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Apparently the club will be doing loads more ID checks tomorrow.

Heard from a few people they were doing checks on the way in on Wednesday & actually doing spot checks during the match too. One fella & his kid got chucked out on 80 minutes.

I'm not sure there's anything you can do about it tbh, but thought I'd make you aware.
 
To add my twopence regards this though, I think it's fucking insane. I'd say maybe one in ten is being used by a tout.

That means for every one tout they inconvenience ever so slightly (it's actually the fan being fleeced to buy it & then denied what they've paid over the odds for), there's nine fans who haven't been able to get the game inconvenienced & other nine fans who wanted to watch the game who can't.

I don't see how anyone benefits, including the club, or what the point of this exercise is.
 
To be honest I would say the idea is to stop card sharing full stop.
It costs £26 per card per year so the more people that buy them the more money for the club.
From their perspective multi fan use of single cards is costing them money.
 
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Dreambeliever said:
Stop touts surely.
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That's just it though, it doesn't.

All it does is make the touts life a little more (not much) difficult. It hurts the fans who want to watch the match, not the cunts profiting.

If they want to stop touts then they could simply walk around the ground, & when they see someone selling them stand a steward next to them telling fans who want to buy them from the tout that they will be refused entry.

As I said though, there's only a tiny proportion of these that are from touts, the majority are genuine fans who can't get the game.
 
You can if you have permission. If you've got a signed addressed note from the holder they let you in.
 
Woland said:
You can if you have permission. If you've got a signed addressed note from the holder they let you in.
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Apparently they're not targeting the season tickets.

A few people have said they had someone else's season ticket but as soon as they showed it they weren't even asked their name.
 
FoxForceFive said:
Apparently they're not targeting the season tickets.

A few people have said they had someone else's season ticket but as soon as they showed it they weren't even asked their name.
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Which kind of reinforces my theory.
A season ticket is for a set number of games and sharing it doesn't effect club income.
However stopping members card sharing should theoretically lead to an increase in sale of members cards and therefore income.
 
Well in a way its one of the games people will be desperate to pay touts for tickets for. And if releasing this PR means some touts take more cautious measures then it is achieving what they want it to..
 
Brizzle said:
Well in a way its one of the games people will be desperate to pay touts for tickets for. And if releasing this PR means some touts take more cautious measures then it is achieving what they want it to..
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The touts don't have to.

That's the problem. Selling tickets or fancard access is not illegal, so the worst that can happen is the card is confiscated & they need to pay a fee to get a replacement (they just get the person whose name the card is in to say they lost it).

For them it's a minor inconvenience & barely effects their bottom line.

For the fan who pays double or treble the admission price & then gets kicked out or can't get in it's gutting. Some of those people may have travelled hundreds of thousands of miles & it could be their only opportunity to see Liverpool.

As I said already, I don't see anyone winning through this action.
 
Ha. It did indeed.

It's not enforced though. There's tonnes of sites selling them openly (many of which owned by huge companies) & around the ground they still do it in exactly the same way they always have.
 
Btw, to put that into context, viagogo, technically, should be breaking the law.

They advertise on hoardings at the ground, on TV & radio, & resell hundreds of tickets a day at a huge markup, they haven't been prosecuted.
 
FoxForceFive said:
The touts don't have to.

That's the problem. Selling tickets or fancard access is not illegal, so the worst that can happen is the card is confiscated & they need to pay a fee to get a replacement (they just get the person whose name the card is in to say they lost it).

For them it's a minor inconvenience & barely effects their bottom line.

For the fan who pays double or treble the admission price & then gets kicked out or can't get in it's gutting. Some of those people may have travelled [hl]hundreds of thousands of miles[/hl] & it could be their only opportunity to see Liverpool.

As I said already, I don't see anyone winning through this action.
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That's a true fan. They should get a seat next to Klopp for travelling that far.
 
The last season ticket I had in my own name was 1989. Since then I've had tons of other people's. I don't the details of the one I've got now, so I could get fucked out today. Something tells me they won't be checking those with scouse accents though
 
FoxForceFive said:
Btw, to put that into context, viagogo, technically, should be breaking the law.

They advertise on hoardings at the ground, on TV & radio, & resell hundreds of tickets a day at a huge markup, they haven't been prosecuted.
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Depends, if it's the same as Australian law that's fine. You need to have the permission of the event owner to resell at mark up. Ticketmaster in Oz have a resell site and tickets for concerts that sell out instantly have resell tickets available straight away for 5-10 times face value and is perfectly legal. Load of bollox
 
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