New Away Ticketing Rules

[michaelowen]

So I've read soooo many stories that "nobody I know has ever been asked to pay over the odds for a ticket". I call that bulls#*t. Carabao cup semi final home game, i was offered a ticket for £100 for the leazes end. Greedy "Toon Army fan" called Chris from Washington.
Then there's the "loyalest" supportets that have built up over 200 hundred points but you and I know they sell some/most of their away tickets and accrue points but always manage to get to the big games.

What do you lot think?

[Nufcian]

So I've read soooo many stories that "nobody I know has ever been asked to pay over the odds for a ticket". I call that bulls#*t. Carabao cup semi final home game, i was offered a ticket for £100 for the leazes end. Greedy "Toon Army fan" called Chris from Washington.
Then there's the "loyalest" supportets that have built up over 200 hundred points but you and I know they sell some/most of their away tickets and accrue points but always manage to get to the big games.

What do you lot think?

I know for a fact that overcharging for tickets has definitely been a thing.

Last season, my missus is from Berks and her family are all Gunners, we saw an ad in a Ponteland Facebook group for an independent travel outfit offering tickets in the Barracks… face price for the tickets was around 175… this woman offering them wanted 500 PER TICKET for the Ar$enal match!

She had multiple tickets for most of the games, obviously has a contact who had supplied them from the club, but that mark up was taking the p!ss.

The new electronic tickets is a step toward stopping that, they have a policy of season tickets can only be transferred 10 times independently before an account review, other ‘single match’ tickets shouldn’t be transferred (but you can send the link so people can download the e-ticket to their phone wallet)… so I expect we’ll start seeing random photo ID checks for home fans before long.

[18nufc92]

I preferred the old system. Of course some people abused it by buying tickets for every game with the intention of selling on for profit. However, to reach a certain number of loyalty points in the first place we all had to do the hard yards at low demand games and deserve priority, in my opinion.

I have never sold on a ticket by the way but have purchased tickets to games I couldn’t make it to for friends who could not get them due to low/no points.