Unable to buy a ticket for today's game

It was quite simple, walked up to the counter and said 2 adults and 2 children please.
If I can do that waking up in Germany, not sure where the problem exists?..  

Airman Brown said:

Covered End said:

It's an absolute credit to all the pre internet fans, that used to schlep down to the ground week in week out to pay on the gate, despite having no guarantee of getting in.
Heroes one and all.

But it’s not pre-internet times, is it? The same approach that puts out videos with no captions so it’s unclear who the speakers are. It’s amateurish.

Agree. I still don’t know who it was that was on the video talking about the crowd we were hoping for and then about the ground improvements. I’m assuming he is in a witness protection programme.

I thought the issue was that Watford had sold the Away end out and thats why Charlton had put the Home tickets on restrictive sales for Online General Sale? My son's friend rang on Friday at 9pm and wanted to come so i bought him a ticket (I have a  season ticket) his mates often buy their tickets at the main box office 30mins before the match, when there are no ticket restrictions with no problems ever. 
As for Valley catering & bars, I don't bother, north stand fans bar isn't great lets be honest and bars if you call it that in East Stand are over priced and long queues with average food. Yesterday 14 of us meet in Viva Cafe about 1/2 a mile away as one of our party is disabled so we needed space in the cafe and parking close by. Then after the match we all meet up for drinks in the Pilot pub on North Greenwich pensulia, great pub 1/2 Charlton 1/2 Watford, free parking which suited us as two of our party were Watford fans who had sat in the away end. Wonderful day at the Valley before, during and after...... COYA's.

Agreed, next two games are 12.30 KO and Millwall on Sept 13th will be 100% restrictive and  the club aren't selling nearest blocks in ES + WS, limiting sales. I have a season ticket so its not a problem, I believe Valley Gold allows you to buy match tickets on restrictive sale? 

Off_it said:

sam3110 said:

Tickets have more or less always gone off sale 3 hours before kickoff, with them then available to purchase at the ground on the day. 

It's not pathetic.

It's not "that fucking difficult" to buy a ticket.

They've been on sale for ages and if your son has only decided to go this morning, but can't be arsed to get down to The Valley to queue up, then he can't be that arsed actually seeing the game can he? 

Still, have to find something to moan about I guess. 

fuck off.

Off_it said:

sam3110 said:

Give more context then, or don't moan about it, if it's a situation that isn't that simple. 

you clown. Who are you?

Off_it said:

Valleysarr said:

Off_it said:

My son has decided he wants to go today, but the website says tickets are unavailable for sale (despite there being lots of seats free) and when I ring the ticket office it's closed, despite the recorded message going on to say it's open from 10.30am on a home matchday. Result = one less seat sold , and one potential fan lost (have been desperately trying to get him back into Charlton for years now.)

Same old Charlton. Pathetic.

Pathetic comment - anyone could have got in today as we all know,..
You say Charlton Pathetic- don’t seem like a fan .. 

so learn to read.

Off_it said:

Valleysarr said:

Wow your son didn’t go and missed a great ending to our return to the Championship!
Charlton will be gutted on the lost 34 notes.. 
Maybe for the Next game he gets a picket in advance like we all do now days ? 

Moron

ElfsborgAddick said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Off_it said:

sam3110 said:

Give more context then, or don't moan about it, if it's a situation that isn't that simple. 

Why should I "give more context", you clown. Who are you?

All week I work with businesses who are devising ways to make "customer experience" easier, so they can more easily sell their product. But at Charlton they always seemed to have done the opposite, but putting obstacles in the way.

In this day and age, why is it not possible to buy a print at home ticket digitally two hours before kick off?

Why was the ticket office advertised as being open from 10.30am but still shut at 10.50? So I couldn't buy one to be picked up.

We surely want to make it as easy as possible for lapsed supporters to come back? Especially when there were thousands of empty seats. Surely that is something we all can agree on?

In this instance we failed. And I've been working bloody hard to try and get him back into the fold.

It was a s*** personal comment that was bang out of order by @sam3110 who even wanted to justify his comment by wanting the last word.

Staggeringly ignorant.

Off_it said:

sam3110 said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

Off_it said:

sam3110 said:

Give more context then, or don't moan about it, if it's a situation that isn't that simple. 

Why should I "give more context", you clown. Who are you?

All week I work with businesses who are devising ways to make "customer experience" easier, so they can more easily sell their product. But at Charlton they always seemed to have done the opposite, but putting obstacles in the way.

In this day and age, why is it not possible to buy a print at home ticket digitally two hours before kick off?

Why was the ticket office advertised as being open from 10.30am but still shut at 10.50? So I couldn't buy one to be picked up.

We surely want to make it as easy as possible for lapsed supporters to come back? Especially when there were thousands of empty seats. Surely that is something we all can agree on?

In this instance we failed. And I've been working bloody hard to try and get him back into the fold.

It was a s*** personal comment that was bang out of order by @sam3110 who even wanted to justify his comment by wanting the last word.

And not surprisingly @sam3110 has lol'd this post.  Staggeringly ignorant.

I'll lol everyone of your posts if you want, you silly little goat of a man

That's rich, coming from someone with that profile pic.

redman said:

LargeAddick said:

It is bizarre though isn't it? If you want to buy online even ten minutes before kick off why can't you? Not rocket science surely?

I suspect it's the difficulty in tieing up online sales with in person sales at the same time. 

Don’t know, but years back they were worried about the system falling over in the run-up to kick-off. Due to the Meire tax, they do have to change the pricing. I’m not sure how far that is a factor.

redman said:

LargeAddick said:

It is bizarre though isn't it? If you want to buy online even ten minutes before kick off why can't you? Not rocket science surely?

I suspect it's the difficulty in tieing up online sales with in person sales at the same time. 

Something to raise with the Fan Advisor?
Maybe I'll ask

Sure admin will look at the comments made by this Off it. I don’t appreciate being called a moron !

As it was out attendance was 2nd lowest of all Champ games this weekend .. 

Off_it said:

Valleysarr said:

Sure admin will look at the comments made by this Off it. I don’t appreciate being called a moron !

As it was out attendance was 2nd lowest of all Champ games this weekend .. 

If you'd read what I'd written properly and not attributed things to me I'd never said, then I wouldn't have called you it because your comment wouldn't have been moronic.

I'm very sorry if you feel publicly slighted by the episode, but you maybe should have a think on Mark Twain's wise words next time.

Exactly, this scenario was made for - "If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first."