Finals Tickets

[Dee Zephyr 17,510]

Are the additional tickets/guest passes per membership exhausted?

[Jaded No More 57,961]

It’s to do with the number of tickets each club gets allocated. We have less members and less members with guaranteed finals ticket access. Therefore we get 2 per membership. Tigers would get 1. Even tho they have 100,000 and we have 45,000, the allocation of member priority access seating numbers is the same. I think it’s around 16,000 or so. That’s why the cost of these premium memberships go up the more likely a club is to make finals, as numbers and seat allocations are capped. 

[M_9 1,660]

2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

It’s to do with the number of tickets each club gets allocated. We have less members and less members with guaranteed finals ticket access. Therefore we get 2 per membership. Tigers would get 1. Even tho they have 100,000 and we have 45,000, the allocation of member priority access seating numbers is the same. I think it’s around 16,000 or so. That’s why the cost of these premium memberships go up the more likely a club is to make finals, as numbers and seat allocations are capped. 

I have a guaranteed GF ticket membership. Not sure any membership category guarantees a 'finals ticket access'.

[Demons11 6,404]

I ended up getting my tickets today, bloody lucky. 

I got all the way through and then when the payment was processing it crashed. 

I checked my credit card and the charge had gone through.

Hopefully it runs smoothly for all the Demonlanders tomorrow. 

Just a tip if you are buying several tkts, then put your member barcodes on a word doc tonight and then just cut and paste.  Make sure that each member number is under the next one. 

Edited August 28, 2018 by Demons11

[Demons11 6,404]

6 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Are the additional tickets/guest passes per membership exhausted?

I wouldn’t have thought so 

[Jaded No More 57,961]

4 minutes ago, M_9 said:

I have a guaranteed GF ticket membership. Not sure any membership category guarantees a 'finals ticket access'.

So do I. And you’re right not every level of membership gets you guaranteed final ticket access. 

Edited August 28, 2018 by Jaded

[M_9 1,660]

Just now, Jaded said:

So do I. And you’re right not every level of membership gets you guaranteed final ticket access. 

I'm saying that I don't reckon any level of membership guarantees a non-GF finals ticket. As you know, Platinum members can access GF tickets a full day before other members. There's no such facility for lead up finals.

[The Backyard Charizard 1,178]

35 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Login to your Ticketek account and go to 'order history'. Scroll down and you can print out your tickets from pdf, regardless of how you requested them. I requested mine by mobile ticket, but chose to print them off as a back up to mobile qr.

Already downloaded and printed this morning ??

[george_on_the_outer 6,980]

29 minutes ago, Jaded said:

It’s to do with the number of tickets each club gets allocated. We have less members and less members with guaranteed finals ticket access. Therefore we get 2 per membership. Tigers would get 1. Even tho they have 100,000 and we have 45,000, the allocation of member priority access seating numbers is the same. I think it’s around 16,000 or so. That’s why the cost of these premium memberships go up the more likely a club is to make finals, as numbers and seat allocations are capped. 

So when those 16K allocations are taken up by 8k members and a guest each, that means only 8k of our membership of 45K get a chance.  Surely the club would want 16k of members to get a seat? 

And perhaps the people who sign up for 3 game memberships at the end of the season should be lower priority than those who have been full members for years. 

[Reality Bus 17]

I strongly urge anyone to try a Ticketek outlet tomorrow if they can.

After struggling like everyone else online, I went to my local outlet. The operator showed me his screen and could see every seat that was in somebody’s cart, and unable to be sold. I also saw Ticketek trying to reboot, suspending sales, and every seat in the G becoming unavailable. 

5 mins after the reboot, we secured seats for a group of 9, all seated together.

[Wolfturdo 123]

11 minutes ago, Reality Bus said:

I strongly urge anyone to try a Ticketek outlet tomorrow if they can.

After struggling like everyone else online, I went to my local outlet. The operator showed me his screen and could see every seat that was in somebody’s cart, and unable to be sold. I also saw Ticketek trying to reboot, suspending sales, and every seat in the G becoming unavailable. 

5 mins after the reboot, we secured seats for a group of 9, all seated together.

Will try and do it after I go to the SEC to pay my electricity bill.

[Cards13 9,117]

3 minutes ago, Wolfturdo said:

Will try and do it after I go to the SEC to pay my electricity bill.

After you’ve done that maybe head past HMV and see if they have any positive outlook on life tapes you can play as you drift off to sleep at nights.

[Dr. Gonzo 22,415]

5 hours ago, brendan said:

Anyone with half a brain would have seen this coming, my wife asked me last night about buying a ticket I told her it was today but the site will probably crash as all games get released at the same time, absolutely laughable that they didn’t see this coming 

It's happened every year for the last 4 years, it happens at the start of the season too when they have a brief window of presale tickets for AFL members to purchase seats for any game of the year. There's only about 60k AFL members and it can't even handle that. Last year for the Geel/Rich QF AFL members were buying seats on level 4 as that's all they though they could get. Half an hour later they reboot the system and plenty of tickets are available on level 1.

For all those who missed out today, jump on again tomorrow as I think you'll find things run a lot smoother. The anxiety caused by these recurring fuckups and the utter lack of care for those affected (evidenced by their continual failure to do anything to fix it) is disgusting. But I think most on here will find by this time tomorrow they'll have their tickets secured.

[Dr. Gonzo 22,415]

5 hours ago, old dee said:

I have pretty much rationalised I will be watching on TV dl4e. It does beggars  belief that after all  the crap we have gone through dreaming about playing finals over the last decade and when we finally get there we are prevented from going because of their incompetence. As I left the ground last sunday night I was wondering where I would get a seat for Friday week. Never thought it would be my lounge room.

Jump on again tomorrow OD I think you'll find you'll have better luck.

[deewag 22]

Got on with my computer just after 9 am and was successful in getting all the way to the end, putting in credit card details etc.  After a delay it through me out and said i would need to refresh the browser and start again.  I did that and kept trying to get in for another 45 mins with no luck.  I then went on with my phone and got straight through and booked 2 tickets with a confirmation email  sent at 9.52am.  Now at 8.10pm tonight i get another email with the original two tickets I was booking.  Now I have 4 tickets 2 in N8 and 2 in M50.  What a joke!

[Dr. Gonzo 22,415]

3 hours ago, GoldMember said:

Quick question - does the MFC take the gate revenue as it's our home Final? Or is it split with Geelong?

 

 

3 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

split me thinks

 

3 hours ago, Cards13 said:

Asked that the other day but haven’t had a response, interested to know as well.

 

As far as I'm aware AFL keeps the gate for all finals.

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,636]

3 hours ago, Jack son 5 said:

Can Ticketek reimburse my family for the $$$ we lost not working today?

You and anyone else in a similar situation should invoice Ticketmaster for lost income due to gross incompetence.

 

if anyone could mock up a genuine invoice that people could enter their details and send it to them (and the media) I would love to see their response, this is BS and I feel for all of you that got screwed over today

[Demon Disciple 10,961]

8 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

 

 

As far as I'm aware AFL keeps the gate for all finals.

That comes as no surprise Gonzo.

[Demon Disciple 10,961]

12 minutes ago, deewag said:

Got on with my computer just after 9 am and was successful in getting all the way to the end, putting in credit card details etc.  After a delay it through me out and said i would need to refresh the browser and start again.  I did that and kept trying to get in for another 45 mins with no luck.  I then went on with my phone and got straight through and booked 2 tickets with a confirmation email  sent at 9.52am.  Now at 8.10pm tonight i get another email with the original two tickets I was booking.  Now I have 4 tickets 2 in N8 and 2 in M50.  What a joke!

Funnily enough, i was trying to get seats in M50 this morning. If you're wanting to sell one of them, i'm more than happy to pay!

[layzie 28,766]

Can’t wait to get ready for this crap again 

[Dee Zephyr 17,510]

1 minute ago, layzie said:

Can’t wait to get ready for this crap again 

Damn shame that so many missed out today. You can’t come up with any more words to describe today’s events. 

What more could go wrong tomorrow? Double booked seats?

[JV7 2,339]

48 minutes ago, Reality Bus said:

I strongly urge anyone to try a Ticketek outlet tomorrow if they can.

After struggling like everyone else online, I went to my local outlet. The operator showed me his screen and could see every seat that was in somebody’s cart, and unable to be sold. I also saw Ticketek trying to reboot, suspending sales, and every seat in the G becoming unavailable. 

5 mins after the reboot, we secured seats for a group of 9, all seated together.

I didn't even know these oulets existed anymore... May I ask where you went ?

[SFebes 4,692]

6 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Damn shame that so many missed out today. You can’t come up with any more words to describe today’s events. 

What more could go wrong tomorrow? Double booked seats?

I think this could be a disaster. I already had tickets to all finals but tried today for a friend, had the drama of it timing me out but it deducted my credit card, now tonight I get an email saying I have an extra 2 tickets, 4 in total, when I only chose 2 and was only allowed 2. WTF?!

[Demon Disciple 10,961]

1 minute ago, SFebes said:

I think this could be a disaster. I already had tickets to all finals but tried today for a friend, had the drama of it timing me out but it deducted my credit card, now tonight I get an email saying I have an extra 2 tickets, 4 in total, when I only chose 2 and was only allowed 2. WTF?!

I would cry if it wasn't so funny.

[deewag 22]

19 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Funnily enough, i was trying to get seats in M50 this morning. If you're wanting to sell one of them, i'm more than happy to pay!

Thanks, see how I go with Ticketek tomorrow.  They are in M50 Row F