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2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I've also concluded that selecting 'The Premium Member' option for barcodes doesn't allocate premium seats.  Not sure why they even have it.  Maybe it is to make people feel good ala saying we are in a queue for tickets but it turns out to be random.  It really is first in best dressed!  I wouldn't mind that if there wasn't the 10 ticket per member sale thing going on. 

Not sure what you based this conclusion on but in my experiment the "Premium Member" option gave completely different bay choices compared with the "MFC Member" when logging in 6mins apart. I did this a number of times to confirm. I also only ever saw  "Bay N" bays listed when logged in as a Premium Member.

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I have a couple of tickets that I'd like to off load, I finished up getting tickets through a club function up the other end of the ground in the Ponsford Stand. So I now have 4 and only need 2.
 
The tickets are Section M9 Category 2 in the ground level of the SW stand seats Q 13 and 14
 
Anyone interested PM me, will sell them for less than cost just want to make sure they don't go to waste. 
  

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, dworship said:

Not sure what you based this conclusion on but in my experiment the "Premium Member" option gave completely different bay choices compared with the "MFC Member" when logging in 6mins apart. I did this a number of times to confirm. I also only ever saw  "Bay N" bays listed when logged in as a Premium Member.

I got through at about 10.15/20 having waited half an hour, then selected the Premium Member option and put in two Redleg Member barcodes and requested 1 ticket each.  The system sent me through to level 1 in M xx bays.  No choice given of bay or seat.  I tried several times and each time the system gave me ground level Mxx bays.

I assumed all premium tickets had been sold in the first 15 minutes (probably to members buying up to an extra 9 tickets per bar code). 

Maybe Redleg memberships aren't considered 'premium'...

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I logged on pretty early in the piece with my pleb membership and only got given a selection of seating in the heavens. I had assumed the premium members got given better choices up until they sold out and I wasn’t “competing” with them per se, but I was probably wrong.

Posted
2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

game time: cool about 10c, negligible wind, dry (<10% chance of rain)

showers in morning <1mm 50%

no weather excuse for big crowd

Dontchya know Daise… the weather excuse magically disappears come finals time. As does the time-slot excuse, the Covid excuse, the public transport excuse, the cost of food and drink excuse and every other H&A excuse. 

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51 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I got through at about 10.15/20 having waited half an hour, then selected the Premium Member option and put in two Redleg Member barcodes and requested 1 ticket each.  The system sent me through to level 1 in M xx bays.  No choice given of bay or seat.  I tried several times and each time the system gave me ground level Mxx bays.

I assumed all premium tickets had been sold in the first 15 minutes (probably to members buying up to an extra 9 tickets per bar code). 

Maybe Redleg memberships aren't considered 'premium'...

Weird, I got my 2 tickets off one Redleg barcode at 1025. N7 row C. They were the first seats that came up but N6 seats were also available.

I do agree Lucy, it's a crap system and I had a similar experience to yours in 2018 however I don't believe the "Premium" option was available back then.

I just re read your post and realized you may have taken a different option to me. Did you click the "best available" option?

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1 minute ago, dworship said:

Weird, I got my 2 tickets off one Redleg barcode at 1025. N7 row C. They were the first seats that came up but N6 seats were also available.

I do agree Lucy, it's a crap system and I had a similar experience to yours in 2018 however I don't believe the "Premium" option was available back then.

In this thread I've read that the 'queue' isn't really a queue, getting through is somewhat random. I can vouch for that got through a lot faster on a mobile device than a laptop which shouldn't happen if there was a proper queue. 

Also someone said that if the system allocates tickets to someone and they don't take them, they don't return to being 'available' for x minutes; don't recall how many. 

Maybe I got caught up in all that randomness...

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1 minute ago, Lucifers Hero said:

In this thread I've read that the 'queue' isn't really a queue, getting through is somewhat random. I can vouch for that got through a lot faster on a mobile device than a laptop which shouldn't happen if there was a proper queue. 

Also someone said that if the system allocates tickets to someone and they don't take them, they don't return to being 'available' for x minutes; don't recall how many. 

Maybe I got caught up in all that randomness...

Sorry I just edited my previous and asked if you chose "Best available". What I was getting at was; when the Map comes up on the left you get a number of options regarding seating prices. I can't remember wether you hover or click on the price option you are after but the the map highlights the bays available in the chosen catagory. The highlighting isn't very good and can be missed. When you see a bay you like you can click on it if it's highlighted and it will take you to the available seats in that Bay. I don't believe it shows you all the available seats like Ticetmaster.

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5 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

You two are SO cute!!! 🥰

Calm down now. We have known each other around 50 years from cheer squad days.

Posted
35 minutes ago, dworship said:

Sorry I just edited my previous and asked if you chose "Best available". What I was getting at was; when the Map comes up on the left you get a number of options regarding seating prices. I can't remember whether you hover or click on the price option you are after but the the map highlights the bays available in the chosen catagory. The highlighting isn't very good and can be missed. When you see a bay you like you can click on it if it's highlighted and it will take you to the available seats in that Bay. I don't believe it shows you all the available seats like Ticetmaster.

Thanks, dworship.

I can't remember the sequence of what I did.  Sometimes, I tried 'best available' and sometimes 'category 1' and always got Mxx bays.   Even when I clicked on an N bay I ended up with tickets in Mxx bays.

Maybe I need a lesson🙂 .

Hopefully better for the next game.

Posted
7 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

You two are SO cute!!! 🥰

No. Not correct

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Posted (edited)

Very excited to launch Grapeviney's 'Family Footy Finals Bonanza' ticket deal.

The Family Footy Finals Bonanza is perfect for the modern MFC family, with 2 x adult, 1 x concession and 1 x junior ticket, conveniently located on ground level near the Melbourne cheersquad at the punt road end. 

Tickets are available at a discount, and can be bought individually or as a group.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, officially endorsed by the Melbourne Football Club.

Max Gawn said: "If I wasn't playing on Friday night, I'd definitely be sitting in Grapeviney's Family Footy Finals Bonanza seats."

Daisy Pearce said: "The thing I love about Grapeviney's Family Footy Finals Bonanza seats is that they are so family friendly. That's important to me as the mother of two children."

* Seriously though - have 4 tix available in M2 Row T. Happy to sell at a discount. 2 adults 2 kids. 

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Posted
Just now, 640MD said:

No. Not correct

What makes it incorrect?

Is it that neither of you is cute, or you’re cute but MT64 isn’t? 😜

Posted
1 hour ago, MT64 said:

Calm down now. We have known each other around 50 years from cheer squad days.

Not sure either of us are cute!   In the day, a few eons ago that might have had some validity but sadly not anymore 

come on Friday    Get it done !!!!9

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7 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I wrote to the club about allowing 10 tickets per member which could be for non-members or even non demon fans.  It was supposed to be a 'Member PreSale.

Their response was:  All finals tickets are run by the AFL, all decisions regarding 10 additional tickets per barcode is also a decision made entirely by them. We urge you to contact them if you wish to take this complaint further.  I might do just that!

imv during the 'Members Presale' it should be one ticket per barcode.  Clearly the AFL don't care that non members and non dees fans can get tickets and even premium tickets.  Pretty ordinary seeing that we have kept paying memberships during covid without any football.

I've also concluded that selecting 'The Premium Member' option for barcodes doesn't allocate premium seats.  Not sure why they even have it.  Maybe it is to make people feel good ala saying we are in a queue for tickets but it turns out to be random.  It really is first in best dressed!  I wouldn't mind that if there wasn't the 10 ticket per member sale thing going on. 

Well fat chance the clubs now have of trying to convert the casual fan into a member, they now know they can just wait till finals and piggy back off a member's barcode to score tickets. 

Nice one AFL. 

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4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I got through at about 10.15/20 having waited half an hour, then selected the Premium Member option and put in two Redleg Member barcodes and requested 1 ticket each.  The system sent me through to level 1 in M xx bays.  No choice given of bay or seat.  I tried several times and each time the system gave me ground level Mxx bays.

I assumed all premium tickets had been sold in the first 15 minutes (probably to members buying up to an extra 9 tickets per bar code). 

Maybe Redleg memberships aren't considered 'premium'...

I don't think the "Premium" option would have appeared for you if your barcodes weren't considered Premium. Didn't come up for me when I tried with my kids memberships.

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I’m Full MCC member back from OS for Swans’ Final. 
Haven’t been to MCC since loss to GWS in 2021. 

I checked MCC website. There is no mention of MCC members having to prebook Ticketmaster/ticketek. This was covid practice before lockdown. 
 
I am happy to sit high up in Members’ nosebleed section. 
No need to prebook online?

I can still walk up pregame like it’s 2019?

thanks

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4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Thanks, dworship.

I can't remember the sequence of what I did.  Sometimes, I tried 'best available' and sometimes 'category 1' and always got Mxx bays.   Even when I clicked on an N bay I ended up with tickets in Mxx bays.

Maybe I need a lesson🙂 .

Hopefully better for the next game.

Yes, my experience of 2018 has definitely helped and my experimenting for this game has added to that. Tonight as a further experiment I logged in to test something else. So I chose a bay up in the nose bleeds and selected for 2 tickets and it brought up 2 seats together on the seat map and as I've seen before it only showed those seats as available. I then went back and changed my request to 4 seats. I got 4 seats together in a different area of the same bay. This confirms to me that there are often more seats available than offered at any given time.

I can confirm that I will never chose the "Best Available" option in the future as I believe that was much of my problems in 2018

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2 hours ago, radar said:

I’m Full MCC member back from OS for Swans’ Final. 
Haven’t been to MCC since loss to GWS in 2021. 

I checked MCC website. There is no mention of MCC members having to prebook Ticketmaster/ticketek. This was covid practice before lockdown. 
 
I am happy to sit high up in Members’ nosebleed section. 
No need to prebook online?

I can still walk up pregame like it’s 2019?

thanks

You will be able to walk up, as a full member you will have walk up access to all of level 3, most of level 2 which is walk up and the level 1 walk up sections. Queues will probabaly start quite early so if you want to sit on one of the balconies you’d best get there quite early.

seating plan for finals in MCC is below

2022-members-reserve-map-finals-week1-3_

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1 minute ago, FearTheBeard said:

You will be able to walk up, as a full member you will have walk up access to all of level 3, most of level 2 which is walk up and the level 1 walk up sections. Queues will probabaly start quite early so if you want to sit on one of the balconies you’d best get there quite early.

seating plan for finals in MCC is below

2022-members-reserve-map-finals-week1-3_

Also make sure you’ve paid your membership for 2022/23 to gain entry 

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11 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I wrote to the club about allowing 10 tickets per member which could be for non-members or even non demon fans.  It was supposed to be a 'Member PreSale.

Their response was:  All finals tickets are run by the AFL, all decisions regarding 10 additional tickets per barcode is also a decision made entirely by them. We urge you to contact them if you wish to take this complaint further.  I might do just that!

imv during the 'Members Presale' it should be one ticket per barcode.  Clearly the AFL don't care that non members and non dees fans can get tickets and even premium tickets.  Pretty ordinary seeing that we have kept paying memberships during covid without any football.

I've also concluded that selecting 'The Premium Member' option for barcodes doesn't allocate premium seats.  Not sure why they even have it.  Maybe it is to make people feel good ala saying we are in a queue for tickets but it turns out to be random.  It really is first in best dressed!  I wouldn't mind that if there wasn't the 10 ticket per member sale thing going on. 

Reality is that the league (and clubs, albeit quietly) want to maximise competing club attendance. The only way to actually do this is to allow members to purchase multiple tickets. This maximises attendance and also ensures high density of club support in sections around the ground. Without doing so, you actually limit attendance, and non-members have to compete for a small selection of GA tickets. You might think that is that is the "fairer" option and it might be but it would actually divide the crowd and limit attendance. 

So the outcome is either:

1. Allow members to buy multiple tickets thus maximising attendance of supporters of competing clubs in club support-designated areas of the ground, or;

2. Allow GA ticketing in club member areas, meaning there is no guarantee you'll be sitting amongst Melbourne supporters. 

There's a reason why finals always have high density of supporters in "blocks" around the stadium. You don't really think we could have gotten 90k at our 2018 finals simply off the back of members buying single tickets, do you? 

You might not like it but being able to buy multiple tickets actually improves the amount of competing club *supporters* able to attend in weeks 1 and 2.

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Hey folks, I'm travelling in nth Qld for holidays over the next two weeks but if all goes to plan, I'm hoping to come down for the prelim and granny... Fingers crossed.

Would it be fair to say I need to be in front of a compooter on Monday morning 12th sept? Is that the date prelim tix would go on sale?

Cheers Brownie 

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