Barnsley only semi final team to sell out to date

Barnsley - Sold out
West Brom - Sold only 25,000 selling via ticketmaster only, but it is not working for next couple of days!!!!
Cardiff City - Sold about 25-26,000 stopped selling for now online gone to queueing only
Porstmouth only 1800 tickets left

Looks like the queueing approach and 4 per season ticket approach worked bettter than the technology routes

 

So are you suggestting that as a member of an organisation that works closely with the club causing a mass panic buying situation and 24 hour queuing in near freezing conditions is the correct policy to sell tickets on a bulk scale such as this?
All the other three clubs will have sold out by close of play next friday.

 

No what I am saying is that we sold out, to date the others have not

I am also saying that selling online is not the perfect answer, as been shown in both West Brom and Pompeys cases where there online systems have not been able to cope.

As to queuing for 8 hours in freezing cold, my wife did that for me, it is not ideal and we need better systems of selling tickets for big games in the future, something we are looking at with the football club and one of the reason I was asking supporters for suggestions. What ever happens there will never be the perfect system for all supporters.

 

Depends how your define "worked better". It might have worked better for the club to get them all sold as quickly as possible. But for the fans having to queue for hours, not being able to get in the section they would prefer and having to take days off work, I would hardly call it a huge success.

 

it just seemed from your inital post that you were happy with the way it has been done. FOr me the supporters trust shouldnt be boasting about how quick we sold them but pressuring the club to come up with a more workable solution to prevent **** ups happening again.
Also, you may have seen a post regarding tickets on ebay down the board. It would be prudent to suggest that a large percentage have been resold at more than face value. Cracking job.

 

Don't get this, to date there have been about 10 tickets on ebay from people trying to make a profit out of Barnsley supporters, and I hope they fail to sell them. That said 10 out of 33,000 is not a large percentage

You will always get people out to make a fast buck out of reselling tickets, it happens at all clubs.

 

Thats just e -bay. I'll hazard a guess that for every ten on ebay there will be twice that drifting about pubs and clubs of Barnsley.
The hysteria caused by the clubs limited days per catagory has only encouraged touting. I do not think Cardiff etc will have the same problems.
Infact, the whole handling of this from the top to the bottom was for BFc embarrassing.

 

Gone better for who? Supporters or the club?

There is over a week before the semi final and it makes no difference to me whether I had bought my ticket 9 months ago or whether I buy it next week. You simply can't say that one way is better than another based on when the club sells them.

Of course we sold out quicker, the club organised ticket sales in such a way that fans were FORCED to queue up and rush, other clubs have given their fans more CHOICE.

Better for who? Better for the customers? Or better for the company? (short term)

 

not only happy d/t but smug

glad to be able to prove that they were right all along when in actual fact they werent. The moaning from many people at the match last saturday was testiment to this.

'i cant believe in 2008 we had to queue all day'
'why didn't they..... it seemed so obvious'
'they got our money, thats all they care about'
'i feel like cattle'

If the club wants to hear an accurate representation of the supporters opinions then get some people with clipboards into the stands and ask the average supporter before games, not the supporters trust with such a small number of select members and friends

 

hehe in one post you say that technology is not the answer and in the next you seem to think technology is the only way things are done.

 

Is that what it's all about then ?

Selling tickets ASAP ? You're the SUPPORTERS trust - is that ALL supporters or just the ones that fit in with BFC's decisions ?</p>

What do you think to our league form btw ?</p>

 

They've all had loyalty categories

No mass queuing just a steady sale of tickets each day. We seem to have two categories - those with Season Tickets and everyone else. Bound to cause mass panic and 8 hour queues.They will all sell out so I reckon the one who sells out last has probably done the best job.</p>

Also whilst you're on - how come BFC are charging&pound;150 for Club Wembley seatsyet Portsmouth are charging &pound;99 -Can't blame the club milking it for all its worthbut that is a mammoth difference.</p>

 

RE: Think Owen might have gone a bit native

Semi and poss final great opportunity to get database of customers. Failed on semi not confident it will be done if get to final.

 

I have to agree with the posts above

Selling out early in a mad stampede and not using the available time to provide a fair and less painful manner can only be seen as a bad thing. Okay, I know this is hindsight and the organisers didn't have the benefit of knowing the tickets would sell out early but it's still an indication that they got it slightly wrong. Hey, it's great that there'll be a full compliment of Reds packing the stadium but you must understand why people feel it could have been handled better.

I fell into the category of non-season ticket holder who'd been to a handful of games but lives away from Barnsley. I was therefore relying on general sale. So imagine my delight when I read on the official site one evening, without prior warning (remember that we were in the dark as to ticket sales figures and we'd been told that general sale wouldn't happen until Cardiff had handed their spare tickets into the FA), that the remaining tickets would go on sale the next morning. I wonder what they would have said at work if I hadn't turned up in a bid to get back to Barnsley.