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Topic: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 1 / 10
dagi_ukNov 5, 2011
 
 
Fellow JAM fans,

I've tried many times to get tickets via the BBC ticket website (I receive their email alerts).

I've submitted my details for JAM tickets and been told my request will be part of a lottery draw. I never hear anything afterwards.

Is there a better way to get hold of tickets for JAM?

Dean - do you have a more direct way of getting your tickets. Contacts within the Beeb for example?

dagi
 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 2 / 10
DeanNov 5, 2011
 
 
sorry – I have no advice to proffer on this.
 
 
 
From: dagi_uk
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:08 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
 
 

Fellow JAM fans,

I've tried many times to get tickets via the BBC ticket website (I receive their email alerts).

I've submitted my details for JAM tickets and been told my request will be part of a lottery draw. I never hear anything afterwards.

Is there a better way to get hold of tickets for JAM?

Dean - do you have a more direct way of getting your tickets. Contacts within the Beeb for example?

dagi


 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 3 / 10
Dave BNov 5, 2011
 
 
Dagi,

Earlier this year someone suggested that group members make a concentrated effort to get hold of tickets  e.g singleton's applying for two, or members applying for tickets they could not use. This is all allowable as there is no requirements to prove you are the named person on the ticket, and there is no requirement to give the name of the second person. Thus one could apply for tickets and pass them on if not needed. I was successful in getting two tickets on my first go, though I only needed one, and no one in the group wanted it, and another claimed it was tantamount to fraud, which it clearly was not, but which put a dampener on the idea. I think the thread was called Group Solidarity. If you want to bear the sniping from the sidelines we could try that again.

Snipe away, snipers.

Dave


From: Dean <dbedford@...>
To: just-a-minute@...
Sent: Saturday, 5 November 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

 
sorry – I have no advice to proffer on this.
 
 
 
From: dagi_uk
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:08 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
 
 
Fellow JAM fans,

I've tried many times to get tickets via the BBC ticket website (I receive their email alerts).

I've submitted my details for JAM tickets and been told my request will be part of a lottery draw. I never hear anything afterwards.

Is there a better way to get hold of tickets for JAM?

Dean - do you have a more direct way of getting your tickets. Contacts within the Beeb for example?

dagi




 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 4 / 10
dagi_ukNov 6, 2011
 
 
Fellow JAM fans,

Hey Dean - thanks for your interesting insight into this question! :)

Your silence is intriguing!

dagi

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
> sorry â€" I have no advice to proffer on this.
>
>
>
> From: dagi_uk
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:08 PM
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
>
>
> Fellow JAM fans,
>
> I've tried many times to get tickets via the BBC ticket website (I receive their email alerts).
>
> I've submitted my details for JAM tickets and been told my request will be part of a lottery draw. I never hear anything afterwards.
>
> Is there a better way to get hold of tickets for JAM?
>
> Dean - do you have a more direct way of getting your tickets. Contacts within the Beeb for example?
>
> dagi
>

 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 5 / 10
dagi_ukNov 6, 2011
 
 
Hi,

I appreciate the reply Dave, that Group Solidarity thread passed me buy.

When I next try to go to a recording, I'll keep a close eye on this group to see if JAMers (is that the right group expression?) are working together on maximising ticket opportunities.

I've probably tried half a dozen times in the past to get a ticket via the BBC ticket office. I suppose I'm slightly surprised that I've been unlucky so many times.

dagi.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dave B <pondydave@...> wrote:
>
> Dagi,
>
> Earlier this year someone suggested that group members make a concentrated effort to get hold of tickets  e.g singleton's applying for two, or members applying for tickets they could not use. This is all allowable as there is no requirements to prove you are the named person on the ticket, and there is no requirement to give the name of the second person. Thus one could apply for tickets and pass them on if not needed. I was successful in getting two tickets on my first go, though I only needed one, and no one in the group wanted it, and another claimed it was tantamount to fraud, which it clearly was not, but which put a dampener on the idea. I think the thread was called Group Solidarity. If you want to bear the sniping from the sidelines we could try that again.
>
> Snipe away, snipers.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Dean <dbedford@...>
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Sent: Saturday, 5 November 2011 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
>
>
>  
> sorry â€" I have no advice to proffer on this.
>  
>  
>  
> From: dagi_uk
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:08 PM
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is
> there a better way?
>  
>  
> Fellow JAM fans,
>
> I've tried many times to get tickets via the BBC
> ticket website (I receive their email alerts).
>
> I've submitted my details
> for JAM tickets and been told my request will be part of a lottery draw. I never
> hear anything afterwards.
>
> Is there a better way to get hold of tickets
> for JAM?
>
> Dean - do you have a more direct way of getting your tickets.
> Contacts within the Beeb for example?
>
> dagi
>

 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 6 / 10
DeanNov 6, 2011
 
 
oh dear, I didn’t mean to intrigue you, it’s just that I really have no experience of getting tickets as a member of the public. Every time I have seen a recording (only three times) it has been as a guest of the producer or the chairman. There are just a few tickets available in this way, but obviously it isn’t something that will be available to you, and I realise – it sounds like I am big-noting...
 
 
 
From: dagi_uk
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:03 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
 
 

Fellow JAM fans,

Hey Dean - thanks for your interesting insight into this question! :)

Your silence is intriguing!

dagi


 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 7 / 10
dagi_ukNov 8, 2011
 
 
Dean - I sought of assumed you'd get tickets from someone in the production office. It's good to know that people connected to the programme provide tickets to people like you.

I wasn't trying to score any points here, I was just wondering how "ordinary" members of the public get hold of them. I get the impression that they're massively over subscribed.

Looking forward to the next series.

dagi.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
> oh dear, I didn't mean to intrigue you, it's just that I really have no experience of getting tickets as a member of the public. Every time I have seen a recording (only three times) it has been as a guest of the producer or the chairman. There are just a few tickets available in this way, but obviously it isn't something that will be available to you, and I realise â€" it sounds like I am big-noting...
>
>
>
> From: dagi_uk
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:03 PM
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
>
>
> Fellow JAM fans,
>
> Hey Dean - thanks for your interesting insight into this question! :)
>
> Your silence is intriguing!
>
> dagi
>

 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 8 / 10
Dave BNov 8, 2011
 
 
Dagi,

I noticed when I went to a London recording that loads of seats were reserved for guests who toodled in in their own time, not having to wait in a queue on the street for hours.

They just looked like your average joe, no celebs as far as I could see.

Maybe more love children?

Dave


From: dagi_uk <dgnews@...>
To: just-a-minute@...
Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

 
Dean - I sought of assumed you'd get tickets from someone in the production office. It's good to know that people connected to the programme provide tickets to people like you.

I wasn't trying to score any points here, I was just wondering how "ordinary" members of the public get hold of them. I get the impression that they're massively over subscribed.

Looking forward to the next series.

dagi.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
> oh dear, I didn’t mean to intrigue you, it’s just that I really have no experience of getting tickets as a member of the public. Every time I have seen a recording (only three times) it has been as a guest of the producer or the chairman. There are just a few tickets available in this way, but obviously it isn’t something that will be available to you, and I realise â€" it sounds like I am big-noting...
>
>
>
> From: dagi_uk
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:03 PM
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?
>
>
> Fellow JAM fans,
>
> Hey Dean - thanks for your interesting insight into this question! :)
>
> Your silence is intriguing!
>
> dagi
>




 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 9 / 10
dagi_ukNov 8, 2011
 
 
Dave B <pondydave@...> wrote:
> I noticed when I went to a London recording that loads of seats were reserved for guests who toodled in in their own time, not having to wait in a queue on the street for hours.
>
> They just looked like your average joe, no celebs as far as I could see.

Thanks Dave for the information. It confirms my suspicions that there is something not overly fair regarding ticket allocation, particularly with the reserved seats.

I have no qualms about genuine fans attending, but I suspect that some of the reserved tickets are being off loaded to people who have hardly heard of the programme.

I feel the urge to write to Roger Bolton at BBC Radio 4's feedback.

dagi
 
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Topic: Re: Tickets - have I just been unlucky or is there a better way?

Message 10 / 10
DeanNov 8, 2011
 
 
well at the Edinburgh recording I was at, there was literally about 10 of us in the “reserved” seats, hardly a huge percentage of the total. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that people like Nicholas’s wife get a seat, surely? Same at Stratford. I guess there could be more for London recordings, I haven’t been to one of those. And if it matters, we all had to walk in together, not in our time, and although we didn’t have to queue, we had to wait outside like everyone else till they were ready.
 
Dagi, I think you’ve been unlucky but that’s the reality of games of chance.
 
On the discussion of trying to find ways to share tickets, I hope Dave won’t see this as sniping and I realise he has only the best of intentions. Nevertheless I just point out that this list is open to anyone and its archives also pop up on Google. Therefore it seems unwise to me for it to be discussed here. I suggest those interested in what Dave is suggesting contact him off-list at pondydave@... and discuss it further between yourselves, off-list.
 
cheers, Dean
 
 





 
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