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Ticket Office Problem 06:08 - Jan 3 with 3798 viewsSuperKelvin

My Father passed away last year having been a lifelong season ticket holder.
As he was a over 65 ticket, i contacted the ticket office to ask if i could have it transferred to me for the remaining games.

They have said i would need to pay in order to upgrade it to a full adult ticket, or It will remain empty. Furthermore, it hasn't even been used since the start of the season and will be unable to get a refund.

Any ideas where to go from here?
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Ticket Office Problem on 06:41 - Jan 3 with 3081 viewsDENZY

Can you not just use the ticket without saying anything? Absolutely disgusting attitude from the club.

"The Chapel Kop at Southampton is widely regarded as the most passionate and intimidating Kop in European football."

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Ticket Office Problem on 06:52 - Jan 3 with 3077 viewssaintwizzler

Not good PR from the club but do we expect anything else?
Good luck with this.

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Ticket Office Problem on 07:01 - Jan 3 with 3072 viewsSuperKelvin

Ticket Office Problem on 06:41 - Jan 3 by DENZY

Can you not just use the ticket without saying anything? Absolutely disgusting attitude from the club.


Sadly not, over 60 tickets flash a different colour on the way in so it's obvious its not my ticket. This stops people using kids tickets. But ill have to chance it.
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Ticket Office Problem on 07:16 - Jan 3 with 3066 viewsDENZY

Ticket Office Problem on 07:01 - Jan 3 by SuperKelvin

Sadly not, over 60 tickets flash a different colour on the way in so it's obvious its not my ticket. This stops people using kids tickets. But ill have to chance it.


Get on to the Daily Echo and shame the club into doing something. Embarrassing penny pinching from the club.

"The Chapel Kop at Southampton is widely regarded as the most passionate and intimidating Kop in European football."

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Ticket Office Problem on 07:39 - Jan 3 with 3049 viewssolent_toffee

In this instance you are probably best writing to someone at the club, try to get a specific name from someone ITK on here and explain the situation. If you phoned the ticket office you might have got through to some random person who hasn’t got much flexibility and gave you a standard response.
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Ticket Office Problem on 08:04 - Jan 3 with 3023 viewsA1079

I am not in the know with anyone at the club SuperKelvin, but I would not leave it at that. I just looked on the website and what about writing to this address. I cannot imagine that for the remainder of this season that someone there would not see reason

supporterrelations@saintsfc.co.uk

or telephone:
02380 711 980,

There is also this Supporters charter:
file://userfs/ad810/w2k/Downloads/SFC%20Supporters%20Charter%202019.pdf

None of this may be of any help but it is worth a try. Failing that I would try someone senior at the club.

Good luck
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Ticket Office Problem on 08:04 - Jan 3 with 3022 viewskingslandstand1

Ticket Office Problem on 07:16 - Jan 3 by DENZY

Get on to the Daily Echo and shame the club into doing something. Embarrassing penny pinching from the club.


They'll pick up on it being on here as they must scour major fans web sites for stories?
Cr@p attitude from the club though as they czn obviously tell if a ST has been used
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Ticket Office Problem on 08:22 - Jan 3 with 2996 viewsthis_charming_man

We had a similar issue a few years back with my dad. He had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and needed a wheelchair and a helper to go to games. The club refused him a disabled season ticket, even though he had had one for the previous 3 seasons after his diagnosis due to the fact he had moved into a care home and his disability Benefit was being paid to the home and not to him any more. It was a ridiculous situation, but thankfully after speaking to the club on several
Occasions and having to provide proof they finally agreed to it.

There is a bloke in the ticket office called Lee who sorted it out, he was quite helpful.

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Ticket Office Problem on 08:26 - Jan 3 with 2991 viewsSalisburySaint

Ticket Office Problem on 08:22 - Jan 3 by this_charming_man

We had a similar issue a few years back with my dad. He had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and needed a wheelchair and a helper to go to games. The club refused him a disabled season ticket, even though he had had one for the previous 3 seasons after his diagnosis due to the fact he had moved into a care home and his disability Benefit was being paid to the home and not to him any more. It was a ridiculous situation, but thankfully after speaking to the club on several
Occasions and having to provide proof they finally agreed to it.

There is a bloke in the ticket office called Lee who sorted it out, he was quite helpful.


definatley try to speak to Lee

He has worked in the ticket office for years and is really reliable andc helps me out with issues all the time
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Ticket Office Problem on 08:32 - Jan 3 with 2981 viewsDENZY

Lee Hetherington I think his name is.

"The Chapel Kop at Southampton is widely regarded as the most passionate and intimidating Kop in European football."

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Ticket Office Problem on 08:37 - Jan 3 with 2962 viewsPatfromPoole

A friend of mine had a fairly similar situation at Boscombe recently.

A guy aged about 30 died in tragic circumstances; a family member wanted to continue to use the ST, which was being resisted by the club.

I must find out how this got resolved, if at all.

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Ticket Office Problem on 08:41 - Jan 3 with 2950 viewsPatfromPoole

Though, unlike us, Boscombe have a long waiting list for ST’s, so may feel they can be a bit more jobsworth on issues like this....

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Ticket Office Problem on 08:56 - Jan 3 with 2933 viewsA1079

another option may be to write to Matt Le Tissier or Francis Benali as the Club Ambassadors.
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Ticket Office Problem on 09:22 - Jan 3 with 2904 viewsthis_charming_man

You could always try the saints voice....

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Ticket Office Problem on 09:43 - Jan 3 with 2883 viewsOccasional_Showers

Cant you self identify as an over 60?

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Ticket Office Problem on 09:43 - Jan 3 with 2884 viewsarfurdent

The deceased was a close friend who sat next to me. I am suprised the club have not made some gesture to sort this out for the remaining part of the season

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Ticket Office Problem on 10:15 - Jan 3 with 2851 viewsSonicBoom

As a last resort you could always put it on twitter.
It's amazing how quickly banks, shops and other organisations respond when a complaint can be seen by everyone.
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Ticket Office Problem on 11:56 - Jan 3 with 2777 viewsSaintNick

Ticket Office Problem on 10:15 - Jan 3 by SonicBoom

As a last resort you could always put it on twitter.
It's amazing how quickly banks, shops and other organisations respond when a complaint can be seen by everyone.


e mail the supporter liason officer at the e mail given in a post on this thread

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Ticket Office Problem on 12:22 - Jan 3 with 2744 viewsSuperKelvin

Ticket Office Problem on 11:56 - Jan 3 by SaintNick

e mail the supporter liason officer at the e mail given in a post on this thread


Thanks everyone, i have emailed the support liaison but no reply.

The Twitter account replied to me and sent their condolences and said they are looking into it.

Its nice to know the club tries to make money even out of its fans passing away.
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Ticket Office Problem on 13:16 - Jan 3 with 2702 viewsBuggalugs

Ticket Office Problem on 07:01 - Jan 3 by SuperKelvin

Sadly not, over 60 tickets flash a different colour on the way in so it's obvious its not my ticket. This stops people using kids tickets. But ill have to chance it.


I know plenty of adults that go in on kids tickets and have done for years. Yes the light does go a different colour, but none have ever been challenged by the stewards watching.

I appreciate this is not ideal and you obviously want peace of mind, but if the club won't do the right thing by you, it wouldn't be an issue to continue using it.

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Ticket Office Problem on 13:19 - Jan 3 with 2697 viewsSaintsforeverj

Just use the ticket yourself. Go in about 15 minutes before kick off when it's busy. When I walk in, we often mix up the tickets and I end using the kids ticket and they use mine. It's so busy nobody says anything and I don't think they notice either. If you get caught, just say oh I must have accidently used my dad's ST. I wouldn't worry just use it.

But I would try to shame the club first.
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Ticket Office Problem on 13:36 - Jan 3 with 2677 viewsSaintNick

Ticket Office Problem on 12:22 - Jan 3 by SuperKelvin

Thanks everyone, i have emailed the support liaison but no reply.

The Twitter account replied to me and sent their condolences and said they are looking into it.

Its nice to know the club tries to make money even out of its fans passing away.


Of course I would not condone using a ticket and defrauding the club lol.

I have brought this to the supporter liason officers attention so hopefully they will get back to you, in fairness they probably take a day or two.

In essence they are right in what they are saying and are going by the book and saying you can pay extra to transfer the ticket, you could say that it is fair of them to do that.

However it is perhaps not in the spirit of things, it would not harm them to exchange the ticket now at no extra cost and then let you renew it at the right price next season.

The problem is they do not think like this, they follow the rules and don't seem able to have the human element at the right time

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Ticket Office Problem on 13:42 - Jan 3 with 2672 viewsthis_charming_man

Ticket Office Problem on 13:36 - Jan 3 by SaintNick

Of course I would not condone using a ticket and defrauding the club lol.

I have brought this to the supporter liason officers attention so hopefully they will get back to you, in fairness they probably take a day or two.

In essence they are right in what they are saying and are going by the book and saying you can pay extra to transfer the ticket, you could say that it is fair of them to do that.

However it is perhaps not in the spirit of things, it would not harm them to exchange the ticket now at no extra cost and then let you renew it at the right price next season.

The problem is they do not think like this, they follow the rules and don't seem able to have the human element at the right time


That was the case in my dads situation, to qualify for a season ticket it was basically a check list of criteria which if you didn't meet then you weren't entitled too. as my dad was getting disability benefit, it had been transferred to payment to the home, then he didn't qualify according to their spreadsheet.

Im sure with a bit of humanity and common sense they can fix it. I'm sure Liverpools ticket office doesn't have such rigid policies.

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Ticket Office Problem on 14:03 - Jan 3 with 2645 viewsWalkingRosie

Ticket Office Problem on 09:22 - Jan 3 by this_charming_man

You could always try the saints voice....


They will grass the poor fella up to the club and old bill. When he tries to contact them they will refuse to speak to him. Next thing he will see is pictures of them all over social media enjoying the game, selfies with Sammy Saint etc

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Ticket Office Problem on 14:18 - Jan 3 with 2624 viewsSuperKelvin

Update- Ticket office called me to say they had seen some posts on social media and although it's against protocol they will offer me the ticket free of charge.

Although they do not wish to let this be a known public policy and is against normal protocol.

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