No online sales for "2nd period" Wembley tickets!!

[SaintRichmond]

It's completely fair because part of the reason we shifted that many tickets was because there was a Wembley ticket if you went (and we won), which was announced before the home leg tickets were sold. It was very clear that people could guarantee themselves a Wembley ticket by buying one for MK.

 

And I hardly think those 18,000 hadn't been "for years", maybe a few hadn't, but we had big crowds for a number of CCC matches, the playoffs only 3 years ago and at Christmas. Plus we have had 20,000+ often this season and that's at least 7,000 non-ST holders per match. We have a load of floating fans, and those who want to go to Wembley have already had ample opportunity to queue-jump fairly.

 

OK, so you are saying that it is perfectly fair that a person who just went to the MK Dons game ONLY, can automatically claim a Wembley ticket NOW, yet a regular Fan, though not a ST holder, but who one who attends ALL League matches, has to wait until "General Sale " ???

[StuRomseySaint]

What I don't get is this

 

Every ST holder can get TWO tickets. Fine, nothing wrong in that, BUT, they did not have to attend a JPT match to qualify

 

JPT attendees are entitled to ONE ticket. OK nothing wrong in that either, BUT ST holders who ALSO attended the JPT fixtures now have to wait until the THIRD Sale period to get their "extra" ticket

 

Don't understand that bit

 

No you don't, if you had have used your brain ( like I did ) then for the JPT area final you would have bought the ticket in someone elses name who either a) wanted to go, or b) didnt want to go to Wembley... this would give you 3 tickets before General Sale.

 

I bought my area final ticket in my Dads name, so my Wembley allocation was 2 tickets from my Season Ticket guaranteed and 1 from my Dad attending the area final. Simples.

[SaintRichmond]

No you don't, if you had have used your brain ( like I did ) then for the JPT area final you would have bought the ticket in someone elses name who either a) wanted to go, or b) didnt want to go to Wembley... this would give you 3 tickets before General Sale.

 

I bought my area final ticket in my Dads name, so my Wembley allocation was 2 tickets from my Season Ticket guaranteed and 1 from my Dad attending the area final. Simples.

 

OK, no problem, good luck to you, you "beat " the system as it was written

 

Wish I had done the same, but it is "against" the spirit of how SFC wanted to sell the tickets isn't it ??

 

As I said, good luck to you, I am sure that you are not the only one to have done it that way:)

[daveygwyatt]

echo reporting saints had 200,000 phone calls yesterday?

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/5035804.Phone_lines_jammed_as_Saints_fans_rush_for_Wembley_tickets/

 

surely thats wrong, unless they using the pompey school of accounting

[The9]

OK, so you are saying that it is perfectly fair that a person who just went to the MK Dons game ONLY, can automatically claim a Wembley ticket NOW, yet a regular Fan, though not a ST holder, but who one who attends ALL League matches, has to wait until "General Sale " ???

 

A "regular fan" who goes to every home game in the league and really really really wants to go to Wembley but is too stupid to buy a ticket to the MK Dons JPT match and then flog it to a mate/burn it/give it away, absolutely.

 

The system's not there to cater for the dense.

 

And technically they don't have to wait for General, they have to wait for Phase 3 "restricted to database only", which gives them priority over people who have never registered a purchase on the db.

[Michelle]

A "regular fan" who goes to every home game in the league and really really really wants to go to Wembley but is too stupid to buy a ticket to the MK Dons JPT match and then flog it to a mate/burn it/give it away, absolutely.

 

The system's not there to cater for the dense.

 

And technically they don't have to wait for General, they have to wait for Phase 3 "restricted to database only", which gives them priority over people who have never registered a purchase on the db.

 

Go and do some work.

[The9]

OK, no problem, good luck to you, you "beat " the system as it was written

 

Wish I had done the same, but it is "against" the spirit of how SFC wanted to sell the tickets isn't it ??

As I said, good luck to you, I am sure that you are not the only one to have done it that way:)

 

It's not "beating" the system, it's purchasing tickets in a way the TO has specified to increase your ability to do what you want regarding Wembley.

 

Completely fair, as long as the rules are specified in advance.

 

If people choose not to go out of their way for the Area Final when given every opportunity to take advantage of a Wembley fan-friendly ticketing policy then they can't expect special treatment for Wembley.