Embra Tickets

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 1:59 pm

CRAZYDAVE wrote:
Eve wrote:
CRAZYDAVE wrote: Sent you an e-mail with all the details. I'll PM you if you didn't get it.
No email
PM sent. I'd post it on the forum, but I think I've covered most of the salient points already. Plus, the sentiment may be too inflammatory

Roight - I've had just about enough of this shoite - off to the offy board

sexy_rexy · Post by **sexy_rexy** » October 19th, 2006, 2:08 pm

Guys, any chance of a summery so that those of us that are going also, don't make the same mistakes (or assume that the branch know what they are doing)

I just hope the Gunners have a better idea of how ticketing works, walk up on the day seems like the best option right now....

Flash Gordon · Post by **Flash Gordon** » October 19th, 2006, 2:09 pm

I addition to the fact that nobody from the branch told me that I could actually buy tickets - I wasn't on the e-mail either - I now see that having bought 4 tickets for me, Cahill, Big Deep Blue and the poor girl he goes out with, I have to pay 12 sheets booking charge. WTF? OK, 3 for a ticket is fine, but what's the incremental cost of 4 tickets in the same envelop vs 1? The players talk about how the fans give them that bit extra, why doesn't the branch facilitate that?

And extra 5 or 10% is worth a lot at the highest level.

CRAZYDAVE · Post by **CRAZYDAVE** » October 19th, 2006, 2:12 pm

Eve wrote:
CRAZYDAVE wrote:
Eve wrote: No email
PM sent. I'd post it on the forum, but I think I've covered most of the salient points already. Plus, the sentiment may be too inflammatory
Roight - I've had just about enough of this shoite - off to the offy board

To let everyone in on the gen this is the genesis of the problem:

"here we go folks.

I can smell a ch***er a mile off coz I've dealt with plenty of them in the past, and our ticket mistress in the Leinster Branch is one hell of a ch***er.

I missed lunch to go out and get tickets for the Embra match, on the basis of the info that was sent to me in the e-mail from Limecat yesterday.

I was told that I'd have to order them online. and they would be ready for collection next week. She said that she is only dealing with the Gloucester match at the moment.

I asked her about tickets for Ravers, Agen and Thomond, she said that she was not taking advance requests. She said I should contact them two weeks in advance of those individual games, to order tickets.

The position adopted is completely unacceptable because people may already have forked out money to travel to these away games, with no guarantee of a ticket.

I think that Apple Sourz as a figurehead might be able to get stuck into the Branch, about this general issue.

All the time I was getting the spin from Ticket Mistress, one of the higher ups un the Branch was sitting listing intently to the conversation.

I am really cheesed off with them at this stage."

The general PR spin was that everything was rosey in the garden. Sorry but it's not.

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 2:17 pm

I'm mad as hell over this and have submitted a rant to the official mb - let's see if it makes the cut

dodderee · Post by **dodderee** » October 19th, 2006, 2:28 pm

thanks Eve for tip off. have ordered ticket, like many others didn't get Aine's email and have told her so.

CRAZYDAVE · Post by **CRAZYDAVE** » October 19th, 2006, 2:49 pm

Eve wrote:I'm mad as hell over this and have submitted a rant to the official mb - let's see if it makes the cut

As I thought, Breener chickened out. Haven't seen your rant on the Deadsite yet..

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 3:11 pm

CRAZYDAVE wrote:
Eve wrote:I'm mad as hell over this and have submitted a rant to the official mb - let's see if it makes the cut
As I thought, Breener chickened out. Haven't seen your rant on the Deadsite yet..

Nothing else since though - may just not have updated yet

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 3:28 pm

aaannnnddd - at this stage, despite my AFFluence, I begrudge the branch €3 per ticket. So I'll either be buying online from Embra or assuming I calm down sufficiently by then for the airline security staff to let me board the plane I'll buy them on the day or watch it in a pub.

Apologies to all I told I was doing otherwise (there'll be enough of you to keep each other company anyway

)!

sarah_lennon · Post by **sarah_lennon** » October 19th, 2006, 3:31 pm

Eve wrote:aaannnnddd - at this stage, despite my AFFluence, I begrudge the branch €3 per ticket. So I'll either be buying online from Embra or assuming I calm down sufficiently by then for the airline security staff to let me board the plane I'll buy them on the day or watch it in a pub.

Apologies to all I told I was doing otherwise (there'll be enough of you to keep each other company anyway )!

I knew it was a plot!

Grumpy Old Man · Post by **Grumpy Old Man** » October 19th, 2006, 3:36 pm

sarah_lennon wrote:
Eve wrote:aaannnnddd - at this stage, despite my AFFluence, I begrudge the branch €3 per ticket. So I'll either be buying online from Embra or assuming I calm down sufficiently by then for the airline security staff to let me board the plane I'll buy them on the day or watch it in a pub.

Apologies to all I told I was doing otherwise (there'll be enough of you to keep each other company anyway )!
I knew it was a plot!

Never trust a Blanchie

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » October 19th, 2006, 3:39 pm

sarah_lennon wrote:
Eve wrote:aaannnnddd - at this stage, despite my AFFluence, I begrudge the branch €3 per ticket. So I'll either be buying online from Embra or assuming I calm down sufficiently by then for the airline security staff to let me board the plane I'll buy them on the day or watch it in a pub.

Apologies to all I told I was doing otherwise (there'll be enough of you to keep each other company anyway )!
I knew it was a plot!

Sarah, you can always join me and Grumpy. I've got a ticket winging it's way to me as I write this. Or so I hope...

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 3:59 pm

claire_m wrote:
sarah_lennon wrote:
Eve wrote:aaannnnddd - at this stage, despite my AFFluence, I begrudge the branch €3 per ticket. So I'll either be buying online from Embra or assuming I calm down sufficiently by then for the airline security staff to let me board the plane I'll buy them on the day or watch it in a pub.

Apologies to all I told I was doing otherwise (there'll be enough of you to keep each other company anyway )!
I knew it was a plot!
Sarah, you can always join me and Grumpy. I've got a ticket winging it's way to me as I write this. Or so I hope...

Putting together the various pieces of information from different sources - we should all still be together

sarah_lennon · Post by **sarah_lennon** » October 19th, 2006, 4:00 pm

Especially as when the tickets from the Branch never arrive and we have to buy them at the gate!

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 4:02 pm

sarah_lennon wrote:Especially as when the tickets from the Branch never arrive and we have to buy them at the gate!

It's funny cause it's true

claire_m · Post by **claire_m** » October 19th, 2006, 4:06 pm

sarah_lennon wrote:Especially as when the tickets from the Branch never arrive and we have to buy them at the gate!

At least if they only arrive at the branch next week, you can pick yours up. I can't.

And although I ordered mine on Monday, I was only debited today.

Makes me a little worried that it might not reach me.

That will teach me for being decisive. I never am usually.

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 4:13 pm

claire_m wrote:
sarah_lennon wrote:Especially as when the tickets from the Branch never arrive and we have to buy them at the gate!
At least if they only arrive at the branch next week, you can pick yours up. I can't.

And although I ordered mine on Monday, I was only debited today. Makes me a little worried that it might not reach me.

That will teach me for being decisive. I never am usually.

I don't for one second believe that those tickets are not already sitting in a box at the branch. Afaik It is usually the procedure to return unsold tickets to the host branch about a week before the match. You don't seriously believe the branch won't have those tickets before next week - of course they have them - they just won't take them out of the box till next week.

sarah_lennon · Post by **sarah_lennon** » October 19th, 2006, 4:15 pm

Eve wrote:
claire_m wrote:
sarah_lennon wrote:Especially as when the tickets from the Branch never arrive and we have to buy them at the gate!
At least if they only arrive at the branch next week, you can pick yours up. I can't.

And although I ordered mine on Monday, I was only debited today. Makes me a little worried that it might not reach me.

That will teach me for being decisive. I never am usually.
I don't for one second believe that those tickets are not already sitting in a box at the branch. Afaik It is usually the procedure to return unsold tickets to the host branch about a week before the match. You don't seriously believe the branch won't have those tickets before next week - of course they have them - they just won't take them out of the box till next week.

The question is why??? A monkey can be trained to multitask!

Post by **Eve** » October 19th, 2006, 4:17 pm

sarah_lennon wrote:
Eve wrote:
claire_m wrote: At least if they only arrive at the branch next week, you can pick yours up. I can't.

And although I ordered mine on Monday, I was only debited today. Makes me a little worried that it might not reach me.

That will teach me for being decisive. I never am usually.
I don't for one second believe that those tickets are not already sitting in a box at the branch. Afaik It is usually the procedure to return unsold tickets to the host branch about a week before the match. You don't seriously believe the branch won't have those tickets before next week - of course they have them - they just won't take them out of the box till next week.
The question is why??? A monkey can be trained to multitask!

Precisely

sexy_rexy · Post by **sexy_rexy** » October 19th, 2006, 4:33 pm

I'm not really worried about tickets for this game, it's in Murrayfield, a place that's been sold out twice(as far as I know) in the last decade.

I'm very worried about when Leinster go to places like Gloucester, Ulster, Munster, and knock out stages of the Heineken cup. If they can't sort out tickets in a proper way for this game, what's it going to be like when there's five people screaming for every one ticket.

I know for one, I will be travelling to Ravenhill in December and at this stage I'm worried whether I'll even get tickets.....