[Football] Advice - Season Ticket Sharing

[BNthree]

If you look on the website you will see that this option is available for the first 3 home matches from tomorrow. It's a long time since I've used it so I think the guest has to be in your friends and family list but not absolutely sure what conditions are. Hope this helps.

Previously the guest didn't even need a fan number as you don't assign the ticket to them. At checkout the ticket is assigned to the STH as they are the one eligible to buy the ticket.

 

[BNthree]

I’m usually one to defend the club policy but OP is correct this is a mental one. You can just transfer tickets at almost all / most top clubs for any game without hassle like you always could here. Just handing the card or paper ticket over - so simple. I’m really hoping this £20 and albion plus member farce is quickly forgotten - as has been the case with some petty rules in the past. I really do, it’s simply stupid.

Got to agree with you here. If they didn't have the £20 charge for season ticket holders and made it just that the people getting the ticket for the match had to be MyAlbion+ members it wouldn't even be so bad. But charging both STH and the guest does seem a bit too much for casual attendances.

However for people that split the cost of a season ticket and regularly share this is a great solution for them to legitimately share the ticket.

 

[dazzer6666]

If you look on the website you will see that this option is available for the first 3 home matches from tomorrow. It's a long time since I've used it so I think the guest has to be in your friends and family list but not absolutely sure what conditions are. Hope this helps.

They definitely didn’t have to be pre-Covid, ticket is issued in the name of the STH…….

 

[Bold Seagull]

Unless everyone has their ID checked on the gate I suspect this will soon revert back to the old ways. I brought picture ID to the citeh game but I don't recall it being checked properly if at all.

ps Sssssh! You didn't hear me say that. In fact you never saw me.

Kind of wondering this myself especially with kids sharing. Since the Amex opened we've had various kids of different ages go in on different tickets without ever being checked i.e. occasionally last min an U10 couldn't go so a 13 yr old came along. Covid will be different, but suspect much of the checking will soon be going through the motions again.

Is there a deadline for this £20 sharing thing, or you can activate it at anytime during the season?


(not that I would do anything as devious as wait a couple of games, see how much checking is going on before deciding it's necessary...)

 

[Bold Seagull]

I have downloaded my ticket to my iPhone but cannot find it anywhere? It says it's in AppleWallet but can't see it. Any pointers from you fine folk?

TNBA

TTF

You will need one of those iPhone screen replacement repair kits, use the little screw driver to release the screws by the lightning port, open up the phone, behind the battery should be your ticket.



Joking aside, hardly very funny I know, but have you opened the app 'Wallet' as when I did it, it was automatically there?

 

[Sheebo]

Got to agree with you here. If they didn't have the £20 charge for season ticket holders and made it just that the people getting the ticket for the match had to be MyAlbion+ members it wouldn't even be so bad. But charging both STH and the guest does seem a bit too much for casual attendances.

However for people that split the cost of a season ticket and regularly share this is a great solution for them to legitimately share the ticket.

If we don’t have to show ID (which hopefully now we won’t or will die out), it should be easy enough. However, the phone thing now becomes an issue - I guess a screenshot would work?

 

[BNthree]

If we don’t have to show ID (which hopefully now we won’t or will die out), it should be easy enough. However, the phone thing now becomes an issue - I guess a screenshot would work?

It uses contactless so screenshot won't work.

 

[Bry Nylon]

If we don’t have to show ID (which hopefully now we won’t or will die out), it should be easy enough. However, the phone thing now becomes an issue - I guess a screenshot would work?

I believe the code changes dynamically and frequently - something like every 15 mins or so - and possibly even more often - so possibly not an option, or at best a risky one for someone who has travelled to the stadium hoping to use this method. I have only heard this, so don't know how accurate this is. Given the penalty for being found doing this is probably loss of ST, a risky method for the ST holder too.

 

[vagabond]

I see both sides of this and to be honest it was a bigger issue for me in the days when there was a long ST waiting list yet some STs were openly being shared by two or three people or within a family. For me that went against the spirit of having a ST and the discounted match-by-match price that comes with the commitment. I've never had a problem with the ST holder who attends 90% - 95% of games and just 'lent' their ticket to a mate for the odd game they couldn't make. But now there is an excess supply of STs then anyone that really wants one can buy one.

I think the fee for the recipient of a lent ST is a one-off £28 per season (ie - the cost of being a MyAlbion member for the year). I don't think it is unreasonable that if I want to come to games using somebody elses ST, that first I need to be part of the membership scheme. At least that shows some level of commitment to the club. Then I can come to as many games as I want on a transferred ST, if I have decent network of STHs prepared to lend me their ticket when they can't make it.

If I don't want to be a member but come to games I can just wait till tix go on general sale and buy direct from the club at normal match day prices.

BHAFC is a commercial enterprise that loses a tonne of cash every year. I don't think it is either reasonable or realistic for people to expect to be able to attend games for nothing because they know a STH.

Like I say, it isn't a massive deal for me and tbh I can see both sides but purchasing a ST on an interest free monthly DD PLUS getting a heavy discount on matchday prices doesn't also entitle the holder to make up the rules.

Apologies for the long response: I'm channelling my 'inner-Barber.'

Hard to argue most of this. Ultimately I just think the additional fee on both sides tips a bit too far.

And I totally get it from the Albions point of view. Names are accountable per ticket, good safeguard for any potential new covid restrictions, plus extra money for the club.

But there was something intangibly nice about passing on your ticket to a casual to give them a taste of live football and they can just pop along to the game. With the additional hoops to jump through it feels like those people won’t be coming to games this season. Which I think is a shame.

On the positive side, the club do listen and maybe they’ll refine or change this process for next season.

 

[Bry Nylon]

...there was something intangibly nice about passing on your ticket to a casual to give them a taste of live football and they can just pop along to the game.

But this is also against the law as it currently applies to football tickets and I suppose the club have a duty to ensure their ticketing policy complies with legislation.

I guess the one thing we would all agree on is that is a stupid law - but once we start choosing which laws we want to comply with and which we want to ignore we are rapidly descending into Swansman territory and down that path lies a staple diet of pizza and an unhealthy obsession with non-league Scottish football.

 

[vagabond]

But this is also against the law as it currently applies to football tickets and I suppose the club have a duty to ensure their ticketing policy complies with legislation.

I guess the one thing we would all agree on is that is a stupid law - but once we start choosing which laws we want to comply with and which we want to ignore we are rapidly descending into Swansman territory and down that path lies a staple diet of pizza and an unhealthy obsession with non-league Scottish football.

Ha. Fair comment.

Hopefully they will at least reduce the additional 25 quid from the guest’s side next season. I’m in anyway, I have little to complain about [emoji106]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Kind of wondering this myself especially with kids sharing. Since the Amex opened we've had various kids of different ages go in on different tickets without ever being checked i.e. occasionally last min an U10 couldn't go so a 13 yr old came along. Covid will be different, but suspect much of the checking will soon be going through the motions again.

Is there a deadline for this £20 sharing thing, or you can activate it at anytime during the season?


(not that I would do anything as devious as wait a couple of games, see how much checking is going on before deciding it's necessary...)

I don't know if it is still open. My two brothers have failed to activate themselves even though I registered them and offered to pay. I don't know if emails from the club have gone to their trash. I have repeatedly emailed them and even emailed the club yesterday for help. Horses, water, etc.

 

[BNthree]

But this is also against the law as it currently applies to football tickets and I suppose the club have a duty to ensure their ticketing policy complies with legislation.

Only against the law if the club don't consent to it. If the club do consent to it then it's absolutely fine; which is why this new scheme is able to roll out. I'm actually broadly on your side of the debate but just wanted to point this out. It's a pretty flexible law!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I don't know if it is still open. My two brothers have failed to activate themselves even though I registered them and offered to pay. I don't know if emails from the club have gone to their trash. I have repeatedly emailed them and even emailed the club yesterday for help. Horses, water, etc.

Yeah it is, it probably stays open all season.

https://tickets.brightonandhovealbion.com/subscriptions

 

[Ken Newbury]

I believe the code changes dynamically and frequently - something like every 15 mins or so - and possibly even more often - so possibly not an option, or at best a risky one for someone who has travelled to the stadium hoping to use this method. I have only heard this, so don't know how accurate this is. Given the penalty for being found doing this is probably loss of ST, a risky method for the ST holder too.

The club confirmed (in the ST newspaper they sent out in April) that "the barcode changes every 20 seconds, so photos of the ticket barcode will not work"

 

[Clive Walker]

They could buy tickets direct from the club.

And by club you mean Man City.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The club confirmed (in the ST newspaper they sent out in April) that "the barcode changes every 20 seconds, so photos of the ticket barcode will not work"

Unless you’re very quick?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yeah it is, it probably stays open all season.

https://tickets.brightonandhovealbion.com/subscriptions

Cheers!

 

[amexer]

But this is also against the law as it currently applies to football tickets and I suppose the club have a duty to ensure their ticketing policy complies with legislation.

I guess the one thing we would all agree on is that is a stupid law - but once we start choosing which laws we want to comply with and which we want to ignore we are rapidly descending into Swansman territory and down that path lies a staple diet of pizza and an unhealthy obsession with non-league Scottish football.

It is not against the law. No problem with permission from club as Terms and Cond of 1901 show

 

[AmexRuislip]

A shame the Albion cannot do this.........

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