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Probably been said before on here but  i think its time this lot were looked at.Now ime not a Bristol City admirer but again the fans have been shit on,a certain amount sold by the club and the rest handed over to Ticketmaster for them to sell online.The playoff final is there biggest match ever probably.Lots of fans wont have access to a computer or credit card so wont have a chance of getting a ticket v Hull City.Why are these tickets handed over to agencies who make big bucks its not fair and the clubs who do it are not giving a dam about the fans as usuall.

Just to point out you dont need a credit card, debit cards are fine.

i dont give a fuck about bristol fucking shitty.fuck em!

Fair enough Manc....but just to point out not everyone has debit cards,and if they do why should they pay extra for a ticket,sell them ALL at the club on a first come first served basis after season ticket holders have had there allocation.

Do the clubs have to buy the tickets from the FL, or are they just given to them?

I can';t wait to see their fans bawling as they lose in the final!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Bloody hell Gary talk about tempting fate!!

From what I've read, City don't have the facilities to sell 40,000 tickets in such a short space of time. Hence it going to Ticketmaster. Other clubs who have the infrastructure for such events like Leeds have sold them themselves

Hull sold them themselves. Heard one guy on the radio say that his mate started queuing at 6am, and still hadn't been served by 3pm!

Can you imagine our box office trying to sell 23,000 tickets in a day?

Also heard City fans had to phone Ticketmaster for tickets at first, then the remaining tickets went on the website yesterday. I wonder if that meant they had some kind of priority system in place that meant the real fans got the opportunity to buy first?

From talking to shitty fans at work, season ticket holders were able to get 2 tickets per season ticket first, then people with stubs from recent games including play offs got the chance - then they went on general sale.

Sounds fair enough. Ticketmaster have inflated unjustified fees but I'd rather pay a 5 than spend all day queing.

Hopefully there will be 36K Bristolians crying come 5pm Saturday, but I am bit worried they may not screw this up :(

They don't need to sell them in a day, they've got a week.

I remember when we did sell 30,000 tickets through the club ticket office: season ticket holders one day, four vouchers the next, then three, then two etc. I travelled down from London on the appropriate day and strolled up to the ticket window with barely a queue.

What with them only having about the 10th best attendances in the division (despite being at or near the top for its entirety) they're probably worried they won't be able to shift the tickets if people have to do more than click a mouse to get them :-)

It's what the Hull fan claimed they'd sold in a day. Have to say i was sceptical.

From speaking to a slavetrader at work, the concern is not so much that the tickets went on sale via TicketMaster but that they sold out within 20 minutes and that there is therefore a suspicion that a lot have ended up in the hands of touts rather than genuine fans. How true that is, I don't know but it's a different angle.

I thought that the Ticketmaster ones were only available to ST holders, with a limit of 2 per ST. Unless somebody found a way around the system?

That's what's implied on their official site as well

If we managed to do it ourselves in 1993, then the slavetraders should be able to do it in 2008.  So, we should be able to do it ourselves for next years play-off final  :wink:

Play-offs? Get bent. Either we win the league or Malpas out.

Only for r4e, only for you. :fag:

I hate ticketmaster. They are touts themselves. They keep tickets behind for themselves and other authorized touting agencies and they are easy prey for unlicensed touts.

You cant beat the old way. All hands on deck down the ticket office. Big queue. Season ticket holders, then stub holders.

What I hate most about ticket agencies are the booking fees. If they can sell that many in 20 minutes then they've made a rediculous profit.

I notice some charge you a booking fee per ticket and then a transaction fee on top. That is downright scandalous.

In Vancouver a few years back we went to the venue where The Strokes were playing that night to buy tickets. We were redirected to the Ticketmaster window at the ice hockey stadium as the venue wasn't allowed to sell tickets to its own shows. We were then charged a booking fee. Pearl Jam fought that fight and lost back in the mid-1990s.

The FA uses Ticketmaster to sell tickets to England games now, including away games, which is something they used to handle themselves. I think it will become more and more prevelant.

I heard that they kept 2,000 back to sell to "selected supporters groups". I assumed that that was for their supporters club & Trust members.

Hah! No chance - although full credit, I've never seen "selected supporters groups" used as a euphemism for "semi-legalised touts" before