"The club explained that when the new owners took over four years ago, they ended agreements with third parties that allowed them to sell tickets. That included the deal agreed a decade ago with a small group of tour organisers "for the benefit of school groups" - but the club did not realise they were still selling tickets because there was no formal deal with the organisers."
"Forty-five tickets for the Barcelona match were bought by the High School of Dundee in the same month that 110,000 fans had been in an online queue for the remaining seats for the highly anticipated fixture. A spokesman for the school said they purchased them in good faith, after being "approached" by a provider, but the tickets were subsequently cancelled by the club."
Newcastle United cancelled 103 season tickets and apologised after discovering a decade-old arrangement allowed tour organisers to continue selling and reselling seats without a formal agreement. The tours originally purchased season tickets in 2015-16 and continued unauthorised sales at higher package prices. New owners ended third-party agreements four years ago but did not detect the ongoing sales because there was no formal deal with the organisers. Forty-five tickets for the Champions League match against Barcelona were bought by the High School of Dundee and later cancelled. The club says the action targets breaches by organisations, not individual supporters reselling tickets.
Read at www.bbc.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]