Irish Supporters Club 6 Nations Ticket Sale

PTH2009

Anyone successful in this dis morning.

I failed

johndoe77ie

Still hanging. Are they gone???

PTH2009

johndoe77ie wrote: »

Still hanging. Are they gone???

I selected 2 upper tier Wales Tickets and its still saying Connecting the toolbar of the website is showing

johndoe77ie

Wouldn't be surprised if it's crashed.

chris_c

i also got to select tickets for wales got to confirm and pay once i hit that got put in a que now the whole site looks to be down.

skydish79

havent being able to log on to the site at all this morning

kildarecommuter

was hanging on server seems to have crashed now. they always seem to make a bo$$i£ of this

PTH2009

So were all doomed to Watch Italy and Scotland

crisco10

Can't log on....server capacity must be seriously underspecced...

skydish79

not the first time this has happened - poor planning

Athena14

is it always this bad? This is my first time trying to get tickets and to say I'm not impressed is an understatement!!!

chris_c

yea its always this bad

PTH2009

still waiting :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:.

What was the point in putting the Away Charter flights on sale at the same time ??

crisco10

Think this is a new record...

PTH2009

i selected 2 tickets for Wales and then as it was going onto the confirm and pay page (I hope) it started saying connecting and its been like that for the last 45 mins (the toolbar is showing)

JustinDee

It has happened twice before.
First time was in 2007 when hosted by Ticketmaster. Second when server crashed at webhosts due to capacity overflow.

Demand/traffic this morning was extremely high.

Athena14

Again as I'm new to this: are the match day event tickets for the Italy match the same as normal tickets or will normal tickets go on sale at a later date? Thanks

chattyuk

It annoys me when websites crash.
It really annoys me when websites crash when administrators know what demand to expect.
It really really annoys me that we have to pay to get access to this section of the website, when they don't bother investing enough in servers to stop the website from crashing when they know what demand to expect!

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

JustinDee

PTH2009 wrote: »

still waiting :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:.

What was the point in putting the Away Charter flights on sale at the same time ??

They were on sale since week before Christmas.

Riskymove

JustinDee wrote: »

It has happened twice before.
First time was in 2007 when hosted by Ticketmaster. Second when server crashed at webhosts due to capacity overflow.

Demand/traffic this morning was extremely high.

tbf Justin

that suggests three incidents in what? 4 or 5 years?

npr240

This message is now appearing on the IRFU Homepage.

"Sale on hold
Due to extremely high demand the ticket sale is currently on hold - we will be releasing further tickets shortly"

skydish79

JustinDee wrote: »

It has happened twice before.
First time was in 2007 when hosted by Ticketmaster. Second when server crashed at webhosts due to capacity overflow.

Demand/traffic this morning was extremely high.

its no excuse though - they should be able to plan for high demand/traffic - its not as if it hasnt happened before

expect them to cancel the sale and issue a new date for sale

crisco10

Site closed. Do I have to waste more.time hitting f5 indefinitely now....?

chris_c

what does this mean for people in a que

chattyuk

npr240 wrote: »

This message is now appearing on the IRFU Homepage.

"Sale on hold
Due to extremely high demand the ticket sale is currently on hold - we will be releasing further tickets shortly"

I'm on the phone to them now, trying to find out whether or not this means in an hour or 2 or another day.

JustinDee

Riskymove wrote: »

tbf Justin

that suggests three incidents in what? 4 or 5 years?

In 11 ticket sales and early doors in that time also.
Not making excuses here. Just putting right some rumours that are incorrect.

skydish79

npr240 wrote: »

This message is now appearing on the IRFU Homepage.

"Sale on hold
Due to extremely high demand the ticket sale is currently on hold - we will be releasing further tickets shortly"

wonder what does shortly mean, minutes/hours/days?

chattyuk

chattyuk wrote: »

I'm on the phone to them now, trying to find out whether or not this means in an hour or 2 or another day.

Just got off the phone, "apparently" (really??) there are some IT issues but the ticket sales should be back on in a few minutes.

Tickets are still available!

I wish they'd cancel the sale and restart it another day, it's annoying constantly hitting f5!

Riskymove

JustinDee wrote: »

In 11 ticket sales and early doors in that time also.
Not making excuses here. Just putting right some rumours that are incorrect.

but basically half of 6N sales (i.e. the high demand ones) have failed and resulted in the stress to people we have seen on this thread and in previous years

there have been numerous discussions on trying other ways to sell tickets through the club which have all been rejected on the basis that this method is the most "fair".

Is having days like this really fair to members?

chattyuk

Riskymove wrote: »

but basically half of 6N sales (i.e. the high demand ones) have failed and resulted in the stress to people we have seen on this thread and in previous years

there have been numerous discussions on trying other ways to sell tickets through the club which have all been rejected on the basis that this method is the most "fair".

Is having days like this really fair to members?

This would be a fair way if they properly invested in it!
I say give control of ticket sales to ticketmaster, they have the capacity to handle the traffic nowadays.

Smurf1971

From Twitter....

irfurugbyIrish Rugby

IrishRugby.ie is open again. Ticket sale still on hold due to demand. We will keep you updated.

Shelflife

Its a joke really, thats why i didnt bother renewing this year, they also had a mini crash when they put on sale some tickets that came back as well.
i was sure that i had the tickets and bang disappeared !

Very poor planning as usual, and then you get the official line scotching "rumours" ahhh its not a rumour the site has crashed AGAIN !

clsmooth

Any ideas how to get tickets to the English match? Not part of any club

beglee

Forgot about this, and had forgotten to renew my membership (hadnt really decided if i was going to tbh)

Think ill have to just give it a miss. €50 membership for a small chance at getting tickets from an over-capacity website? meh

Smurf1971

beglee wrote: »

Think ill have to just give it a miss. €50 membership for a small chance at getting tickets from an over-capacity website? meh

Exactly the reason why I didnt renew either. Not worth it.

crisco10

In a q again...

Athena14

are the match day tickets for the Italy match normal ones or will normal ones go on sale on another day? Can someone please let me know? Don't wanna buy them when the site is up and running again only for them not to be the right ones. thanks

Smurf1971

Ticket Sale set to resume at 1:30. Thanks for bearing with us. You will be queued as you login. If not successful this time more to come.

From IRFU Twitter feed.

Riskymove

Athena14 wrote: »

are the match day tickets for the Italy match normal ones or will normal ones go on sale on another day? Can someone please let me know? Don't wanna buy them when the site is up and running again only for them not to be the right ones. thanks

the Matchday event tickets are for a corporate suite

I am not sure if they plan to sell any regular seats

Athena14

Thanks riskymove. Do you know if they're any good? Both sets of tickets are presents and I don't want to miss out. the website says more info will be released about the italy and scotland matches soon but I'm not sure if that means tickets or what

Riskymove

Athena14 wrote: »

Thanks riskymove. Do you know if they're any good? Both sets of tickets are presents and I don't want to miss out. the website says more info will be released about the italy and scotland matches soon but I'm not sure if that means tickets or what

The suite will be filled by members of the supporters club and you normally get some players or ex-players in attendance as a speaker etc.

The views from the corporate level are pretty good too, so I'd say they'd make good presents alright

Riskymove

From Forum

We hope to have further Ireland v Italy tickets (e.g. non Match Day Event) and news on Scotland tickets at a later date.

I would read that as some normal italy tickets will be available later

Athena14

brilliant thanks! Might go for them so. Only problem is I've to teach at the time they go on sale, I'll have to try for them on the iPhone or hope they don't sell out for the next two hours

PTH2009

Got 2 tickets for Wales game at approx 12.31. Got the email to confirm purchase.

After it went through it went to back to the ticket sale page (now displaying sale will commence at 1.30pm message)

:D:D Never give up :D:D

chris_c

Get in got sorted with wales tickets. think the IRFU need to learn from this goin forward luckly i was off work today and could sit at the computer all morning but im sure their will be a lot of dissappointed people who couldnt do this.

pc7

Head wrecked, tried all fecking morning, no luck. Now its saying I'm in the queue and not to refresh the page or I'll lose my place in the queue. 3 times this morning I got in and selected 2 tickets and continue and it then bombed out after 20 minutes. RAGING! :mad:

kildarecommuter

ordered 2 wales & 2 italy tickets when it processed my order all i got was italy ones! Im guessing wales tkts gone

skydish79

irfu on twitter said all wales tickets sold

few of the italy match day left

pc7

kildare commuter was that at the morning release or the 1.30 release?
thanks

kildarecommuter

this afternoon, this morning it dumped everything!

pc7

Thanks, didn't get anything :mad: