Do you remember the post I made full of :yahoo: and :happydance: because Rafan and I had booked flights to get us to Cordoba for the Davis Cup semi-final? Well, we decided to take the risk prior to the ticket release because the flights were creeping up and up. But today, was the day of the ticket sale!
So seeing as I was in meetings at work this morning, Rafan got up at the crack of dawn to get herself into work early so she could be primed and poised at 9 am for the grand sale. I'd stirred at about 4 am and going around my head was the fact that I knew Rafan would need her passport number in order to book, but as I feared I would miss her before she left home, I cared not and text her at that time to remind her! Desperate measures call for desperate actions.
So I was so excited when the text came through that she'd got them!
However, we are quite pally with some of the girls on VB, so we followed their site and saw that they were having inordinate amounts of problems. Which awoke a big, stonking feeling in Rafan's tummy. Because although she had gone right through the process on Ticketmaster of being allocated seats, putting in her credit card details, clicking on the acceptance of the Ts and Cs and then being taken to a screen to say that the transaction had been successful and the seat rows and numbers she had been allocated along with the price were all there listed on the completion form ... the all important transaction number was not there ... and neither was she sent a confirming email that it had all gone through. The same thing happened a few times to one of the VB girls, and Ticketmaster confirmed a bit later that there is no record of Rafan's transaction.
In short ... we have flight tickets, we have a hotel booked ... but we've no tickets to see the semi-final tie. Gutted.
Of course within minutes of the tickets going on sale (and it seems only 4,500 were sold today to the general public), the internet is now awash with ticket agencies selling them at massively inflated prices. Someone is getting rich off real fans' passions ... but that's the way of the world now isn't it, readers? Sadly. People preying on what other people really love and follow and want to see; so that they have a moment in life and a treasured memory that will stay with them forever. But in order to do so, it seems that the people behind ticket agencies just take this longing and wanting and just screw those that feel it for ridiculous amounts of their hard earned money.
We're very disappointed. But regardless ... we have a nice little break in Andalucia coming up and who knows? We may be able to sort something and if not ... I'm with Rafan, and her famoos RafanRadar !!! Otherwise, I'd better take in that picture above because that's a much as I will see of the Cordoba bullring!!
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