[Albion] un-listing season ticket and the mad cost of upgrades

[get that board down!]

Sorry if this is an old one but if you have put your ticket on the exchange, can you take it down again?

Also while I'm on it, has anyone noticed that if my brother wants to allocate his ticket to one of my friends then that costs him £5 and he gets £30 back from friend which is about what he would get on ticket exchange. If he wants to upgrade his son's U16 ticket, to allocate this to my fiend's 22yr old son, well that will cost £40 for the upgrade £5 to allocate and will want to match what he gets back from exchange if he sells it so another £10. So one ticket £30, second £55. these are both adult tickets, they should be the same cost. Looks like profiteering from the club or a very poorly set up system.

 

[Bozza]

Yes - if you list your ticket for resale, you can withdraw it at any time before it sells.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

There’s a reason we always have so many empty seats at home games. The club have put profit above putting bums on seats, which ironically is going to mean lower take home on match day revenues.

Our ticketing system is a joke, quite frankly.

 

[drew]

There’s a reason we always have so many empty seats at home games. The club have put profit above putting bums on seats, which ironically is going to mean lower take home on match day revenues.

Our ticketing system is a joke, quite frankly.

Is that reason because STH don't list their tickets when they can't go?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is that reason because STH don't list their tickets when they can't go?

Have to say, I've never understood why folks don't list their tickets when they can't go. I mean, the sum refunded if the ticket sells is not inconsiderable (£20+). Maybe it's a lack of awareness of how the exchange works? Lack of online savvy perhaps? I've missed the last two home games, Ipswich and Forest (through illness and holiday respectively) and both lisred tickets sold, despite the opposition not being maybe the most attractive out there. It all seems a bit hard to fathom

 

[schmunk]

I've never understood why folks don't list their tickets when they can't go. I mean, the sum refunded if the ticket sells is not inconsiderable (£20+). Maybe it's a lack of awareness of how the exchange works? Lack of online savvy perhaps? Certainly seems a bit odd

If my sons' tickets resell I get a sweet £6.89 back.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If my sons' tickets resell I get a sweet £6.89 back...!

Price of a pint tho eh

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sorry if this is an old one but if you have put your ticket on the exchange, can you take it down again?

Also while I'm on it, has anyone noticed that if my brother wants to allocate his ticket to one of my friends then that costs him £5 and he gets £30 back from friend which is about what he would get on ticket exchange. If he wants to upgrade his son's U16 ticket, to allocate this to my fiend's 22yr old son, well that will cost £40 for the upgrade £5 to allocate and will want to match what he gets back from exchange if he sells it so another £10. So one ticket £30, second £55. these are both adult tickets, they should be the same cost. Looks like profiteering from the club or a very poorly set up system.

Get the timing right, list your tickets, and let your mate know. He buys the tickets, and you get the refund. No cost involved.

When you list your ticket, you’ll notice a little tick box. If you change your mind, untick the tick box, and your ticket is valid again, for you to use.

 

[timbha]

If my sons' tickets resell I get a sweet £6.89 back.

Presume it’s a ST. £6.89 doesn’t seem much. What’s does it cost per match?

 

[schmunk]

Presume it’s a ST. £6.89 doesn’t seem much. What’s does it cost per match?

£7.89

It's a BILLY BARGAIN for U18s in the Family Stand.

 

[Gazwag]

Get the timing right, list your tickets, and let your mate know. He buys the tickets, and you get the refund. No cost involved.

When you list your ticket, you’ll notice a little tick box. If you change your mind, untick the tick box, and your ticket is valid again, for you to use.

Presumably its even easier if the mate is one the F&F list then the ticket can then be purchased for him by the STH so all that's needed is a transfer of funds - although there is a difference between refund and ticket price which , for a big club, could be £20-£30+ higher

Edit: For example if I listed my Man City NS ticket I would get £28.19 refunded, the person who buys it would pay £48, and that is the cheapest adult ticket so the difference elsewhere would be higher

 

[timbha]

£7.89

It's a BILLY BARGAIN for U18s in the Family Stand.

Always good to have some perspective. You could have said that you only lose £1.

 

[jcdenton08]

Always good to have some perspective. You could have said that you only lose £1.

“I can’t believe it, because of Barber I lost another bloody 100 p”

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

More first world problems.

<sigh>

 

[dazzer6666]

There’s a reason we always have so many empty seats at home games.

We've got a load of STHs that don't worry about losing the cost of a match.

 

[Weststander]

Have to say, I've never understood why folks don't list their tickets when they can't go. I mean, the sum refunded if the ticket sells is not inconsiderable (£20+). Maybe it's a lack of awareness of how the exchange works? Lack of online savvy perhaps? I've missed the last two home games, Ipswich and Forest (through illness and holiday respectively) and both lisred tickets sold, despite the opposition not being maybe the most attractive out there. It all seems a bit hard to fathom

Apathy (another bit of life's admin).
Many Albion fans are okay for money, seeing the ST outlay as a sunk cost. Not bothered one bit that a seat or two lie there empty.
Last minute decisions not to go.

[I relist ours].

 

[get that board down!]

Get the timing right, list your tickets, and let your mate know. He buys the tickets, and you get the refund. No cost involved.

When you list your ticket, you’ll notice a little tick box. If you change your mind, untick the tick box, and your ticket is valid again, for you to use.

This doesn't really make sense from my post. My brohter lists his U16 ticket, he gets £5 back and my friend buys it for £57 - whereas he allocates his adult one to my friend and going by money values lised here and £5 to allocate, my friend needs to pay him just under £34. No timing issue there, just wierd pricing anomoly effecively making the U16 seat useless if you can't go.

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Have to say, I've never understood why folks don't list their tickets when they can't go. I mean, the sum refunded if the ticket sells is not inconsiderable (£20+). Maybe it's a lack of awareness of how the exchange works? Lack of online savvy perhaps? I've missed the last two home games, Ipswich and Forest (through illness and holiday respectively) and both lisred tickets sold, despite the opposition not being maybe the most attractive out there. It all seems a bit hard to fathom

Apathy (another bit of life's admin).
Many Albion fans are okay for money, seeing the ST outlay as a sunk cost. Not bothered one bit that a seat or two lie there empty.
Last minute decisions not to go.

[I relist ours].

I must admit to not paying much attention to the exchange as to whether listed tickets generally sell or do not sell. I know that it only opens when the club have sold all their own spare tickets meaning that any listed on there must be a season ticket holder not going. So with that in mind i was intrigued enough to have a look at the exchange for the Spurs match this sunday and was slightly surprised to see tickets available for virtually every block in the ground and a grand total of...........
846 !
So it may be the case that some of those empty seats we see are not just people not attending and not listing but listed seats remaining unsold?

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Is that reason because STH don't list their tickets when they can't go?

I’d imagine one. The need for a friend or family member to become a MyAlbion+ member for £38, and then for the ticket seller to have to pay £20 a year to release the ticket to the appropriate person, make the whole thing awkward and costly.

And just putting it on the ticket exchange is no guarantee you’ll get your money back. I haven’t for Forest.

It’s such a bad system that I’m surprised people with such business savvy have deemed it to be worthwhile. They certainly wouldn’t get away with such folly if we get relegated.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

We've got a load of STHs that don't worry about losing the cost of a match.

Crazy isn’t it.