[Albion] Transferring Season Tickets

[dazzer6666]

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.

Re the 20% - entitled, yes. Enforced ? Don’t think so

 

[Super Steve Earle]

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.

You already have a season ticket. Why do you need another? Asking in the spirit of using my own experience to help.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

To clarify a couple of points

There’s a limit on the number of season tickets available, a certain % of tickets (10% I think) have to be made available for home Matchday purchase.

Season tickets for 24/25 have sold out as the limit has been reached

There was / is a waiting list. This changed in the most recent summer as went down to Albion+ membership then a tiered approach based on how many games the A+ member had attended for 23/24 I know for a fact this started in double digits and went all the way down to attending one game, as I had to sweat getting my second son a season ticket next to us, who had only attended 1 home in 23/24 and waiting for 5 weeks to secure this specific seat.

I guess the OP will find out if the seat is on general sale or has a ST assigned at the next home game.

Advice would be to get the son a A+ member and attend as many home games as possible ensuring they are at the front of the queue of the seat is available in the summer

 

[AZ Gull]

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.

Suggest you either contact the club or check your spam folder. I've been an Albion + member for years and got my e-mail invite to buy a season ticket on April 29 this year.

 

[HeaviestTed]

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"/

Every year you can change seats so you have an opportunity to all sit together that being said I agree that people should be able to pass seats to their children if they have a season ticket

 

[dazzer6666]

Every year you can change seats so you have an opportunity to all sit together that being said I agree that people should be able to pass seats to their children if they have a season ticket

Why ?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

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.

There were a few gaps around yesterday where ST holders usually sit so maybe resold. Unlike your post (amended)

 

[HeaviestTed]

Why ?

Why do i think they should be able to? Out of respect, I don’t imagine many STH’s die each year so the number it affects is minimal and shows a basic level of respect.

 

[dazzer6666]

Why do i think they should be able to? Out of respect, I don’t imagine many STH’s die each year so the number it affects is minimal and shows a basic level of respect.

Don’t agree personally….if the recipient is that keen to attend games they should have one already

 

[AZ Gull]

Why do i think they should be able to? Out of respect, I don’t imagine many STH’s die each year so the number it affects is minimal and shows a basic level of respect.

It shows a complete lack of respect to anyone on the ST waiting list.

 

[B-right-on]

It shows a complete lack of respect to anyone on the ST waiting list.

But there really is no such thing as a ST waiting list in practical terms. When STs become available they are offered to A+ members on a priority basis depending on how many home games they've attended that season.

So if you put your name on the 'list' but don't go to any home games by buying match day tickets, then you don't get offered one until everyone who is an A+ member and attended games, gets a chance to buy one.

As I said above, I got one for my daughter in March because she'd attended practically every home upto that point (and after). She was not on any list but the club contacted me offering her a priority access to a ST because of the number of games she'd attended.

So in real terms, there is no list because even if you are first on it m, but don't go to any home games, you won't be offered a ST until Joe at number 1127 has been offered a ticket because he's an A+ member and been to 10 home games

 

[AZ Gull]

But there really is no such thing as a ST waiting list in practical terms. When STs become available they are offered to A+ members on a priority basis depending on how many home games they've attended that season.

So if you put your name on the 'list' but don't go to any home games by buying match day tickets, then you don't get offered one until everyone who is an A+ member and attended games, gets a chance to buy one.

As I said above, I got one for my daughter in March because she'd attended practically every home upto that point (and after). She was not on any list but the club contacted me offering her a priority access to a ST because of the number of games she'd attended.

So in real terms, there is no list because even if you are first on it m, but don't go to any home games, you won't be offered a ST until Joe at number 1127 has been offered a ticket because he's an A+ member and been to 10 home games

Well, the club thinks there is:-

 

[B-right-on]

To clarify a couple of points

There’s a limit on the number of season tickets available, a certain % of tickets (10% I think) have to be made available for home Matchday purchase.

Season tickets for 24/25 have sold out as the limit has been reached

There was / is a waiting list. This changed in the most recent summer as went down to Albion+ membership then a tiered approach based on how many games the A+ member had attended for 23/24 I know for a fact this started in double digits and went all the way down to attending one game, as I had to sweat getting my second son a season ticket next to us, who had only attended 1 home in 23/24 and waiting for 5 weeks to secure this specific seat.

I guess the OP will find out if the seat is on general sale or has a ST assigned at the next home game.

Advice would be to get the son a A+ member and attend as many home games as possible ensuring they are at the front of the queue of the seat is available in the summer

Yea that makes sense as it goes with my experience. Possibly there is this fabled waiting list but in reality it means bugger all because anyone who has been to a lot of home games, gets offered a ST based only on the number of games they've attended. Even if they are not on the supposed waiting list. I have first hand experience of it as said above, getting offered a ST without ever putting her on the list.

 

[London Irish]

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.

It was permitted for a couple of seasons recently. My family benefited when one of my kids went off to uni. That’s a fairly happy event. Honestly I find it a bit cruel a family can’t take over a seat when there’s a bereavement. Isn’t it just human decency and wouldn’t cost the club much. I have a horrible feeling it’s only that wanky seat ownership scheme that no normal fucker has ever taken up that stops the club from offering this basic decency

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Why do i think they should be able to? Out of respect, I don’t imagine many STH’s die each year so the number it affects is minimal and shows a basic level of respect.

On the other hand, didn't Liverpool discover their STH's had an average age of about 115 when they checked a few years ago, because so many had been passed down over the years?

 

[B-right-on]

Well, the club thinks there is:-

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Ok so becoming an A+ member gets you automatically put on the ST wait list. Pedantic much?.

 

[B-right-on]

It was permitted for a couple of seasons recently. My family benefited when one of my kids went off to uni. That’s a fairly happy event. Honestly I find it a bit cruel a family can’t take over a seat when there’s a bereavement. Isn’t it just human decency and wouldn’t cost the club much. I have a horrible feeling it’s only that wanky seat ownership scheme that no normal fucker has ever taken up that stops the club from offering this basic decency

Isn't the seat ownership in the 1901 clubs only?

I've never bought mine in the 10+ years of being a STH.

 

[London Irish]

On the other hand, didn't Liverpool discover their STH's had an average age of about 115 when they checked a few years ago, because so many had been passed down over the years?

Good for those Liverpool fans. That’s how you build fan loyalty across the generations

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Well, the club thinks there is:-

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When I first became a member a few years ago to buy away tickets when I moved to Sheffield, I was put on the "wait list".

I was able to buy a season ticket the following season. Now maybe demand has skyrocketed in the last couple of years (genuinely, we've been playing well, I can see it might have grown), but I'm more than slightly dubious about the idea that there are really thousands of people kicking their heels waiting to get a season ticket.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Good for those Liverpool fans. That’s how you build fan loyalty across the generations

It's also how you get a real problem with nobody being able to go to away matches.

I don't think Liverpool have any problems with cross-generational support. I'm pretty sure they've knocked the "still using your Grandad's ticket" thing on the head, anyway.