United Fans Ripped Off By Club

[Bert]

Bert called the club on the Bert mobile to buy some tickets for the Doncaster game.

He doesn't like being ripped off at 35p per minute on an 0871 number so he called the main swithcboard on 0114 221 3156 and asked to be put through. The operator informed him that she couldn't put him through and that he had to call the 0871 number....and no doubt wait 20 minutes.

They can bollocks, Bert will now give next Tuesday night a miss.

 

[Linz]

How about being charged a £1 booking fee for buying Yeovil tickets online, only to have to go and pick them up from Bramall Lane anyway?

I thought the £1 was to cover postage.

 

[alcoblade]

Bert called the club on the Bert mobile to buy some tickets for the Doncaster game.

He doesn't like being ripped off at 35p per minute on an 0871 number so he called the main swithcboard on 0114 221 3156 and asked to be put through. The operator informed him that she couldn't put him through and that he had to call the 0871 number....and no doubt wait 20 minutes.

They can bollocks, Bert will now give next Tuesday night a miss.

So, that's your season ticket and the premium line that's too expensive for you. You can add these to the list of topics, such as your regular trips to Cuba, up for discussion at your next exclusive gentelman's club visit.

Times are tough.



UTB

 

[Wapping Blade]

How about being charged a £1 booking fee for buying Yeovil tickets online, only to have to go and pick them up from Bramall Lane anyway?

I thought the £1 was to cover postage.

I thought they were going to ditch the booking fee...

 

[Linz]

I thought they were going to ditch the booking fee...

Just like they were going to ditch the 0871 number...

 

[SwissBlade]

Thats the spirit Bert!

 

[metalblade]

Any excuse to have a pop at the club............... go on post it Swiss you know you want to

 

[SwissBlade]

Any excuse to have a pop at the club............... go on post it Swiss you know you want to

Its not really a pop is it, not by your standards, Bert's a mere amateur compared to yourself.

I'll only post that if you and Mic manage to put a conspiracy together about how this is funding McCabes building of affordable housing at the back of the kop

 

[Bert]

So, that's your season ticket and the premium line that's too expensive for you. You can add these to the list of topics, such as your regular trips to Cuba, up for discussion at your next exclusive gentelman's club visit.

Times are tough.



UTB

Times are comfortable for Bert as it happens but he didn't like being ripped off when he was in business and he still takes offence when somebody tries it on now.
The sum of money is irrelevant.

 

[Bert]

How about being charged a £1 booking fee for buying Yeovil tickets online, only to have to go and pick them up from Bramall Lane anyway?

I thought the £1 was to cover postage.

You still get charged £1 when all they do is activate a membership card for a particular match rather than post the ticket out.

 

[SwissBlade]

Times are comfortable for Bert as it happens but he didn't like being ripped off when he was in business and he still takes offence when somebody tries it on now.
The sum of money is irrelevant.

So because Bert tried to bypass the system and didn't succeed, Bert then classes this as ripping him off... But if Bert went online and booked his tickets, it would cost him just the booking fee (presumably).

Even by calling the club from the Bert Mobile, Bert would still have to pay for the call...

Doesn't that mean that Bert has to pay someone however he purchases tickets.

 

[Bert]

There would be no extra cost using the Bert mobile.

 

[SwissBlade]

Putting Bert's complaint into perspective.

SwissBlade tried to cancel his Contents insurance with Endlseigh because Swiss doesn't have any contents there anymore. Swissblade said this is because he wants to rent the property.

Endsleigh said that Swiss would need Landlords Insurance and they could help. Swiss didn't want to be tied to Endsleigh and wanted to test the market, Endsleigh said that this would be fine.

All Swiss needed to do was pay a £50 cancellation fee and pay the next couple of months insurance

Swissblade felt more ripped off as he had no choice but to either let the policy lapse, pay for landlord insurance or pay the cancellation.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Brownie knows a stunted mutant with half a brain, the stunted mutant with half a brain that Brownie knows even possesses the intellect to know when season ticket deadlines are, how operate the internet (even if the stunted mutant with half a brain was in far flung places like Cuba). Brownie also thinks that if the stunted mutant didn't have a season ticket and was unhappy at paying £1 booking fee, or operating a 0871 number, then the stunted mutant would use his telephone, or other means of communication available to him to contact either Brownie, or other friends in Sheffield who would go down to the ticket office and get a ticket for him.

But then again Brownie, or the stunted mutant with half a brain aren't as clever as Bert.

 

[alcoblade]

Times are comfortable for Bert as it happens but he didn't like being ripped off when he was in business and he still takes offence when somebody tries it on now.B
The sum of money is irrelevant.

I despise premium rate numbers too, and I think the club should ditch them. It all goes into the same pot though, and it would only add to the cost of the tickets which you've already stated you think are too expensive.....

UTB

 

[mekkyblade]

Why is everyone referring to themselves in the third person?

 

[alcoblade]

Why is everyone referring to themselves in the third person?

Alcoblade thinks it's because this thread was started by his Bertship.

UTB

 

[robbie11]

Bert called the club on the Bert mobile to buy some tickets for the Doncaster game.

He doesn't like being ripped off at 35p per minute on an 0871 number so he called the main swithcboard on 0114 221 3156 and asked to be put through. The operator informed him that she couldn't put him through and that he had to call the 0871 number....and no doubt wait 20 minutes.

They can bollocks, Bert will now give next Tuesday night a miss.

0871 numbers are generally charged at 10p per minute or national rate and not 35p per minute. The charge is to cover the cost of having someone there to handle the sale since it costs the club more to provide this service than to provide an online service. Given the state that the club is in financially this seems like a common sense approach and I don't understand what the complaint is

 

[Bert]

http://www.lovemoney.com/news/house...08-and-0870-numbers-for-free-from-your-mobile

That will be 35.8p then not 10p.
Also, why isn't there a charge when someone calls at the ticket office in person as presumably a costly person has to serve them?

 

[Ollessendro]

Olle quite enjoys ringing up the club telephone number from time to time. He regards 35p a minute as tiny for the enjoyment he gets from listening to David Blunt. Olle would be willing to pay much more than 35p a minute to listen to 'let me hold you' over and over again. Therefore Olle reckons he is getting a good deal. Olle's willingness to pay is much greater than the cost of hearing 'please owd' by Mrs SUFC. Olle wishes he was as smart as Bert, so that he could cut his nose and spite his face, save a quid and not watch a game he would like to watch. But Olle is not so shrewd, as he does not have an issue with his money going to the club he supports. Olle would like to think he is a smart business man, but he is essentially an attention seaking spack-tard that likes to lines McCabe's pockets.

 

[Darren]

Alcoblade thinks it's because this thread was started by his Bertship.

UTB

Darren thinks it because that when Bert last made a similar complaint (the Cuba one), we all vowed that whenever Bert started a thread everyone contributing to it would refer to themselves in the third person in the hope this would help cure Bert of his rather strange habit.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Olle quite enjoys ringing up the club telephone number from time to time. He regards 35p a minute as tiny for the enjoyment he gets from listening to David Blunt. Olle would be willing to pay much more than 35p a minute to listen to 'let me hold you' over and over again. Therefore Olle reckons he is getting a good deal. Olle's willingness to pay is much greater than the cost of hearing 'please owd' by Mrs SUFC. Olle wishes he was as smart as Bert, so that he could cut his nose and spite his face, save a quid and not watch a game he would like to watch. But Olle is not so shrewd, as he does not have an issue with his money going to the club he supports. Olle would like to think he is a smart business man, but he is essentially an attention seaking spack-tard that likes to lines McCabe's pockets.

Whos David Blunt is he any good

 

[Revolution]

Revolution would like to announce he is also giving the Doncaster game a miss, although his reasons for doing so are less trivial than Bert's.

Revolution would also like to know whether it's appropriate to start a new thread whenever he's going to miss a game, or whether this is only necessary if the reasons behind missing the game are trivial.

 

[Kev Gee]

Bert called the club on the Bert mobile to buy some tickets for the Doncaster game.

He doesn't like being ripped off at 35p per minute on an 0871 number so he called the main swithcboard on 0114 221 3156 and asked to be put through. The operator informed him that she couldn't put him through and that he had to call the 0871 number....and no doubt wait 20 minutes.

They can bollocks, Bert will now give next Tuesday night a miss.

Football club ripping off fans?
Well i never!

 

[Crouchy]

Revolution would like to announce he is also giving the Doncaster game a miss, although his reasons for doing so are less trivial than Bert's.

Revolution would also like to know whether it's appropriate to start a new thread whenever he's going to miss a game, or whether this is only necessary if the reasons behind missing the game are trivial.

Crouchy is generally with Bert on this one. Crouchy finds that there are hidden charges everywhere in life. Crouchy doesn't object to paying for a ticket or a service, but Crouchy objects to being told that product X costs £15 when product X will actually cost Crouchy £17.

 

[Deleted member 875]

Brownie doesnt like Bert, he never has, and never will, and found Bert's non-renewal of his season ticket because through no fault of the clubs Bert missed the deadline rather funny, and Brownie thinks the rules apply to everyone and Bert shouldn't receive preferential treatment. Therefore Brownie finds Bert's petulant childish behaviour rather amusing.

Brownie has also visited a part of the world similar to Cuba, with Brownies mate the stunted mutant with half a brain, it was there that they both noted the propensity of single, fat, middle men to holiday alone in such places, and has often wondered what attracts young women to these single, fat middle aged men. Brownie would like Bert to set his mind at rest about such matters

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Seb thinks that football clubs, theatrical emporiums, cinematic establishments, music halls and many other entertainment facilities all add the 'handling fee' misnomer, which would be more accurately called 'extra profit fee' and should be campaigned against with vigour. Seb proposes Bert to head up this lobby group!

 

[alcoblade]

Alcoblade thinks Bert should stop fucking about and start giving the club some support. It needs it.

UTB

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

post: 440611, member: 875"]Brownie doesnt like Bert, he never has, and never will, and found Bert's non-renewal of his season ticket because through no fault of the clubs Bert missed the deadline rather funny, and Brownie thinks the rules apply to everyone and Bert shouldn't receive preferential treatment. Therefore Brownie finds Bert's petulant childish behaviour rather amusing.

Brownie has also visited a part of the world similar to Cuba, with Brownies mate the stunted mutant with half a brain, it was there that they both noted the propensity of single, fat, middle men to holiday alone in such places, and has often wondered what attracts young women to these single, fat middle aged men. Brownie would like Bert to set his mind at rest about such matters

Apologies for the double post, but Brownie has reminded Seb of a famous quote by Mrs Merton.


( Mrs Merton to Debbie McGee ) "So what was it that first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"

 

[Bert]

post: 440611, member: 875"]Brownie doesnt like Bert, he never has, and never will, and found Bert's non-renewal of his season ticket because through no fault of the clubs Bert missed the deadline rather funny, and Brownie thinks the rules apply to everyone and Bert shouldn't receive preferential treatment. Therefore Brownie finds Bert's petulant childish behaviour rather amusing.

Brownie has also visited a part of the world similar to Cuba, with Brownies mate the stunted mutant with half a brain, it was there that they both noted the propensity of single, fat, middle men to holiday alone in such places, and has often wondered what attracts young women to these single, fat middle aged men. Brownie would like Bert to set his mind at rest about such matters

1. Bert has never paid much attention to the likes of you, he sees you rather like a dog turd in the street, ie something to be stepped over.

2. Bert travels far and wide, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain being among of his favourite destinations. He rarely travels alone.

3. Bert is 6'1" tall and weighs 13 stone 3 lbs, he swims 5 miles a week and can lift some very heavy weights in the gym. Nobody has ever called him fat. He has never felt the need to inform all and sundry of his keep fit/running regime. Unlike some attention seekers.