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Fixture & Ticket News 2018/19

a spur from swansea said:
Ha ha ha what a fudging farce that was ,logged on both days before nine,got through around 10.20 ,fudge all yesterday,today....4 were available but taken...what is the point of being a + plus member nowadays,i was far luckier in the old days,got tickets for NLD ...chelski....liverpool,7000 tickets available out of 62k,fudge sake ....as Old Nan would say 'what a fudging liberty'..

A pointy email to the members dept to say whats what.

Oh yeah wait for patronising replies off season tickets holders ......and go.....
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if you work back from 62k....it would be fair to think they should have gone 12 k for members leaving 50k for ST's, away fans and corporate.

Is corporate at the 8k mark?:eek:
 
Spur of the moment said:
Yet the advice on the wheel of fortune page is to not refresh. Going straight to the eticketing page you linked to (thanks!) I logged in at 9.30, got the wheel started straight away but it's still showing 95% complete 40 mins after others above are reporting it's sold out.
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I never refresh mate. No matter how tempting, I'd rather the fault lie with the system and not my own impatience.

What I mean about being booted out, is that in the past I've logged in so early that I've almost beat the wheel and got into the site, but of course there are no live links to click for that particular game.
So I end up just randomly clicking around the site so it knows I'm there rather than stagnant whilst I wait for the link to become live.
However, as soon as it's there and I click, I have been known to be redirected to the wheel of doom and then probably further back in the bloody queue than those who logged in after me!!!

Sometimes I feel there's a good/right way to do it, but then you hear of others and realise it may well just be luck!
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
if you work back from 62k....it would be fair to think they should have gone 12 k for members leaving 50k for ST's, away fans and corporate.

Is corporate at the 8k mark?:eek:
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Don't forget the 2 x 2,500 tickets offered to local community as an incentive for the stadium being built. So that's another 5k that were probably swallowed up.

Rumours were it was 42k STH; 5k local community; 7k for members; which leave around 8,000 unaccounted for, with only corporates to take into consideration as far as I can see??
 
ringo said:
Not a season ticket holder. Have always got my tickets via the various versions of Ticket Exchange - or StubHub when that was being used - partly because can't go to that many games, need to sit near an aisle (get claustrophobic - which sounds crazy/weird I know) and also because i like to sit in different parts of the ground. Have never really had any problems getting tickets.

Now though - despite bigger capacity, ironically - I think it is going to be much tougher. This is down to the move ton Wembley. A lot of fans who would not have previously bothered are going to games and have got used to going to games, so i reckon demand for tickets generally has increased exponentially . Maybe it will settle down when those fans that have been going to Wembley realise it is going to be much harder to get tickets. But maybe not.

Also many season ticket holders will have used StubHub to make a bit extra on a game. Now though maybe they are just as likely to assign them to a mate for a game that they can't make. It's tricky.
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ST's can only share their ticket with someone that is a member.

And similarly the exchange is only open to members IF the game has sold out to ST's and members. No general free for all.

ST's will get all the face value back if sold and the buyer will pay a flat fee of £7.50 on top of the face value. All then loaded off of ST holders card and on to your member card. No other fees.

Its early days......next season they'll be enough popping up on the exchange from ST's that cant go.

Nice the 'legal' touting has gone and ST's cash cowing there season ticket has been knocked on the head.

Perhaps ST's on here with not much of a friends circle will happily add some of us on to their ticket share list?? With the whole process being carried out digitally and by the club its hardly much effort/risk.
 
ringo said:
I have, on occasion, experimented in different browser windows while waiting, and have been able to jump ahead of myself in a browser window opened later than some opened previously - so don't really understand how it works.
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Yep, regularly have exactly the same experience. Which makes no sense to me whatsoever. Some browsers seem to move quicker than others, even though they were opened within seconds of each other.
The browser shouldn't make a difference as that's purely a conduit onto the same "server" at the club the other end.
 
Ade's folks are ok really said:
Don't forget the 2 x 2,500 tickets offered to local community as an incentive for the stadium being built. So that's another 5k that were probably swallowed up.

Rumours were it was 42k STH; 5k local community; 7k for members; which leave around 8,000 unaccounted for, with only corporates to take into consideration as far as I can see??
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Maybe the community tickets have a cut off and theyll start appearing on the seating map??
 
Reckon my mate will have a chance on ticket exchange for this? He’s a + member if that matters.


Sitting on my porcelain throne using Fapatalk
 
A bit frustrated you can say... like i said before come Dec/Jan we'll have the hard sell off the ticket office for all members to turn up for a Burnley,Southampton midweek game to fill the ground up,i know we can buy tickets off the clubs re-sale dept but it will grind me if i got to buy off a jonny come lately who was 45,000 on the waiting list and decides he'll only wants to come for the big games...

I'm quite high up on the waiting list and in a position to buy a ST,so if any ST came up in the summer to buy,then it be my turn to give the vicks to everyone else then lol.....
 
Ade's folks are ok really said:
Yep, regularly have exactly the same experience. Which makes no sense to me whatsoever. Some browsers seem to move quicker than others, even though they were opened within seconds of each other.
The browser shouldn't make a difference as that's purely a conduit onto the same "server" at the club the other end.
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On one machine I even VPN ed from another country this morning hoping that i might find a flaw in the matrix that is the wheel of doom......

Didn't work:) :(
 
I was always on two minds about StubHub. I don't have any problem with season ticket holders making a bit extra on their ticket if they are genuine fans, as they have taken the decision to punt up the money up front. But then it encourages using a season ticket as a business. Which is not what it is intended fro. And some tickets were put up at ridiculous amounts (and often reduced close to the game).

Hopefully, given the increase in season ticket holders, there will be commensurate increase in numbers available on ticket exchange. But i also think demand may be much greater as well. We will see.

Although I understand the commercial thinking, the season ticket/available for members ticket breakdown seems a little too skewed to STs.
 
Ticket page thought I was a bot and made me do a jigsaw (!!!) -- I was hoping to get a ticket, not be quizzed on my biological origins.
 
For those still looking - if you get into site, maybe keep yourselves logged in, keep checking / clicking and hope the club release a few more?
That way you won't have to go through the wheel again???
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Maybe the community tickets have a cut off and theyll start appearing on the seating map??
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Believe the cut off for applications was April 2018 or somewhere around that. Son lives in Enfield, he missed the deadline and reckons that early cut-off date meant good chance there was a low take up. Who knows but if so it should mean more availability on match days to add to the 7k previously reported.
 
Ticket exchange has opened!

I guess it will be ticket exchange for me and my son. The good thing is i work from home and so have a browser opened most of the day, because even in the "old" days the tickets used to appear and disappear pretty quickly.
 
ringo said:
I was always on two minds about StubHub. I don't have any problem with season ticket holders making a bit extra on their ticket if they are genuine fans, as they have taken the decision to punt up the money up front. But then it encourages using a season ticket as a business. Which is not what it is intended fro. And some tickets were put up at ridiculous amounts (and often reduced close to the game).

Hopefully, given the increase in season ticket holders, there will be commensurate increase in numbers available on ticket exchange. But i also think demand may be much greater as well. We will see.

Although I understand the commercial thinking, the season ticket/available for members ticket breakdown seems a little too skewed to STs.
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There will be a lot more available on the exchange once the novelty has worn off. A lot of STHs are based abroad, but nobody wants to miss these first few games and probably the start of next season.
 
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