This whole collection thing is flawed if you can assign the ticket to someone else. Achieves very little other than being inconvenient. I'm happy to collect my ticket every single time if it means someone without credits has the opportunity to buy one on their own card. If you can change the name then you're basically just making it that a tout needs to be organised.
I think you are under estimating the ball ache it is. There's about 10 in our group who go everywhere, and a couple aren't going. We would have previously just bought and got rid later. Now the couple that aren't going, cos of threat of collection, are saying, they will be sound cos they haven't missed one for 5 years. That at least opens up a few tickets.
(Just before anyone jumps down my throat those lads do every home and away domestic, and 95% of euros. Phil you know who I mean)
And you would have to trust a tout to pay up front to collect over there.... Oh by the way can you just give that tout your full name, address, DOB, passport details?
You would have to trust him a lot.
It will cut down on them that buy then stick on websites for the massive markup.
And of it dropped there are also those people who would be happy to burn £50 for the prospect of a Barca SF ticket or potential final.
Its only been since 14/15 when we got back in that this has become an issue. Before that you could do the odd euro away and know you were boxed. Now it's become like league aways and cup aways - you feel you need to keep on the ladder.