Most liked posts in thread: No cash entry for Plymouth match at any turnstile !!!!!!!!!

Hi,

I'm a City Ambassador and a former Director/Associate Director. Like Roger Owen, I've been volunteering my time at the club so I help in the commercial and marketing areas.

I've reviewed the OP and amendments have been made to the ticket information to make it clear that we don't take cash at turnstiles, how you can pay on the day via the ticket office etc. I'm in tomorrow and will review further edits.

If there's anything else that you believe will be helpful to clarify, add to this post and I'll take them into account.

Thanks.

 

we only want regulars at games, Non off these offcumdens turning up with cash wondering how to get in and boosting the clubs income,

 

And I would politely ask them to move, show my season tickets and say excuse me old chap, perchance you are sat in our seats out of ignorance....now f++k off!!

 

Are we creating a problem that isn’t actually a problem?

 

OP had a point. I believe we should have a cash turnstile, anything at all that puts any obstacle in the way of a person turning up and giving BCFC cash is not positive. We are l.o.n.g overdue stopping the daft mechanism whereby a customer has to queue twice to gain entry, once to purchase a tickets and again to hand it over, bonkers.

 

Hi Stafford, thanks for the heads up. The typo has been corrected.

The website information for Plymouth, which will be templated for use for later games has been updated;
https://bradfordcityfc-prod.efldigital.co.uk/news/2019/february/turnstile-information-plymouth/

Hopefully, it covers the points raised and makes the ticket purchase information clear with links.

Regarding the pay on the gate. This season, as with many clubs we require payment at the ticket office for home fans. There is a whole host of reasons, many of which are covered on here.

But the good news is that next year pay on the gate will return. This also ties in with the return of the original format of the flexi card.

Thanks everyone for your contributions.

 

I also enjoyed close encounters at the flicks if you know what I mean.....

 

There are a couple if reasons why you can't pay cash at the turnstile.
First and most importantly it costs the club more money to insure against it.
Second it reduces the risk of fraud/theft by the turnstile operator, unfortunately no matter what your moral code is there will always be people who steal.
Thirdly it reduces the cost through wastage of preprinted tickets, you can't allow unreserved seating in an area which has allocated seats to season ticket holders.

 

What a lot of fuss about a casual supporter not knowing what to do. I concede the club need to make it clearer on the website as it is in the club’s interest to do that. However the majority of ppl who wake up on a Saturday morning and decide to go to the footie would firstly go to the ticket office or ring up, or just turn up and ask. Why have a pop at the club? I would consider it my responsibility to organise my own entertainment and not expect every organisation to cater to my disorganisation.

 

Ridiculous post in my view. Go to the ticket office and get a ticket, how hard is that? Plus taking cash at the turnstiles is a security risk these days.

 

Yes, but if you pay cash at the turnstile. How do you know which of those 8,000 seats are free? A non-regular fan could pay his £25, enter the stadium and sit in someone’s seat.

You know our tribal some of our fans are. It’d be a bloodbath

 

Buy a fecking season ticket and stop bleating you miserable Twit.

 

So before every game all the tickets for the empty seats are printed off and given to the turnstile
Operator? Then at the end of the day they are all binned. Sounds like a right waste of cash.
And then does the turnstile operator go through the pile of tickets looking for four seats next to each other, 3 adults and a child?

 

I think most people are missing the point of the OP. I haven't checked the website but I think part of what he is saying is that if, for some strange reason, someone fancied coming today as a one-off, it isn't clear enough on the website that although you can't pay cash at the turnstyle you can go get a ticket from the ticket office.

 

You turned up and paid at the gate!

 

We are attempting to create a problem we don’t have and don’t need.

It’s baffling

 

I’ve never ever queued at the turnstile to get into VP.
Too many people on this thread making a mountain out of a molehill.
In almost every entertainment venue I can think of, if you turn up without a ticket you are likely to have to queue for one.

 

I think the OP has a valid point. Get the turnstiles sorted out once and for all. You should be able to buy a ticket on your phone as you walk up Midland Rd, scan a QR code or whatever and get in to watch. The casual supporter, by definition, is not someone that is likely to know or want to negotiate the hurdles that are put in their way. Make it simple.

 

Give over and go do a jigsaw or something to calm down. It's been like that all season and if anyone wanted to come to city on Saturday they'd probably have abit of commitment to us and therefore know the system.
Putting the club down over tickets now. Think we've got bigger things to be worrying about.