Euro 2008 tickets

[Rig1964]

Hi guys! This is really quiet the last few days... What about warming things up by SWAPPING our EURO 2008 TICKETS, so we can all see more matches?

Maybe if people hadn't bought tickets they don't even want there would be a chance for us all to see some matches. :mad:

[migueldv]

You know when you enter a lottery with very low chances on getting a ticket, you always ask for more than you really need to, it's a normal thing to do. This time I was luckier than in other competitions, that's all. So if you want be pissed with the touts (those I don't like because they are not even real football fans), not with me, because I don't wish to make money with them, but rather would swap them with other real fans, so we can all see the matches each of us prefer. Take care and enjoy Euro 2008! Miguel

Maybe if people hadn't bought tickets they don't even want there would be a chance for us all to see some matches. :mad:

[BocaFan]

You know when you enter a lottery with very low chances on getting a ticket, you always ask for more than you really need to, it's a normal thing to do.

Yes, but that's not what you did. Instead of making several applications to the game(s) you wanted to see, you applied for several matches which you had no intention of seeing. You might as well have applied to an Asian Champions League match in Shanghai while you were at it. :o

That's why you ended-up with tickets you don't want and have deprived other people who would have wanted them.

You should have done what I did: I sent multiple applications to each of the 3 matches I wanted to see. So there was no chance of getting stuck in a position where I needed to swap tickets and only a very VERY slim chance of needing to sell extra tickets.

[Rig1964]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Making multiple applications to maximise your chance of getting tickets for the games you want to see doesn't explain why you applied for games you obviously don't even want to go to.

[joeocchipinti]

Yes, but that's not what you did. Instead of making several applications to the game(s) you wanted to see, you applied for several matches which you had no intention of seeing. You might as well have applied to an Asian Champions League match in Shanghai while you were at it. :o

That's why you ended-up with tickets you don't want and have deprived other people who would have wanted them.

You should have done what I did: I sent multiple applications to each of the 3 matches I wanted to see. So there was no chance of getting stuck in a position where I needed to swap tickets and only a very VERY slim chance of needing to sell extra tickets.


Very well said BocaFan,

I am one of those poor individuals...

[migueldv]

Yes, but that's not what you did. Instead of making several applications to the game(s) you wanted to see, you applied for several matches which you had no intention of seeing. You might as well have applied to an Asian Champions League match in Shanghai while you were at it. :o

That's why you ended-up with tickets you don't want and have deprived other people who would have wanted them.

You should have done what I did: I sent multiple applications to each of the 3 matches I wanted to see. So there was no chance of getting stuck in a position where I needed to swap tickets and only a very VERY slim chance of needing to sell extra tickets.

My dear thread mates, I’m afraid you are completely wrong about me and my intentions… I don’t need to explain myself, but I’ll briefly do it, just for you to don’t get the wrong impression on me (I think my contributions during the last months helping some of you with my experience also tells a bit who I am and what my intentions are, but maybe that was not enough..).

1) I’m a football fan that loves to see as many matches as possible in this competitions, so after studying the distances I have chosen Austria as my headquarter in Euro 2008 (if you take a good look, you would see that almost every match I want or have is in Austria, so first of all I didn’t apply for every possible match, and specially those I didn’t want to go.. If I don't swap I'll go to them all, just have some extra tickets as explained in point 2).

2) I applied for 2 tickets per match, because my girlfriend was supposed to come with me to Austria for the whole tournament. Unfortunately for me, for professional reasons she can only come 1 week (if lucky..). So THAT’S THE REASON I have at least one EXTRA TICKET for every match I’m going to see (of the 9 matches I’m offering tickets to swap, I’m going myself with other ticket at least to 7 of them!! The other 2 are in Switzerland, and I’ll also go unless I can swap them for the other matches in Austria (closer, less kms between matches) I still don’t have tickets to: #07 or #08, #23 or #24 and #31).

So please reconsider your comments, and if you want to think about it, admit you’re wrong about me… If you don’t agree or STILL HAVE DOUBTS about my intentions, please SEND ME A PM and I’ll be glad to respond to you privately, without bothering the other thread members anymore with this subject and unfair negative comments some of you posted about me, ok?

Take care and enjoy Copa America!! (it’s every night on Portuguese Sportv for the next few weeks, nice!) Miguel Vieira

[munichfan9]

hey im lookin for tickets for next year and i was wondering if i could buy em from any1 just message me n we can talk bout it

[Prawn Sandwich]

I think it's worth me reminding everyone about the restrictions on this thread

1) This activity can only be engaged in by regular posters on BS. I'm sure you will appreciate this sort of website will be a target for touts looking to make a killing on black-market tickets. Therefore, posts on this thread (and elsewhere on BS) will be vetted and any which are deemed by the moderators to not be from regulars will be summarily deleted. Continued requests by these posters will incur swift and punitive infractions.

2) Any posts offering tickets at above face-value will be deleted and infractions awarded without a warning.

3) If you are approached directly by posters offering to swap tickets or sell them above face-value please forward the PM to a moderator of this forum and we will deal with them appropriately. Obviously we need your participation in this last point but we hope you will assist us in this.

Thanks in advance

Prawn

[Mrs. O'Leary's Cow]

"Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!" Talk about an emotional roller coaster. Anyone else have this situation? I just got back from vacation to find a letter from Euro 2008 Ticketing in my mailbox to tell me that my successful application (awarded a pair to C2vC3 in Zurich) had been cancelled after three unsuccessful payment attempts to my brother's MC (who's going with me.) No emails from Euro2008 in my inbox. Sure enough, I look in my spam folder, and there they are. MC's lovely fraud protection (my BofA Visa card does it all the time, too), blocked the charges without so much as a phone call to my brother. Euro 2008's first letter to me is to tell me that there's nothing I can do ??!! I tried logging into Euro2008 ticketing portal with my customer ID, and it seems to have locked me out. Does anyone have any useful contact info for them or ideas on how to deal with this situation? Of course calls have been made to MC and the CC issuer, USAA, but they only keep records of their unsuccessful charges for 3 days, and they refuse to take responsibility (a state's attorney appeal will be made if UEFA is obstinant.)

I just wanted to see a game (2 or 3 would have been nice- I applied for 15, but is is so much to ask to see one game, where I don't even who's going to be playing!)

[migueldv]

Hello! Try this link from the official Euro 2008 website: http://support.euro2008.uefa.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid=1307&n=1&tab=search&bt=4&s=

It contains a telephone number where you can try to talk with them to explain your situation. Hope that helps... Good luck, Miguel Vieira

"Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!" Talk about an emotional roller coaster. Anyone else have this situation? I just got back from vacation to find a letter from Euro 2008 Ticketing in my mailbox to tell me that my successful application (awarded a pair to C2vC3 in Zurich) had been cancelled after three unsuccessful payment attempts to my brother's MC (who's going with me.) No emails from Euro2008 in my inbox. Sure enough, I look in my spam folder, and there they are. MC's lovely fraud protection (my BofA Visa card does it all the time, too), blocked the charges without so much as a phone call to my brother. Euro 2008's first letter to me is to tell me that there's nothing I can do ??!! I tried logging into Euro2008 ticketing portal with my customer ID, and it seems to have locked me out. Does anyone have any useful contact info for them or ideas on how to deal with this situation? Of course calls have been made to MC and the CC issuer, USAA, but they only keep records of their unsuccessful charges for 3 days, and they refuse to take responsibility (a state's attorney appeal will be made if UEFA is obstinant.)

I just wanted to see a game (2 or 3 would have been nice- I applied for 15, but is is so much to ask to see one game, where I don't even who's going to be playing!)

[wombacik]

Here's something received by at least two members of similar forum in Poland:

Dear Football Supporter,

Please note that your Ticket order is currently under investigation because of suspect personal information details provided in the Ticket order. The matching of your personal information with your payment is unreliable and necessitates strict personal verification to ensure your compliance with the Ticket Application rules and the terms and conditions you have approved.

Your Ticket order and your Tickets will be immediately cancelled if you fail to prove that your Ticket order has been made in your personal name in full compliance with the applicable contractual rules. Please follow the compulsory instructions below:

- You will receive a form via post within the next 7 days to the address you indicated in your Ticket Application;

- Fill out the form mandatory hand written and attach a printout of this email and a copy of your identity card or passport;

- Send the documents together to the address indicated on the form by registered mail;

- Note that we will only accept the form if it is complete, hand written, and contains a printout of this email and a copy of your identity card or passport;

- Your reply shall be notified at the receivers address on or before the 07 August 2007. If we have not received your documents in time and / or incomplete, your Ticket order will be cancelled;

Note: In case of cancellation, the amounts paid will be reimbursed in full, less the administration charges and the cost of the bank transfer.

[Rig1964]

I feel sorry for the guy who seems to have lost his tickets due to a credit card company f*ck up.
But the above post from wombacik suggests that they're cracking down on people who made multiple applications in false name etc. If those people lose their allocated tickets maybe they will be made available to people who made honest applications. People like me.
Made my day that has. :)

[medyk]

I feel sorry for the guy who seems to have lost his tickets due to a credit card company f*ck up.
But the above post from wombacik suggests that they're cracking down on people who made multiple applications in false name etc. If those people lose their allocated tickets maybe they will be made available to people who made honest applications. People like me.
Made my day that has. :)

False name.... mother, father... i don`t think so:)

[Mrs. O'Leary's Cow]

Thanks, Miguel. The link led me to a dead page, but I was finally able to find a phone number in the contacts section when I went back and started with UEFA's main site. I also got a reply to an email I sent to a general info email address which had a phone number to call, and someone referred my contact info to a "2nd tier of support" to call me back, but he said he didn't think they could do anything.

The whole situation is a bad deal because they can hide behind their legal statements that they reserve the right to cancel tix at any time for any reason, and I feel stupid for not searching through spam earlier or checking my app status for a month and a half (I used a MC because I knew I'd be busy, and it took FIFA months after their proposed date to bill my card for WC tix.) I feel shorted by the fact, however, that they had my phone number, and the first time they bother to spend a buck on postage is to send me a letter that my app has been cancelled. I have a 1 year-old and a fledgling acting career, along with a full-time job, so it was enough for me to collaborate the details of our ticket app with my brother (who was using the other ticket) and figure out what games we'd apply for before the app deadline without having to babysit its payment progress after it was approved. Thanks to Phase V, I saw a few matches in Germany, but after that nightmare (how many others slept on the floor at work because there was a faster internet connection, waiting for ReloadEvery to chime an alarm that tix were available), I was happy only seeing 1 match at this tournament, and I don't know if I'll have the time (or even the opportunity) to scrounge like that this go-round. Ugh.

Hello! Try this link from the official Euro 2008 website: http://support.euro2008.uefa.com/al/12/2/article.asp?aid=1307&n=1&tab=search&bt=4&s=

It contains a telephone number where you can try to talk with them to explain your situation. Hope that helps... Good luck, Miguel Vieira

[migueldv]

Mrs. O'Leary's, sorry it didn't work, but the link I mentioned was supposed to link you to this page of the official Euro 2008 website:

Question
Who can answer general questions concerning the Ticketing of the UEFA EURO 2008 (TM)?
Answer
Should you have general questions concerning the Ticketing, you will find answers to a variety of questions in this Help/FAQ section. Should you still not find any answer to your questions here, you may direct your questions to us by e-mail using the dedicated contact form. You can also call our Ticketing Information Line from Austria and Switzerland at 0900 09 0868 (0.32 EUR/min from Austria; 0.50 CHF/min from Switzerland). Fans calling from outside the host countries can dial the following number +41 44 559 0868. All relevant aspects will be explained in three languages (English, French and German).

If you haven't tried this yet, than I hope this can help you... Good luck, Miguel


Thanks, Miguel. The link led me to a dead page, but I was finally able to find a phone number in the contacts section when I went back and started with UEFA's main site. I also got a reply to an email I sent to a general info email address which had a phone number to call, and someone referred my contact info to a "2nd tier of support" to call me back, but he said he didn't think they could do anything.

[dmx521623]

Wow , i ddint realize how fast these tickets are gonan go

Well my question is, is there a way I can still get some tickets for reasonable amount ( close to the face value) maybe from ebay. Are thye going to be printing peoples names on tickets this time just like on world cup.?

bascillay can I stil lget tickets at reasonable price?

Thanks

[mojo_guy]

Question: I'm from Canada and follow the Italian National Team

I want to go to Euro 2008 but was not clued into the fact that tickets for Euro 2008 went for sale online months ago. Am I out of luck or is there another way to secure tickets?

Thanks for any help!

MOJO

[wombacik]

Question: I'm from Canada and follow the Italian National Team

I want to go to Euro 2008 but was not clued into the fact that tickets for Euro 2008 went for sale online months ago. Am I out of luck or is there another way to secure tickets?

Thanks for any help!

MOJO

The last chance to get FMT Italy tickets would be through Italian FA after they qualify. A friend of yours with permanent residence in Italy would be very helpful here. ;-)

[mojo_guy]

Thanks Wombacik!!!

[cbsmith]

Okay...I have 4 Cat. II tickets to Match 7 in Innsbruck (June 10). I'm looking to swap these for 4 Cat. II tickets (if they're not Cat. II, we can work it out), to any of the following matches:

Match 17 (Basle, June 15)
Match 21 (Berne, June 17)
Match 22 (Zurich, June 17)

PM me if interested.