Ticket Update Part 2

Returned to Oakwell with my raffle ticket in hand and because the numbers after mine had been and gone I was ushered to the back of the queue inside the ticket office (I offered to stay at the back of the short queue outside so as not to upset anyone but the people in that queue told me that because I'd been earlier that I'd got the right to go in front of them, very civilised ) Anyway it took a total of 30 mins to queue and get served with 4 season tickets + 2 together in the East Stand lower, so in total including getting my raffle ticket this morning, total time spent at Oakwell today, the grand total of 35 mins so I repeat what is the bl**dy problem. I sympathise with people working odd hours, shifts, weekends, 12 hr shifts, 7 days a week etc, been there and done it for last 40 years it aint nice but like I said you can't please all the people all of the time but overall, all this complaining is unwarranted and hysterical.

 

How much time in total did it take though?

Glad for you that you have the time on your hands. Plenty don't

BBC1 a go-go

 

It's taken over 3 hours

To get your tickets via 2 trips to Oakwell and a pink raffle ticket. Thankfully you're in a position to spare that amount of time.</p>

It's 2008, computers and the internet have been around a while. Why a professional organisation is relying on its customers making double trips to buy its product is somewhat laughable imho.</p>

 

Glad you got sorted BUT

Totally disagree. It's a farce in this day and age.

I cannot get to Oakwell during the day to get a raffle ticket (which I find comical to be honest). My brother lives in Leicester, so he too can't get there. The club need to move on from the 1950's into the 21st century

I have 3 ST's and looks like I will be watching on the box. I also need 2 more extra seats for Chelsea, and 1 for QPR. All going up in smoke and it's the club that will lose out here. Thats 6 tickets I am not buying by the looks of it. They need to work with fans not against them.

I am very fed up with them and if it was anything else I would buy elsewhere.

Very annoyed.

 

The phone was invented in 1876. Even if the club were operating on a 1950s basis they'd not be using the technology available to them.

 

Pillock

You have to be one of the first 300 there (150 on a Saturday) to get a bloody raffle ticket in the first place.</p>

I was there at 8:45 Saturday and all the raffle tickets had gone. I was prepared to queue for 3 hours but was told by a steward to sling me hook and come back another day. </p>

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Read my post, done 40 years of manual **** on shifts in steelworks earned my time off. Plenty on here find time to spend ages complaining, plenty of idiots found time to queue for ages at the ground then come on here and complain, all I'm trying to say is be sensible use your intelligence and think, you'd be surprised how easy it is to come up with solutions to problems if you use your brains in a positive manner rather than moaning what about me.

 

you were one of many on saturday

you were unlucky though, last raffle ticket handed out about 8.40am

 

RE: you were one of many on saturday

If, and I mean If, I went down tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn (say 7.30 in my case).

Would I get a raffle ticket do you think AND get served?

Anybody who has been recently - what are the chances or will there be a queue full of folk with Mondays raffle winners, and I get sent away by Security?

 

7.30 should see you allreight

I got there at 8.30 on saturday and only just scraped in for a raffle ticket. Didn't get served until 11.30am, but was able to wander off in the interim. People were coming and going from the queue all morning without any hassle. (food, toilet etc.)

 

robespierre, I assume its me you are calling a pillock, if so what a shame you have to resort to name calling to get your point??? across. Read my other posts and digest we were told not to rush down because we have till 1st March to get our seats, I didn't rush down I picked my time and it worked. Suppose I'm lucky I've got transport live 10 mins. drive away and today I've got the time to do what I did. BUT if I didn't live so close I would have taken a ticket and sat in the stand for a couple of hours.

 

When were raffle tickets invented?

 

What happens if you miss your timeslot - say you went back after 4 hours - do you go to the front of the current queue, or have you missed out.

 

Sounds like you go in front of those with a higher number nt

 

RE: Pillock

You should get your facts straight before calling people...

I went down just after nine this morning... got a Raffle ticket, went back at Lunch time and got straight into the box office.

People are just trying to give information... Why all the grief.

 

RE: you were one of many on saturday

Someone I know went down at 8.15 today and were served by 10.30 so I'd say definitely

 

RE: Pillock

Would you rather have queued 3 hours and been then told to sling your hook.

 

i got there at 9.40

decided to queue anyway and got my ticket

 

My friend is there now and has been all day. She says the queue is long and she's been told by the "powers that be" that they are not giving pink tickets out anymore as it causes too many problems. People have just to come, stand in the cold and wait .... so well done you for jumping the queue after getting a pink ticket on the day that they have apparently stopped giving them out (clap)

I'm only saying what she just told me on the phone before anyone has a go, but her experience of today seems to differ from yours and plenty of other people's somewhat.