Help! Tickets online now

**seand** · 15/02/2006, 10:27 AM

Hi, I'm applying for tickets and have got to a screeen with this message....

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Dear football fan,

You are in the waiting area at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ ticket shop.
To improve the speed and ease of use of the service, we have imposed a limit on the number of visitors able to use the ticket shop simultaneously.

Access to the following pages may involve long waiting times at peak periods. We recommend returning and trying again later.
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Does anyone know if I should just sit and wait, refresh frequently, or go back and try again later?

**beautifulrock** · 15/02/2006, 10:30 AM

now up and running, get on NOW if you want tickets. Not much left to be honest but if you are not fussy, you will get some

**teckno** · 15/02/2006, 10:34 AM

I am in but when i press continue with order it comes up ERROR!!!!!!!!!!

**NY Hoop** · 15/02/2006, 10:36 AM

What's the link lads?

Thanks

KOH

**teckno** · 15/02/2006, 10:39 AM

http://tickets.fifaworldcup.com/cgi-...iate=wme&key=0

**seand** · 15/02/2006, 10:40 AM

NY Hoop, go to the official website... tickets.... ticket shop (on the left)

meantime, my waiting message has changed.........
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Dear football fan,

You are in waiting area at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ ticket shop.
To improve the speed and ease of use of the service, we have imposed a limit on the number of visitors able to use the ticket shop simultaneously.
At regular intervals, you can make a fresh attempt to be re-directed. After the countdown (displayed below) has completely finished, a button labelled "Next Try" appears. Clicking this button improves your chances of progressing from here.

Once you have been redirected, you will not be directed into the waiting room again. Access to the following pages may involve long waiting times at peak periods. We recommend returning and trying again later.

Please be patient!
Do not click your browser's refresh button, as this causes the countdown to reset, decreasing the likelihood you will be redirected!

To try again, please use the button below which becomes active regularly after a short waiting period.
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**Bluebeard** · 15/02/2006, 10:42 AM

Getting the damnable "Error" thing as well.

Aaaaaaaaaargghhhh

In touching distance of tickets to Australia v Brazil!!!

**seand** · 15/02/2006, 11:29 AM

still waiting,,, anyone getting anywhere?

**soylent green** · 15/02/2006, 11:39 AM

Still error's for me.

**soylent green** · 15/02/2006, 1:07 PM

As of 14:00 all the tickets seem sold.

They mention on the website more being put on up until April 15th...

**gspain** · 15/02/2006, 1:25 PM

Worth checking back every few hours.

This happened on the May Bank Holiday last year when phase 2 opened. First hour madness, couldn't get tickets.

3-4 hours later all the tickets that people had grabbed but couldn't complete the transactions were freed up and you had a couple of hours to get tickets.

**seand** · 15/02/2006, 1:32 PM

Cheers for the tip Gary, now I better go and squeeze the work I should've been doing for the last 3 hours into 1 hour!

**teckno** · 15/02/2006, 3:05 PM

what a farce that was. I was in the ticket shop for an hours and a half. All i kep getting was error ,error every time. Came back to it at 3.00 and not a ticket there.
Anybody explain how tickets i applied for last time and did not get were there now this morning as limited availability?

**beautifulrock** · 15/02/2006, 3:33 PM

Not sure about how well checking back will work, its a sea of sold out from match 1 to final at the moment.

Although it seems like quite a few of us spent some time trying to get tickets it looks like no one had any luck?

**gspain** · 15/02/2006, 4:16 PM

Originally Posted by teckno

what a farce that was. I was in the ticket shop for an hours and a half. All i kep getting was error ,error every time. Came back to it at 3.00 and not a ticket there.
Anybody explain how tickets i applied for last time and did not get were there now this morning as limited availability?

The systems are clearly not able to cope with the demand.

There are tickets available now because of returns from national associations and more restricted view seats becoming available.

No idea how "restricted" the view will be. I hope it is just dugouts or cameras obscuring a small part of the pitch.

**teckno** · 15/02/2006, 6:26 PM

Beautiful South. All tickets just because they are in the red at the moment doesn't mean they are all sold out as far as I know.

It means that they are not currently available, which means that people have booked them etc, but when bank transfers, and credit cards etc fail and more returns from the associations come in etc, they will be put back on the website. Said as much on the ticket shop website that there will be as more there towards april

**oconghc2** · 16/02/2006, 3:39 PM

theres a few up now - obstructed view - first game was yellow and just as i order it goes back to red!

**soylent green** · 16/02/2006, 4:03 PM

Originally Posted by oconghc2

theres a few up now - obstructed view - first game was yellow and just as i order it goes back to red!

Thanks for the notice oconghc2. I was able to get 4 tickets (Cat 1 obstructed view for €60 each) for Saudi Arabia v Ukraine in Hamburg. Looking forward to seeing Shevchenko knock about 4 past those Saudi's