The Mail Bag
Touts
Comments (11)
Just a message to all the touts and so-called Everton fans trying to rip off fellow blues and quoting £450 plus and then saying they didn't want to make money. I hope you choke on it. For future reference go to the McDonalds at Wembley Park where I got a ticket in the Everton end for £100. Chelsea ones were going for £80.
Kris Alexander, Posted 01/06/2009 at 07:07:44
Comments
Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer
As an Evertonian living abroad you have no choice but to go through the touts to get a ticket.
I contacted both the FA and Everton directly trying to get a ticket for the Final. The FA said I had to contact Everton and naturally Everton said only season ticket holders could buy tickets. In the end I flew for 13 hours from Hong Kong and had arranged a ticket in Club Wembley through other contacts in London.
As much as that may be "breaking the law" if the FA themselves won’t assist and the club naturally has to look after those that support the club week after week, what other choice do fans that can’t physically attend every match have?
I contacted both the FA and Everton directly trying to get a ticket for the Final. The FA said I had to contact Everton and naturally Everton said only season ticket holders could buy tickets. In the end I flew for 13 hours from Hong Kong and had arranged a ticket in Club Wembley through other contacts in London.
As much as that may be "breaking the law" if the FA themselves won’t assist and the club naturally has to look after those that support the club week after week, what other choice do fans that can’t physically attend every match have?
What I want to know is, how did Rooney get his hands on tickets for himself and a party of 16. Don’t tell me he got all of them from Man Utd.
I know of another Premier League club that was given 16 tickets for the game. Man U would have been given at least 16 tickets, Rooney was probably just given their allocation.
It’s no consolation now but if the FA are serious about stopping ticket touting, they need to give the clubs more tickets.
25,000 was a joke of an allocation.
It’s no consolation now but if the FA are serious about stopping ticket touting, they need to give the clubs more tickets.
25,000 was a joke of an allocation.
I got very lucky and got a £58 ticket for £100. What gets me is hypocritical people claiming to be Everton fans and wanting to do you a favour saying we just want our money back and then offering you tickets for £800...Of course we all wanted to go and the FA’s allocation was a joke and I inderstand the supply and demand ethos but it was more than possible to get them cheaper on the day if you held your nerve.
I agree - those people should just be twatted and have all their cash and tickets taken off them....
For the record Chris, not all of the touts were blues, some were reds like my brothers next door neighbout who touts for a living. He was down there.
I also know for a fact that there are several shareholders at Everton who are able to get there hands on a number of tickets for every Everton away game and the c*nts are in partnership with a football ticket website (in order to remain anonymous) ripping the fans. Everton should track them down.
I paid £200 for a liege away ticket which should have been 20 euro.
I also know for a fact that there are several shareholders at Everton who are able to get there hands on a number of tickets for every Everton away game and the c*nts are in partnership with a football ticket website (in order to remain anonymous) ripping the fans. Everton should track them down.
I paid £200 for a liege away ticket which should have been 20 euro.
Until the system changes touts will always find tickets to sell and rip the true fans off.
I was speaking to a former employee of Tranmere Rovers and they get an allocation of 280 tickets for every F.A. Cup Final no matter who is playing (as does every club of their size).
The reason that tickets get onto the black market is that clubs/people that have no interest in going to the game have access to tickets and therefore sell them on to make a quick few bob.
The F.A.should make the tickets more traceable so the source of the tickets can be easily identified.
If the source cant prove where they sold the tickets on to, then their club, F.A. or wher ver should be banned from getting tickets.
I know my Rugby Club gets tickets for Twickenham, every ticket has the club name printed on it.If any of those tickets are sold on the black market and its reported the whole Rugby Club is banned for applying for five years.
There must be some way that the F.A. can limit the availability of tickets to the scum that rip off the true fans.
I also saw a good way the police at Cardiff Arms Park used to handle the touts.
They watch the deal being done and go and arrest both the tout and the buyer.
They ask the buyer for the ticket and check out the face value.
They then ask the buyer how much they’ve payed.
If the ticket is say £50 and the buyer has paid £200 they give the tout the option to either give the buyer his change (in this case £150) or be locked up for the night.
Most of them pay up and they’re both sent on their way, its a win win situation.
The police dont have any paperwork to process and the genuine fan gets his ticket for face value.
Common sense, and the tout who has probably paid over the odds for the ticket in the first place loses money.
The F.A. need to get in the real world and sort bthis problem out once and for all.
I was speaking to a former employee of Tranmere Rovers and they get an allocation of 280 tickets for every F.A. Cup Final no matter who is playing (as does every club of their size).
The reason that tickets get onto the black market is that clubs/people that have no interest in going to the game have access to tickets and therefore sell them on to make a quick few bob.
The F.A.should make the tickets more traceable so the source of the tickets can be easily identified.
If the source cant prove where they sold the tickets on to, then their club, F.A. or wher ver should be banned from getting tickets.
I know my Rugby Club gets tickets for Twickenham, every ticket has the club name printed on it.If any of those tickets are sold on the black market and its reported the whole Rugby Club is banned for applying for five years.
There must be some way that the F.A. can limit the availability of tickets to the scum that rip off the true fans.
I also saw a good way the police at Cardiff Arms Park used to handle the touts.
They watch the deal being done and go and arrest both the tout and the buyer.
They ask the buyer for the ticket and check out the face value.
They then ask the buyer how much they’ve payed.
If the ticket is say £50 and the buyer has paid £200 they give the tout the option to either give the buyer his change (in this case £150) or be locked up for the night.
Most of them pay up and they’re both sent on their way, its a win win situation.
The police dont have any paperwork to process and the genuine fan gets his ticket for face value.
Common sense, and the tout who has probably paid over the odds for the ticket in the first place loses money.
The F.A. need to get in the real world and sort bthis problem out once and for all.
Surely in this day and age with the net and data we must be able to attach a ticket to something like an address, driving licence or some form of ID which can be cross referenced to a database, that is shared. All season ticket holders at every club should have their picture attached each year to the application and in events like the cup final this can be checked at the Stadium. If the pic doesnt match you aint coming in. If you cant make it then its up to you to notify the club..All NSTH will have to have a pic taken when they purchase their ticket. A simple webcam at the box office and 10 seconds to do. Simple
I’d like to personally thank the tout who sold two tickets to chelsea fans in the Everton half. They were complete idiots and very hostile / abusive.
I’ve taken the block, row and seat numbers and reported it to the FA and EFC for investigation.
If you couldn’t attend or wanted to make some extra few bob, well atleast sell them to Evertonians. What a complete letdown you are.
I’ve taken the block, row and seat numbers and reported it to the FA and EFC for investigation.
If you couldn’t attend or wanted to make some extra few bob, well atleast sell them to Evertonians. What a complete letdown you are.
Brian Law,
Just read your post. If that statement is true, shouldn’t you report him to the FA and or relevant authorities, if not, your no better then him.
Profitering from peoples and fans desperation. Absolute scum Touts are.
Just read your post. If that statement is true, shouldn’t you report him to the FA and or relevant authorities, if not, your no better then him.
Profitering from peoples and fans desperation. Absolute scum Touts are.
Jane and Danny...
Each player from each team is allocated 2 tickets, whether playing or not, although I believe only to players that have participated at some point in the cup. After that a certain number are given to officials of the club, supposedly for friends and family, but they tend to sell them on to others who in turn sell them by other means. I understand this allocation is made internally by the club after an initial allocation of approx 200 tickets from the FA.
I also know quite a few (20+) Elite members, and every single one of them sold their ticket allocation for over £200.
The FA need to fix this problem or it will continue to get worse. I’ve been an Everton fan since I was 3, I’d love to watch every match they play live, but there is no way (out of principal) that I am going to put an extra £150 in to someone else’s pocket just for the priviledge! If it went back into the club, great, but it doesn’t, it goes to someone that probably isn’t even a football fan, like many of the 20 Elite members I know...
Each player from each team is allocated 2 tickets, whether playing or not, although I believe only to players that have participated at some point in the cup. After that a certain number are given to officials of the club, supposedly for friends and family, but they tend to sell them on to others who in turn sell them by other means. I understand this allocation is made internally by the club after an initial allocation of approx 200 tickets from the FA.
I also know quite a few (20+) Elite members, and every single one of them sold their ticket allocation for over £200.
The FA need to fix this problem or it will continue to get worse. I’ve been an Everton fan since I was 3, I’d love to watch every match they play live, but there is no way (out of principal) that I am going to put an extra £150 in to someone else’s pocket just for the priviledge! If it went back into the club, great, but it doesn’t, it goes to someone that probably isn’t even a football fan, like many of the 20 Elite members I know...
© ToffeeWeb
-sm.jpg)
-sm.jpg)
-sm.jpg)
-sm.jpg)
Unless you accept that another law was in effect ? the law of Supply and Demand.