- Apr 17, 2005
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So I wrote this to several Tottenham emails on the website...
To whom this may concern,
I have been a member of Tottenham Hotspur since 1999 of which I now pay £45 a year for the privilege.
Every game I went to I saw ticket touts outside the ground selling match tickets for double+ the face value of a ticket. I remember this being frowned upon at the time by the club, myself and my father, and police who would patrol the areas of the clubs grounds.
To my outrage and disgust, I find out that THFC have actually created an official partnership with the likes of eBay/StubHub for pretty much the same thing!
I went on there today as someone said I could try and get a Spurs v Crystal Palace ticket for Saturday, and I could probably sit in my usual spot in Park Lane lower. This would cost £32 based on what is on the official Tottenham website.
Tickets were in excess of £50 rising up to over £80 for that particular section!!
I ask you, in fact, I demand an answer as to how touting is illegal, yet you will condone people not only abusing the system to make double their money, but how you have just been extremely disloyal to the hundreds of thousands of members like me who pay £45 annually, who can hardly get a ticket as it is on membership sale days (understandable), and let this happen!
In addition to this I find the online ticket exchange facility has disappeared, which allowed season ticket holders and other members to post their ticket for sale at face value on the Official Tottenham Hotspur website, if they could not get to a game, and has now been replaced by this farcical and outrageous third party exchange website.
Every year, I see this club take more and more being taken away from us loyal fans - the people who made this club what it is today, because of greed and disloyal individuals within the football club hierarchy.
I know so many people that would love to go to a Spurs game, but cannot afford memberships, but maybe the occasional game to take their families etc. - especially in this economic climate! I personally can afford these extortionate £70 tickets on Stub Hub - but rest assure, I would never give in to actually paying it because I am honest, I appreciate people like me who have paid their membership and out of principle and disgust I 100% disagree.
You may as well forget my membership renewal next season. I think this is appalling what this club has done!
Regards,
Simon Buckingham
To whom this may concern,
I have been a member of Tottenham Hotspur since 1999 of which I now pay £45 a year for the privilege.
Every game I went to I saw ticket touts outside the ground selling match tickets for double+ the face value of a ticket. I remember this being frowned upon at the time by the club, myself and my father, and police who would patrol the areas of the clubs grounds.
To my outrage and disgust, I find out that THFC have actually created an official partnership with the likes of eBay/StubHub for pretty much the same thing!
I went on there today as someone said I could try and get a Spurs v Crystal Palace ticket for Saturday, and I could probably sit in my usual spot in Park Lane lower. This would cost £32 based on what is on the official Tottenham website.
Tickets were in excess of £50 rising up to over £80 for that particular section!!
I ask you, in fact, I demand an answer as to how touting is illegal, yet you will condone people not only abusing the system to make double their money, but how you have just been extremely disloyal to the hundreds of thousands of members like me who pay £45 annually, who can hardly get a ticket as it is on membership sale days (understandable), and let this happen!
In addition to this I find the online ticket exchange facility has disappeared, which allowed season ticket holders and other members to post their ticket for sale at face value on the Official Tottenham Hotspur website, if they could not get to a game, and has now been replaced by this farcical and outrageous third party exchange website.
Every year, I see this club take more and more being taken away from us loyal fans - the people who made this club what it is today, because of greed and disloyal individuals within the football club hierarchy.
I know so many people that would love to go to a Spurs game, but cannot afford memberships, but maybe the occasional game to take their families etc. - especially in this economic climate! I personally can afford these extortionate £70 tickets on Stub Hub - but rest assure, I would never give in to actually paying it because I am honest, I appreciate people like me who have paid their membership and out of principle and disgust I 100% disagree.
You may as well forget my membership renewal next season. I think this is appalling what this club has done!
Regards,
Simon Buckingham