And, of course, there will be loads of hangers on taking free flights to interesting locations for obvious reasons just like in the financial services, armaments and other industries. The scope for kickbacks will be enormous.
It’s a very tricky situation. I can understand not transferring loyalty points as otherwise other loyal supporters will not move up the priority list. I think it’s something clubs should have a clear policy on so that everyone knows where they stand. The approach they’ve taken makes it more likely deaths won’t be reported. I seem to recall that Liverpool had a significant number of dead season ticket holders and had some sort of amnesty but don’t know if it extended to loyalty points.
There was a probably apocryphal story towards the end of Fergie's time at Utd that 25% of their sths were dead
Finding out if someone is deceased or not is fairly easy these days when you have their name and address
Obviously but if the club gets paid why would they bother to look? If he’d renewed and had it sent to his own address how would the club know?
There are providers like Experian, LexisNexis etc who do this kind of data checking as part of their core business.
It’s at Liverpool where several tens of STHs have average ages beyond 110.
Rivalled only by Okinawa.
Never had the pleasure, the Experian stuff is alright though - if a little priceyLexisNexis
Dunno how they are as a user, but as an integrator (IE, making an application talk to LN's data), they're awful!
Chelsea and Man City clenching again though.
