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Roll Call for Spurs Complaint email bombardment

si_yidarmy

£NIC OUT
Apr 17, 2005
4,717
931
Sorry but after today this has to be done...

There are hundreds of different websites selling Spurs v Ac milan tickets for ridiculous prices.

I thought touting was illeagal (if so why is there not much more being donw about it)

and i thought this email and membership card thing was supposed to stop people from selling on

http://www.thesportsboxoffice.com/A...ampions+League:+Tottenham+Hotspur+v+AC+Milan/

The website above is an example. I think this is a disgrace and a pisstake.
I was genuinely upset about not getting a ticket. And the fact the club in a sense screwed us LOYAL members for many years by offering half price memberships the day before.

This of course wont stop any of us from supporting our team nor will it stop us from continuing to obtain tickets (if possible!)

I think the time has come for us all who care and for all that are extrememly dissapointed about this morning also, to come together and send an email at a designated time of the day on a particular day in the near future.

Maybe some are thinking i am mental. But when we have the opportuninty to see the biggest game of our lives at our beloved ground, and to have our tickets brought in front of our noses and sold for £300 more.

This i find unacceptable and disloyal to fans who have spent a hell of a lot of money on memberships and tickets

Angry moment over.... I am beggining my email now.

Tottenham till i Die
 

MattyP

Advises to have a beer & sleep with prostitutes
May 14, 2007
14,041
2,980
The club should have either implemented a loyalty point scheme for members, or said if you want to get a ticket to AC Milan, you have to buy a ticket for a home game against a small club like Blackpool or West Ham :wink:

Having said that, don't we get Ticketmaster to run our system. In the absence of a loyalty point cut off, I don't know what else the club can do other than entrust one of the biggest companies to sell our tickets.
 

striebs

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2004
4,504
667
Spurs are one of the worst at shafting their fans .

I thought I had enough loyalty points for an away match at the Effeminates but didn't .

Found out the club were selling "VIP tickets" at £300 . Makes a mockery of the "loyalty" points scheme .

Get picked up by a coach at a petrol station with a complimentary glass of pomagne .

They treat us with contempt .

Remember that as loyalty to the club is concerned , it only goes one way .
 

Kyras

Tom Huddlestone's one man fan club
Feb 2, 2005
3,272
4
Nothing will change. It's a simple matter of supply and demand, even if you managed to get 20000 people to boycott The Lane, it would still sell out. The club will only listen when gate receipts start dropping, which they wont. They've got no reason to treat us well whatsoever.

The view of a fan:
Ticket website doesn't work - I miss out on tickets - companies / new members get tickets - this isn't fair.

The view of a business:
Whatever just happened, the stadium's full. :D
 

Destroyer

B513 R16
Jun 12, 2004
4,026
192
like you said the card scheme is supposed to stop touting, given that there is no general sale that means nobody can enter the ground on a ticket - membership card only. That must mean the agencys are selling the membership card as its the only way to enter the ground. This contstitutes massive identity fraud. Given how strict they are supposed to be regarding security/policing & terrorism laws the club may well be breaking the law if they dont report the websites to the police.
 

MrWoolley

Moderator
Staff
May 26, 2004
13,415
576
I've never understood why the club haven't done some sort of home loyalty point system for CL games and catergory A games.
 

Max_Junglie

Well-Known Member
Jan 14, 2008
2,281
207
These are probably corporate/sponsor tickets that never would have been available to the club to sell anyway. It's a Uefa problem isn't it? Same happens every big tournament - 'official' tickets quickly run out but corporate tickets are always available for a premium, so fans who want to buy through the proper channels end up being penalised.

There are only a finite number of tickets. The club can't please everyone. There has to be a system and none will be perfect. A system that suits me won't suit someone else and so on, and on and on.
 

vegassd

The ghost of Johnny Cash
Aug 5, 2006
3,356
3,330
There are only a finite number of tickets. The club can't please everyone. There has to be a system and none will be perfect. A system that suits me won't suit someone else and so on, and on and on.

Well said.
 

nikosramone

Well-Known Member
Jul 25, 2007
1,328
177
the milan game was always going to sell out, so the club were always going to get the gate money.

however, what I take exception to, is thatthe club chose to take the opportunity to sell more memberships at a reduced price to anybody off the street (what's 20 quid to a tout that's selling the ticket for £300+?!?)

the online system itself is flawed (how many people had got to near the front of the queue and got pushed waaay back?!?), and i don't think they prepared for it at all.
 

PT

North Stand behind Pat's goal.
Admin
May 21, 2004
25,468
2,408
What is the commercial reason behind selling half price membership anyway?
 

StanSpur

Ronny Rosenthal
Jul 15, 2004
2,436
2,042
Happy to put my name on anything. I got through to the ticket site at 16:44 yesterday after logging on at 09:20!!!!!

I'm frustrated that i spend £50+ a year on membership, went to all the CL home games so far (includine Twente when there were plenty of people that couldn't be bothered) and now we get to the last 16 suddenly we can get half price membership and jump the queue. Bunch of glory hunting arsenals.

As for the Stratford no-goes - yeah lets stay at our tiny ground becouse players 50 years ago did well. Come on, this is a business as much as it is a passion and we are getting left behind in our revenue and our fans are getting locked out of our biggest games in our living history. We need a new ground, it doesn't matter where it is. Our history is in the past and will remain there nomatter where we play football.
 

ladi100

Active Member
Jun 8, 2004
2,892
16
I'm in.
I work at Wembley. So am trying some links from a few people in the know.
I had an offer of 4 tickets for £900 yesterday.
I asked the guy who his link was, and he told me in no uncertain terms, that they are from people who signed up for recent memberships. He knows an "agent" who buys memberships for all London clubs and some of the bigger clubs. They had 2 Spurs memberships at the start of the season, and purchased 10 more in the past 2 weeks!!!!!
 

Monkey Bastard Hands

Large Member
Jul 18, 2010
1,411
1,121
What is the commercial reason behind selling half price membership anyway?


They've done it every season for the last few years if I remember rightly, I guess the only reason is because there's only half the season left to go hence half price membership. This year isn't a one off special event by any means.
 

crazyteknohed

King of the Turkmen
Aug 20, 2008
332
31
Happy to put my name on anything. I got through to the ticket site at 16:44 yesterday after logging on at 09:20!!!!!

I'm frustrated that i spend £50+ a year on membership, went to all the CL home games so far (includine Twente when there were plenty of people that couldn't be bothered) and now we get to the last 16 suddenly we can get half price membership and jump the queue. Bunch of glory hunting arsenals.

As for the Stratford no-goes - yeah lets stay at our tiny ground becouse players 50 years ago did well. Come on, this is a business as much as it is a passion and we are getting left behind in our revenue and our fans are getting locked out of our biggest games in our living history. We need a new ground, it doesn't matter where it is. Our history is in the past and will remain there nomatter where we play football.

Be careful whom you're being critical of here; "Stratford no-goes" - and I include myself here - are Spurs supporters just like you. I too would like us to have a bigger stadium, though not at the expense of becoming a farmed-out franchise a la MK Dons. I firmly believe that Levy's assertion that the NPD has become unviable was merely a bluff to convince fans it was the only option and, more importantly, to convince the OPDC that we were fully committed to relocating in Stratford. Levy and his backers weren't so naive as to establish whether or not the project was financially viable after buying up all the property surrounding the ground, surely?

Regardless, just because other Spurs supporters' opinions may differ from your own that doesn't, as your post seems to imply, make them directly responsible for you missing out on a ticket, nor does it make them "glory hunting arsenals" as you put it (oh, the irony!) All such disparaging remarks will serve to do antagonise such supporters and make them unsympathetic towards your cause.

With regards to the online fiasco, it was always going to be like this for perhaps our biggest game in the last 50 years, what with 50,000+ fans vying for just 5000 tickets. There is no fair way, I'm afraid, as introducing a loyalty cut-off for home games will inevitably reduce the revenue generated from membership fees as the whole purpose of becoming a member is to be able to go to the big games.

I myself am a member with 100 or so points (yes, I've seen us play the sh*te teams and been on jaunts to mid-week away fixtures too) and have been for the last seven years, but I can only afford to go to a handful of games a season. Whilst my loyalty points are next to useless for all but select away fixtures, I accept that a season ticket holder with nil points will always be ahead of me in the queue as they are making a bigger commitment to the club than me, even if they've only been going to games for a season or so. But if home games became based in loyalty points and, say, 500 or so points were needed for the big games, I'd simply cancel my membership. If all I got from being a member was priority for Stoke at home, why would I bother paying an annual fee for tickets that will go on general sale?

I do think that, much as I might not like some aspects of it, the current system is as fair as can be. I also think that if those who missed out on tickets wanted them that badly, they could've done what I, along with many other supporters, did, and took the day off work, sat in the rain since the crack of dawn and queued up for a ticket.
 
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