Would You Use A Manchester City Ticket Marketplace.....

I have used Viagogo on a few occasions because in my situation (across the irish sea and work) i cant get to them all! Although i do try and get as many out to family and friends who are blues but only go the odd time!

Whether it would be an internal city ticket system or Viagogo 3rd party the costs would be much the same! Like every music or sporting event there are guys in the middle who need paid, run a website, issue a print of a ticket and other costs. I look at this as a business point of view!

In terms of the selling out, i think city cant turn the whole stadium into ST's because at the end of the day the ratio of some fans not turning up with mean 48k sell out but 5k didnt turn up! And they need to give the common 1 time fan a chance! You go to the matches now and there are so many foreigners there supporting one or 2 players from their country and they usually bring much more investment than the local fan! We are becoming a worldwide organisation and the days of taking the piss out of the Chinese rag fans with huge lanced cameras are quickly dying!

I have thought about an internal one and think city have the people to organisation it themselves but like the food or security, all companies outsource as much as possible to save costs and hassle! Viagogo have been at it for years and their experience and network is hard to compete with!
 
Have to agree with the above post. I think people look too simplisticly at the way things work at times. If City brought this in house it would be at huge cost with new software and associated licenses which by the way can run to tens if thousands a year not to mention additional staffing costs. Taking a hollier than now attitude to Viagogo is fine but it us a solution to a problem which I have used to buy and sell.
 
Probably already been said, but the cheap tickets couldn't possibly come into play until all the regular seats have sold out (City aren't going to undercut themselves). That could potentially result in a stand off for a lot of games, where people are waiting for the cheap tickets to come on sale, meaning the game doesn't end up selling out or it sells out too late.

The only way it could work would be if you know in advance you can't make it, you could sell it back to the club for your face value (e.g., £30) and they then just throw it in with all the other non-season-ticket seats that go on sale for whatever the price is for that match (e.g., £50). The difference covers City's additional costs.

I'm guessing that's how it works at Barcelona. Obviously there would have to be a limit on how many times you can do this, say 5 times a season.
 
The friends & family option is always preferred but recently my step dad (twenty plus years a season ticket holder) has struggled to make it to weekend games because of a new job which requires him to work weekends (doh!). Problem is he's in his 70s and has a concessionary ticket. Usually he'd give it to a friend or family member who's not eligible for a concessionary price and there's been no problem until recently when we've had a jobsworth on duty at gate G who challenges it like a hawk every time. Has anybody else had a similar problem (not just at gate G)?

Every time we're challenged we make the case that it's a family member (therefore ticket not being sold on for personal profit) and "it's better than an empty seat" but we're on several warnings now and don't want the ticket confiscated.

Surely the club could consider an online "family and friends" scheme where you can nominate a select number of people in advance to use your ticket on a limited number of occasions during the course of a season regardless of whether your season card is an adult or concession. This way it's all legit and there aren't empty seats because people are working or on holiday.
 
Perhaps the solution (pisstake, but funny nonetheless) is for rather than City sending you you Seasoncard through the post, they actually send you you actual physical seat!

That way if you can't go your seat won't be there anyway so can't be empty.

As for physically carrying the seat, well that too should be no problem for fans who once carried 5 feet bananas the length and breadth of the country.
 
whalleystrange said:
The friends & family option is always preferred but recently my step dad (twenty plus years a season ticket holder) has struggled to make it to weekend games because of a new job which requires him to work weekends (doh!). Problem is he's in his 70s and has a concessionary ticket. Usually he'd give it to a friend or family member who's not eligible for a concessionary price and there's been no problem until recently when we've had a jobsworth on duty at gate G who challenges it like a hawk every time. Has anybody else had a similar problem (not just at gate G)?

Every time we're challenged we make the case that it's a family member (therefore ticket not being sold on for personal profit) and "it's better than an empty seat" but we're on several warnings now and don't want the ticket confiscated.

Surely the club could consider an online "family and friends" scheme where you can nominate a select number of people in advance to use your ticket on a limited number of occasions during the course of a season regardless of whether your season card is an adult or concession. This way it's all legit and there aren't empty seats because people are working or on holiday.
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Come on pay the upgrade, I pay £365 old gits rate in 204 around £19 per game if your stepdad is paying the same and the game he cannot attend is priced at £56 then the club is fully justified in asking for the upgrade to be paid, surely you can see if they didn't then before long loads would be doing it would soon become a regular scam.
Would love the club to bring all ticket sales in house plus ticket machines around the ground.
 
Just doesn't make any sense. EIther you have to sell the ticket at the ST price, which means people would be able to buy tickets off ST holders for half what they'd normally pay for an individual ticket, or you'd have to sell them at individual game prices, which means a ST holder could make a vast profit from selling their seat every game. I can't see a way that works. Maybe some way of telling the club you won't be there, so they can give away your ticket to some local school or something, just so the seat gets filled? I don't know, there doesn't seem an obvious solution
 
Id certainly use it. A lot of my work trips to the UK are pretty last minute, so even though im a blue member i dont have much time to get in line for a ticket from the mcfc site. I wanted to get tickets for the southampton game but it was "sold out" on our tickets site. Looked on viagogo and theyre charging a £30 admin fee?! Said hell with that, and luckily found a blue selling some nice seats on the tickets forum here.

A City Marketplace is a great idea.. as long as there is no £30 admin fee.
 
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