this is worse than the semi final, went on at 9:00 and got a message about "come on no pushing ...... "etc. It mentions a black monitoring circle but so far (09:50) no sign of a black circle.
Yes,been on the 1-30 minutes for an hour now! Cats fed,birds fed,washing on,breakfast eaten,weights completed but no movement from almost completed circle for over half an hour now!
Like I said before, lucky seat. We've only won when I've been in that seat, so obviously the only logical explanation is that me sitting in that seat means we'll win. Do you really want me to risk us winning the FA Cup by waiting? Do you? Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk
Got onto purchase page after about one hour, now waited 20 mins. for interactive seating map to load.
Am in the queue now - got here at 8, windows opened at 9 nearly at front now. Each transaction taking ages and only 2 ******* windows open.
Just been down there . About 250 in the queue with a mate I know who has been there since 8.15 and he is an hour away from being served given the slowness of the 2 booths open who are serving a punter about every 5 minutes . I left after seeing and hearing that
queue online as others have said, has not moved in 40 mins since it reached the last part of the circle. must be frozen again
Just got my tickets. Still waiting for the confirmation page to load as the clock ran to zero authorising payment. Have had a confirmation email though so it's fine. Took an hour altogether. The system is still awful, and the assigning of fan ids is so slow its painful!
All done now, logged on at the stroke of 09:00 and it all took about an hour despite the 30 min circle of doom saying otherwise.
While I understand fans wanting to pick the best seat they want, and there’s only a small cross-section of season ticket holders on here - what’s the rush? People seem to be getting annoyed about being in a queue that they don’t need to be in?
It doesnt help that most of our fans appear to be ****wits. The first guy in the queue had camped out overnight and then asked to see a map of the stadium when the window opened
I wanted to get the front row of the upper tier so my 6 year old can see without anyone standing in front of him. It doesn't take long for these seats to go. I also wanted to get Cat 3 tickets, but ended up having to get Cat 2 and that was after only 45 mins of sales. If it was just me I would have waited and gone wherever, but I needed 5 together.
All done. 20 minutes done. Assigning and unassigning people took forever and almost timed me out. Pretty sure we could select seats when I did it for the semi but this just automatically assigned me row and seats in the block I chose. Turned out ok but it's a bit hit and miss.
Oh no, don’t get me wrong - I’m sure there are fans with a genuine need like yourself. But I bet there’s a fair percentage of fans logging in and moaning at the wait just because their IQ doesn’t stretch to realising they have the best part of a week to get sorted.
Well that's taken 55 mins. now and interactive seating map still not loaded. Have to go out now but will try again this evening. Does anybody know what time in the evening, the online ticket sales closes?
It’ll be 24hrs. Only shuts down 30 or 60 minutes before the next group become eligible so the system can mirror the change.
I'm in and trying to book 2 adults and 3 kids in one of the family blocks, but it's saying that I can't exceed 3 adults to 1 child or 3 children to 1 adult BUT IM NOT.
Had 2 tickets in my basket then got bombed out by the system before I could buy them. Back onto the circle of death again
At 10:30 nothing had happened so I went on the website again, this time, logged in without delay, bought tickets without delay! Meanwhile my original attempt is still sitting there with the same message displayed. Wemberlee, Wemberlee
Good news and bad here. I wanted four in 134. None available at 10.10am so managed 135. Assigned to three of us but then realised that on semi final booking I hadn't needed to use fourth guy's ID! He is a friend of Tennis Dave and when I tapped in his number I realised I didn't know his surname. I had to buy the three and send messages to Dave and Emma for his surname and say I'll try again before I go out. Slight problem is that they're in Italy playing a tournament! No reply as yet. I feel quite guilty.
After 90 mins got in on my PC. Interactive map not loading and after trying to refresh it just froze. Got straight in on tablet and managed to select seat. Been trying to pay but getting nowhere. It says I have 1019 minutes to complete order but it kust refuses to move on to "review order". Hopeless !
I think the reason the 0-30 minutes is so much longer is because people (like me) finally get in, only for the seat map not to load correctly but then not wanting to log out and lose your spot in case it's just about to work!
Now its booted me out, into a 30-60 minute queue. I should've taken UEA's advice! Although I'd suggest waiting until much after lunch.
got 3 in area (546) after logging on at 8.40am and completing my purchase by 9.30am - think i got lucky on this occasion
It will also be because Ticketmaster will likely have several different types of server they use and attribute to certain sales - Ed Sheeran (rubbish or not) doing 5 nights at Wembley, all on sale at the same time - biggest server possible. Watford fans buying FA Cup final tickets that they have 6 days to buy and everyone guaranteed one? Small server. Is it right? Not really but they are in the business to maximise profits and that is why they will employ the above strategy and take the small percentage of criticism from a minority group like Watford FC fans. It won’t make one iota of damage to their reputation and they know WFC will cop some of the flak.
can you imagine what Cat C will be like. The first two groups are guaranteed a ticket but Cat C there are 22000 scrambling for 6000 tickets so you have to go online right at the start. It will be mayhem
I'm just glad you valued season ticket holders bear the brunt of this, so us Cat B folk can have a smoother ride next week once everything has been ironed out and more blocks released. Thank you!
