I feel for you... theres another guy in the Rio Whatsapp chat that got done just like you did... shitty FIFA site robbed you guys
Had a few mates who had the same thing happen to them. Was using a Mastercard. Not sure if any correlation though.
we are reading about lot of people who refreshed and got in... anyone refreshing "like the wings of a fly" didn't got in? i had 2 accounts.. one respected the queue, the other one refreshed every one second...(waited for the page to actually refresh before refreshing again) after 1 hour and a half of wait and seeing how thousand of tickets vanished with the scanner... i lost my temper and started clicking with anger on F5 repeatedly (not giving time to even refresh..) and suddenly I was in... but way too late!!!! nothing I wanted available... but now my question is... it was a coincidence and just got in because everyone left with their pockets full of tickets... or the way to get in was just refreshing 5 times per second? as i said.. I read posts of succesful "crazy refreshers".. I'd like to know if there are exceptions to these rule that even though they did this from 00:01.. they never got it until later
I smashed F5 like a maniac. went in at 2min past the hour and all were black. Then refreshed the site 2-3 times (which didnt throw we out of the queue) and they appeard. Carted two finals - tried 5 credit cards and they all failed. Called two Banks, they checked and one of them was able to solve the issue. Went back in grabbed both Semi Finals and was quite happy. Then I tried a last time for the finals and actually got them too!!! (Sorry to hear that others missed out - I had that in all first rounds)
Bad luck guys. Just playing devil's advocate if I can; if anyone was actually successful in buying 4 x finals would they honestly sell 3 of them at face value to virtual strangers and decline the opportunity to make $15,000+ on sites like viagogo? I was never in the pool so was never going to have this dilemma but for some people that must be extremely tempting!
For me, bagging 4 wouldve meant 2 going to me and my travel mate and 2 going to someone here on this forum - the likelihood of selling on Viagogo wouldn't have worked because they would've had to have collected the tickets whilst in Brazil and then get a buyer who isn't already on the move to Brazil or other parts of South America - like if I were to buy any tickets on Viagogo I'd be kissing them goodbye as I leave Australia next Monday, doubt any tickets would make it to me on time. I'm going with whats happened to me - alot of people lucked out, maybe lucky enough to snag 1 or 2 tickets for themselves but I don't think anyone here in this list of pools wouldve snagged 4 and done a Viagogo/Ebay job
The first browser that i opened at 00:01 never went inside as well as another browser from my laptop. After one and a half hours i started refreshing like crazy from a second browser on my pc and after 2 mins i was in. Now i dont know if that was a coincidence or not. In any case it was too late for me.
To add a small not of optimism. If Brazil do not get to the final I think you will find plenty of tickets available so don't give up just yet.
I also had problems with MasterCard. Strangely I was able to buy matches 11 and 19, which of course were cheaper, but when I came to buy 64, it simply rejected. Called the bank and they said I had no limits, zero to be precise, while I know there was plenty enough. Was afraid of using another credit card of another person to lose the ones I already had bought previously on this account. Far away so close...
I was in and was thrown out as well when I tried to put my CC information in. Anyone willing to sell 2 tickets to Match #1?
********ing mastercard failed to verify for every match for me too. My girlfriend pulled through and she's a life saver!
If anyone is interested in selling at least one Final ticket (as almost everyone here), please let me know
Nope I couldn't get the final or the SP semi... But without here I wouldn't have 01, 36, 47 or 55 at all!
Fortunately, I have a job so I do not need to make a little extra cash by illegal means. Nor do I have the conscience to take advantage of others. I would be happy to sell extra tickets to the Final at face value to another fan. Also, while those websites may be asking $4 or $5 k per ticket, I doubt that there are more than just a very few people with more $ than good sense who are actually paying those crazy prices. Watch those prices drop like a rock as the game gets closer. The tickets are worth pretty close to $0 on July 14.
I used master card for 2 final tkts ,worked no problem..i used chrome auto refresh set for every 2 seconds, did the same with firefox , firefox went in 1 min .35 sec after lottery opened ...copy pasted in c card details ..went through
IF Germany makes the Semi or the Finals I have two spare tickets per game (2xFinals cat1 and 2x SemiFinals cat2) PMA tickets. PM me if there is any interest. I am in town for the games and will be in the Stadium - so picking them up is no problem. (no touts)
Did everybody make it to the Final? I hope so. I was able to get 2 tickets side by side that turned out to be great seats. They were Category 3 but better than some Category 1 tickets I had for other games. I also went to both Semifinals, but that is another story.
I managed to go to both semifinals as well, and got lucky in the drop of the 24th (?) of June for a single final ticket Cat 3. (not the best area unfortunately, but who cares!). I also had two extra tickets for each semifinal that I sold for face value to a Brazilian and an Argentinian that I met during my trips and that seemed like nice people!
I managed to get one just before I left for Brazil, which I think was around the 3rd of June (I cant exactly remember when the ticket drop was). Nearly destroyed my F5 key but eventually I managed to get a cat-2 ticket. I wish I had got a few though, to help out a few people on here that missed out
There were several success stories which people did not want to disclose publicly due to FIFA monitoring the threads at the time - but they told me in private and to this day that has remained the case - LUCKY BASTARDS! I did have 2 people say they would pass me tickets to the final and both didn't eventuate - obviously they went with a cash and grab scenario I think but looking back I'm not too fussed - 13 games was good for a first World Cup experience.