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[Albion] Season ticket waiting list.
- Thread starter amexer
- Start date
BensGrandad
New member
Told in an email today the list stands at 8500 so still a few years wait for many wantimg one.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Hopefully when the waiting list goes at some point they will then allow people to change the names on existing season tickets.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Are you meaning a season ticket transfer?
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Yes. If there is no waiting list, there is no reason to forbid this.
BensGrandad
New member
I would think that he is meaning people continuing using an ST from somebody, probably family member or friend, who has just given up or got too old or ill to go and continued paying it.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Yes. It would be handy, but for now it's not allowed.
BensGrandad
New member
I accept it is not allowed but how can it be enforced. If you take me as an example I am now 74 there is going to come a tim e when I am unable to attend and will have to rely on TV or streaming and the people I sit next to may want the seat for a member of their family.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I just mean officially get a name change - which is rightly not allowed while there is a waiting list.
GOM
living vicariously
I'm sure if you got married and changed your name that would be OK
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Yes, but that is legally the same person.
Surprised the club don't offer this for an admin fee - and the condition that the new ticket holder waits until they get to the top of the waiting list before it can happen.
At present the new person can go on the list, but there is still a chance that someone else can parachute into the seat in the short period between it being given up by the owner and being taken up by the person who wants to take it over.
Your ticket could only be used by another person qualified to use a concessionary ticket for start (that can be enforced)
Anyone using your ticket wouldn’t get any points etc
You’d have to keep paying for it and deal with any other admin
As long as there is a waitlist can’t see transfers being allowed, and maybe not even after that. Probably simpler admin on the club’s part to simply cancel and set up someone new. Agree with others about the seat choice though....I guess people have to wait the until the moving period pre-season to try to get together (and again use the existing process)
BensGrandad
New member
As an example if the person next to me gave up his seat there should be a system in stall which allows me being a STH to buy that seat for a family member.IMHO. I sit next to my brother and if I gave up my concessionary ticket I think that he should be able to take it up for his grandson who is 8, also a concession, if he wished.
Whilst that does seem a nice idea it would make season tickets a closed shop to existing families and no new seats would come up to those not in those families. Which is hardly fair is it?
If you brother would like to sit with his grandson he just needs to wait for grandson to come to top of the waiting list and then put in a seat move request so they can all sit together.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 12,110
But there is a waiting list, why should those people be allowed to jump to the front of the waiting list? Why do they have any more claim to that seat than someone who is now at the top of the waiting list after x number of years?
Wrong-Direction
Well-known member
- Mar 10, 2013
- 13,644
We've been here already, a couple of months ago, unsurprisingly BG didn't get the answer he wanted to hear then (the same one he's getting now) and yet that's still not good enough.
Bob!
Coffee Buyer
- Jul 5, 2003
- 11,645
..and even if he gets the answer he wants on here he's not going to get that answer from the club.
BensGrandad
New member
QUOTE Bob .....and even if he gets the answer he wants on here he's not going to get that answer from the club.QUOTE
That is where the problem lies. My belief is that it should be as a thank you to the previous STH for their support. I accept what people say but do not agree with it as I also disagree that to join the list should cost £22 per season. I think that if any fee it should be one off joining fee.
Unlike many I do not believe that the club is correct on everything they do.