket away free of charge to a family member and mate or selling a ticket at face value to a fellow blue, the choice is clear and obvious, regardless of what the club wants to do and wants to implement on transferring and using tickets.

But don’t worry, when the Pep’s winning cycle is over and he goes back to Barcelona, and the team starts to stagnate, which will happen, and there’s an extra 8000 seats to fill and sell at the Etihad, let’s see how quickly and quietly the club backtracks on their new ticket policy. The site of 1000’s of empty seats will have Mansour, then Khaldoon breathing down Soriano’s neck, along with the other directors who are bringing in all these new ticket policies to drive more match day revenue whilst Pep is still CIty manager and the team are still winning trophies.

But to some people, selling their ticket to an online ticket site for more is the option they go for. Club offering me £37 for the United game for example. Tourists will pay £300 plus for that on a ticket site so the ticket site will probably pay someone £100-150 for their ticket (If someone does that for rags/dippers/Arsenal/Spurs/Chelsea then they get the other 14 matches for free!)

This is I guess why they are employing a Ticketing compliance officer! The club would rather sell it for £300 as part of an offsite hospitality package and pay the season ticket holder £30 odd quid. They want to cut the agencies out of the deal!

 

[Corky]

There were thousands of them at the Charity Shield. It was surreal. And I did notice there seemed to be absolutely loads of mothers with young children but no men. Which made it an even stranger demographic.

I’ve no problem with it on that occasion , as no one else wanted them for a variety of reasons. Would be fascinating to know how they all came to be there though.

Just needed to buy one membership for the CS to get 4 tickets.

In the real world mothers take their kids places, it isn't 500 BC Sparta, so if there is a cheap accessible game it gets more of a general entertainment demographic.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I am tempted to apply for this role. I don’t think they want someone who would turn a blind eye to any misdemeanour by a Blue but lock Up any rag or bin dipper found in the wrong end

 

[Citycity76]

I'm waiting for the Smoking in the Toilets compliance manager job to come up.

 

[mexico1970]

I'm waiting for the Smoking in the Toilets compliance manager job to come up.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I'm waiting for the Smoking in the Toilets compliance manager job to come up.

They need to stop people from pissing in the smoking area while they’re at it.

 

[pyeman]

He or she aren't going to rock the boat are they. They certainly won't be looking into how and why City, their employer, distribute away tickets like they do.

City doing it aside. How are City going to find out who the original seller of the ticket is to the 3rd party ticket website without buying the ticket at the price being advertised, which they won't do.

I saw a lad this season in his 20's(?), well dressed, but casual, sat in the Craft Bar in the Double Tree Hotel on London Road in the city centre, taking calls on his mobile, selling tickets for a match, with a steady stream of people buying the tickets. He had quite a few tickets, as he either held them in his hand or put them on the table waiting for the buyers to turn up. He wasn't bothered about people seeing the tickets. Looking at him you wouldn't haven't thought he was a ticket tout. It's impossible to say where he sourced that many tickets from, but it must have been from the club or from somebody connected to the club to get that amount of tickets.

Probably a sc chairman

 

[Whether or not]

In classic City fashion this will probably focus on individual fans who pass a ticket onto a mate or younger relative, rather than the huge number of tickets that are ending up with touting agencies, etc.

 

[Lowtower]

Need to have a - no drinks placed near feet or getting up for food after 20 minutes compliance manager

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Imo.....It would be most helpful if the incumbent could explain what the initial top 5 priorities are in the next 6 months and how he/she intends to engage/communicate with the fan base regarding all/any ticketing issues and the medium/long term strategy, particularly regarding the expanded NS.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I would imagine this type of thing will come under their remit and may have to stop. I presume they want tickets to be going to people who are registered with them (and of course who will pay top dollar for the tickets!)

Yeah be careful who you sell to on here, I'm sure the club would be on here trying to buy ticket from Bert who has flu and can't make WHU at home to make an example of him while they're happily shafting tourists for hundreds of pounds to eat off-site.