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2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

dear '55,

That gave me a real belly laugh.  I needed it after a frustrating day!

Thank you.

I’m still waiting for someone to say…

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3 hours ago, Mr Steve said:

Question about todays sale. You could have clicked on Sydney member and got tickets after putting the barcode in. So if we had played the Pies would they have taken all our tickets as well. 

That's what I'm worried about if it gets to that in a Prelim though hopefully they aren't smart enough to figure it out! Hopefully everyone can try not to make it known that that is an option.

I'm never dealing with Ticketek again. Seriously I'd rather just get a job at the G and see games for free.

 
12 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Fortunately you can usually go and sit wherever you want for Melbourne H&A games. I walked up to level N and P a few times this year and just sat wherever I wanted.

Yes against interstate teams and St Kilda it was possible, but most of level 2 and 2A will be full, even the Medallion Club next Friday 

I have no idea how Ticketek release seats. When I logged on at 10am the only M area under Category 7 was M3 (behind the cheer squad so restricted view).

I just logged on (6pm) and seats were available in M7. Go figure.


39 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

That's what I'm worried about if it gets to that in a Prelim though hopefully they aren't smart enough to figure it out! Hopefully everyone can try not to make it known that that is an option.

****z they know!

Better to start the petition to the club to make sure this doesn't happen to us in a PF!

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3 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

You were probably trying to select more seats than were available in that bay. So instead of kicking you back to select again it gave you seats in the most comparable section available

It's poorly designed because bays show up as having tickets available, but you only learn when you try to click through that you can't get multiple seats together.

First world problems I know, but I'm really peeved that a premium membership basically counts for nothing. I managed to get on by 10.20 but already then I was unable to get 6 tix together in the cat 1 or 2 seating. 

Don't know why there wasn't priority access as there has been in the past.

36 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

That's what I'm worried about if it gets to that in a Prelim though hopefully they aren't smart enough to figure it out! Hopefully everyone can try not to make it known that that is an option.

You’re kidding aren’t you? I’d bet there were Pies supporters buying Cats members tickets today.

According to another site the practice goes back to 2017 when Tigers members were able to access Cats members’’ tickets.

Ticketek has learnt nothing. The clubs have learnt nothing.

 
1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

No doubt you are correct Dr. and it is the MCC or AfL make these decisions.

However, it is up to the club to represent its members. Surely the MFC is not without influence. Further, I'm sure other clubs have similar issues. It would be interesting to see how, say, the filth supporters went when purchasing their finals tickets today.

The AFL should ultimately represent the clubs who in turn, represent their members.

If I remember correctly last time the Tigers played finals only 1 out of 3 members got a ticket and they had to go in a lottery. I'm really glad I made a donation to the Club buying Redleg memberships during the COVID period.

3 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Surely the AFL could do just a little bit better?

You mean like with umpiring, rules, scheduling and integrity?


26 minutes ago, M_9 said:

I have no idea how Ticketek release seats. When I logged on at 10am the only M area under Category 7 was M3 (behind the cheer squad so restricted view).

I just logged on (6pm) and seats were available in M7. Go figure.

They release one bay at a time.I have been to sold out music events and they have been total bays empty. Later finding out they had forgot to release them.

Always frustrating on Ticketek...

Have one device waiting in the queue, launch browser on different device 5 mins later and it get through the queue before the original device... 🤷‍♂️

Purchase completed and first device still waiting 🤦‍♂️

I just don't understand why tickets don't get released in order of membership premiums. FFS I pay $700 a year and have a reserved seat. Why am I fighting with plebs with ****ty interstate and armchair memberships (no offense to any of you who have these memberships!) for a good seat?

As far as I understand, for the grand final, tickets get released in priority batches. If you have a GF guarantee with your membership, you are priority 1. Why then, are all finals not the same?

And WTF is with being able to get 10 tickets per barcode? That should only be allowed when general admission is released.


2 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

 

Further to @david_neitz_is_my_dad and @Bring-Back-Powell observations, recall fondly the lengthy outrage and counteroutrage herein about Swans supporters outnumbering us this year!

But there was only 33K at that game and Sat night game too. 

9 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I just don't understand why tickets don't get released in order of membership premiums. FFS I pay $700 a year and have a reserved seat. Why am I fighting with plebs with ****ty interstate and armchair memberships (no offense to any of you who have these memberships!) for a good seat?

As far as I understand, for the grand final, tickets get released in priority batches. If you have a GF guarantee with your membership, you are priority 1. Why then, are all finals not the same?

And WTF is with being able to get 10 tickets per barcode? That should only be allowed when general admission is released.

Well said Jaded, still fuming.

I preferred lining up for hours at an outlet and talking shiit with other fans. 

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4 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I preferred lining up for hours at an outlet and talking shiit with other fans. 

Do people still do that? I reckon the last time I saw it was the night Richmond won the 2019 prelim and I walked past my local newsagent at about 12:30am and there was a Tiges nuffy with a deck chair put.

6 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I preferred lining up for hours at an outlet and talking shiit with other fans. 

I preferred it when there were only 12 Victorian teams in the VFL and we ‘poached’ the best players in the country…… and talked shiit with other fans 


10 minutes ago, layzie said:

Do people still do that? I reckon the last time I saw it was the night Richmond won the 2019 prelim and I walked past my local newsagent at about 12:30am and there was a Tiges nuffy with a deck chair put.

Doubt it very much now layz, there aren’t too many outlets remaining these days. The one we used for the 2018 finals didn’t survive Covid.

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Just now, Dee Zephyr said:

Doubt it very much now layz, there’s not many outlets remaining these days. The one we used for the 2018 finals didn’t survive Covid.

Oh yeah, that thing..

32 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I just don't understand why tickets don't get released in order of membership premiums. FFS I pay $700 a year and have a reserved seat. Why am I fighting with plebs with ****ty interstate and armchair memberships (no offense to any of you who have these memberships!) for a good seat?

As far as I understand, for the grand final, tickets get released in priority batches. If you have a GF guarantee with your membership, you are priority 1. Why then, are all finals not the same?

And WTF is with being able to get 10 tickets per barcode? That should only be allowed when general admission is released.

I get your point Jaded - I've posted along those lines ..... but ... "plebs" !

FMD ! You are being disrespectful to our fellow members!

 
3 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I don't think that's the case for finals games though I could be wrong - H&A definitely which is utter crap but that's why they renamed it the AFL Reserve instead of the AFL Members Reserve some time ago. AFL members typically only get 13k tickets to the GF in a 23k seat reserve - all the AFL hangers on plus 5k medallion club members get seats in the AFL reserve.

And that’s exactly why the non competing club full AFL member allocation sold out in five minutes for the Pies V Eagles 2018 grand final.

7,000 of the 13,000 odd allocation were already allocated for Collingwood Gold AFL members.

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I almost hope Collingwood beat Geelong next week just to avoid the stress of getting tickets for a potential Dees V Pies prelim. (Assuming we take care of business against Sydney)

8 hours ago, dworship said:

The Club is very good at sorting out Ticket issues during the Home and Away Season but soon as Finals arrive the AFL has complete control and receives all of the funds. It has contracts in place with Ticketek and the MCC and nothing will improve until that contract is renegotiated. As an aside, we travel to interstate games each year and those grounds that use Ticketmaster are much easier to navigate.

I do realise it's not in the club's direct control and I'd be loath to shoot the messenger from the club's membership line operators, but I think it's about time the club went in to bat harder and louder for our membership base to the AFL.

The AFL is taking club members for granted when so many of us kept the faith and kept buying memberships during COVID and the many years before that too.  In my view club members should be given pretty much exclusive first access to finals tickets outside of the AFL members area and MCC reserve.


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