Like Clockwork, AFL Fans Have Been Fucked Over Trying To Nab Prelim Final Tickets
Like Clockwork, AFL Fans Have Been Fucked Over Trying To Nab Prelim Final Tickets
Club members trying to snap up tickets to this weekend’s hugely anticipated AFL Preliminary Final matchups featuring Collingwood & Greater Western Sydney and Richmond & Geelong were slugged with the dreaded “simultaneous on-sale date” curse Ticketek loves to run at least once at this time of year, facing lengthy online queues, glitches, and conflicting information once the clock ticked over to 9am this morning.
With three powerhouse Victorian clubs featuring in the prelims this year, demand for tickets is understandably extraordinarily high. Even still, folks weren’t shy in venting their frustrations once the virtual doors were thrown open and tickets started flying out the door. Social media quickly flooded with folks frustrated at the clunky and imprecise process of lining up in a queue you can’t see and whose order is attended to at apparent random.
Hi Alan, Ticketek's website is up and running and thousands of fans are transacting right now. You will be redirected when a new purchase session opens. Please stay on the queuing page and do not refresh your page.
Hey #ticketek I've been in queue since 9 and my mate next to me joined queue at 9:10 waited once minute and got his tickets. So much for a fair system. I'm still in the queue by the way
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Tickets for Friday night's preliminary final against Geelong go on sale today via @Ticketek_AURichmond members 9am – 1pm
General public 2pm
Tickets: tige.rs/2lNH6B3
Info: richmondfc.com.au/finals
So a queue generally means customers are served in order. Whatever Ticketek does is not a queue, more like a raffle.
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There are three certainties in life: Death, Taxes and getting cucked by @Ticketek_AU on the Monday morning before the preliminary finals
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Luckily enough for most, issues with ticketing seem to be getting resolved in reasonable time frames and member tickets are getting to their correct destinations in reasonable time.
The server demand at Ticketek is being compounded by the fact the NRL’s semi-final matchup between the Melbourne Storm and Parramatta also goes on sale this morning as well.
Tickets allotted to the general public for both AFL prelims go on sale from 2pm this afternoon, with very few – if any – tickets expected to remain by the end of the day; both games are expected to draw massive crowds in excess of 90,000 fans.
Preliminary Final week kicks off on Friday night with the Tigers/Cats clash, before the Magpies and Giants meet the following afternoon at 4:35pm.
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