leithman
18-05-2012, 04:26 PM
Good afternoon,
Firstly, please accept my apologies for not responding sooner, and thank you for your email.
I personally do share your frustration, I have too seen ads such as these, and it makes my blood boil to think people are using an occasion such as the cup final to extort money from genuine fans. Regretfully from a club and operational point of view, there is nothing we can do to avoid this happening. Once the purchaser of the tickets has them, they are his or her property to do with what he or she wishes. Tickets being sold for much more than their face value is a problem which faces all ticketed events, ie the Olympic games, music concerts etc, not just football games. You’re right, it shouldn’t happen, but I’m afraid, while there are people willing to pay silly money for what is essentially an hour and a half event, then it will, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.
From a club level, we did our utmost to try and stop this happening, by only selling tickets to people who have a connection to the club, be it as a season ticket holder, or a member of the database. It was thought that this way, at least we can be sure of selling to people who hold season tickets, or have recently been to games, people who will actually attend the game and not sell them on. Unfortunately this hasn’t been the case, but we feel we did all we could.
Many thanks for your email, and for bringing this to our attention.
Kind regards
Fair comment from the club. Given the number of tickets sold, The number being touted about isn't that high.
Thanks to the club for the response. I suppose you don't get these problems if you don't get to finals.
In that case, lets hope for many more such situations
GGTTH
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Firstly, please accept my apologies for not responding sooner, and thank you for your email.
I personally do share your frustration, I have too seen ads such as these, and it makes my blood boil to think people are using an occasion such as the cup final to extort money from genuine fans. Regretfully from a club and operational point of view, there is nothing we can do to avoid this happening. Once the purchaser of the tickets has them, they are his or her property to do with what he or she wishes. Tickets being sold for much more than their face value is a problem which faces all ticketed events, ie the Olympic games, music concerts etc, not just football games. You’re right, it shouldn’t happen, but I’m afraid, while there are people willing to pay silly money for what is essentially an hour and a half event, then it will, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it.
From a club level, we did our utmost to try and stop this happening, by only selling tickets to people who have a connection to the club, be it as a season ticket holder, or a member of the database. It was thought that this way, at least we can be sure of selling to people who hold season tickets, or have recently been to games, people who will actually attend the game and not sell them on. Unfortunately this hasn’t been the case, but we feel we did all we could.
Many thanks for your email, and for bringing this to our attention.
Kind regards
Fair comment from the club. Given the number of tickets sold, The number being touted about isn't that high.
Thanks to the club for the response. I suppose you don't get these problems if you don't get to finals.
In that case, lets hope for many more such situations
GGTTH
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