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[chris_mk]

werank, on Sep 5 2007, 08:15 PM, said:

thank you for the message showmasters, it is nice to see you read our comments and act on the problems,
just one small thing, i brought an early bird ticket and had people entering the show at the same time as me who had normal tickets, can this be sorted?
its not really fair for the people paying extra,
Ps the guest list was fantastic keep them coming
cheers
Neil

What time did you go in?

[werank]

when the doors opened

[chris_mk]

werank, on Sep 5 2007, 08:21 PM, said:

when the doors opened

Weird! How do you know they had regular tickets?

[SerbianJanet]

Are you talking about people who got in first thing but paid on the day? They still paid the same early bird price that you paid, but the advantage you had for buying early was that their queue moved slower because they all still had to pay whereas all you had to do was hand your ticket over and you were in.

Edited by SerbianJanet, 05 September 2007 - 07:27 PM.

[werank]

no we were standing with people that brought standard tickets in advance we even saw the tickets and they were not the same but they walked in the same time and were on the esculator. oh well

[chris_mk]

werank, on Sep 5 2007, 08:30 PM, said:

no we were standing with people that brought standard tickets in advance we even saw the tickets and they were not the same but they walked in the same time and were on the esculator. oh well

I guess Showmasters might want to have a word with the people who were on the door then!

[werank]

yeah, its one of those things, what with everyone being put in one que
but they are aware of these things so roll on C12

[kirsty_]

showmasters, on Sep 4 2007, 08:55 PM, said:

there were potential health and safety problems

  not another vicious piano i hope

[stobbs]

the people who were let in on the other door (i was one of them) paid for the early-bird ticket (£10) at the counter before going to the esculator for entry to the show

werank ~ the tickets looked different cause yours were sent out beforehand thats all (i think lol)

Edited by stobbs, 05 September 2007 - 07:52 PM.

[werank]

i brought mine on the door the day before they were different cause mine had early bird on them the others didnt and were a different colour, oh and the people said they had normal tickets!

[ciaraemarie]

Can't wait to see EC2 again is all I can say lol

[stobbs]

werank, on Sep 5 2007, 09:05 PM, said:

i brought mine on the door the day before they were different cause mine had early bird on them the others didnt and were a different colour, oh and the people said they had normal tickets!

well you got your ticket at a different time to me, hence the difference in apperance, i assume your ticket also cost £10 like mine? the price reduced at 11am i think to £5.
people who said they had normal tickets could just have been mistaken or if new to these events didn't even know what a 'early-bird' ticket was and just assumed it was a normal ticket

[chris_mk]

ciaraemarie, on Sep 5 2007, 09:14 PM, said:

Can't wait to see EC2 again is all I can say lol

Yeah, I think it's a million times better a venue than EC1!

[peeka85]

Good that you have answered some complaints, but once again THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE FACILITIES (OR LACK OF) FOR DISABLED PEOPLE; Big suprise there. Take your own seat? HA!

[chris_mk]

peeka85, on Sep 5 2007, 11:05 PM, said:

Good that you have answered some complaints, but once again THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE FACILITIES (OR LACK OF) FOR DISABLED PEOPLE; Big suprise there. Take your own seat? HA!

They mentioned why the chairs were not present? What else was absent (I'm just curious, not trying to pick an argument.)

[Psychosis]

chris_mk, on Sep 5 2007, 07:47 PM, said:

Trialia, on Sep 5 2007, 06:59 PM, said:

Thank you. And not only were they packed, they were exorbitantly priced. I'm not going to waste any of my limited funds to buy something I don't want so I can sit on high chairs where my feet don't even touch the ground, no matter how much pain I'm in. I'm disabled, not stupid.

You might have had to wait a few minutes to sit down at the busy times, but they were not that busy. Also, you didn't have to buy anything! I've no idea what high chairs you are talking about. I only sat in perfectly normal sized chairs  

Showmasters have explained why there were no chairs... to be honest, I wouldn't ever EXPECT chairs at any event like this (ok, so CMK is different).

To be fair, me and my friends were sitting on the floor beside one of those restaurants for an hour and in that entire time, one seat became free. And I'm not sure which chairs you were talking about but the only chairs I saw at the restaurants were tall ones that, being 5'0, I literally had to climb onto and jump off of.


And another user confirmed that they were chatting to someone who had £5 standard entry tickets (for sure) who then walked in at 9am sat/10am sun (not sure which it was).

Edited by Psychosis, 05 September 2007 - 10:10 PM.

[gebes]

Facilities for disabled people is something that should be taken up with the venue itself, Showmasters can only ask that facilities for disabled are in place, they can't exactly supply them!

Or do you mean things like wheelchair access up to a guest etc?

I believe there are laws that state venues/buildings etc must now have proper facilities for disabled access.

So I'm not quite sure what you expect Showmasters to say or do about this?

[chris_mk]

Psychosis, on Sep 5 2007, 11:08 PM, said:

To be fair, me and my friends were sitting on the floor beside one of those restaurants for an hour and in that entire time, one seat became free. And I'm not sure which chairs you were talking about but the only chairs I saw at the restaurants were tall ones that, being 5'0, I literally had to climb onto and jump off of.


And another user confirmed that they were chatting to someone who had ?5 standard entry tickets (for sure) who then walked in at 9am sat/10am sun (not sure which it was).

There was one cafe that was smaller than the others, could it have been that one? Once, my friends and I went to the cafe and couldn't sit, but we hung around for 5 minutes then got a whole table. I never saw the cafe without the odd chair free.

If someone is cheating by using a standard entry to get in early, then that's their bad for cheating!! I guess it might be easy to do... given the mad rush to get in!

[Trialia]

Peeka-- Exactly! That's what I'm trying to say. What the hell?

Psychosis-- Right! You see how it is, being petite, where people of average height might overlook these things... I'm only 5'4", here, and my joints being what they are, I'm not agile enough to jump onto one of those things. They were tall chairs, even if I'd been able to get one, and I never saw one free anyway. It wasn't so much the fact of there not being any chairs free at the café as that a- they were way too tall to be of any help, and b- I've been turfed out of busy places before for using a seat that could have held a paying customer, so I didn't want to risk that. Or pay their stupid prices when I only had £35 for the whole weekend.

Gebes-- I would have thought she was including having some reasonable seating in the 'facilities' comment. I sure would.

Edited by Trialia, 05 September 2007 - 10:24 PM.

[m4sure]

Thankfully I only went along on both days to see one guest - Dom Monaghan.
The only moans I have is not being able to take unposed photos even from
the queue. I was lucky to have photo tickets on both days, but I heard many
people complaining that they weren't able to take a picture up close. But then
saying that I also saw some fans getting told off while other fans queuing to
see different guests being allowed to take pictures from their queue!

I was disappointed about the lack of seating as well. It didn't do my bad back
any favours I can tell you! I noticed the Patrick Stewart farce & felt sorry for
all those who missed out.