Is Ticketek cooked ?

[undy]

I could almost bet the SCG is locked into a ticketek contract until 2099. Seems to be the way these days.

First Buddy, then Ticketek, sheesh.

[barry]

The Ticketek "experience" is so bad. Shows you a map. You click on a bay. Tells you there are seats, You go to pay. It puts you in a *completely different* bay. Repeat until you get something that resembles what you wanted.

Article in the Age pointed out that (1) it's the venue that chooses the vendor, (2) Ticketek won a "competitive tender" (yeah right, choice of 2), (3) Ticketmaster handled a 50K crowd at Optus Stadium with no issues. Which I take to be a veiled way of saying "maybe think about going with the other vendor next year".

Alright, that's my grumble over, my family will be cheering from Bay 26, looking forward to it!

I could almost bet the SCG is locked into a ticketek contract until 2099. Seems to be the way these days.

[neilfws]

The Ticketek "experience" is so bad. Shows you a map. You click on a bay. Tells you there are seats, You go to pay. It puts you in a *completely different* bay. Repeat until you get something that resembles what you wanted.

Article in the Age pointed out that (1) it's the venue that chooses the vendor, (2) Ticketek won a "competitive tender" (yeah right, choice of 2), (3) Ticketmaster handled a 50K crowd at Optus Stadium with no issues. Which I take to be a veiled way of saying "maybe think about going with the other vendor next year".

Alright, that's my grumble over, my family will be cheering from Bay 26, looking forward to it!

[goswannies]

It might be only a Victorian Government thing?

I’m pretty sure SA has it too, but their definition of what a Major Event is can often be rather silly (as in some concerts should be classified as major events but aren’t)

[MattW]

The site is frozen ATM.
Guess it is SOLD OUT.
Wanted a couple more.

Still selling tickets in every category when I logged in 5 minutes ago.

[Mel_C]

I thought there were already rules/laws in place to prevent scalping ????

It might be only a Victorian Government thing?

[goswannies]

Just got a notification from the club saying that tickets have gone on sale to the public.
There were tickets left over to be available to the public?
Unless they held some specifically for public sale.
I would have thought it would have sold out by now. Wet Coke scalpers want $500 a ticket!! Overs.
Scalpers demand up to $500 for West Coast finals tickets

I thought there were already rules/laws in place to prevent scalping ????

[Hotpotato]

The site is frozen ATM.
Guess it is SOLD OUT.
Wanted a couple more.

[goswannies]

Thought RWO must have attached itself to Ticketek yesterday... stop going down - it's finals time!!![

How did everyone go getting tickets?
Are we all happy?

[AnnieH]

Just got a notification from the club saying that tickets have gone on sale to the public.
There were tickets left over to be available to the public?
Unless they held some specifically for public sale.
I would have thought it would have sold out by now. Wet Coke scalpers want $500 a ticket!! Overs.
Scalpers demand up to $500 for West Coast finals tickets

[Back2oz]

Thought RWO must have attached itself to Ticketek yesterday... stop going down - it's finals time!!!

How did everyone go getting tickets?
Are we all happy?

Managed to get four tickets for family in the Noble. Tried at 10pm after getting back from Melb and didn't have any issues. Though it would be nice to be able to select seats rather than be given 4 in the bay you selected. Anyway, happy to have them and to be able to cheer on the swans!

[Meg]

Just read that the release of tickets to the remaining finals from now on will be staggered. That is such a ‘no brainer’. We’ve been telling them to do that for years.

[AnnieH]

Thought RWO must have attached itself to Ticketek yesterday... stop going down - it's finals time!!!

How did everyone go getting tickets?
Are we all happy?

[Hotpotato]

Amazon would nail ticketing, they will soon be into banking and everything else.

Had no issues however getting my tik in Brewongle, now just need a couple for 2 daughters anywhere.

[Meg]

I bought a good ticket today in the Brewongle. No hassle getting into the site but I had to have three goes to get a seat I was happy with. I kept clicking on the Brewongle and the ‘system’ kept offering me a seat low down in the O’ Reilly!

No service charge (as promised yesterday after the shambles) though there seemed to be a compulsory charity donation for which the default setting was $50 (which I thought was cheeky). I reset it to $5.

Perhaps there was a way to untick this box and pay nothing but with the clock ticking down I didn’t spend long looking. The last thing I wanted after at last getting a good ticket was for the system to time me out before I had completed payment.

Hope everyone else got/gets satisfactory tickets.

Now I hope the Swans reward us for all this effort! Go Swannies!