QPR [A] Tickets - Sold Out

Chris_from_Sidcup · August 18

clive said:

Athletico Charlton said:

How do points work for a season ticket holder please..?

I had a feeling it was as follows and was for 2 years cumulative but judging by my total I must be way out as I would have 580 plus play off points if there were any but actually I have 530.

Season ticket 230
Away games 10
Cup games 5
Play off (semi/final). ?

For the 2nd time this season
https://www.charltonafc.com/loyalty-points-explained

You should write a post about this and have it as a sticky at the top of the page.

killerandflash · August 18

PeakieRocket said:

When you choose to collect tickets from The Valley, do you have to wait for anything to say they're ready for collection before you go there? Also, can someone else collect on your behalf, or do they ask for ID proof of some sort? Usually just get tickets sent to me, but couldn't do that for this game and never done this collection malarky before.

From memory, there's a separate section of the Covered End ticket office for collecting preordered tickets on matchdays. I can't remember whether I needed to show ID or not, or whether my name was enough (the tickets are in an envelope with your name on I think). Maybe phone the ticket office to confirm this.

letthegoodtimesroll · August 18

JohnnyH2 said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

We probably would have sold all 4k tickets for Bristol City if they hadn’t faffed about selling by blocks. Those seats at the front just went unsold and the various posts made it look like we were struggling to sell them, which wasn’t‘ actually case when all that were left were the ones that looked like they would have a restricted view according to the stadium plan. Had they just made them all available the numbers we had already sold by the beginning of the week before would most likely, as usually is the case, have prompted those waiverers that couldn’t make their minds up to buy their tickets.

Another surely you cannot be serious post.
So peculiar.

Why ? Quite often we reach a trigger point number of tickets sold and it simply encourages others to also commit. Most of the tickets for Bristol City did sell relatively quickly albeit you wouldn’t have thought so from the number of posts there were that bitched about how poor the numbers were; and the absence of a clearer picture from the comms team. Had the numbers of tickets sold been made known and that the rest of the stand was now available I suspect that would have prompted more sales. From that point, if it had then reached 3k quick enough then others would have piled in for the rest.

There were lots of posts about how poor the numbers were, but from the same few users

TBF, there were also lots of posts from the numpties that thought we were going to lose because BC had won 4-1 at Sheff Utd, how BC had been in the play offs last season and how we are going to relegated or finish 21st because it’s the Champuonship. So they might not have helped either though there were enough us there for the Watford games and seen a glimpse of how good the new players are. Plenty also saw the goals BC scored and recognised them for what they were - SU defensive errors - and would have been far more confident of Charlton getting a result when they bought their tickets.

cockneyCAFC · August 18

How many tickets left anyone know? Hoping to get mine tomorrow morning.

Belv · August 18

cockneyCAFC said:

How many tickets left anyone know? Hoping to get mine tomorrow morning.

Just over 600.

I could be wrong but would expect the next phase at 4pm to be a busy one but should think some will remain tomorrow morning, I'd expect it to sell out sometime tomorrow, early in phase 8 is my guess.

AS1987 · August 18

Croydon said:

Airman Brown said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

Not really true, because people will get their tickets together in the restricted phase. They don’t wait for general sale - Bristol City being an example. I bought 16 tickets for various people using eight IDs, during the restricted phases. We wouldn’t have said, let’s just buy for the people eligible in any given phase, pay even more booking fees, and take pot luck on sitting together.

i am not saying the system is wrong, btw, just that it doesn’t quite work as you suggest.

Imo this is where the new 'pick your seat' system causes an issue. Otherwise your group could have their own points and just buy for themselves knowing Bristol City was always going to make the late phases/general sale

Based on Bristol City, as well as the friendlies against Southend and Ipswich, people are still sitting anywhere they want in the away end rather than their assigned seats. I didn't see a single person complaining about anybody being in their seat at any of those matches.

oohaahmortimer · August 18

I'm in phase 22 and will only want a ticket if it's sold out and if those who went to Watford and bristol city inform me how great we are , if doom mongers are saying we're shit and will lose then count me out .
Also if anyone has seen qpr and reckon they'll thrash us count me out of going on that basis too

letthegoodtimesroll · August 18

oohaahmortimer said:

I'm in phase 22 and will only want a ticket if it's sold out and if those who went to Watford and bristol city inform me how great we are , if doom mongers are saying we're shit and will lose then count me out .
Also if anyone has seen qpr and reckon they'll thrash us count me out of going on that basis too

Ffs, don’t promise them that, they’ll all be saying they’ve seen QPR and reckon they’ll thrash us now…

killerandflash · August 18

AS1987 said:

Croydon said:

Airman Brown said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

Not really true, because people will get their tickets together in the restricted phase. They don’t wait for general sale - Bristol City being an example. I bought 16 tickets for various people using eight IDs, during the restricted phases. We wouldn’t have said, let’s just buy for the people eligible in any given phase, pay even more booking fees, and take pot luck on sitting together.

i am not saying the system is wrong, btw, just that it doesn’t quite work as you suggest.

Imo this is where the new 'pick your seat' system causes an issue. Otherwise your group could have their own points and just buy for themselves knowing Bristol City was always going to make the late phases/general sale

Based on Bristol City, as well as the friendlies against Southend and Ipswich, people are still sitting anywhere they want in the away end rather than their assigned seats. I didn't see a single person complaining about anybody being in their seat at any of those matches.

That's fine when there are spare seats anyway, but with a sellout can get messy. Plus in this case, as there are 2 different price points, the stewards might be stricter. Ditto fans if they paid for a £39 ticket, and are forced to sit in a cheaper one.

Being a skinflint, I went for the most central £33 ticket I could get

ElfsborgAddick · August 18

shirty5 said:

barstool said:

I assume we will be wearing the Jamaica kit for this one ?

I’ve seen us play in our home kit at Loftus Road in the past, so there is a fair chance we could be wearing the red shirts

I don't see why we cannot wear our home top with the third kit black shorts, perfect.

Covered End · August 18

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

We probably would have sold all 4k tickets for Bristol City if they hadn’t faffed about selling by blocks. Those seats at the front just went unsold and the various posts made it look like we were struggling to sell them, which wasn’t‘ actually case when all that were left were the ones that looked like they would have a restricted view according to the stadium plan. Had they just made them all available the numbers we had already sold by the beginning of the week before would most likely, as usually is the case, have prompted those waiverers that couldn’t make their minds up to buy their tickets.

Another surely you cannot be serious post.
So peculiar.

Why ? Quite often we reach a trigger point number of tickets sold and it simply encourages others to also commit. Most of the tickets for Bristol City did sell relatively quickly albeit you wouldn’t have thought so from the number of posts there were that bitched about how poor the numbers were; and the absence of a clearer picture from the comms team. Had the numbers of tickets sold been made known and that the rest of the stand was now available I suspect that would have prompted more sales. From that point, if it had then reached 3k quick enough then others would have piled in for the rest.

We couldn't sell the allocated 2,503.
Yet you're saying that if they had given us 4,000 we would have sold them all.
There's no point even trying to discuss such daft logic.

AS1987 · August 18

killerandflash said:

AS1987 said:

Croydon said:

Airman Brown said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

Not really true, because people will get their tickets together in the restricted phase. They don’t wait for general sale - Bristol City being an example. I bought 16 tickets for various people using eight IDs, during the restricted phases. We wouldn’t have said, let’s just buy for the people eligible in any given phase, pay even more booking fees, and take pot luck on sitting together.

i am not saying the system is wrong, btw, just that it doesn’t quite work as you suggest.

Imo this is where the new 'pick your seat' system causes an issue. Otherwise your group could have their own points and just buy for themselves knowing Bristol City was always going to make the late phases/general sale

Based on Bristol City, as well as the friendlies against Southend and Ipswich, people are still sitting anywhere they want in the away end rather than their assigned seats. I didn't see a single person complaining about anybody being in their seat at any of those matches.

That's fine when there are spare seats anyway, but with a sellout can get messy. Plus in this case, as there are 2 different price points, the stewards might be stricter. Ditto fans if they paid for a £39 ticket, and are forced to sit in a cheaper one.

Being a skinflint, I went for the most central £33 ticket I could get

At a Fulham away sellout many years ago, Charlton typically sat me near the front corner (as they always do). I took my designated seat, only for somebody to come along and tell me that I was sat in their seat. I asked to see the ticket and they had been given the same seat as me.

The view was crap, so I gladly relocated to the stairs, which were absolutely jam-packed as every seat in the ground was taken due to Fulham selling several seats twice!

Covered End · August 18

killerandflash said:

Covered End said:

guinnessaddick said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Feck sake. Had 580 points end of last season, just looked and I am down to 530. How does that work? Phase 8 for me.

50 pts from the season before last, you lost them at the start of the season.

Why did we all lose 50 points (not that it matters)?

The points system has a maximum of 2 seasons, last season and the current one. Once a new season starts, then points from the one before last, i.e. 23/24 get wiped. Athletico presumably had 50 points from that season which he lost.

I actually lost a lot of points from 23/24 (105), as for some reason I went to more away games than usual that season. It certainly wasn't because of the football on the pitch, ONE win in 12 games and watching us lose cup games at Newport, Crawley and Gillingham

Yes I know that thank you.
I took it that the poster was saying everyone had lost 50 points.
I now see he was only referring to Athletico.

ElfsborgAddick · August 18

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

We probably would have sold all 4k tickets for Bristol City if they hadn’t faffed about selling by blocks. Those seats at the front just went unsold and the various posts made it look like we were struggling to sell them, which wasn’t‘ actually case when all that were left were the ones that looked like they would have a restricted view according to the stadium plan. Had they just made them all available the numbers we had already sold by the beginning of the week before would most likely, as usually is the case, have prompted those waiverers that couldn’t make their minds up to buy their tickets.

There is no way whatsoever we would have sold 4000 tickets even if they went straight to general sale.

CAFCTrev · August 18

killerandflash said:

PeakieRocket said:

When you choose to collect tickets from The Valley, do you have to wait for anything to say they're ready for collection before you go there? Also, can someone else collect on your behalf, or do they ask for ID proof of some sort? Usually just get tickets sent to me, but couldn't do that for this game and never done this collection malarky before.

From memory, there's a separate section of the Covered End ticket office for collecting preordered tickets on matchdays. I can't remember whether I needed to show ID or not, or whether my name was enough (the tickets are in an envelope with your name on I think). Maybe phone the ticket office to confirm this.

I used to work in ticket collections at the Valley for 11 years (probably met some of you on here) and the drill was you only had to give your surname and we would dig out the envelope with the tickets and give them to you. If it was a season ticket, or an underage ticket we would ask for ID in those scenarios but most of the time just giving the name was enough. The collections window was next to the covered end lower turnstiles, dont think any of this has changed from when I was doing it.

Covered End · August 18

We got our QPR tickets today.
NB when I collected tickets last season (Wycombe or Wembley I think), they asked for the surname & ID number.

letthegoodtimesroll · August 18

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

We probably would have sold all 4k tickets for Bristol City if they hadn’t faffed about selling by blocks. Those seats at the front just went unsold and the various posts made it look like we were struggling to sell them, which wasn’t‘ actually case when all that were left were the ones that looked like they would have a restricted view according to the stadium plan. Had they just made them all available the numbers we had already sold by the beginning of the week before would most likely, as usually is the case, have prompted those waiverers that couldn’t make their minds up to buy their tickets.

Another surely you cannot be serious post.
So peculiar.

Why ? Quite often we reach a trigger point number of tickets sold and it simply encourages others to also commit. Most of the tickets for Bristol City did sell relatively quickly albeit you wouldn’t have thought so from the number of posts there were that bitched about how poor the numbers were; and the absence of a clearer picture from the comms team. Had the numbers of tickets sold been made known and that the rest of the stand was now available I suspect that would have prompted more sales. From that point, if it had then reached 3k quick enough then others would have piled in for the rest.

We couldn't sell the allocated 2,503.
Yet you're saying that if they had given us 4,000 we would have sold them all.
There's no point even trying to discuss such daft logic.

The seats that didn’t sell were the ones right over in the far corner of the stand which, on that stadium choose your seat plan, looked like they weren’t even in line with the pitch and could be restricted views. All the others sold. Had there also been the choice of all those seats in front of us then I suspect people would have been more ready to buy a ticket.

Belv · August 18

Logging off work for the day so did a count up before doing so and counted 477 still available as at 17.30 so not as many sold in this phase as I thought but still certain these all go tomorrow but think the majority, if not all of the people in phase 7 should be ok.

Covered End · August 18

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Covered End said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

Belv said:

fenaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Airman Brown said:

Croydon said:

Chippycafc said:

Croydon said:

stoneroses19 said:

Belv said:

Chippycafc said:

Athletico Charlton said:

Will everyone that wants a seat get one...! 🤣

No...but if i manage to get in at phase 7 i am going to buy 2, and take someone who doesn't support Charlton so we can have a good day out...It’s my reward after all.

Do you seriously think that happens?

You’ve literally just made that up in your own head.

Pretty much all they post in this thread. Complete make believe stuff about other fans because they have to wait until phase 7.

Pretty much every single away match thread as well. It's not like it's hard to move up the phases

it is if you cant get a ticket cos some berk brings along his mate.

You have plenty of opportunity to move up the phases so that you don't miss out on the 2 games a season that don't make general sale. It's not an impossible task like following England or some of the prem clubs, the vast majority of our away matches don't even require points to get a ticket.

One issue is that the more games are on restricted sale, the more difficult it is for people to qualify when they can already pick up the second ticket from family and friends. I am really not going to contact the club to allocate a ticket I've already bought to my daughter, say, when I can get her a ticket on my account. I don't think you can do that yourself online, so the people with the points continue to accumulate them (from the first ticket purchase each time) and the people who accompany them never accrue the necessary points, which aren't recorded, from the second ticket even though they go.

You could argue, of course, that this just means the "two each" model works better than some people assume.

You can allocate a ticket to someone online providing they meet the points at the time of buying.

But here lies the problem. Lets say someone kindly buys me a ticket when I don't have enough points to buy one myself. I have paid for a ticket, travelled to a game etc but cannot (easily) get the points. If this happens 5-10 times over a season I could easily lose out on being bumped up a phase and being eligible, I am then hoping my kind friend doesn't want to bring along someone else each time. You should still be able to assign the ticket regardless of if they meet the threshold, otherwise they cannot gain enough points themselves

If that happens 5-10 times a season, then there is still 130-180 points up for grabs for you to very easily accrue, plus any cup games.

There is no problem with the current system and people really need to stop suggesting alternatives that benefit them for the handful of away games they want to go to.

To be clear, I am not trying to benefit myself. I cannot go to QPR, I cannot go to lots of games and I have no problem with my loyalty points at all.

I just think it’s mad that there are some people (and there will be some) who go to a decent chunk of away games but don’t see the benefit of their loyalty. I cannot see a valid reason that they shouldn’t be allocated their points easily

That's just simply not the case, if you go to a decent chunk of away games then you will have a healthy amount of points considering away tickets don't reach general sale maybe 3 times a season.

I wasn't saying you specifically were trying to change the system but this conversation only ever comes up for local away games or those with a small allocation and it's complete nonsense to say it's difficult to build up points, I had a couple of years where I couldn't go as often, within 2 years of going regularly again, I was on 700+, as already mentioned this is not Man Utd or England we're talking about, we didn't even sell 2.5k for Bristol City for the first away game back in the championship after 5 years, we were about 150 short, that's 1,500 loyalty points left on the table and not taken up.

We probably would have sold all 4k tickets for Bristol City if they hadn’t faffed about selling by blocks. Those seats at the front just went unsold and the various posts made it look like we were struggling to sell them, which wasn’t‘ actually case when all that were left were the ones that looked like they would have a restricted view according to the stadium plan. Had they just made them all available the numbers we had already sold by the beginning of the week before would most likely, as usually is the case, have prompted those waiverers that couldn’t make their minds up to buy their tickets.

Another surely you cannot be serious post.
So peculiar.

Why ? Quite often we reach a trigger point number of tickets sold and it simply encourages others to also commit. Most of the tickets for Bristol City did sell relatively quickly albeit you wouldn’t have thought so from the number of posts there were that bitched about how poor the numbers were; and the absence of a clearer picture from the comms team. Had the numbers of tickets sold been made known and that the rest of the stand was now available I suspect that would have prompted more sales. From that point, if it had then reached 3k quick enough then others would have piled in for the rest.

We couldn't sell the allocated 2,503.
Yet you're saying that if they had given us 4,000 we would have sold them all.
There's no point even trying to discuss such daft logic.

The seats that didn’t sell were the ones right over in the far corner of the stand which, on that stadium choose your seat plan, looked like they weren’t even in line with the pitch and could be restricted views. All the others sold. Had there also been the choice of all those seats in front of us then I suspect people would have been more ready to buy a ticket.

Ok, you've got me.

So you assert that at least 1,500 more Charlton fans wanted to go to the game, but none of the 1,500 actually bought the available tickets, because they were towards the corners.

But if we had been given 1,500 more tickets at the outset, they would have all sold out including the seats towards the corners.

Wibble.