OK, I tried logging in with a device I do not ordinarily use to buy tickets/log into my account and managed to get in within 1 minute and purchase the tickets with no issues. For those struggling with their usual log in device may be worth trying the same. Good luck all!
You absolute superstar, mate. An hour's exasperation and then I read your tip, ask my wife to use her phone and I was straight in and able to buy a ticket. Thank you so much for sharing.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
I wouldn't have thought nearly a 1000 people have both.
If so, then most away games in league one would never get past phase 2 or 3, which isn't the case.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
I wouldn't have thought nearly a 1000 people have both.
If so, then most away games in league one would never get past phase 2 or 3, which isn't the case.
But there were 1700 in the queue in front of me !
That’s because home tickets went on general sale at the same time
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
How many people do you think regularly follow us away to get a points total close to that? We're Charlton, not Leeds.
If we had 900+ fans with that many points then all our games would sell out and some of the aways with smaller allocations wouldn't even reach phase 2. Someone posted on here that the league game at Wycombe 2 weeks ago reached phase 5!
I gave up after queueing for twenty minutes then having the screen freeze on me every time I selected something.
Please try using a different device to log in - was happening to me too but a new device log in sorted it as it has for others above. They are posting tickets so you do not need to worry about adding to a wallet etc. Laptop, iPad etc will all work
I gave up after queueing for twenty minutes then having the screen freeze on me every time I selected something.
Please try using a different device to log in - was happening to me too but a new device log in sorted it as it has for others above. They are posting tickets so you do not need to worry about adding to a wallet etc. Laptop, iPad etc will all work
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
I wouldn't have thought nearly a 1000 people have both.
If so, then most away games in league one would never get past phase 2 or 3, which isn't the case.
But there were 1700 in the queue in front of me !
That’s because home tickets went on general sale at the same time
Well that went well !
Why are they using this "new" system for home tkts when the usual method worked for us yesterday ? Why not utilise the current queue system just for away tickets !!
And why doesn't someone have their finger on the button to send the everyday emails we all receive , to send us up to date info re the ticketing issue ?
Thing is Valley Gold benefits the Club. No matter how many away tickets we sell over a season the benefit to the Club is zero. And this isn't a dig but if you are attending that many away games and spending that amount of money then surely £10 a month for Valley Gold isn't too much of a stretch? If it is miss an away game or two to cover the annual cost of Valley Gold.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
I wouldn't have thought nearly a 1000 people have both.
If so, then most away games in league one would never get past phase 2 or 3, which isn't the case.
But there were 1700 in the queue in front of me !
That’s because home tickets went on general sale at the same time
Well that went well !
Why are they using this "new" system for home tkts when the usual method worked for us yesterday ? Why not utilise the current queue system just for away tickets !!
And why doesn't someone have their finger on the button to send the everyday emails we all receive , to send us up to date info re the ticketing issue ?
The queue is to stop too many people being on the ticketing site at the same time. It would probably crash without it and I think impossible to separate home and away queues. The mistake was releasing the away tickets at the same time as general sale home tickets
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
You’re grossly overestimating the amount of people that fall into that category.
Someone with 860 points will never, ever miss out on a ticket.
The “Humdinger” applies throughout, what’s stopping you getting a second ticket in phase 2 for a mate who’s never been at the expense of someone who might miss out in phase 4?
I reckon if every person who had the 620 and had Valley Gold bought two, I'd miss out. Fortunately not enough people will.
Because I'm sensible and wouldn't do that. I'd only ever take one of my Charlton relatives or friends to a game who goes a significant amount of games. Which was my point, it should be assigned to a Charlton fan on the site.
No chance. Like absolutely zero. There's a reason the tiers are set at the level they are. It isn't guess work.
Gents, 1848 allocation, we surely have 924 Charlton fans with 620 points and Valley gold? Be very surprised if we don't.
I wouldn't have thought nearly a 1000 people have both.
If so, then most away games in league one would never get past phase 2 or 3, which isn't the case.
But there were 1700 in the queue in front of me !
That’s because home tickets went on general sale at the same time
They should have postponed the selling of home tickets until wendsday then they would still have had over a week to sell tickets.
I've said it before, the fact I'm on 860 loyalty points and not in phase 1 is ridiculous.
That's 400 loyalty points from aways and if we had a smaller allocation I could potentially miss out. There's no way Valley Gold should trump 18+ aways. That's over £400 roughly just on the tickets.
The real humdinger is that someone with VG and 620 points, could buy a ticket for someone who has never been to a Charlton game. I don't necessarily mind when it's for an actual Charlton fan, but it should have to be assigned to a Charlton fan with a reasonable amount of points at least.
tbh mate, you're guaranteed a ticket in Phase 2. My points are also over 800, I do have VG but once north of 600points you don't need to worry about VG. I can see why the Away Priority is given to VG it's a great incentive for people who attend less frequently to get Away tickets. As far back as I can remember Valley Gold has always given priority. The debate always rages around where Valley Gold should get tickets at the expense of people that probably attend more away games. However, to be top phase you need to have had a season ticket for 2 years and been to 7 away's this year and 7 away's last year, the bar is not set high. So to everyone complaining stump up for a Valley Gold or go to more away games.
In L1 with most away teams having small grounds its a travelling "elite" or group of particularly dedicated fans who will get the tickets every time. I managed to get to Leyton Orient away last season and Gillingham away FA cup, both were enough to make me glad to let others suffer for the cause.
If the opposition has a small away section of the ground I think it would be fair to restrict ticket sales to only the "points" holder.ie no mates who are not "points holders" themselves. Maybe this happens already?
In L1 with most away teams having small grounds its a travelling "elite" or group of particularly dedicated fans who will get the tickets every time. I managed to get to Leyton Orient away last season and Gillingham away FA cup, both were enough to make me glad to let others suffer for the cause.
If the opposition has a small away section of the ground I think it would be fair to restrict ticket sales to only the "points" holder.ie no mates who are not "points holders" themselves. Maybe this happens already?
Yeah every time we have a high demand away match the debate always revolves around where Valley Gold should rank in the prioritisation. But for me it’s odder that everyone is allowed to buy two tickets from the off. Really it should be one ticket per person until later in the process.
In L1 with most away teams having small grounds its a travelling "elite" or group of particularly dedicated fans who will get the tickets every time. I managed to get to Leyton Orient away last season and Gillingham away FA cup, both were enough to make me glad to let others suffer for the cause.
If the opposition has a small away section of the ground I think it would be fair to restrict ticket sales to only the "points" holder.ie no mates who are not "points holders" themselves. Maybe this happens already?
Yeah every time we have a high demand away match the debate always revolves around where Valley Gold should rank in the prioritisation. But for me it’s odder that everyone is allowed to buy two tickets from the off. Really it should be one ticket per person until later in the process.
Totally agree with this, how many times does someone's mate come along for the ride or used to live there etc. I know people who are coming next Thursday who haven't been all season, whilst others who have are struggling. This 4 tickets per ST holder is stupid also in my view.
In L1 with most away teams having small grounds its a travelling "elite" or group of particularly dedicated fans who will get the tickets every time. I managed to get to Leyton Orient away last season and Gillingham away FA cup, both were enough to make me glad to let others suffer for the cause.
If the opposition has a small away section of the ground I think it would be fair to restrict ticket sales to only the "points" holder.ie no mates who are not "points holders" themselves. Maybe this happens already?
Yeah every time we have a high demand away match the debate always revolves around where Valley Gold should rank in the prioritisation. But for me it’s odder that everyone is allowed to buy two tickets from the off. Really it should be one ticket per person until later in the process.
I must admit I’m surprised they let you have 2 tickets.
I'm VG and not much else (now living 250 miles drive away). Have had it for years, was a VIP, VIP 5 year ST holder, ST holder in 5 different decades etc etc.... but well, that's all in the past isn't it? For what it's worth I do feel I get a bit of an unfair advantage over some, even though the VG payment is largely charity.
Having said that - I agree, the 2 ticket thing seems wrong, and I'm guessing I might be struggling in phase 5 anyway.
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If we had 900+ fans with that many points then all our games would sell out and some of the aways with smaller allocations wouldn't even reach phase 2. Someone posted on here that the league game at Wycombe 2 weeks ago reached phase 5!
Why are they using this "new" system for home tkts when the usual method worked for us yesterday ? Why not utilise the current queue system just for away tickets !!
And why doesn't someone have their finger on the button to send the everyday emails we all receive , to send us up to date info re the ticketing issue ?
I managed to get to Leyton Orient away last season and Gillingham away FA cup, both were enough to make me glad to let others suffer for the cause.
If the opposition has a small away section of the ground I think it would be fair to restrict ticket sales to only the "points" holder.ie no mates who are not "points holders" themselves.
Maybe this happens already?
Totally agree with this, how many times does someone's mate come along for the ride or used to live there etc. I know people who are coming next Thursday who haven't been all season, whilst others who have are struggling. This 4 tickets per ST holder is stupid also in my view.
Having said that - I agree, the 2 ticket thing seems wrong, and I'm guessing I might be struggling in phase 5 anyway.