A big F YOU to Ticketek and the AFL

[quinny88]

I get up bright and early this morning ready to buy my finals tickets for the big Richmond vs Carlton game on the weekend. Members tickets went on sale at 9am so I made sure I was ready to go. I go on the Ticketek website at 9 am on the dot to find that the piece of shower website cant handle the traffic and has crashed. Kept refreshing over and over with no luck so decided to just go down to my Local Ticketek to get my tickets the old fashioned way. The line when I got there was already 100 metres long so I patiently lined up while keeping in contact with my dad who was trying to get the tickets online and over the phone which just continually said it was engaged.
I Lined up for 3 hours to then be told that the Membership priority tickets were closed and the general public tickets would be open in an hour. So I waited in line another hour till 2pm, finally got to the front and was then told there were only single seats available at the very back of the top level or standing room.. What an absolute disgrace that is. I pay over $400 a year for a premium membership and I cant get a seat on level one to an Elimination final because Ticketek are useless and the AFL is run by a bunch of morons. Why would the members not get a good chance to get tickets before anyone else? I literally could have done nothing more to get them any quicker. Its pathetic. The club members should get at least a day or more to purchase tickets before anyone else can.
And why in Gods name would you release the tickets for every game at the same time. 4 games all in Victoria and they think its a genius idea for it to be open slather for everyone which crashes the system and causes chaos..

So pissed off. Rant over

[Ringo]

Agree Quinny - Club members should be eligible for pre sale tickets.

[quinny88]

Well they were, but only for 3 hours which wasnt possible to get them in that time. such a joke

[PowerBug]

sheeeet, I hope my mate got on quickly and got tickets to that game. :\

[Scrads]

Trying to get members tickets for the Hawks v Swans game atm and Ticketek haven't been answering their phone so I had to send them an email. Can't contact them at all and no matter how hard I look I can't find the section on thier website for members tickets. If anyone can help that will be much appreciated!!