Not as I am aware of certainly we didn't and there were about ten of us in our group. But we were lucky in that we had about five months in moving from Central Park to the JJB and the stadium was already complete for that period. The big advantage was that we were allowed to go and view (chose our seats) before we bought whereas at Saints the stadium was still a building site for a year from your move at Knowsley Road.
We have always had computerised swipe card access and that's worked well apart from one season when a few of the renewals somehow didn't swipe properly.