Son-of-a-Weizen Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 The last day to e-mail in your applications for World Cup 2006 tix. Man, that's one confusing & highly regulated system they have in place there. No ticket transfers?? I put in a request for four games in Munich, two in Stuttgart....one in Nuernberg. If lightning strikes, I suppose I'd get two of the seven? Anyone have an idea what the latest odds are at getting selected in the April round? Must be infinitesimal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ngram Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 The big news here is that you have to buy the tickets with Mastercard (who have an exclusive deal to sell the tickets) or a bank cheque from a euro bank. Now only a third of cardholders in the UK are Mastercard, the other two thirds being Visa and hardly anyone has a Euro account so they will get charged about £35.00 by their UK bank to get a Euro cheque sent (says Which on radio this lunchtime). Lots of MEPs getting hot under the collar about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I was in Amsterdam last week and got to watching some of the qualifying rounds through the haze of the coffee shops. The English team is really good, or at least the North Ireland squad made them look so. Precision passing and deft execution. World Cup Soccer can make a fan of any sports afficionado! At JFK on the way home I watched some of the US losing to Mexico. At least they scored a goal, my friend said the US team hadn't scored in Mexico since the 80s. Very cool that you are at least trying to go to some of the games, Weizen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest che Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 The big news here is that you have to buy the tickets with Mastercard (who have an exclusive deal to sell the tickets) or a bank cheque from a euro bank. Now only a third of cardholders in the UK are Mastercard, the other two thirds being Visa and hardly anyone has a Euro account so they will get charged about £35.00 by their UK bank to get a Euro cheque sent (says Which on radio this lunchtime). Lots of MEPs getting hot under the collar about this. Probably lots of MEP's in-line for tickets anyway Che. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Love to go but alas the closest I'll get is my business trip to Germany in two weeks. Any suggestions on Nuremberg restaurants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 The English team is really good, or at least the North Ireland squad made them look so. The latter ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 This Mastercard exclusivity thing is a terribly stupid choice, I'm sure this will backfire on the organisers, and maybe the sponsor too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest che Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I was in Amsterdam last week and got to watching some of the qualifying rounds through the haze of the coffee shops. The English team is really good, or at least the North Ireland squad made them look so. Precision passing and deft execution. World Cup Soccer can make a fan of any sports afficionado! At JFK on the way home I watched some of the US losing to Mexico. At least they scored a goal, my friend said the US team hadn't scored in Mexico since the 80s. Very cool that you are at least trying to go to some of the games, Weizen! Not sure if the English are that good, they have a very easy group to qualify from and then we will see how good they are Che. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted March 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 The big news here is that you have to buy the tickets with Mastercard (who have an exclusive deal to sell the tickets) or a bank cheque from a euro bank. Now only a third of cardholders in the UK are Mastercard, the other two thirds being Visa and hardly anyone has a Euro account so they will get charged about £35.00 by their UK bank to get a Euro cheque sent (says Which on radio this lunchtime). Lots of MEPs getting hot under the collar about this. Yes, the Mastercard only biz is nuts. I don't think that my wife could have sent in a request because we have the same card # and I think that the rules cautioned against that!! The other thing is that these instructions are quite confusing and I'm happy that the organizers are getting an earful. We have four people who're going for tickets -- 2 people living in Germany and then my Dad and I sending in our requests from here. Each one of us submitted the names/data of the other 3 people as 'guests'. Since my Dad and I have the same name....it shows up twice on each of the four applications, which after again carefully reviewing the ticket/rules section (English version) seems to be prohibited?? If you look at the 'FAQ' page on their site --- and specifically question #11 -- they tell you flat out "One applicant....can order up to four tickets per match. In addition to ticket for themselves, applicants can order so-called visitor tickets for up to three more persons." It then tells you to note the "the following limitations" - one price category per match - per household only 4 single tickets in price categories 1-3 for up to 7 matches - matches cannot be on same day - only one application can be submitted per sales phase - if accepted in early phase, deduct those matches from total of 7 for any later phase request. And then says "failure to comply with these limitations CAN cause complete rejection." So, so far, so good. But then it goes into the "please ensure you do not order more tickets than permitted per person, per household" and then defines that by stating: "The applicable criterion is the SUM of applications in which persons appear as applicants AND applications in which persons appears as VISITORS on other applicant's applications.” What??? These people are insane. This seems to indicate that you are supposed to total your own applications (7) with that of the number of times you are listed as a Visitor and that total should not be greater than 7. But because of the way it is written, people would have a strong case that it does not list this apparent requirement under the "limitations section", and thus would be very unfair. But since they do not define “per household” in the limitations section, they would probably argue this is their definition. Why do I have this sinking feeling that I'm already screwed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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