Once again Red Potato you're trying to justify your use of touts and it's indefensible.
I don't criticise you for coming to the games from abroad, fair enough, but touts see you as a walking bag of money, and also, why should you be more entitled to a ticket because you can afford to buy on the black market?
You'll find a lot of fans think what you do is pretty despicable.
Maybe then the fans who sell to touts / are touts should stop? Think about where the touts get their tickets, particularly for 'big ' games.
Yes, they see supporters from abroad as money bags and are quite happy to oblige for the matches they can't attend. Professional touts aside, the amateur who does it occasionally is abusing their relationship with the club and exploiting demand from far away supporters.
Strangely, some people think I'm looking for sympathy. I'm not. I also don't feel entitled to a ticket. I'll go back to my original point and the issue of the shitty Wembley atmosphere. The fact that there was criteria to buy tickets for that game suggests that regular match goers were doing the touting. The reality is that many genuine supporters end up buying from touts. Pretending that's not the reality of the situation leads to matches like last weekend and the mass service Anfield is turning into, i.e., tourists can get tickets too. Hence the notion that the club could also recognize ticket stubs, etc... when deciding on ticket criteria.
The pointless lazy line 'stop buying from touts' seems to be the only solution offered on here and it's not a real life solution.
There is massive demand for match tickets. The club is expanding the stadium for a reason, not just to sell out for the 'big' games, as is implied by some here. Is QPR a big game?
It almost feels that it's too much effort to tackle the touting issue, and those who have access to tickets can put their feet up and wag their fingers at those who get theirs from the secondary source after official sales have depleted.
As for being despicable, away games I buy from the host club. Home games I've gone to were the 'smaller'' games, so its likely that any regular match goer couldn't have gotten tickets. Again, it was a lazy generalization.
I dare any season ticket holder / regular match goer on here who has ever touted to make their case. Then you might catch a glimpse of proper despicable.
The idea of an amnesty is interesting. Perhaps it has been done before, but could be done again, update the database and regularise the system. Make it possible to transfer a name on the ticket for individual games, like an airline or car insurance company does. This could be done online, quickly. Surely a fix could be created and tackle the touts control of seemingly unlimited tickets more effectively.