Season-ticket holders who are Valley Gold members; supporters who regularly attend away games and via recognised supporters' groups; remaining season-ticket holders and Valley Gold members; Red Card holders with an adequate purchase history who are not season-ticket holders.
My Dad rang at 9am and tried option 6, it didn't work, so he tried queuing the normal way - gave up after 25 mins as he had a train to catch. My Mum took over, new call, queued for 35 minutes and then got cut off... I then tried from work, queued for 38 minutes... got cut off.
Decided to try option 6 again and got through after 5 rings - total phone call less than 3 or 4 minutes.
Option 6 is the way to go. If it doesn't work, try and try again!
If I take 3 ST's with me on Monday morning can I buy 6 despite the 3 ST holders not being present?
Yes, on the basis that I've done it for more than 10 years. You might want to ensure that you have their con numbers, names & addresses in case they are needed. I have been asked for all 3 at various times.
If I take 3 ST's with me on Monday morning can I buy 6 despite the 3 ST holders not being present?
Yes, on the basis that I've done it for more than 10 years. You might want to ensure that you have their con numbers, names & addresses in case they are needed. I have been asked for all 3 at various times.
My Dad rang at 9am and tried option 6, it didn't work, so he tried queuing the normal way - gave up after 25 mins as he had a train to catch. My Mum took over, new call, queued for 35 minutes and then got cut off... I then tried from work, queued for 38 minutes... got cut off.
Decided to try option 6 again and got through after 5 rings - total phone call less than 3 or 4 minutes.
Option 6 is the way to go. If it doesn't work, try and try again!
Tried & failed several times this morning on options 2 and 6. Option 2 working fine now, short wait and got 2 tickets. COYA!!
I very much doubt more tickets will be available. 1000 @£20 would not see Cabaye in wages through the week. Palace need to progress and giving more away tickets will not really help their efforts?
I don't think the money comes into it from Palace's and the police's perspective. It's all about managing the crowd on the night.
They would be lucky to make £5 per head after concessions, VAT, levy to the League, revenue split with Charlton, etc.
I doubt if they think the number of Charlton supporters has any relevance to the outcome either, but any club would want to maximise its home support if there is demand for tickets, because there's no downside to it.
What's the best number to call the box office on? Last time this was going off for Millwall in April I seem to recollect half the people were dialling one number, myself including, and half another, both working but one was much quicker than the other.
Is it all sorted now with just one operational number?
We used option 6 yesterday and got through quite quickly in mid-afternoon. They were never going to all go first thing, so little point dialling in at 9 when the "rush" was on.
All dealt with really quickly and efficiently as usual. Can't wait
can you imagine the carnage on Monday, there can only be about 2000 fans eligible to buy today
You have to question the wisdom of giving two tickets per eligible supporter, anyone willing to play devils advocate and argue why it might make sense for this fixture ?
The origin of this is that children can't be Valley Gold members. If a VG member could only buy one ticket and wants to go with their child then they could never make use of their ticket priority as they'd never get seats together.
Originally it was one adult and one child for VG members, but people would buy the child and then change it for an adult later, so in the end the club decided VG season-ticket holders could have two adults.
I agree that it is dubious to offer other qualifying season-ticket holders two tickets each on the same basis, and both potentially give priority to non-season-ticket holders over season-ticket holders (and priority to people who didn't travel to Peterborough over people who did), but to go to one-each would be to make an assumption about the overall demand that the club may not share. It also wants to sell the tickets efficiently.
There will be very few VG members who are not season-ticket holders AND want to go to Palace, so I don't think it matters much that they get joint second priority with STs.
The stipulation excluding people who bought Peterborough tickets on the night will just be to make life simpler for the staff.
End of the day we all know games that will sell like hot cakes. This is one of them, so you simply make it 1 per ST or VG for these games. Only we could have an alloaction system that potentially puts tickets in the hands of people who have never watched Charlton before, over loyal ST and away-match attending supporters.
And I speak as somone who has benefitted from this before, but it's a ridiclious system.
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but no priority was given to regular away fans
Decided to try option 6 again and got through after 5 rings - total phone call less than 3 or 4 minutes.
Option 6 is the way to go. If it doesn't work, try and try again!
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They would be lucky to make £5 per head after concessions, VAT, levy to the League, revenue split with Charlton, etc.
I doubt if they think the number of Charlton supporters has any relevance to the outcome either, but any club would want to maximise its home support if there is demand for tickets, because there's no downside to it.
Is it all sorted now with just one operational number?
All dealt with really quickly and efficiently as usual. Can't wait
End of the day we all know games that will sell like hot cakes. This is one of them, so you simply make it 1 per ST or VG for these games. Only we could have an alloaction system that potentially puts tickets in the hands of people who have never watched Charlton before, over loyal ST and away-match attending supporters.
And I speak as somone who has benefitted from this before, but it's a ridiclious system.