Originally Posted by
onobond
On the SJ Prio website, their information states two predicaments to be obligatory for membership.
You need both to be a registred inhabitant in Sweden and have a Swedish Social Security Number.
As per ID, not until late September will all tickets be personal, with ID mandatory. This as SJ is getting a lot of chritic for the wide-spread second-hand sale of tickets.
Thanks for the confirmation.
The reselling of SJ tickets has made some people quite comfortable and with a ton of Prio points to boot. Stockholm-Malmo did them nicely.
The kind of criticism of that secondary market is indeed why SJ has started to sell directly on the likes of
www.tradera.se (Swedish version of eBay). [Unfortunately those tickets' auctions close around just 6 hours before scheduled departure which can make it mighty hard to plan.]
The SJ ID requirement is indeed nothing but an attempt at revenue protection, but in the years ahead I expect that the likes of Veolia will be cutting into SJ's pricing power, especially when it comes to leisure traffic.