I’m not surprised at all that passing your ticket on isn’t allowed, at many places.
It is weird how much they’re stressing it in this vote though
There’s no need to even mention it at this stage, you just include it in the Ts and Cs when it comes in, but there’s more words about how strongly it will be enforced than about the rest of the entire proposal
The only reason I can think is because they don’t want people to vote for it.
Tickets, whether football, music, theatre, parking, whatever, are very rarely, if ever, transferable. There are good reasons for it. At a popular, well supported venue, those reasons look sensible; at a poorly supported one they don't, but the rules are the rules - although a blind-eye is often turned.
They are able to argue that they are ensuring that customers should be clear of their rights, or lack of them - it is clear, from the confusion on here, that's not a bad idea. But hang-on, I'm told there is no confusion.
But they are also bullies; they always have been. They know all of the answers; or, as we know, maybe not. We know they have a threatening style of management and this is simply an extension of that. It's what they do and they know, that technically, they are okay doing it.
It is sometimes a useful tactic to layout the hard line of policy, make the wider audience of opposition (that's how they see supporters) understand their rights, and then soften them, in a magnanimous, but thoroughly insincere gesture of care. Quite a sharp use of that confusion that doesn't exist.
Taking part in the first ballot - it was of little consequence what you voted for - simply gave their manipulation credence. Everyone, who discussed it on here, claimed to be voting for something they didn't like - that, in itself, was a concern. It was stated there was a real concern over turnout being low; in fact it was given as a reason against a no-vote. (Laziness, lack of social responsibility and the usual biased tosh, was also thrown out to discredit the unwanted no-vote)
The gamble was taken and the turnout, it would appear, was very low; low enough to let them manipulate it. So now, all of a sudden, a no-vote is the answer; but that's not surprising, as it always was - or, to be more precise, it was the clear option of not supporting a loaded ballot that was...
..But now that seems to be happening. It's funny how things turn out...
