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!