Can't it change and we have an exchange 2 weeks before each game? The reason was credit hunting before. If you qualify and can't go your going to buy it anyway so that isn't encouraging it anymore is it?
I think in times gone by when demand wasn't so high and the team was not doing so well, this works. Especially for midweek games where spares were hard to shift.
However, demand is crazy for all games at the moment. There are hoardes of people including regulars begging for spares on here, twitter, facebook etc. I would say common sense should prevail here. It is better to keep what few face value spares are circulating at the moment within the rawk community as opposed to see them passed on elsewhere due to delays in opening exchanges, or even worse, people deciding to flog them for profit.
At the moment, credit hunting has never been so easy and rawk won't be able to stop it. If we go shit again, by all means the policy has some meaning.