paulr
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Post by paulr on May 7, 2009 10:06:58 GMT
Just spent 10 minutes being told "all our stafff are busy". Is that 50p or £1 per minute?
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Post by phipsy on May 7, 2009 10:30:04 GMT
i spent 20 minutes waiting to get through. that was the easy bit.
the young lady needed everything repeated about 3 time, asking twice if torquay was in devon. as for pronoucing babbacombe, well she just admitted it was impossible to say the word.
it was quite tortuous, but hopefully everything went through in the end.
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Post by gandalfgull on May 7, 2009 10:40:52 GMT
Phipsy were you able to choose your block yet though?
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mike
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Post by mike on May 7, 2009 10:41:38 GMT
i spent 20 minutes waiting to get through. that was the easy bit. the young lady needed everything repeated about 3 time, asking twice if torquay was in devon. as for pronoucing babbacombe, well she just admitted it was impossible to say the word. it was quite tortuous, but hopefully everything went through in the end. sounds a barrel of laughs!! Where you able to choose block etc |
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Post by capitalgull on May 7, 2009 10:54:38 GMT
Booking a block is still not available, but I have bitten the bullet and booked blind now knowing the truth about the ticketed sections. According to the guy I waited to speak to on the phone, who was very cordial and did confirm to me that Mr Strudwick had spoken to the ticket agency and that if people could wait until later they might be able to specify sections, the details on .com are misleading. All £30 tickets are either behind the goal or in the corners, and that applies to tickets on both tiers of the ground. Basically anywhere on the curve All £35 tickets (again on both tiers) are on the side of the pitch, from what he was telling me, between the 18 yard line and halfway. And as Merse gleaned from Mr Strudwick, anyone paying a premium (ie: the £35 seats) should be guaranteed a decent view of the game. Now it's just a case of me waiting to see what arrives in the post and if they bear any resemblance to what I have just typed and paid for  |
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Post by gandalfgull on May 7, 2009 11:31:58 GMT
Thanks for the clarification Capitalgull
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Post by Rob on May 7, 2009 14:05:29 GMT
petej, Yes, that was exactly what i was getting at. Hopefully they will specify the blocks at some stage in the next few days for that extra reassurance to those concerned. I booked mine in Tier 2 Popside, though Popside did not come up in my confirmation e-mail. Like Andy (capitalgull), I really have no idea where I am likely to be as a result. I suppose the answer is - WEM-BER-LEE, WEM-BER-LEE.......  |
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mike
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Post by mike on May 7, 2009 14:05:31 GMT
Booking a block is still not available, but I have bitten the bullet and booked blind now knowing the truth about the ticketed sections. According to the guy I waited to speak to on the phone, who was very cordial and did confirm to me that Mr Strudwick had spoken to the ticket agency and that if people could wait until later they might be able to specify sections, the details on .com are misleading. All £30 tickets are either behind the goal or in the corners, and that applies to tickets on both tiers of the ground. Basically anywhere on the curve All £35 tickets (again on both tiers) are on the side of the pitch, from what he was telling me, between the 18 yard line and halfway. And as Merse gleaned from Mr Strudwick, anyone paying a premium (ie: the £35 seats) should be guaranteed a decent view of the game. Now it's just a case of me waiting to see what arrives in the post and if they bear any resemblance to what I have just typed and paid for Tkt ordering phone message says £35 tickets may be behind goal what a shambles!! |
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Post by capitalgull on May 7, 2009 14:13:37 GMT
No one really knows, but I see there is now a message on .com saying that the system for booking 'might' change.
If I am behind the goal, I will be kicking up a right old stink, and I'll have Merse and 5 others peed off with me as well, having booked for 7 of us this morning!!
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Post by dantufc on May 7, 2009 14:59:29 GMT
I think to be in with the "Popside" you need to click on the continue button directly next to the text box, not the one at the bottom. I haven't actually booked tickets yet (thankfully) but when I tested it earlier the two buttons seem to work independently.
So if you typed in popside and selected £35 (or £30 for that matter) and clicked the continue button at the bottom I don't think you'll be with the "popside".
As I said though, I haven't followed it through to completion but that's the way it looks to me.
Absolute shambles!
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Post by merse on May 7, 2009 15:18:42 GMT
Booking a block is still not available, but I have bitten the bullet and booked blind now knowing the truth about the ticketed sections. And as Merse gleaned from Mr Strudwick, anyone paying a premium (ie: the £35 seats) should be guaranteed a decent view of the game.Now it's just a case of me waiting to see what arrives in the post and if they bear any resemblance to what I have just typed and paid for  I suppose that could now transpire as it is written by Chas or as it should be (and I know Mr Strudwick meant this) "anyone paying a premium is entitled to a decent view of the game"......................after all, this is what a premium is for is it not? I owe Mr Strudwick an apology for describing him on here as "hapless" yesterday, I found him to be polite, efficient, sympathetic to my complaint and sincere in his assurance that he was doing his level best to get the sales site to comply with our needs. I do feel however, he is (twelve months into his appointment) somewhat hamstrung with the ways of the old regime under John Moules and I've heard they are certainly under resourced as regards soft wear, systems and other tools of the trade. It is irritating in the extreme to read folk criticising those expressing dissatisfaction with the arrangements for this match and the way that certain clubs are letting the BSP down in big way with their poor attitudes and poor professionalism. To point this out is not being arrogant, it is being forthright and if we want things to be better we won't get it by being subservient and willing to stand on our heads in the proverbial bucket of shit. That attitude is what got us lumbered with an ever worsening situation at OUR club under Bateson. Doffing one's cap and thanking the guvnor for ever diminishing scraps is not my way. |
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Post by David Graham's Eighth Pint on May 7, 2009 16:15:01 GMT
I would suggest you say sorry to all the others you owe an apology Merse, but there isn't enough space on the Internet...  I jest, of course, but that is excellent news about the "premium" tickets being on the sides. As has been said, I want a panoramic view of the pitch and not down at pitch level behind the goal. Just to add to what the likes of Rob and Pete have said, I genuinely can't believe the negativity in this thread. I swear I wouldn't be surprised if we get promoted and then someone came on here moaning about the weather or something... Surely we all knew that the tickets were going to be £30-£35? Maybe I'm assuming because one of my friends is a Cambridge fan and she went last year for the same price. As much as I like the idea of playing the game at somewhere like Reading's MadStad for a better atmosphere, they'd still charge the same for tickets. At which point we'd all be saying that it might as well have been at Wembley... Witney, I wouldn't hold your breath for an apology. But if it helps, I knew what you meant. |
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Post by capitalgull on May 7, 2009 16:18:00 GMT
Since you mention it DG8P, the weather has been far too bloody grey today!!! I was hoping for better as I head off to see which one of Hampton & Richmond and Hayes & Yeading will be plying their trade in the BSP next season. And the views there will be dreadful as well, but at least it's only a tenner to get in  |
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Post by mike on May 7, 2009 16:57:06 GMT
I would suggest you say sorry to all the others you owe an apology Merse, but there isn't enough space on the Internet... I jest, of course, but that is excellent news about the "premium" tickets being on the sides. As has been said, I want a panoramic view of the pitch and not down at pitch level behind the goal. Just to add to what the likes of Rob and Pete have said, I genuinely can't believe the negativity in this thread. I swear I wouldn't be surprised if we get promoted and then someone came on here moaning about the weather or something... Surely we all knew that the tickets were going to be £30-£35? Maybe I'm assuming because one of my friends is a Cambridge fan and she went last year for the same price. As much as I like the idea of playing the game at somewhere like Reading's MadStad for a better atmosphere, they'd still charge the same for tickets. At which point we'd all be saying that it might as well have been at Wembley... Witney, I wouldn't hold your breath for an apology. But if it helps, I knew what you meant. Unless you have updated info I have been told that £35 tickets can be second tier behind the goal |
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Post by Budleigh on May 7, 2009 16:57:48 GMT
A tenner!! Rip-off....  |
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