Fudge was successful with 3 x TST 5 so i'm well happy. Good luck to everyone in the next phase
Please don't get conned by the likes of Euroteam. Yes they are selling tickets now but they don't have themm. They'll take your money and then try and buy them for much cheaper.
If we qualify I do believe tickets will be a huge issue. The world cup has got so much bigger even since France 98. Tickets were a huge issue there. a friend got a cheap Ryanair flight and only got into 1 of the 4 games he tried to attend.
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He mentions that the FAI will be allocated 8% of tickets for their games. They can decide not to take this allocation if they so wish. Is it a possibility that they wont want anything to do with ticketing and just reject the allocation??
Resign, now!
Nope,Originally Posted by Dawn_Run
They will take the tickets
Did that guy fall in the last shower of rain?
How are they going to check the identities of 50,000 people going into a football match?
Not very clever of them I have to say. Isnt it blatantly obvious that the best way to minimise the black market effect is to ensure that tickets go to those that want them and that will use them. This cant be done by UEFA. Has to be done in country. If not by the FAI, then by an organisation working on their behalf. The majority of Irish block bookers imo would not give in to touts.
Letting every country distribute their own tickets would just mean that UEFA wont be getting their money from advertising, sponsorship, mastercard etc.
Resign, now!
Been on a few times today. Definitely no Irish tickets available at any stage.
Tickets went mad - tried for 1 hour 40 minutes and got an Iran TST 6 single ticket. Others came back on stream later but all the countries that look good at this stage are being snapped up.
Strange even Israel, Romania, etc are selling well eventhough they would not be fancied to qualify.
it is weird, i didn't know whether to wait to buy single matches at a later stage, but then i got scared that i would end up with nothing. i tried buying a south africa one, but was only cat 1 left too expensive. i ended up getting( i think i did get one, will get an email in 48 hrs to confirm) a TST 4 for....................... ECUADOR, they better fecking qualify, 4 from s america go through + 1 from a play-off, they are 3rd now and have some nifty goal scorers, see how it goes, ah well at least i'll get to see some games!!!!!!!!!
Now i need to raise the cash quickly..... off to practise my spanish....
Besos!
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warning from fifa
maybe you've seen this already, but just incase anyone gets stung, watch out for a virus sent by email pretending to be from fifa......
any chance of merging this with the world cup tickets part II thread, mods?
Many thanks
KT
Thanks for reviving my thread there gspainthought she was dead!
You might know the answer to this. Is there any chance that Ireland TST's will be freed up, due to cancellations, applicants not coming up with the dosh in time. If so, how do these go on sale? Probably as single tickets now that they've said there are no more TST's to be had?
Resign, now!
I don't know the answer but I'd guess that yes there will be a handful and that they'd just appear on the site and be grabbed immediately. You would want to be very very lucky here.Thanks for reviving my thread there gspain
You might know the answer to this. Is there any chance that Ireland TST's will be freed up, due to cancellations, applicants not coming up with the dosh in time. If so, how do these go on sale? Probably as single tickets now that they've said there are no more TST's to be had?
Same story yesterday really - I started at 11am, kept trying and trying and I gave up at 12.38 when all the nations I had picked were totally sold out went back in last night and some were available again. I think that was probably due to issues with people getting tickets but transactions timing out.
I think tickets for this world cup will be very difficult to get for almost all games. I'd recommend buying now if you can spare the cash and intend going to watch a few games no matter what. If you just plan on going if we're there and just watching us then I wouldn't bother.
Just had a look at nothing worth buying now I think except maybe Guatemala - 50-50 with Costa Rica for an automatic berth and a playoff with an Asian team as a saver.
Now results will change things - eg if Cape Verde Islnds beat South Africa than grab them asap. Bahrain/Kuwait are still in the hunt. South America can still change rapidly (Think Ecuador was a good shout KT btw long gone now). Cameroon are even sold out now and they are 4 points behind the Ivory Coast and still have to go there.
As for phase 3 - that will only have tickets from countries that return some of their 8% allocation for each game - no hope of an Irish ticket here I imagine as the F.A.I. will probably move in if we draw Saudi lets say. At least though buying here gives you a venue, teams etc
let's hope so, funny thing was though I did it late last night at times ecuador showed up completely s/o but i went back an hour later and got them, so some countries were popping up herre and there, but not the 'elite' like ireland, japan, england, italy etc so yeah you would have to be very lucky and if i see it happen i'll be raging as i couldn't book it now anyway!If i see ireland come up tho i will post on here asap!
whoopie! just checked my hotmail, definitely got TST4 for Ecuador!
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I think there will be a black market as always but if France 98 is a guide then there will be thousands locked out of big games. A mate got a cheap Ryanair flight and tried to go to 4 games and got into 1.Reckon If we get there,tickets will turn-up albeit through German chancers/touts.
Anyone who's had the misfortune to deal with FIFA/UEFA knows they couldn't run a bath.....& make the FAI/GAA look like paragons of efficiency!Despite this,'on the ground',there's always spares floating about......but no thanks to the powers-that-be.
there will also be a huge grey market in swopping tickets. I've grabbed some tickets because even if we don't make it I will attend some games and if we do I'd like options to attend other games and if needs be swop for Irish tickets. EG if Germany draw Iran and a German guy has a ticket for F2 v F4 in Dortmund which happens to be Ireland v Ecuador then hopefully a swop can be organised.
Needless to say an Ivory coast v Saudi match would have buckets of tickets available but what the hell I'd go anyway.
If we do make it though there won't be enough tickets and there will be thousands if not tens of thousands outside. We brought 40,000 to Paris and surely would bring a lot more to Germany. Many stadia don't have that many tickets available. Yes tickets will be sourced for everywhere and anywhere and the stadium will be mainly Irish but many many fans will miss out.
Has anybody bought any TST tickets? If so, what nation have you gone for? Lookin at whats left, some people have bought tickets for the most unlikely countries.
Resign, now!
Ecuador TST 4
Anybody paying by bank transfer form Phase 2 got the transfer details yet?
It appears that you won't be able to pay by paylink eg normal IBAN/BIC costing 75 cent but only by the more expensive method - 20 euro as you must provide a reference. Seems like a total mess as no doubt they'll get loads of IBAN payments and won't be able to associate them with names.
I've got Iran TST6 and friends and family have Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Saudi Arabia and there will probably be lots of swopping etc.
No transfer details as yet, was starting to get a bit concernedEveryone else in same boat??
I'm just going to take a loan out and go with a package deal. A lot of people I know are planning on hiring camper vans, or getting cheap flights over to Germany for the craic, saving their cash for tickets on the black market as they will be expensive. This sounds good now, but when it comes down to it I just could not be ar$ed going on wild goose chases for tickets. I want to be sure of going to the games, so if I have to pay over the odds for a package deal, that's what I have to do.
Buying up other nations tickets is a bad move in my opinion, as you are taking on low quality nations who have little chance of success, while the tickets are expensive. If you do come across Irish tickets over there, you're chances of swopping are based on pure luck. You could end up paying for the Ireland tickets and having to worry about offloading your Saudi tickets etc. Or you may not be able to afford the Irish tickets, having already committed to a TST, which is a worse situation. I'd rather save my money and put it towards getting Irish tickets for definate, as I have no interest in watching other nations play, not even Brazil v Argentina....
ill prolly do that michael. how much do ye tihknk that wil cost??
You are correct re other tickets if you only plan to watch Ireland. I intend going to 2-3 games anyway even if we don't qualify. If we are there I could have a Germany v Iran or England v Saudi to swop for an Irish ticket.
Don't count on Travel Agents though. They haven't got tickets since the 94 World Cup when they absolutely fleeced the fans and this caused FIFA to sell to the general public. Ray Treacy will no doubt get an allocation if we wualify and there will be F.A.I. corporate trips I assume however the likes of 747 or Stephens Green etc will not get tickets rather they will go to block bookers. They will have sources etc as well but you'll end up on a very expensive trip with no guarantees of tickets albeit a much better chance.
BTW KT I don't think anybody that bought in phase 2 has got an e-mail yet on how to pay.
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