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Post by argon on Nov 30, 2018 9:49:54 GMT
Paying booking & transaction fees I get, if any business provides a service they are fully entitled to be paid for it. However, paying a transaction fee I not being able to select your own seat(only for this Pinter show) doesn't bode well for ATG justifying their fees
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Post by yokollama on Nov 30, 2018 9:50:02 GMT
Tried booking tickets on my phone and went straight through whereas I've been in the queue for over 0.5 hour via my laptop. As mentioned above, I was selecting the £65 non-restricted option and kept getting the restricted view stalls or royal circle added to my cart... Since it kept playing around with me, I plumped for the cheaper restricted view seats on the far side instead, but the reviews and photo on Seat Plan don't look too bad. Better than almost double the price to have a pillar right in front of us.
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Post by Tibidabo on Nov 30, 2018 10:04:23 GMT
While waiting in the Queue-it queue (position in the thousands) I booked from a (albeit limited) seat plan on London Theatre Direct - got row B in the stalls. Probably paid a bit more but at least we'll be able to see.
(Still in Queue-it queue....)
ETA. I've just got to the front of the Queue-it queue and have been offered Row K in the stalls for £3.50 more than I paid on London Theatre Direct, with no option of choosing a different date for better seats without going back to the beginning. On London Theatre Direct I was able to scroll through dates until I found one I wanted with seats I wanted. Win win.
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Post by Rory on Nov 30, 2018 12:07:20 GMT
Why *is* no seat plan available on ATG tickets? I agree it's unreasonable to charge £78 for a half decent ticket without being able to pick your own seat. It was the same when King Lear first went on sale. Come on, Mark Cornell, Sort This Out!!!
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Post by Rory on Nov 30, 2018 12:31:39 GMT
I'd still rather be able to choose my own seat!
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Post by Jan on Nov 30, 2018 15:11:05 GMT
It would slow the process still further, is the reason. You think ? Not ATG not wanting you to see they haven’t released a whole bunch of seats better than the ones they’ve fobbed you off with then ? |
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Post by learfan on Nov 30, 2018 15:11:28 GMT
Oh well, i won't be going to this. Balcony seats only for the dates i was looking at. Also im not prepared to pay £65 plus for 3 tix. I'll live.
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Post by learfan on Nov 30, 2018 15:12:20 GMT
It would slow the process still further, is the reason. Surely in 2018 that seems unlikely? |
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Post by jess173 on Nov 30, 2018 15:29:00 GMT
You think ? Not ATG not wanting you to see they haven’t released a whole bunch of seats better than the ones they’ve fobbed you off with then ? Well I checked today with a friend who was looking for tickets as well and didn’t have priority yesterday and when we got in it didn’t look like they had released anything better than what I bought yesterday. We tried a couple of dates and changed seats and Bands quite a lot but everything that came up was either restricted view or way back for way too much money. I bought her a good seat yesterday so she does not have to miss out completely but we didn’t buy any other tickets today. The tickets that were left were just not worth the price. |
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Post by jadnoop on Nov 30, 2018 15:34:24 GMT
You think ? Not ATG not wanting you to see they haven’t released a whole bunch of seats better than the ones they’ve fobbed you off with then ? Well I checked today with a friend who was looking for tickets as well and didn’t have priority yesterday and when we got in it didn’t look like they had released anything better than what I bought yesterday. We tried a couple of dates and changed seats and Bands quite a lot but everything that came up was either restricted view or way back for way too much money. I bought her a good seat yesterday so she does not have to miss out completely but we didn’t buy any other tickets today. The tickets that were left were just not worth the price. The 'benefits' of controlling seat allocation for ATG don't need to be quite as extreme as that. Even within individual areas, the fact that they control how seats are doled out means that the issues around gaps don't come up for them. Some theatres have strict rules on leaving individual seats between people and so on, and that 'problem' disappears when you don't allow users to select the seats in the first place.
However, my guess would be that this has less to do with wanting to control the process (or speed things up) and just to do with momentum. For all it's faults ATG have a site that 'works' and any big switch in the system means added short-term risks and costs, even if the long-term benefits are large.
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Post by Rory on Nov 30, 2018 16:15:51 GMT
It's not good enough to repeatedly only offer the same crap seats with restricted views at Band A prices. Totally ridiculous.
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Post by kathryn on Nov 30, 2018 17:24:26 GMT
‘Premium’ is now effectively Band A.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 3, 2018 18:43:14 GMT
They finally have the seat map back up! And dynamic pricing has already kicked in on at least some dates.
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Post by jadnoop on Dec 3, 2018 19:03:47 GMT
They finally have the seat map back up! And dynamic pricing has already kicked in on at least some dates. Comparing the seat map between sites, I hadn't realised that each site is assigned very different seats, and the availability seems to be quite different. Presumably theatre-goers gravitate towards some sites more than others.
e.g. 20th April has very different availability between ATG, SeeTickets and Ticketmaster.
Do more experienced TB users know which site is most likely to get the front-row stalls tickets (assuming they haven't already been on sale)? Or are they set aside for in-person day tickets?
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Post by david on Dec 3, 2018 19:20:50 GMT
Thanks to having the seating plan up, I’ve managed to move my original seat C1 to a more central N11. Great service by ATG staff tonight to swap the seat without any hassle. I should of checked the Monkey’s website before purchase as it’s a designated red seat on the site.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Dec 27, 2018 12:02:32 GMT
I'm surprised that Hiddleston has been cast as Robert - I thought he'd be Jerry...
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Post by Jan on Dec 27, 2018 12:36:55 GMT
I'm surprised that Hiddleston has been cast as Robert - I thought he'd be Jerry... On page 5 of this thread I said the same and people offered some thoughts on that. But I still think it looks “wrong”. Let’s see. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Dec 27, 2018 14:17:27 GMT
I'm surprised that Hiddleston has been cast as Robert - I thought he'd be Jerry... On page 5 of this thread I said the same and people offered some thoughts on that. But I still think it looks “wrong”. Let’s see. Oh yeah! I should read the whole thread before jumping in I guess...  I have never seen the play (only read it) but in my head, informed by the writing, Jerry is pathetic and lovely and Robert is pretty awful and repressed. Hiddleston has that softer face that I just can't pair up with Robert. I wasn't convinced by his Coriolanus (ooh matron), I don't think he 'does' the hardarse characters particularly well. Even his Henry V was a bit like a boy playing in the mud. |
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Post by kathryn on Dec 28, 2018 8:52:55 GMT
It’ll certainly be interesting to see if he does go all the way with the hardness, or if he tries to soften the character. In the past his strong suit has been making unlikable characters sympathetic and relatable. I’d really like to see him fully commit to a hard and unsympathetic characteristation.
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Post by RedRose on Dec 31, 2018 5:56:45 GMT
I'm surprised that Hiddleston has been cast as Robert - I thought he'd be Jerry... On page 5 of this thread I said the same and people offered some thoughts on that. But I still think it looks “wrong”. Let’s see. Depends on who is cast as Jerry. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 13:09:13 GMT
It's Loki vs Daredevil!!
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Post by Rory on Jan 10, 2019 13:12:26 GMT
Thought it would be Zawe. Didn't she do the rehearsed reading with TH at some point?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 10, 2019 13:28:53 GMT
Yes, she played Emma in the extract reading with Tom at the Pinter Gala.
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Post by RedRose on Jan 10, 2019 13:36:05 GMT
I am not very happy about Charlie Cox
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Post by kathryn on Jan 10, 2019 14:00:10 GMT
Happy about (and for) Zawe, and Charlie Cox was good in The Lover/The Collection some years ago. It'll make the Marvel fans happy!
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