This sure wasn't a problem when I went to Ticketmaster-BASS at Myer Chadstone in the early 2000s!

2 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Everyone with a guaranteed final ticket membership will be able to get a ticket, there is an allocation of tickets per club (hence why Geelong members could only get 1 ticket per member), so it does not matter if Geelong members all got tickets. The allocation for Melbourne members remains the same. Don't worry about that. 

Now just waiting to hear when the pre-sale will begin again. I'm not leaving work and my computer until I hear something.

What a bloody joke this is. You'd think it's the first time finals tickets have ever gone on sale. 

I have sent the following tweet to AFL and Ticketek:

"It would be helpful to indicate if its to be today or tomorrow as people are waiting and will soon have to pick up kids, get on with life etc."

Seriously unacceptable to leave people hanging all day.

6 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

That web site is run by Telstra, no further explanation necessary

Telstra provide the infrastructure but AFL Media provides the content

11 minutes ago, demon191919 said:

I was on from 11.50 trying to get through also. An absolute farce. I'm hoping somehow they didn't all sellout and it was just a stuff up on Ticketek.. I haven't spoken to anyone who was able to get reserved seats.

I was on-line from 8:56am, not realising I'd be timed-out after 3:15 minutes. Doubt more than 1000 or two sold. Tigers/Hawks supporters would have been the problem.

1 minute ago, M_9 said:

I was on-line from 8:56am, not realising I'd be timed-out after 3:15 minutes. Doubt more than 1000 or two sold. Tigers/Hawks supporters would have been the problem.

Apparently all of the MCC tickets have been sold out. Sorry should have clarified - I was talking about MCC reserved seats, not the MFC member tickets.

There is a decent amount of human error stupidity in this.

3 of Week 1 finals tickets are sold thru Ticketek:

• Rich/Haw have over 180,000 paid up members. 
• Demons/Cats have total of about 100,000+. 
• Sydney/GWS have total of about 60,000. 

Blind Freddy could see the system would crash if about 340,000 members log on at 9.00am - many logged-in on multiple devices compounding the system problems. 

So totally stupid of the AFL/Ticketek to not consider the #of members and demands on the system, once the participating teams were known.  Don't need a crystal ball to predict the meltdown.

Ticketek is selling tickets for 3 of the 4 games.  So, is it too hard to stagger sales to start on 3 consecutive days!!!  Stupid!  Stupid!  Stupid! to start all at the same time!

 

Edited August 28, 20186 yr by Lucifer's Hero

2 minutes ago, demon191919 said:

Apparently all of the MCC tickets have been sold out. Sorry should have clarified - I was talking about MCC reserved seats, not the MFC member tickets.

They sold out in a couple of minutes from what I could deduce,

3 minutes ago, M_9 said:

They sold out in a couple of minutes from what I could deduce,

anyone here manage to score mcc seats/visitors passes?

My work is currently looking at upgrading its online platform. Apparently you can pay for platforms that NEVER crash. Yet we pay $7 handling fee to a site that can't even be bothered to upgrade its platform to something that can hold a capacity of 300,000 site visits at a time, or have the brains to work out that ticket releases should be staggered to avoid this issue.

The mind boggles with incompetency. 

39 minutes ago, Dockett 32 said:

 Yep  correct.

According to recorded message from the MCC all visitors seats and reserved seats sold out.

Was looking for one visitor seat for young family member. Was on at 12.01 followed guidelines, just unable to get through.

I too will join the scramble before the gates open.

 

I had the same issue. Bloody ridiculous 

7 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

There is a decent amount of human error stupidity in this.

3 of Week 1 finals tickets are sold thru Ticketek:

• Rich/Haw have over 180,000 paid up members. 
• Demons/Cats have total of about 100,000+. 
• Sydney/GWS have total of about 60,000. 

Blind Freddy could see the system would crash if about 340,000 members log on at 9.00am - many logged-in on multiple devices compounding the system problems. 

So totally stupid of the AFL/Ticketek to not consider the #of members and demands on the system, once the participating teams were known.  Don't need a crystal ball to predict the meltdown.

Ticketek is selling tickets for 3 of the 4 games.  So, is it too hard to stagger sales to start on 3 consecutive days!!!  Stupid!  Stupid!  Stupid! to start all at the same time!

 

The first game is still 9 days away for Gods sake what was the rush to have them all done today.

It truly beggars belief.

1 minute ago, Jock Strap said:

I had the same issue. Bloody ridiculous 

MFC recorded message states not all their allocation sold and once seller gets themselves organised they will advise further ,so maybe there could be an avenue if you are a joint MFC/MCC member?

Not sure.

These pricks should waiver their handling fees on all finals tickets... if they ever get the issue resolved that is. 

Edited August 28, 20186 yr by Jaded

31 minutes ago, The Swimming Dee said:

Does anyone know what the crowd expectation for the game is?

I have flights from Perth and accommodation booked but obviously no tickets yet. 

Say they are expecting 80,000 - that means i will definitely get a ticket right?

I have waited 12 years for finals - why not wait a few additional hours for tickets.

If you're not a MFC member I reckon you'll have no hope of getting a ticket. The public area will sell out, partly because a large number of MCC members will miss out, and as a large number of Cats and Dees MCC members have GFC/MFC memberships also (Cats need GFC to get into KPark) they'll opt to sit with us riff raff.

I'm likely to get seats but only want admission to the Southern stand (to stand in M9). I'll post on here if that's what happens ie I'll be happy to 'downgrade'.

BTW for the 2000 GF I had to purchase 9 seats in the Ponsford. Quite good seats, all together. I wanted standing room in M9 but didn't figure out how to 'swap'. I phoned the club to no avail.

Hoping I have the same dilemma this year (myself and mates have guaranteed GF tickets as Platinum members.

Crazy the AFL don't offer standing room for lead up finals.

8 minutes ago, Elegt said:

anyone here manage to score mcc seats/visitors passes?

Trawl through previous posts - at least 3 or 4 from memory posting about success.

Just saw on AFL website that Ticketek have said the sale to clubs will now be staggered.

Hoped to have site back up today but it looks like being Wednesday morning.

My God they are rocket scientists this lot, thank God they were not running NASA of Neil Armstrong would still be standing by the rocket in his space suit.

1 minute ago, M_9 said:

Trawl through previous posts - at least 3 or 4 from memory posting about success.

Although it didnt run well, seems like the mcc sales went better than the club members

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

These pricks should waver their handling fees on all finals tickets... if they ever get the issue resolved that is. 

You only get a fee when you sell a ticket Jaded. So far I think they have made $100.

I guess standing by the rocket would be better than being atomized when it blows up.

This could be the first final at the MCG to have a crowd of under 10,000 because nobody could buy a ticket

Just now, old dee said:

You only get a fee when you sell a ticket Jaded. So far I think they have made $100.

No you have to pay a processing fee when you buy anything on Ticketek, even if you choose to print the ticket at home yourself. From memory it's $6.99.

Spoke to a good friend who is a Sydney supporter. She is in the same boat. Last month she also ended up buying 5 extra tickets to a play because the website told her the order didn't go through, so she tried again and ended up with two transactions being processed. I've tried before to buy concert tickets etc from them, and they are always crashing. You'd think they would figure it out by now! 

1 minute ago, Elegt said:

Although it didnt run well, seems like the mcc sales went better than the club members

On the Ticketek you can still access the MCC sales (if you have the correct barcode). So it's either not sold out or ...?

The suspense is killing me... I have hardly slept since the WC win. 

[censored] it I'll just book my flights and watch it at the crown sports bar if I need to. 

 

Scalable on demand web servers is a solved problem. This is just the rankest incompetence from Ticketek. It isn't even like thousands of people all wanting to buy tickets at once is an outlier for them, this is core business. The level of incompetence to not be able to manage this is really quite frightening. These people probably have problems doing up their shoe laces

2 minutes ago, M_9 said:

On the Ticketek you can still access the MCC sales (if you have the correct barcode). So it's either not sold out or ...?

its sold out once you put your barcode in