[Albion] Why?!!

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HeaviestTed

I’m eating
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Mar 23, 2023
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I put two tickets on the exchange, one on the left and then the one with the Red Cross, the person next to us also put one on the exchange so there were three together, someone has bought the middle seat!

Three together was rare, would have been nice for a few friends but someone has ruined it!

Why! Agagagag

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jrbha

Active member
Nov 18, 2021
138
I put two tickets on the exchange, one on the left and then the one with the Red Cross, the person next to us also put one on the exchange so there were three together, someone has bought the middle seat!

Three together was rare, would have been nice for a few friends but someone has ruined it!

Why! Agagagag

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Clearly it's someone attending on their ones (no problem at all), or someone who has friends/family in the same block or stand and just wants to be near them, also no problem.

Anyone looking for a pair on the exchange for whichever game this is should take the 2 either side and either ask the one in the middle of they'd move which I'm sure they would. Or, if it's someone wanting to be near to friends or family then they can just move up to a nearby seat to them if there's one free or if it's in a standing block just bunch up together. Really not an issue.
 






METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004
6,823
Clearly it's someone attending on their ones (no problem at all), or someone who has friends/family in the same block or stand and just wants to be near them, also no problem.

Anyone looking for a pair on the exchange for whichever game this is should take the 2 either side and either ask the one in the middle of they'd move which I'm sure they would. Or, if it's someone wanting to be near to friends or family then they can just move up to a nearby seat to them if there's one free or if it's in a standing block just bunch up together. Really not an issue.
This!
 


Flounce

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Nov 15, 2006
4,256
I put two tickets on the exchange, one on the left and then the one with the Red Cross, the person next to us also put one on the exchange so there were three together, someone has bought the middle seat!

Three together was rare, would have been nice for a few friends but someone has ruined it!

Why! Agagagag

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Hoping to sit between two other billy no mates in the hope of finding a football buddy? :lolol:
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,321
I put two tickets on the exchange, one on the left and then the one with the Red Cross, the person next to us also put one on the exchange so there were three together, someone has bought the middle seat!

Three together was rare, would have been nice for a few friends but someone has ruined it!

Why! Agagagag

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As French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre once said: 'Hell is other people with access to the Albion ticket exchange'
 




studio150

Well-known member
Jul 30, 2011
30,226
On the Border
The real question is why the ticketing system allows someone to do that. Cinema booking (at least Cineworld anyway) doesn't allow you to leave a single unoccupied seat except at the end of a row.
FFS I'm feed up with ticketing systems that do this, just think about your comment. Three seats together, two mates want to sit together so they click on two seats next to each other, then are told their selection is invalid, as one of the three seats is now a single seat, which the ticketing system doesn't allow.

It's strange that in this instance the person decided to pick the middle of the three (I'm assuming all three were available when they did this) but don't impose further restrictions onto a ticketing system.
 




Dec 29, 2011
8,204
Clearly it's someone attending on their ones (no problem at all), or someone who has friends/family in the same block or stand and just wants to be near them, also no problem.

Anyone looking for a pair on the exchange for whichever game this is should take the 2 either side and either ask the one in the middle of they'd move which I'm sure they would. Or, if it's someone wanting to be near to friends or family then they can just move up to a nearby seat to them if there's one free or if it's in a standing block just bunch up together. Really not an issue.
I once bought a pair of tickets either side of a single, like the scenario above. When we turned up the bloke in the middle refused to move! Absolutely bonkers.
 




Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
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Oct 20, 2022
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Professor Plum

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Jul 27, 2024
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Is it possible that the OP's mate listed the ticket at a later time so that the purchaser thought he was buying one of a pair? Failing that theory, my other one is that the buyer fancied the luxury of not being hemmed in so bought the middle one in the hope that he might be able to spread out a bit. Still selfish, mind.
 


dsr-burnley

Well-known member
Aug 15, 2014
2,625
I have always found the one in the middle will move in that situation - and if not immediately, then a loud conversation with your mate across the middle seat usually elicits a “do you want to swap seats” from the guy stuck in the middle. 😎
Especially if that conversation goes straight through his ears rather than in front or behind him. Possibly interspersed with the question "I hope we're not annoying you- would it be easier if we swapped? every three minutes or so.
 




Klaas

I've changed this
Nov 1, 2017
2,662
Lol, that happened to me when I was buying. Saw three tickets for last season’s Luton game. Needed to sign up for a membership first and by the time I had, someone had bought the middle ticket🤦🏼
I was going with my 7 year old son so really wanted to be together but we risked it and got the two outside tickets. What kind of nutter would refuse to move one seat along I figured.
Turned out to be a Japanese fella, and he happily moved up.
 


Green Cross Code Man

Wunt be druv
Mar 30, 2006
20,740
Eastbourne
I once bought a pair of tickets either side of a single, like the scenario above. When we turned up the bloke in the middle refused to move! Absolutely bonkers.
That is indeed bonkers. I have tickets with 2 other family members and a good friend. One of my sons doesn't have a season ticket but goes when he can and numerous times, kind people have moved one seat along. It is a very unkind and odd attitude to not move, especially splitting a young child from his father.
 


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