Home Grand Final - how to get early access member tickets!

[MrCelery]

Had to do them all in one hit, the option for more tix at the non discounted rate were lower on the page, that almost caught me out too.

Still did not let me add another ticket. Site says Allocation exhausted.

 

[true believer]

well i got f**ked from pillor to post and had to grab what i could .
so much for f**king membership

now i cant get back in to get another 3 tickets .so all i get is two tickets

thanks for nothing again ticketek

 

[Tevor]

I wanted my usual bay 7 but quickly realised those 4 bays will not be available as they are prime viewing spots and no doubt the APL sells them to Corporates and dignitaries. Got bay 27 on half way so happy with the compromise. Selling fast that is for sure. Glad I only purchased 4 as the more you wanted the harder it was.

 

[Forum Phoenix]

That was frustrating. I was in there at 9:00am and bays 4,5,6,7 were not even available - greyed out - hard after you've sat in Bay 4 for almost two decades. Buying for ten. Only seats it would get me together were the very back row of bay 50 - and wouldn't let me choose my seats with 5 in one row and 5 right behind, which is what you would want to do. But click and it says not enough seats in this row. Presumably have to do two separate buys, which with the rush on would be madness. Which is so f**king annoying.

Was the rush that fast?

I'm assuming these bays are being held back. Last weeks semi was painless. This week though brought back memories of how much I hate the money grubbing nature of grand final ticketing. Though at least last year I got us almost on the sideline.

Charge more sure, but someone tell me a good fair reason why members should not be able to purchase their usual seats when winning the rights to host?

 

[Ads]

What’s the control around members from Melbourne (or any member) just buying tix and then reselling on marketplace with 30% markup or more?

 

[Wedgie]

Stupid me ordered the print at home option when I could have just had them on my phone.
No PDFs were attached to the order history email and even though I can see the tix I bought on my app there's no option to download. I assume these will be sent out later which happens at quite a few evens, anyone heard anything?

 

[Tevor]

That was frustrating. I was in there at 9:00am and bays 4,5,6,7 were not even available - greyed out - hard after you've sat in Bay 4 for almost two decades. Buying for ten. Only seats it would get me together were the very back row of bay 50 - and wouldn't let me choose my seats with 5 in one row and 5 right behind, which is what you would want to do. But click and it says not enough seats in this row. Presumable have to do two separate buys, which with the rush on would be madness. Which is so f**king annoying.

Was the rush that fast?

I'm assuming these bays are being held back. Last weeks semi was painless. This week though brought back memories of how much I hate the money grubbing nature of grand final ticketing. Though at least last year I got us almost on the sideline.

Charge more sure, but someone tell me a good fair reason why members should not be able to purchase their usual seats when winning the rights to host?

Buying a large number of tickets was always going to be a problem, another reason I told friends they are on their own.

 

[Josho Howe]

I wanted my usual bay 7 but quickly realised those 4 bays will not be available as they are prime viewing spots and no doubt the APL sells them to Corporates and dignitaries. Got bay 27 on half way so happy with the compromise. Selling fast that is for sure. Glad I only purchased 4 as the more you wanted the harder it was.

Ayo, I thought this was a thread about ticketing

 

[true believer]

That was frustrating. I was in there at 9:00am and bays 4,5,6,7 were not even available - greyed out - hard after you've sat in Bay 4 for almost two decades. Buying for ten. Only seats it would get me together were the very back row of bay 50 - and wouldn't let me choose my seats with 5 in one row and 5 right behind, which is what you would want to do. But click and it says not enough seats in this row. Presumable have to do two separate buys, which with the rush on would be madness. Which is so f**king annoying.

Was the rush that fast?

I'm assuming these bays are being held back. Last weeks semi was painless. This week though brought back memories of how much I hate the money grubbing nature of grand final ticketing. Though at least last year I got us almost on the sideline.

Charge more sure, but someone tell me a good fair reason why members should not be able to purchase their usual seats when winning the rights to host?

and not even that . if once you were caught and tried to get some seats .
you couldn't get any of the extra tickets your allocated .
while the scalpers were given my seats because they brought 50 at a time !

 

[adz]

Stupid me ordered the print at home option when I could have just had them on my phone.
No PDFs were attached to the order history email and even though I can see the tix I bought on my app there's no option to download. I assume these will be sent out later which happens at quite a few evens, anyone heard anything?

pdf is always better anyway - the scanners suck especially trying to read mobile tickets
they will be available in order history closer to game day

edit: not just the scanners but the mobile coverage is always dodgy around the stadium so a bit of a risk imo relying on being able to load a mobile ticket

 

[Josho Howe]

Stupid me ordered the print at home option when I could have just had them on my phone.
No PDFs were attached to the order history email and even though I can see the tix I bought on my app there's no option to download. I assume these will be sent out later which happens at quite a few evens, anyone heard anything?

Should appear a few days out. Same thing for mobile tickets. Has a 'won't display till 48 hours out' thing on them

 

[true believer]

once again the c**ts at tickeket have f**ked us over
and nothing is ever done about it !

 

[Tevor]

once again the c**ts at tickeket have f**ked us over
and nothing is ever done about it !

You really don’t like them, I found it all pretty seamless and a GF in a small stadium was always going to be problematic.

 

[Wedgie]

pdf is always better anyway - the scanners suck especially trying to read mobile tickets
they will be available in order history closer to game day

edit: not just the scanners but the mobile coverage is always dodgy around the stadium so a bit of a risk imo relying on being able to load a mobile ticket

Yeah, that's the main reason I do it, and its frustrating being at big events waiting for people in front fart arsing on their phones when they can just rip a ticket out of their pocket.
Hint to those who do have tix on their phone, take a screen shot of them before you get to the statdium.

 

[Paolo]

once again the c**ts at tickeket have f**ked us over
and nothing is ever done about it !

All things considered, I thought it was all a pretty smooth experience.

Given your incessant ticketing gripes, maybe you are the common denominator?

 

[Forum Phoenix]

I wanted my usual bay 7 but quickly realised those 4 bays will not be available as they are prime viewing spots and no doubt the APL sells them to Corporates and dignitaries. Got bay 27 on half way so happy with the compromise. Selling fast that is for sure. Glad I only purchased 4 as the more you wanted the harder it was.

Exactly. By having a larger chunk of my family that wanted to come, I've actually been screwed in getting good seats. (even though I did everything by the book in the most timely fashion possible.) Feel sorry for my inception member parents both well into 70's who I now have to tell we have much worse seats than usual even though I was willing to pay.

Their first question will be, why can't they sit their usual seats... because there's bound to be someone more important than you that the APL would prefer to put in your usual seat? I was hoping I could compensate them by saying, don't worry, we got X great seats. But now, we're a long way back for some old eyes.

f**king greed. Why is it so hard for people to understand that looking look after people and the world we live in is the most important thing we can do. But we can't even do it for a bloody football match.

Rant over. Going back in my hole now.

 

[dlanod]

Had to wait to get to work before I could get tickets for our family of four. No groups of four left in Cat B or C, but not missing this so we're now in Cat A, Bay 3, for about a bit more than I was expecting to pay.

But for context, it's less than I paid for one ticket to the 2019 AFL Grand Final.

 

[true believer]

All things considered, I thought it was all a pretty smooth experience.

Given your incessant ticketing gripes, maybe you are the common denominator

sounds like your a f**king turd .working for the APL

 

[Forum Phoenix]

well i got f**ked from pillor to post and had to grab what i could .
so much for f**king membership

now i cant get back in to get another 3 tickets .so all i get is two tickets

thanks for nothing again ticketek

That's so shit.
And people saying it was good for them... that's great, congratulations. Now go google empathy.

 

[Josho Howe]

pdf is always better anyway - the scanners suck especially trying to read mobile tickets
they will be available in order history closer to game day

edit: not just the scanners but the mobile coverage is always dodgy around the stadium so a bit of a risk imo relying on being able to load a mobile ticket

It is wild how many people get to the gate and can't scan their ticket, hold the line up and all they had to bloody do was:

1 - aim the barcode at the scanner
2 - turn the damn phone brightness up