Your Wembley ticket questions answered (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Does that mean we can pick specific seats in a block like we did for the Arsenal and Villa home matches ?

I want to sit at the back of a block.

I appreciate competitions require sponsors, ambassadors and the such, but on a 90,000 stadium, approx. 64,000 go to the clubs that are actually in the final, but 26,000 tickets which i suggest both clubs could sell between them just go to who exactly?

I have a question. On the BCFC site it says -

"All tickets purchased over the phone are subject to a £1.50 per ticket transaction fee/ All tickets purchased online are subject to a £2.00 total transaction fee and a £5.00 postage and packaging charge which guarantees the secure delivery of your tickets, complying with Wembley's high ticketing standards."

What exactly are these "high ticketing standards" other than forcing people if theres no chance to buy/collect tickets in person?

check out livefootballticket.c
om prices from over £150 a ticket

Citygentleman is quite right. I will probably not be lucky enough to buy a ticket under the present rules as I will have to wait until they go on general sale and cross my fingers. There is a mood among a few season ticket/flexi holders that they are the ONLY real fans of the club, and if we were true fans we would at least have flexi-cards ourselves. What about me then, friends? I live in Nottingham and work shifts meaning I work match days. I am in a low paid job and can't afford a car and even the train would be expensive on what I earn. I'm not bleating or asking for sympathy - things are the way they are. My shifts mean I wouldn't be able to watch 95% the games anyway. Yet I am a lifelong supporter. When I lived in Bradford I went with my dad and grandpa to every home game from the age of eight. I am now 64 and a few months off retirement. I was in fact born not 200yds from Valley Parade. Yet as things are some people will be buying their three tickets and selling two on. A good friend of mine in Nottingham has offered to drive us both up so I am hoping for 2 tickets. If any season ticket/flexicard holder only needs one ticket and could sell me his other two I would be overjoyed. I am on Twitter as @brucebantam and lots of City Tweeters will know me. CTID.

Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

silverbantam wrote:
Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

Brucebantam, your going to bootcamp.

Come on guys! A bit harsh! I'm not complaining - things are the way they are. I am just stuck with not much chance of getting a ticket, and was asking for a bit of help, that's all. If I've **** you guys off I'm sorry. CTID

Silverbantam- You can book any seat you like in the Bradford City FC end.

Citygentleman1968- Last time Man Utd got to the FA Cup Final at the New Wembley their supporters were allocated 20 000 tickets. We should thank our lucky stars there is more than enough to go round.

Rambo- I don't like the extra charges either, it's like booking a flight on a no frills airline. The charges are per booking though rather than per ticket.

Hope this all helps.

Ooops! I've used a banned word evidently! Just the "p" word. Not my day is it! LOL! :-)

Ilkley coach holiday company Gold Crest Holidays are running a 2-night Wembley trip for £99. You can call them on 01943 433 457 www.gold-crest.com

Think that just about covers it City ! so lets get the show on the road.

Going for my full allocation thats for sure ( and advise you do the same ! ) as these are like gold dust !

brucebantam wrote:
Come on guys! A bit harsh! I'm not complaining - things are the way they are. I am just stuck with not much chance of getting a ticket, and was asking for a bit of help, that's all. If I've **** you guys off I'm sorry. CTID

I feel for you in this situation, as you say, somethings are just beyond our financial or sensible limits. I would hope you'll find a few folk wanting to offload a ticket or two on twitter or even be able to get the general sale ones.

There will be a massive clamour this week as people try get their's for certain and seats with friends/family etc but once this dies down I hope you'll find that the sales are a bit slower and that plenty of the 18k City fans who bought for Villa and Arsenal at home have already got tickets.

Good luck Bruce, if unlucky can always audition for X-Factor

Sorry just playing along with the dead grandmas cat stuff.

silverbantam wrote:
Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

brucebantam is asking whether there is anybody in a position to help and you respond with a comment like that - its not the first time i have had the misfortune to have to read your spiteful comments. It wasn't so long ago that you were slagging the team and PP off - as i posted back then you strike me as being a right horrible little man. He didn't ask you direct did he? I don't think he would bother wasting his breath as you are unlikely to help anyone bar yourself - my only hope is that your transport breaksdown and you are unable to get to the match.
The guy is 64 a life long fan and not in a good financial position, your response speaks volumes. I hope nobody stops to offer assistance if your transport breaksdown - vile little man.

Bruce bantam i hope somebody comes through for you mate - good luck.

silverbantam wrote:
Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

No doubt you will make contact with the T&A and get my above comment removed as you did last time - truth hurts obviously silverbantam.

Have a look at yourself fella.

brucebantam wrote:
Citygentleman is quite right. I will probably not be lucky enough to buy a ticket under the present rules as I will have to wait until they go on general sale and cross my fingers. There is a mood among a few season ticket/flexi holders that they are the ONLY real fans of the club, and if we were true fans we would at least have flexi-cards ourselves. What about me then, friends? I live in Nottingham and work shifts meaning I work match days. I am in a low paid job and can't afford a car and even the train would be expensive on what I earn. I'm not bleating or asking for sympathy - things are the way they are. My shifts mean I wouldn't be able to watch 95% the games anyway. Yet I am a lifelong supporter. When I lived in Bradford I went with my dad and grandpa to every home game from the age of eight. I am now 64 and a few months off retirement. I was in fact born not 200yds from Valley Parade. Yet as things are some people will be buying their three tickets and selling two on. A good friend of mine in Nottingham has offered to drive us both up so I am hoping for 2 tickets. If any season ticket/flexicard holder only needs one ticket and could sell me his other two I would be overjoyed. I am on Twitter as @brucebantam and lots of City Tweeters will know me. CTID.

We've played 5 non-Saturday games already, in half a season's fixtures Bruce, and there's plenty more to come - 5 games attended and the Flexi Card has paid for itself.

Good luck in getting a ticket.

Hi Gents


Hope somebody can and is willing to help you

Brucebantam,,,

Yours

Gentlemanbob

p.s

Bugger i need help myself,,,laugh

brucebantam wrote:
Citygentleman is quite right. I will probably not be lucky enough to buy a ticket under the present rules as I will have to wait until they go on general sale and cross my fingers. There is a mood among a few season ticket/flexi holders that they are the ONLY real fans of the club, and if we were true fans we would at least have flexi-cards ourselves. What about me then, friends? I live in Nottingham and work shifts meaning I work match days. I am in a low paid job and can't afford a car and even the train would be expensive on what I earn. I'm not bleating or asking for sympathy - things are the way they are. My shifts mean I wouldn't be able to watch 95% the games anyway. Yet I am a lifelong supporter. When I lived in Bradford I went with my dad and grandpa to every home game from the age of eight. I am now 64 and a few months off retirement. I was in fact born not 200yds from Valley Parade. Yet as things are some people will be buying their three tickets and selling two on. A good friend of mine in Nottingham has offered to drive us both up so I am hoping for 2 tickets. If any season ticket/flexicard holder only needs one ticket and could sell me his other two I would be overjoyed. I am on Twitter as @brucebantam and lots of City Tweeters will know me. CTID.

Bruce, just to let you know, the club has already played 5 home league games in half the season so far, and there plenty more to come in the second half. 5 games attended and your flexi-card has paid for itself.

Good luck in getting a ticket mate.

PaddyBantam wrote:

silverbantam wrote: Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

brucebantam is asking whether there is anybody in a position to help and you respond with a comment like that - its not the first time i have had the misfortune to have to read your spiteful comments. It wasn't so long ago that you were slagging the team and PP off - as i posted back then you strike me as being a right horrible little man. He didn't ask you direct did he? I don't think he would bother wasting his breath as you are unlikely to help anyone bar yourself - my only hope is that your transport breaksdown and you are unable to get to the match. The guy is 64 a life long fan and not in a good financial position, your response speaks volumes. I hope nobody stops to offer assistance if your transport breaksdown - vile little man. Bruce bantam i hope somebody comes through for you mate - good luck.

Well said Paddy.

Brucebantam, we must have been neighbours. I was born and brought up on Lupton Street.
Good luck with getting some tickets.

this is from the swansea website.
Swansea City are covering all associated internet fees and postage charges as a means of thanking supporters to their support this season and to enable them to use this internet service to access tickets conveniently for this exciting event.

Tickets will be processed and dispatched recorded delivery and again no fees will be charged for this service.
why are we paying £7 in total charges?
somebody is obviously making out of this because it does not cost a fiver to send recorded!!

So what if we are making a little bit out of any of this? We need to, this golden goose won't be here next season.

30k x £7 is 210k minus whatever the true costs are so any surplus will hopefully be fed back into the club to improve it overall.

It is this penny pinching, self absorbed attitude that has held this club down as long as it has.

Whilst we have chance to fly let's try fly, if it means we incur a little pain or cost to ourselves surely it is worth it?

Thanks Paddy, BD16, Bob, Prisoner & Babbsy for the kind words. Much appreciated. Sorry for causing a bit of conflict there!

Babbsy I was unable to take up the 5 games Flexicard as you suggest due to my shifts being anytime during 7 days a week 365 days a year. I retire in May and WILL buy a Flexicard next season and get to VP somehow.

ES, I was born in Southfield Square in 1948, if that helps! :-)

I'm signing off now before I ruffle any more feathers! LOL!

Brucebantam,
Top side of Manningham lane I think. Lupton Street is just off Hollywell Ash lane, so I don't think our paths will have crossed.

brucebantam wrote:
Thanks Paddy, BD16, Bob, Prisoner & Babbsy for the kind words. Much appreciated. Sorry for causing a bit of conflict there!

Babbsy I was unable to take up the 5 games Flexicard as you suggest due to my shifts being anytime during 7 days a week 365 days a year. I retire in May and WILL buy a Flexicard next season and get to VP somehow.

ES, I was born in Southfield Square in 1948, if that helps! :-)

I'm signing off now before I ruffle any more feathers! LOL!

register o the city site and you may be able to get a ticket when the balance becomes available: I know some season ticket holders either not taking up their option or only getting one or two tickets out of their entitlement.

For those thinking of selling I would say it is an illegal event and they could be prosecuted if found out

Any advance on D.O.B 1st match 2nd game from the south seas 3rd from alcatraz 4th from wikikamukau? wow ! even shipley glen, save me a ticket please.

Well said PaddyBantam. There will be plenty of sob stories and one of them is the away supporter! I have bought 25 tickets this season for me, my wife and my boys but they're virtually exclusively for away games. Where's the flexi-card away supporter system? I'll just have to sit and wait and my boys will probably miss out. He ho, at least we're in the final. I can always go next time!!!!

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
It is this penny pinching, self absorbed attitude that has held this club down as long as it has.

Whilst we have chance to fly let's try fly, if it means we incur a little pain or cost to ourselves surely it is worth it?

Its not penny pinching. Its that fact that when the only option is to buy online or on the phone and have it posted only. Then they whack on an extra fee.

What next? £5 to walk down Wembley way? £5 turnstile tax?

And while some people are saying its once in a lifetime etc, that doesn't mean we have to get bent over and f***ed for every pound possible

Rambo wrote:

Prisoner Cell Block A wrote:
It is this penny pinching, self absorbed attitude that has held this club down as long as it has.

Whilst we have chance to fly let's try fly, if it means we incur a little pain or cost to ourselves surely it is worth it?

Its not penny pinching. Its that fact that when the only option is to buy online or on the phone and have it posted only. Then they whack on an extra fee.

What next? £5 to walk down Wembley way? £5 turnstile tax?

And while some people are saying its once in a lifetime etc, that doesn't mean we have to get bent over and f***ed for every pound possible

exactly, if the money was for city and only city then fine.
it wont be though because why would swansea be saying they will take the hit on charges?

I said it near the top, it's "Wembleys high ticketing standards" according to the City website. What exactly are these standards? My name on the ticket and a hologram. AMAZING

I wish all genuine City fans success in buying tickets.Don't forget to wear your claret and amber at Wembley.

PCBA -I still miss the exchanges on 606 but thank goodness for the articulate postings on Width of a Post.

All the best
EB

brucebantam wrote:
Citygentleman is quite right. I will probably not be lucky enough to buy a ticket under the present rules as I will have to wait until they go on general sale and cross my fingers. There is a mood among a few season ticket/flexi holders that they are the ONLY real fans of the club, and if we were true fans we would at least have flexi-cards ourselves. What about me then, friends? I live in Nottingham and work shifts meaning I work match days. I am in a low paid job and can't afford a car and even the train would be expensive on what I earn. I'm not bleating or asking for sympathy - things are the way they are. My shifts mean I wouldn't be able to watch 95% the games anyway. Yet I am a lifelong supporter. When I lived in Bradford I went with my dad and grandpa to every home game from the age of eight. I am now 64 and a few months off retirement. I was in fact born not 200yds from Valley Parade. Yet as things are some people will be buying their three tickets and selling two on. A good friend of mine in Nottingham has offered to drive us both up so I am hoping for 2 tickets. If any season ticket/flexicard holder only needs one ticket and could sell me his other two I would be overjoyed. I am on Twitter as @brucebantam and lots of City Tweeters will know me. CTID.

In all fairness you follow Bradford City, but by your own admission you are a lapsed supporter as you no longer attend matches!

If you are 64, then you will be eligble to a concession, something students and the unemployed do not get.

I would think that there will be at least an extra thousand tickets not taken up by season ticket holders.

What about people who have become ill and will not be able to attend etc etc

That is the way it goes.

tyker2 wrote:
check out livefootballticket.c

om prices from over £150 a ticket

Is this reputable ticket seller i.e, real tickets or fake ones ???

How can something so positive and quite frankly brilliant turn people so nasty and twisted. Stop the bickering and one upmanship.
Well done season ticket holders your loyalty has rightly been rewarded but you can't blame people for wanting to go to a once in a lifetime occasion.

it is a shocking site with CompuServe involved. Already aghast at trying to link others. The site WILL crash for certain. It is behaving badly tonight and all night until now

Just had a look on Ebay and already there are tickets being sold for the cup final. I have just seen 2 tickets currently being bid on with nearly 2 days remaining going at £325.00 it is ridiculous that people can make money out of this. Just like some people i will have to wait and hope there are some going on general sale.

It seems all the tickets may be taken up with people buying them at a cheaper price and then selling them on Ebay.

I think we will be lucky if there are even a cuple of thousand going on general sale.

I just thought you were not allowed to sell tickets for football games unless it was for the face value of the ticket.

Zak

I've just seen they've actually put the price of postage UP since this morning, was a straight £5, but not £5.65! Whoever decided that has got a huge pair.

zakenterprises wrote:
Just had a look on Ebay and already there are tickets being sold for the cup final. I have just seen 2 tickets currently being bid on with nearly 2 days remaining going at £325.00 it is ridiculous that people can make money out of this. Just like some people i will have to wait and hope there are some going on general sale.

It seems all the tickets may be taken up with people buying them at a cheaper price and then selling them on Ebay.

I think we will be lucky if there are even a cuple of thousand going on general sale.

I just thought you were not allowed to sell tickets for football games unless it was for the face value of the ticket.

Zak

it is an illegal act to sell tickets;check out their identity by asking the seller for the reference number of the tickets

PaddyBantam wrote:

silverbantam wrote:
Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

brucebantam is asking whether there is anybody in a position to help and you respond with a comment like that - its not the first time i have had the misfortune to have to read your spiteful comments. It wasn't so long ago that you were slagging the team and PP off - as i posted back then you strike me as being a right horrible little man. He didn't ask you direct did he? I don't think he would bother wasting his breath as you are unlikely to help anyone bar yourself - my only hope is that your transport breaksdown and you are unable to get to the match.
The guy is 64 a life long fan and not in a good financial position, your response speaks volumes. I hope nobody stops to offer assistance if your transport breaksdown - vile little man.

Bruce bantam i hope somebody comes through for you mate - good luck.

To be fair, he couldn't justify paying out £50 for a flexi card (or £25 if a season ticket/flexi bought it for him), due to his financial circumstances.

How the h3ll does he propose to pay for his Wembley tickets, let alone transport and/or cost of staying over???

completely agree:anyone got tickets yet.we are being told not to close the browser and have been since opening time

got through to basket:no reductions for pensioners or children, checked why and got timed out. Been on since bang on 9.

rumour has it even administrators for the site cannot get on to deal with queries!!MUST BE BAD

Just got my tickets after waiting for nearly 3 and a half hours.....yeeeaaaaaa
hhhhhhhhh!

:) :) :)

Waynus1971 wrote:

PaddyBantam wrote:

silverbantam wrote:
Can we have more X Factor style sob stories please !

brucebantam is asking whether there is anybody in a position to help and you respond with a comment like that - its not the first time i have had the misfortune to have to read your spiteful comments. It wasn't so long ago that you were slagging the team and PP off - as i posted back then you strike me as being a right horrible little man. He didn't ask you direct did he? I don't think he would bother wasting his breath as you are unlikely to help anyone bar yourself - my only hope is that your transport breaksdown and you are unable to get to the match.
The guy is 64 a life long fan and not in a good financial position, your response speaks volumes. I hope nobody stops to offer assistance if your transport breaksdown - vile little man.

Bruce bantam i hope somebody comes through for you mate - good luck.

To be fair, he couldn't justify paying out £50 for a flexi card (or £25 if a season ticket/flexi bought it for him), due to his financial circumstances.

How the h3ll does he propose to pay for his Wembley tickets, let alone transport and/or cost of staying over???

I agree to a point Waynus, my issue is that there was no need for the 'sob' story response. As i said i've read a few of his responses on other threads and they are quite spiteful. I have noticed that since Arsenal there has been a very much them and us divide amongst City 'fans' on who and who shouldn't get tickets. For what ever reason some people can not get to City games does that mean then that they can not be a fan? I agree that season/flexi card holders should have first priority on obtaining match tickets, but you could argue that they are entitled to one ticket per season/flexi ticket, where does 3 come in to it? As for Brucebantam he asked a simple question - is anybody in a position to sell to him a spare ticket, if they have one. He has been a fan for 56 years and for what ever reason he can not attend matches on a regular basis and would like many others like to attend this 'once in a lifetime'! opportunity to see City at Wembley, what is wrong with that? The attitude of some mainly season ticket holders has been terrible against those that don't attend week in week out, it doesn't make them less of a supporter as there could be a million and one reasons why they don't see them play in person - granted without footfall there would be no club, but there is no excuse for some responses on here. At the end of the day those who have a season/flexi card get the first chance of a ticket, so whats the issue.

A final point - his financial status should not be up for debate, he asked about a ticket that anyone may have for sale - he did not ask for a free ticket, he didn't ask for a reduced price ticket, so how will he fund his ticket, travel etc doesn't really have owt to do with it waynus nor is it any business of you or i.

please can anyone help us, we are a family of 4 and have managed to purchase 3 adult tickets. we need 2 adult and 2 child tickets or 4 adult so we can all be together for the game. can anyone swap or advice us what to do or it means us getting 1 more ticket and me staying with the children and my husband watching somewhere else. PLEASE help us stay together!!

You know guys, I wish I'd never gone on here to ask what I thought at the time was a perfectly reasonable request. Lots of people have been really nice and made fair comments. PaddyBantam especially - thank you. But a few people have been nasty and spiteful and what's worse, made assumptions about my personal financial circumstances without knowing anything about me. This is a football game folks, and I was hoping for a ticket, that's all - I'm not asking for a heart transplant. There don't seem to be that many hearts amongst Bradford City fans these days, sadly. Hoping, not begging, and certainly not claiming I was some special case, which I am not.

Let's get it straight, season ticket/flexicard holders come first. No question. I am down the pecking order and accept that.

To answer Waynus1971 directly, who has made ignorant assumptions based on prejudice, here are a few facts for you to chew on buddy: I never said I couldn't afford a flexicard. What I said was "My shifts mean I wouldn't be able to watch 95% the games anyway". I am a community support worker and can be rotad on any day of the year. I worked Christmas Day, as it happens. So why would I waste money on a flexicard I couldn't use? I retire in May and WILL buy a flexicard for next season, and get to Bradford the cheapest way I can as often as I can afford, and be back late in the evening.

Your next wrong assumption buddy - how the hell can I afford the ticket and travel costs (as I am so impoverished?). Well, I have some good friends who decided amongst themselves a couple of weeks back to club round and buy me a ticket, and one of them agreed to drive us both down to Wembley at his expense, as a 65th birthday present. I go on about Bradford City every Thursday when we all meet at the pub. I am well known as a lifelong Bradford City supporter, and none of them would question my right to watch my beloved team at Wembley.

Does that satisfy you Waynus1971, or is there anything else you would like to know about my personal life. I have had enough now guys. All this bad feeling over a game of football. Even the lovely Bantamblonde has been getting abuse from 'fans' wanting tickets. For the record, I apologise for being the catalyst for much of this negativity. My mistake - I should have realised there are people out there who manage to twist your words and make them sound bad. I will wait until the tickets go on general sale with everybody else, and if I'm lucky I'm lucky, if I'm not I'll go round to one of my many friends house and watch it on Sky, as I did the earlier games. Good luck to jeanettew by the way. I hope you manage to all sit together. CTID

jeanettew wrote:
please can anyone help us, we are a family of 4 and have managed to purchase 3 adult tickets. we need 2 adult and 2 child tickets or 4 adult so we can all be together for the game. can anyone swap or advice us what to do or it means us getting 1 more ticket and me staying with the children and my husband watching somewhere else. PLEASE help us stay together!!

I'm sorry about your situation, but you have done completely the wrong thing by coming on here and asking for any form of support its not that kind of site, you will be slagged off and questioned how you got your ticket, do you deserve them, how many games have you attended, your children should not have tickets at the expense of an adult fan and told to go tell your sob story to somebody who cares, because thats the response you are likely to get from a very sinister selfish minority of me myself and I supposed City fans.

However, i hope somebody is able to help.