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Geelong will win this, never bet against the Cats, the greatest team of the modern era.
Geelong vs Hawthorn. AFL have decided to do some scalping.
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Won't get more than 70k, Shame it deserves 90..
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The complaints about booking fees are fair. But the rest is whinging cheap tickets are for the worst seats.
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Brian Taylor said on 3aw at midday that this now was now longer a designated seat event , you can now scan your membership at the gate and access a seat for today's game.
Can find nothing about this on afl twitter though
Can find nothing about this on afl twitter though
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Great, if that is true I'm sure we are all happy for having paid that little bit more for nothing.
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3aw saying that the AFL sent out a "media release" at 11:03 am this morning advising of the changes to ticketing to today's game .
Still nothing about this on the AFL website
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AFLs Darren Birch on 3aw saying that there is 5,000 seats left in the GA area which will cost $8.50 to sit in.
Saying that the AFL have opened up the AFL members area for Cats and Hawk members to scan in on their members ticket to access the remaining seats unsold in the aFL members area for free
Saying that the AFL have opened up the AFL members area for Cats and Hawk members to scan in on their members ticket to access the remaining seats unsold in the aFL members area for free
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Think I might stay home then....
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Absolute rubbish - new AFL policy seems to be to do away with "blockbusters"
Schedule potential blockbusters on Sunday nights when people don't want to come, charge more than people want to pay to go or tell people who have paid for tickets to get in to pay more or don't come
They are complete idiots - Decisions made by people who earn very good 6 figure incomes and think that $50 is cheap for everyone
Schedule potential blockbusters on Sunday nights when people don't want to come, charge more than people want to pay to go or tell people who have paid for tickets to get in to pay more or don't come
They are complete idiots - Decisions made by people who earn very good 6 figure incomes and think that $50 is cheap for everyone
One of the biggest games of the year outside of the finals and the AFL have destroyed it. What other sport makes it as hard as possible for people to attend? Whoever is in charge of ticketing at the AFL should lose their job today, but they won't. They just need to scrap this botched ticketing system now, but to save face they won't.
What do the president's of Hawthorn and Geelong have to say about this? Club members are being robbed and membership is becoming next to worthless.
What do the president's of Hawthorn and Geelong have to say about this? Club members are being robbed and membership is becoming next to worthless.
I was in Melbourne about this time last year visiting family. There was nothing better than walking with my son from the city to the MCG, buying a ticket ($2 for his!) and sitting about ten rows back in the pocket for Hawthorn v Nth Melbourne.
The AFL really don't seem to realise what a great thing they have.
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Well the genius who decided it would be a good idea to make a replacement game against Collingwood should have been sacked on the spot.
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Those people who have done the right thing and already paid their $8.50 (plus probably $10 for the privilege of printing their ticket out on their own printer) will be thrilled with this news.
An out and out rort, plain and simple.
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Starting to become the new norm sadly
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Booking fees are a load of arse. Charging any fees for online bookings (whether its booking fees for tickets you print yourself or credit card surcharges - how the * else am I supposed to pay?) is just gouging.
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The important thing is people went to the footy....80,000 went and with Anzac day approaching maybe the season has finally begun?
Will all the people who paid the $8.50 to reserve a seat +bf get a refund?
What a disgrace.
What a disgrace.
Does anyone have evidence this actually happenned?
Brian Taylor and 3AW know SFA about ticketing because they haven't bought one in their whole life. I suspect they were getting confused.
AFL members could scan their card at the gate and sit in the remaining walk up area within the AFL reserve, this was already known earlier in the week and as far as I know Hawk and Cat members still had to fork out if they wanted to enter the ground.
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Thanks for the link Hawkk.
So they are saying they let Hawk and Cat members who aren't AFL members, scan into the AFL reserve for free?
But they still had to pay if they were going into the public sections of the ground?
Earlier in the week they said the AFL members was almost full and listed the 'limited' walk up areas and then they decide a few hours before the game there is plenty of room and let non AFL members in for free? How did they know that a whole pile of AFL members weren't planning to show up at 3pm and scan in?
If this is accurate then it is a giant cluster fcuk.
How did they let members know? 3AW?
If the AFL are serious about improving affordability these booking fees along with variable ticket prices and stadium food prices need a serious review in 2015.
I would love to hear the AFL stance on these outragous fees and how they can be justified.
I have absolutely no issue with the price of food at the ground. It can cost $10 for a pie and that does not bother me. It's 2 and a half hours where I can go without food or just bring in my own food from home or the supermarket.
But what makes me filthy with the AFL, ticketmaster and ticketek are the booking fees/printing fees. You cannot avoid this cost. It is like advertising a flight for $1, but after adding credit card fees and baggage fees the flight actually costs $100.
It is a rort!
