Thursday, February 03, 2005

Following up on my post about the Redskins’ plan to require season ticket holders to purchase their tickets with the team credit card, the team office has rescinded that plan.

The Washington Redskins said yesterday they would no longer require season ticket holders who buy their seats with a credit card to use a Redskins Extra Points MasterCard, dropping a policy the team had announced only a week ago.

An official with the credit card company said it had asked the Redskins to drop the requirement and to allow Redskins fans to use any MasterCard when they buy their seats, and that the team had agreed. MasterCard generally does not allow merchants to accept only one type of its co-branded or affinity cards over others, the official said.

So it turns out that it wasn’t because the front office realized it was a boneheaded move. Interesting.

Courtesy: My mother.