| A question re tickets 10:03 - Sep 8 with 2352 views | EdwardF |
Does anyone know how many tickets are for sale today to non-season ticket holders who are members?
I'm so far back in the Q not sure if it's worth waiting!!
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| A question re tickets on 10:34 - Sep 8 with 778 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| A question re tickets on 10:16 - Sep 8 by E_I_E_I_E_I_O |
Yep I was thinking along those lines. Probably helps actually, plus stops you putting seats in the basket and them they becoming not available by the time get to checkout. |
I thought that once you had selected tickets they remain yours unless you deselect them so you couldn't find them gone when checking out. |  |
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| A question re tickets on 10:35 - Sep 8 with 758 views | rickw |
Got tickets, looks like Cobbold E or RV tickets at the back of the West stand are left |  |
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| A question re tickets on 10:38 - Sep 8 with 743 views | E_I_E_I_E_I_O |
Still a fair few left so don't give up if still in the queue |  | | |
| A question re tickets on 10:40 - Sep 8 with 718 views | HighgateBlue |
| A question re tickets on 10:22 - Sep 8 by tommcd |
When you join the waiting room has no impact, everyone in the waiting room gets allocated a random queue position at 10am.
If you try to access the site after 10am, you just join the back of the queue (the 'back' of the queue today at 10am was about 5200). |
I had heard this, so didn't log in crazy early. Signed in at 9.50am. And my number was just under 5,000. There are still, apparently, 1,613 people ahead of me now (10.38am). Understandably, I'm not a fan of whatever system they have in place. I imagine if I logged back in again now I'd have a lower number (this has happened to me in queue systems for tickets I care a lot less about). I'm not sure whether anyone has an answer. Maybe the answer is to have an actual (virtual) queue, i.e. you wait behind the people who get there before you. It seems to me that that's what a queue is. |  | | |
| A question re tickets on 10:41 - Sep 8 with 693 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| A question re tickets on 10:38 - Sep 8 by E_I_E_I_E_I_O |
Still a fair few left so don't give up if still in the queue |
Just put my ticket in the Cobbold up for resale. I cant make it now.
If we dont will I shall hold who ever gets my ticket in block B as responsible because they clearly have not shouted enough. |  | | |
| A question re tickets on 10:47 - Sep 8 with 634 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| A question re tickets on 10:40 - Sep 8 by HighgateBlue |
I had heard this, so didn't log in crazy early. Signed in at 9.50am. And my number was just under 5,000. There are still, apparently, 1,613 people ahead of me now (10.38am). Understandably, I'm not a fan of whatever system they have in place. I imagine if I logged back in again now I'd have a lower number (this has happened to me in queue systems for tickets I care a lot less about). I'm not sure whether anyone has an answer. Maybe the answer is to have an actual (virtual) queue, i.e. you wait behind the people who get there before you. It seems to me that that's what a queue is. |
Anyone who joins between 9.30 and 10.00 will be assigned a random position in the queue. Once you know your place (at 10.00), if you leave and join again (including by refreshing) you will be at the back of the queue.
This is to prevent a sudden rush on the site causing it to crash. That alternative (assuming it did cope without crashing) would also mean there would be no point in starting the queue before 10. Join at 10 and the first hundred who happen to refresh/enter on the dot of 10.00 will enter while the rest will be assigned their positions in the queue depending on how many nanoseconds after they refreshed/joined.
The only way I am aware of that it is really open to any advantage is by people joining on multiple devices and then selecting the one with the lowest place in the queue. | |
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| A question re tickets on 10:50 - Sep 8 with 603 views | FlittonBlue |
Looks like its all sold out now or theres some issue - only hospitality tickets left, not even any RV | | | |
| A question re tickets on 10:56 - Sep 8 with 565 views | peterleeblue |
| A question re tickets on 10:50 - Sep 8 by FlittonBlue |
Looks like its all sold out now or theres some issue - only hospitality tickets left, not even any RV |
just says "coming soon" |  | | |
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| A question re tickets on 11:17 - Sep 8 with 468 views | EdwardF |
| A question re tickets on 10:32 - Sep 8 by LongLegs |
Got there in the end. I was actually queue number 57 so should of been easy but just wouldn't update the page from "coming soon" to "add to basket". Was about to give up all hope, refreshed one more time then I was in :)
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HI
My Q position was 4200+ and estmated wait time 1 hour but ..... I waited and waited and ..... I have a ticket adjacent to the Norwich Sh1tty fans so looking forward to what will be an interesting Sunday lunchtime.
The last time I sat in a similar position for the derby was February 1998 - a similar result will be super lovely  | |
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| A question re tickets on 11:19 - Sep 8 with 456 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| A question re tickets on 11:17 - Sep 8 by EdwardF |
HI
My Q position was 4200+ and estmated wait time 1 hour but ..... I waited and waited and ..... I have a ticket adjacent to the Norwich Sh1tty fans so looking forward to what will be an interesting Sunday lunchtime.
The last time I sat in a similar position for the derby was February 1998 - a similar result will be super lovely |
It is always much easier to get a single ticket than to get multiples together. Glad for you that you got one, though.
It appears that our restricted view may well stop us seeing the goal at the far end! | |
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| A question re tickets on 12:35 - Sep 8 with 256 views | Wright1 |
| A question re tickets on 10:40 - Sep 8 by HighgateBlue |
I had heard this, so didn't log in crazy early. Signed in at 9.50am. And my number was just under 5,000. There are still, apparently, 1,613 people ahead of me now (10.38am). Understandably, I'm not a fan of whatever system they have in place. I imagine if I logged back in again now I'd have a lower number (this has happened to me in queue systems for tickets I care a lot less about). I'm not sure whether anyone has an answer. Maybe the answer is to have an actual (virtual) queue, i.e. you wait behind the people who get there before you. It seems to me that that's what a queue is. |
How would that help? It would just turn it in to who has the fastest finger (and connection) at 09:29:59 seconds.
I promise you have a better chance of a good number with it being random as it is now. | | | |
| A question re tickets on 12:59 - Sep 8 with 203 views | Dennyx4 |
| A question re tickets on 10:06 - Sep 8 by FlittonBlue |
Queue is moving glacial slow today, got in at spot 400ish and now 328 after 5 minutes with the website suggesting 12 more minutes...normally takes a couple of minutes to get on when that early in the queue, demand eh? |
I wonder whether it was slower, to stop any crashing of the system?
It definitely took longer than usual on the countdown.
Do the shop keep a certain number for those that queue, or is that no longer a thing? |  | | |
| A question re tickets on 13:37 - Sep 8 with 121 views | FlittonBlue |
| A question re tickets on 12:35 - Sep 8 by Wright1 |
How would that help? It would just turn it in to who has the fastest finger (and connection) at 09:29:59 seconds.
I promise you have a better chance of a good number with it being random as it is now. |
Most ticket sales for events now have 1 or 2 waiting rooms - filtering like this stops the inevitable crashes when 10k (ITFC), 100k (say Coldplay) or 1m people (Taylor Switf?) all tried to log on at the same time to get a ticket. Its very rare to find a system crash now apart from the mega events and every time that happens ticketing systems seem to learn for the next time.
My first memory of trying to get tickets on line was for the Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003 where I spend a solid day and a half at work trying to log on and managed to get the last package, things are wayyyy better now - although it may explain my change of career!.
With all ticketing systems people look for ways to rook the system, but things have drastically improved in 20 years and would suggest a similar improvemt in the next 20 years. | | | |
| A question re tickets on 14:01 - Sep 8 with 69 views | Kievthegreat |
| A question re tickets on 10:40 - Sep 8 by HighgateBlue |
I had heard this, so didn't log in crazy early. Signed in at 9.50am. And my number was just under 5,000. There are still, apparently, 1,613 people ahead of me now (10.38am). Understandably, I'm not a fan of whatever system they have in place. I imagine if I logged back in again now I'd have a lower number (this has happened to me in queue systems for tickets I care a lot less about). I'm not sure whether anyone has an answer. Maybe the answer is to have an actual (virtual) queue, i.e. you wait behind the people who get there before you. It seems to me that that's what a queue is. |
It's annoying that it's not worked out for you in this instance, but it's fair and it does have an actual queue. Trying to let people race the split second the clock strikes 10am is bad system design. I think it'd be far worse to try and log on at 10am and get constant errors and time-outs before eventually being put in a queue which is partly based on timeliness but will significantly be based on luck anyway.
Also, If you logged out you wouldn't get a lower queue number. The number you see when waiting won't be the true 'live' number. They aren't going to update everyone's number every time someone completes their transaction or someone leaves the queue, instead it will lag behind and update in chunks. It's entirely possible that after logging back in that will show a lower number because that window asked where it was in the queue more recently than the original log on and the queue has moved forward in that time. |  | | |
| Persistence paid off for me on 14:32 - Sep 8 with 0 views | Pendejo |
Was busy didn't notice the time, but had set an alarm for 10:00, but found a queue almost numbering 5000 ahead of me with a hour's wait.
Thought about logging off on basis they'd all be gone.
When queue sped up assumed the sold out message would come up, it didn't and at approx 09:42 a seat popped up and I bought it. It's a crappy restricted view seat but c'est la vie COYB! |  |
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