Got an email from the club about my stadium access card. It was asking me to check my barcode number with one detailed in the email. Never had an email like that from the club before, may be they fear counterfeit access cards???
Ok so a few months ago I bought a package from a sports travel firm for the Everton game.
I was coming home to see family and threw in the game too for my last trip to WHL....me and my missus booked the package from Sweden from an online company. I dont want to say their name, because after talking with them, they seemed genuinely unaware that their supplier distributed tickets in the way we got ours.
We paid around 1000 quid for three nights in a hotel and two tickets, which we collected at reception.
Imagine our surprise when we received two membership cards with the names of two people we dont know, and a little piece of handwritten paper saying what block and seat......and a printed letter with lines such as:
"If you are approached by a steward under no circumstances say that you bought the tickets from an online broker. Say you were given them by a business associate"
They did not want you to ask for your seat placing or speak to anyone whatsoever.
The letter ended saying if the cards were not left back at reception for some Mr X to collect, then our card would be charged for future missed games.
After the initial shock, we forked out an extra 200 odd quid last minute on Stubhub (sorry haters) for two tickets in 31 East Lower.
No way I was gonna try and get in with that shit....I was on the verge of calling the club, but in the end I left them back, and contacted the travel company when we got back yesterday. They were going to follow it up, and I do give them the benefit of the doubt here, as they have been operating these trips for over twenty years now.
But beware out there people, and as Guido has pointed out, could be a big scam under way.
I doubt the access cards were even charged for that game to be honest, we could have got into some trouble at the gate.