Ticket office blues

[Tangled up in Blue]

Anyone hoping to phone up and book Cheltenham tickets for Monday can expect a long wait.
I've just spent 30 minutes waiting without success to get through, when I started as number 3 in the queue.
(I'm sure this has been mentioned before but)why does the endlessly repeated answerphone message give details for Junior Blues Membership for the 08/09season?Also is our next home game really against Millwall on Tuesday 3rd March at 19.45? I think not.
Thanks also for the constant reminders that I can book a ticket online.The last half a dozen times I've tried to do so I've been offered the same miserably placed seat in East Reds,practically on the pitch.We used to have an excellent online booking system with Seatbooker where you could book the seat of your choice.What happened to that?The Chairman pulled out of a contract with them in favour of another(presumably cheaper)service provider and lost a lawsuit against Seatbooker in the courts(IIRC an out of court settlement was made).Nothing new there then.
What a totally shambolic way to run a "business".
I'll try again tomorrow but at least there's the fallback option of paying on the gate.Expect long queues on Monday then.:thumbdown:

 

[EastStandBlue]

Learn to read.

http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~2245541,00.html

They shut at 1pm today.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Learn to read.

http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~2245541,00.html

They shut at 1pm today.

I will when you learn to spell.
Then why not turn off their ****ing Micky Mouse answerphone service?:unsure:

 

[EastStandBlue]

Then why not turn off their ****ing answerphone service?:unsure:

Because there's bound to be some idiot who'll hold the line, funding the operation?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Because there's bound to be some idiot who'll hold the line, funding the operation?

Well they found another two ahead of me as well.:raspberry:

 

[Hawkwell Blue]

I tried this morning and had the same problem, when I eventually got through I mentioned the ansaphone and the fact we will lose 1-0 to Millwall in the aforementioned game - not met with much humour funnily enough.

 

[Mick]

Learn to read.

http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~2245541,00.html

They shut at 1pm today.

In which case the message should be "the ticket office is now closed and will re-open at 9:30 am tomorrow". How difficult is that? A club which can't do the simple stuff is always going to struggle with the bigger issues.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Because there's bound to be some idiot who'll hold the line, funding the operation?

I've pos repped Barna for supporting the club financially. With all those recent games called off, the club probably needs every penny so well played Barna:clap:

 

[Csboy]

This has to be the funniest thread Ive read on here in a longtime. Someone spends half an hour on hold when the ticket office is shut!!! Why didn't you buy your tickets online that way no wait time all done in 2 minutes and you can collect the tickets on the day.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

This has to be the funniest thread Ive read on here in a longtime. Someone spends half an hour on hold when the ticket office is shut!!! Why didn't you buy your tickets online that way no wait time all done in 2 minutes and you can collect the tickets on the day.

Re-read my original post a little more carefully and you'll see why.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I've pos repped Barna for supporting the club financially. With all those recent games called off, the club probably needs every penny so well played Barna:clap:

My phone bill is going to suffer though.Do you have any idea what peaktime International calls cost these days? :'(

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

My phone bill is going to suffer though.Do you have any idea what peaktime International calls cost these days? :'(

2 cents a minute with jah jah which would be a grand total 60 cents so not much really.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

2 cents a minute with jah jah which would be a grand total 60 cents so not much really.

Don't think Orange is anywhere near that generous.:sad:

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

We use orange.fr and jah jah is a preloaded add on for land lines,look it up it saves loads.

 

[TrueBlue]

Southend United = a ****ing utter joke from top to bottom

Millwall game? come on SUFC sort your selves out

 

[Mick]

This has to be the funniest thread Ive read on here in a longtime. Someone spends half an hour on hold when the ticket office is shut!!! Why didn't you buy your tickets online that way no wait time all done in 2 minutes and you can collect the tickets on the day.

The problem for me is that everything the club does seems to be being done in a way that is amateurish or just downright wrong. If they are doing the bits we can see badly, what confidence do we have that the things going on behind the scenes (assuming there are things going on behind the scenes) are being managed any better?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The problem for me is that everything the club does seems to be being done in a way that is amateurish or just downright wrong. If they are doing the bits we can see badly, what confidence do we have that the things going on behind the scenes (assuming there are things going on behind the scenes) are being managed any better?

I think you've hit the nail on the head yet again,Mick.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Thank God (or BB) I've now got Blues Player to keep me going till I can next get to a game. Torquay in February anyone? :cheers:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Thank God (or BB) I've now got Blues Player to keep me going till I can next get to a game. Torquay in February anyone? :cheers:

Don't fink so.Enjoy the Oxford game tomorrow.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Don't fink so.Enjoy the Oxford game tomorrow.

I hope to, on-call calls permitting. :thumbsup: