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Post by manulike on Mar 16, 2016 16:51:41 GMT
Its been a good 2 full hours now, and my Almost There ... bar is still only at 30%....
It might be a total waste of time doing anything today, even if the portal does reopen.
I have looked at a few other supporters' forums, and there are dozens of people on there complaining that around mid-day today all credit card transactions seemed to fail. I reached credit card stage twice myself and the whole thing collapsed. I blamed my poor Monkey for it, but even people that used finger power and F5 had the same misfortune.
There were about two full hours of total chaos up until 2.30pm and then a MAJOR collapse ... portal down ever since ;-(
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Post by Cam ash on Mar 16, 2016 16:59:24 GMT
My bar went up to about half way then dropped back down to about a quarter
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Post by manulike on Mar 16, 2016 17:05:37 GMT
I opened a third page in a third browser about 30 minutes ago ... and that one hasn't moved at all!
A major blowout i think.
Never mind, at least I might get to see the mighty Arsenal gain a classic victory against all odds ... Or am I being too optimistic ...
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Post by mx47 on Mar 16, 2016 18:09:10 GMT
I opened a third page in a third browser about 30 minutes ago ... and that one hasn't moved at all! A major blowout i think. Never mind, at least I might get to see the mighty Arsenal gain a classic victory against all odds ... Or am I being too optimistic ... You probably gotta a better chance of finding an England ticket......but you'd settle for that I'm guessing!!! |
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Post by Cam ash on Mar 16, 2016 18:19:20 GMT
Half way the thin red line
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Post by lafiest on Mar 16, 2016 21:29:04 GMT
What's going on? Portal is down for maintenance!
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Post by manulike on Mar 16, 2016 21:36:19 GMT
Undergoing maintenance
Due to system updates the resale platform is currently unavailable.
We are doing our best to get the platform back online as soon as we can and we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The resale platform is temporarily unavailable due to maintenance
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Post by manulike on Mar 17, 2016 0:18:54 GMT
I was so fed up with not buying any tickets that I went and bought a ticket to Lens ... Its only a train ticket ... but its a start... By the way. if you set your www.voyages-sncf.com site setting to any mainland EU country, its the same price in Euro as it is in pounds! Its £7 (or €7) each way Lille to Lens... So there is a 25% to be saved!
Its free delivery (7 days) and no fees. If you don't have a Euro friendly credit card (eg. Halifax Clarity) you are better off paying is pounds, though.
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Post by cadno on Mar 17, 2016 0:54:29 GMT
Not on twitter etc. But is there a way of finding out if they expect it to be back on tonight.........sorry. Morning hahah
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Post by manulike on Mar 17, 2016 1:11:30 GMT
Am not on Twitter either, but none of the Forums I look at (ROI, ENG, TripAdvisor and Big Soccer) has mentioned anything.
As I have only been getting 5 hours of sleep each night, I am actually off to bed early now (1am)
Good Night
UPDATE 7.30am - still nothing ...
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Post by manulike on Mar 17, 2016 9:30:04 GMT
My name is manulike and I have been clean for 21 hours.
For the past seven days I have been struggling with my ticket addiction.
My entire life was focused around my next hit.
I have been training eight monkeys just so that I can have my ticket hit, that much faster. I would even lure poor Albanian ticket sellers into my shopping basket, for the sole purpose of ensuring I get my fix.
Needless to say I spiraled out of control in the hours that followed the UEFA portal crash.
It is a struggle. Just one hour at a time.
Together. Stronger!
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Post by manulike on Mar 17, 2016 14:27:07 GMT
A Spanish lad on Big Soccer called UEFA this morning and was told that they dont know when they will reopen it.
"Maybe today, maybe tomorrow ... Thanks! "
Reports of dozens of people that bought "ghost" tickets yesterday. Some even had their credit card transaction pending only to have that later reversed and disappear from their statement.
UEFA have officially stated that only people that received an email ticket confirmation will be granted the relevant tickets.
The pain of being a football fan...
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Post by jonnylitts on Mar 17, 2016 14:41:56 GMT
I hope the tickets on the portal before they shut it will still be there when they finally reopen it.
Definitely a case of ticket bots given how many tickets (including the most in demand - although I don't remember seeing any England ones when I was on there) piled up when nobody could checkout.
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Post by manulike on Mar 17, 2016 14:49:43 GMT
I hope the tickets on the portal before they shut it will still be there when they finally reopen it. Definitely a case of ticket bots given how many tickets (including the most in demand - although I don't remember seeing any England ones when I was on there) piled up when nobody could checkout. I was on the general portal entrance page from around mid-day yesterday, as things started to warm up and real torrents of tickets were showing up. My monkey was refreshing every minute and even then, there was not an England game in sight! I got to the credit card details three times for Winner B, Runner Up B, all ROI games and even NI v Germany ... some in Cat4! I saw the Final come up at least three times and even the Sweden v Italy and v Belgium games... Got my doubts any of them being there anytime soon... |
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Post by prestatyn4457 on Mar 17, 2016 14:56:16 GMT
My name is manulike and I have been clean for 21 hours.
For the past seven days I have been struggling with my ticket addiction.
My entire life was focused around my next hit.
I have been training eight monkeys just so that I can have my ticket hit, that much faster. I would even lure poor Albanian ticket sellers into my shopping basket, for the sole purpose of ensuring I get my fix.
Needless to say I spiraled out of control in the hours that followed the UEFA portal crash.
It is a struggle. Just one hour at a time.
Together. Stronger!
Please stay strong  YOU ARE NOT ALONE  |
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Post by bordeauxbound on Mar 17, 2016 16:51:19 GMT
just copied this off YBIG,
Diary of a Portal Widow
Day 1
Morning
Hubby sets himself up at internet and logs on to something, he claims he is planning a surprise holiday in France in June. Impressed as we always book late.
On the phone to Anto, Davey and Mick all the time.
Don't like it when he is with them as he always watched football and gets drunk.
Evening
Trying really hard for tickets for the holiday as he is on computer all evening and all night........... wow he really must love me.
Day 2
Darling has really been doing everything he can for this holiday, i heard him shouting at the screen at about 4am. brought him a cup of tea at 6am as I left for work.
Afternoon
He is still trying bless him and wondering what type of holiday it will be, beach, mountains or just in a chateau.
Ask him if he minds me going out with Mary, Theresa and Cheryl, wife of his the 3 lads. I get myself all geed up to argue but he just grunts and says fine, maybe he doesn't love me any more.
Day 3
We had a great night and got in at 2am and he was slumped over keyboard with a post it in his hand with "The Script". Didn't realise he liked them and Mary and the girls said their men all talking about them. We all agreed to buy tickets for their next gig, our men will be so excited.
Day 3
Wow this will probably be best holiday ever given he is doing everything to book it, maybe its a tour of Europe because he keeps mentioning Sweden, Belgium and Italy as well as France.
Oh I do so love that man.
Afternoon I asked him if I could buy some really nice outfits for my holidays, he just said "uhhh" so I borrowed his card and we ladies went on a spree. Think we maxed out the cards as all the girls had same message when we hit that nice little wine bar off Grafton st. Guilty it was so late but he never said anything so he must really love me.
Day 4
I heard him talking about Sel or Polonium so googled it, OMG this is scary, rang Mary crying and she said her beloved hubby was on phone talking about this and The Script. OMG are we married to Terrorists.
Mary's brother is a Garda so she spoke to him and he asked was it Selenium or Polonium, as it was the former he said he knew all about it and it was harmless.
Oh my man what he is doing for me his wonderful wife.
Day 5
Getting concerned as baby was left abandoned in cot all last evening when me and the girls went out, wore one of my new outfits, baby saw Die Hard 1-4 an was screaming most of the night
Oh my man is happy but keeps talking about The Script, maybe all the hubbys have a man crush on them. All the boys were around just checking their laptops.
Maybe its a nice holiday for the girls as heard Paris, Bordeaux and Lille being mention and then maybe Lens or Lille. Boy my friends and I have great husbands.
Day 6
Apparently they have fallen out of Manlove with The Script and now taking F5ing, presumed it was high 5ing or Formula 5 but don't know but his dedication to getting us all a great holiday is wonderful.
Anto must have booked something because screams of yes filled the air at 3am but then F******* ESB when did they have a powercut.
Girls and I so excited because we got the outfits and sure the credit cards can be paid back after our holidays.
I heard all the men say they would come here tomorrow so we plan to lay in some treats as we have a generator.
Day 7
Though its a work day all seem to be sick and came around at 9am but they set up on the laptops and keeping hitting a button like mad, this is F5iiing.
Never understand Men.
Girls come around at lunchtime and we have prepared some really nice snacks.
Just as we are about ready to bring in the food shouts of Yesssssssssssss fill the air and they start dancing and shouting and saying we all have 10 minutes to book.
It all goes quiet but we happy and smiling as we know they will tell us about our holiday in June across Europe.
I hear my darling Hubby screaming, "No F******g way Visa" and his call to the bank make him go really quiet, all the lads do the same thing.
Maybe its time for our surprise so we bring in the food.
Anto just looks at Mary and say "What the F*** you wearing that for at 4 O'clock on a Wednesday afternoon and where did you get it", hubby looks at me and his face is white, he needs a holiday bless him.
Hubby looks at me and his face just seems to crumple, Davey asks have you been shopping.
We laugh and say Yessssssssssssssss, its for our holiday in France and then Sweden, Belgium and Italy, we are so excited and dance around, but we may have maxed the Credit Card a little bit.
Room goes really quiet, Mary says she has never seen Anto cry and soon all 4 of them are crying.
Did somebody die.
Day 8
Mother so generously took me in and all the girls are at their mothers, its great as we all grew up next to each other.
How were we to know they wanted to go to Football, they never told us.
My da rang earlier and says Irish Naval service did pick up the men in a rubber dingy trying to row to France while crying.
Doctor says he is sedated and should be ok in a few months.
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Post by Cam ash on Mar 18, 2016 7:51:51 GMT
What s going on guys ? Absolute nightmare ,I'm with manlike and need my fix of being let down but not in this way
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Post by manulike on Mar 18, 2016 9:04:39 GMT
Hi Cam ash, Since you've been gone I can do whatever I want ...
But nothing - NOTHING compares to you!
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Post by Gary Williams on Mar 18, 2016 9:56:51 GMT
It's back on
Saw Wales v Slovakia but did see which cat
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Post by manulike on Mar 18, 2016 10:01:45 GMT
Its been so long I hardly remember what to do!
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Post by manulike on Mar 18, 2016 10:09:20 GMT
Cat 1 Russia game
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Post by mps1 on Mar 18, 2016 10:33:17 GMT
Got 2 England Tickets for my mates at 10AM .... I logged in within a minute of the site reopening and refreshed about 15 times and got them  Patience pays off in the end. |
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Post by Pete on Mar 18, 2016 11:25:46 GMT
Just missed 4 x Cat3 England at 11.21
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Post by ozred on Mar 18, 2016 11:27:06 GMT
Just missed 4 x Cat3 England at 11.21 Me too, eyes popped out when I seen em |
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Post by Redtowner on Mar 18, 2016 11:28:44 GMT
yup i missed them too
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Post by Cam ash on Mar 18, 2016 11:48:57 GMT
Gutted missed aswell
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Post by manulike on Mar 18, 2016 11:51:24 GMT
They are having a laugh!
In the first hour at least 3 or 4 times Russia and Slovakia games - mostly Cat 1 and 2
On England Front its even worse:
1X Cat3 came up three times
2XCat4 came up twice
None had my name on them ;-(
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Post by Cam ash on Mar 18, 2016 12:17:21 GMT
Anyone get those 2 cat 3 England's hope so
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Post by Pete on Mar 18, 2016 12:26:42 GMT
Nope :-(
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Post by manulike on Mar 18, 2016 13:03:57 GMT
It was looking like a Christmas Tree over there for about an hour and now its back to its usual self ;-(
Need to go to work ...
Just a few pointers:
I noticed that the Albania trick still gives an extra 14 minutes but DOES NOT carry over beyond a Captcha anymore!
I noticed that a Monkey Loop works wonderfully and carries through for ages (at least an hour!) but if you switch even one window to a different url, the whole thing goes to Captcha...
Keep it up lads!
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