[Albion] Transferring Season Tickets

[Old Boar]

Previously on this site I grumbled about trying to get a season ticket close to my own transferred to me. I went to the Amex with the son of the deceased season ticket holder asking to get it transferred. The very pleasant guy from Supporter Services said "computer says no" or words to that effect - no go, impossible to do, the club doesn't allow it. So here we were on the first day of the new season expecting the seat to be taken by a new season ticket holder from the waiting list. No - it was a very nice guy who'd just popped along to see Manchester United. Really, does it make sense for the football club to turn down my cash-in-hand £600-odd quid for the season ticket to just leave a vacant seat waiting in hope of it being filled when a stray mad-keen Brentford or Ipswich fan wants to come along ? I would wager the price of a pie (£5.50 today), that aside from Man City and Liverpool matches, we'll see that seat remaining vacant. Can't see it making financial sense for the football club, and it doesn't leave me with warm feelings for the business management.

 

[Hendrax]

maybe the new seat holder couldnt attend today and it was re-sold?

stop being so offended and enjoy. it was 2-1. last minute winner.

 

[timbha]

It always helps to air your gripes on here. I bet it makes SS want to bend over backwards to help you.

Why don’t you raise this with the club? Club must have its reasons.

 

[dazzer6666]

Why doesn’t the son simply buy a ST ? If the seat is now free it’ll be available There is no ST transfer facility- not should there be as it would disadvantage anyone on whatever wait list we might have.

 

[Bold Seagull]

It always helps to air your gripes on here. I bet it makes SS want to bend over backwards to help you.

Why don’t you raise this with the club? Club must have its reasons.

It’s been a long time since you’ve been able to transfer STs. Depends when the OP made the enquiry. When STs went on sale in the summer it was to members with loyalty points first, then members then general sale. They’d have needed to try to get the seat in their relevant window but it wouldn’t be able to be transferred without the new person being eligible to buy it.

 

[Old Boar]

maybe the new seat holder couldnt attend today and it was re-sold?

stop being so offended and enjoy. it was 2-1. last minute winner.

It was a good game, AND the seat was occupied by a Man-U fan who lives locally (he was totally inoffensive, so that was a bonus)

 

[Old Boar]

It always helps to air your gripes on here. I bet it makes SS want to bend over backwards to help you.

Why don’t you raise this with the club? Club must have its reasons.

SS are always really nice and helpful, they've got a job to do - I'm grumbling about the football club, and I'll raise it with them when they send that survey round again. I expect they've got someone monitoring sites like this anyway (or they should have).

 

[Old Boar]

Why doesn’t the son simply buy a ST ? If the seat is now free it’ll be available There is no ST transfer facility- not should there be as it would disadvantage anyone on whatever wait list we might have.

For sure I can see that while there's a waiting list ticket transfer disadvantages folk who're on the list, but with no ticket transfer it's difficult for families to sit together, to bring kids in with you when they're too young to sit on their own - all the stuff that's supposed to make a football club a "family club"/

 

[tedebear]

For sure I can see that while there's a waiting list ticket transfer disadvantages folk who're on the list, but with no ticket transfer it's difficult for families to sit together, to bring kids in with you when they're too young to sit on their own - all the stuff that's supposed to make a football club a "family club"/

I don't get that, why is it difficult for families to sit together? Every family I know with ST's sits together? We are the most family friendly club I know of!

 

[Official Old Man]

What you're saying is that you want to transfer a no longer used ST (my condolences on the death) to someone else.
Obviously this is not permitted.
But if it is a single seat then why not buy it per game this season thus gaining points and put their name down for next season?
We've tactically got a single seat in our group in the EU stand which we use to bring a mate. If the seat is sold online we buy another seat and then swop on the day with the owner. Always worked.

 

[Gully Forever]

I've been on the season Ticket wating list for a few season's. I've never heard a thing, and I don't get any communication from the club where I am on the list. Yet there are hundreds of seats where I want to sit. AND they are listed before the ticket Exchange opens.

 

[Baldseagull]

There is a limit to the number of season tickets sold so that some are available for general sale. If the new season ticket holders chose to sit elsewhere, what used to be a seat for a season ticket holder may no longer be, or, it has been allocated to a new season ticket holder, and they couldn't make this game and listed it on the exchange.
You can get the lad on the season ticket waiting list, and may be able to get that seat next season.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I've been on the season Ticket wating list for a few season's. I've never heard a thing, and I don't get any communication from the club where I am on the list. Yet there are hundreds of seats where I want to sit. AND they are listed before the ticket Exchange opens.

It might be worth checking your communication preferences with the club if you aren't getting emails. You could have opted out of them contacting you. Also check your spam folders as a lot of the club communications sent to me ends up in there, even though I constantly white list it.

I'm not sure there is a waiting list as such anymore, season tickets last season went on sale to Albion+ members with the highest priority going to those who attended the most games, further windows opened for other groups of Albion+ members before eventually selling out on general sale. There was a thread on here about it, certainly worth keeping an eye on the board as I'm sure for next season there will be the same.

 

[Gully Forever]

It might be worth checking your communication preferences with the club if you aren't getting emails. You could have opted out of them contacting you. Also check your spam folders as a lot of the club communications sent to me ends up in there, even though I constantly white list it.

I'm not sure there is a waiting list as such anymore, season tickets last season went on sale to Albion+ members with the highest priority going to those who attended the most games, further windows opened for other groups of Albion+ members before eventually selling out on general sale. There was a thread on here about it, certainly worth keeping an eye on the board as I'm sure for next season there will be the same.

Thanks for this. I will make sure ALL communication preferences are ticked, My Membership+ for 20/21 19/20 said I was in a waiting list. Nothing after that.
Really dissapointed.

 

[B-right-on]

I've been on the season Ticket wating list for a few season's. I've never heard a thing, and I don't get any communication from the club where I am on the list. Yet there are hundreds of seats where I want to sit. AND they are listed before the ticket Exchange opens.

Is there such a thing as a waiting list? Because my daughter was offered a 'first refusal' on available STs before they went on general sale earlier on this year (March-ish I think). Unsolicited because we'd not put her on any list. She was offered it as she'd attended every home game bar 2 when the tickets weren't available near me or on the exchange (Burnley and Forest I think).

We had a few weeks to decide before STs went on general sale. When I looked there were a good few available around the ground at the time. Then some time later I got an email that STs were now on general sale.

(Was a result because the bloke next to me had moved so I got the seat next to me. Saves me a fortune because exchange tickets are full adult prices and she's 17.)

I sit in the NW corner. There is literally always an empty seat in my row or the next row. I definitely did not buy her tickets anywhere in the NS or WL last season and then jiggled it if needed so we always sat together. I would not do that or recommend it to others.

 

[Gully Forever]

Is there such a thing as a waiting list? Because my daughter was offered a 'first refusal' on available STs before they went on general sale earlier on this year (March-ish I think). Unsolicited because we'd not put her on any list. She was offered it as she'd attended every home game bar 2 when the tickets weren't available near me or on the exchange (Burnley and Forest I think).

We had a few weeks to decide before STs went on general sale. When I looked there were a good few available around the ground at the time. Then some time later I got an email that STs were now on general sale.

(Was a result because the bloke next to me had moved so I got the seat next to me. Saves me a fortune because exchange tickets are full adult prices and she's 17.)

I sit in the NW corner. There is literally always an empty seat in my row or the next row. I definitely did not buy her tickets anywhere in the NS or WL last season and then jiggled it if needed so we always sat together. I would not do that or recommend it to others.

I honestly don't know anymore, But there definitely was after checking. It was longer ago then I thought, But i've still renewed my membership.
Anyway, This isn't appropriate for this thread. So i'll stop. Sorry OP

 

[Old Boar]

What you're saying is that you want to transfer a no longer used ST (my condolences on the death) to someone else.
Obviously this is not permitted.
But if it is a single seat then why not buy it per game this season thus gaining points and put their name down for next season?
We've tactically got a single seat in our group in the EU stand which we use to bring a mate. If the seat is sold online we buy another seat and then swop on the day with the owner. Always worked.

yeah, good idea. Thank you.

 

[Old Boar]

Is there such a thing as a waiting list? Because my daughter was offered a 'first refusal' on available STs before they went on general sale earlier on this year (March-ish I think). Unsolicited because we'd not put her on any list. She was offered it as she'd attended every home game bar 2 when the tickets weren't available near me or on the exchange (Burnley and Forest I think).

We had a few weeks to decide before STs went on general sale. When I looked there were a good few available around the ground at the time. Then some time later I got an email that STs were now on general sale.

(Was a result because the bloke next to me had moved so I got the seat next to me. Saves me a fortune because exchange tickets are full adult prices and she's 17.)

I sit in the NW corner. There is literally always an empty seat in my row or the next row. I definitely did not buy her tickets anywhere in the NS or WL last season and then jiggled it if needed so we always sat together. I would not do that or recommend it to others.

I dunno, the guy in Supporter Services (genuinely, he was a nice guy and very helpful within the limits he had available) told us we would have to go on the Waiting List, this is what surprised me when the seat was free yesterday. I suppose it could have been taken up and sold for Man-U on the ticket exchange. All-in-all I think there's little clarity about Season Tickets. Did you know that if you miss more than 20% of the games in a season the club is entitled to refuse you renewal of your season ticket in the following season? Did you know that if you have "bought" a Personal Seat Thingy (they cost about £500) you lose it if you don't renew your season ticket or find another mug to buy it off you (with 10% going to the football club)? Love the football side of things, worry about the decency of the financial side.

 

[Professor Plum]

I've been on the season Ticket wating list for a few season's. I've never heard a thing, and I don't get any communication from the club where I am on the list. Yet there are hundreds of seats where I want to sit. AND they are listed before the ticket Exchange opens.

Waiting list? Anyone can buy a ST surely as long as you don’t hang about too long once they go on sale. Until last season you could get half STs too, advertised before Christmas. I’m guessing they didn’t need to last season as they sold out for the first time. There's a priority order starting with renewals then members etc. but it won’t have been difficult to get one.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Why doesn’t the son simply buy a ST ? If the seat is now free it’ll be available There is no ST transfer facility- not should there be as it would disadvantage anyone on whatever wait list we might have.

Precisely.