AFL Silver Membership Waitlist Number

[mrb1]

Yeah, I think it will keep showing that on the app for those games until Thursday,
I never checked last week but Demons v Swans final I would have gone if I could have fitted it in Friday night and sometime Thursday night or Friday morning I clicked on the app to look and sure enough like home and away matches could find a GA admission barcode for that match. As it turned out Friday night did not have enough time to fit match in at night so did not go but had a barcode as a ticket saved on phone from Thursday night to attend had I wanted to. I plan to do the same for this weeks two finals here. My guess is Melb v Bris will be about 55,000 to 60,000 so should be plenty of seats spare and Pies v Freo maybe 70,000 so I won't be spending the booking fee to reserve seats like had to do for Cats v Pies final.

If Brisbane beat Demons no need to book for prelim final v Cats either.
But if you had any fear Pies v Freo 80,000 or more, you would probably pay to reserve seats.

Thanks. I don't think the crowds will be too large either with an interstate team in each game. I bought a reserve ticket for the Melb vs Syd game and was dismayed that there were plenty of seats available. I left it too late for the Geel vs Coll game. It was an awkward time anyway.

 

[mattpolo8]

I saw a few comments about some silly expensive booking fee. Thought when I bought tickets to Melbourne v Brisbane it was $8. For 2 tickets..

 

[Demonic Ascent]

I saw a few comments about some silly expensive booking fee. Thought when I bought tickets to Melbourne v Brisbane it was $8. For 2 tickets..

Plus $21 for each ticket

 

[deck]

Standing room only available for Collingwood v Fremantle. Public is down to limited availability with standing room sold out.

 

[foxdog50]

Question.. if someone can help me...
As im sillver AFL Geelong member, I am priority 2 and I have to register for the chance to get Grand Final tickets...
If am successful in getting them, do I have the chance to decline them? Or do I have to take them, since I registered for them.
Cheers

 

[beerbandit]

Collingwood v Freo is a sell out

 

[JohnZ]

Question.. if someone can help me...
As im sillver AFL Geelong member, I am priority 2 and I have to register for the chance to get Grand Final tickets...
If am successful in getting them, do I have the chance to decline them? Or do I have to take them, since I registered for them.
Cheers

If you register for the ballot, and you are successful, you will be charged and sent a ticket. Don't think you can refuse them.

Also when you register for the ballot, your barcode can no longer be used to buy a GF ticket in the AFL reserve.

So the question becomes, what's your best option for getting a ticket? Because you have to choose one or the other by 6pm tmw.

(You can legally sell your ticket for cost price if you opt for the ballot. If you opt for the AFL reserve, it's against their rules to let other people use members tickets).

 

[foxdog50]

If you register for the ballot, and you are successful, you will be charged and sent a ticket. Don't think you can refuse them.

Also when you register for the ballot, your barcode can no longer be used to buy a GF ticket in the AFL reserve.

So the question becomes, what's your best option for getting a ticket? Because you have to choose one or the other by 6pm tmw.

(You can legally sell your ticket for cost price if you opt for the ballot. If you opt for the AFL reserve, it's against their rules to let other people use members tickets).

Thank you, much appreciated

 

[TEDDY24INC]

Thank you, much appreciated

Higher odds of getting in the club ballot so I’d choose that option, not that there should be an option, poor from AFL membership making you decide

 

[foxdog50]

Higher odds of getting in the club ballot so I’d choose that option, not that there should be an option, poor from AFL membership making you decide

Makes it hard... thanks Ted

 

[RightYouAreThen]

Fyi from helpful AFL members team today
We were 5800 in Nov2020 and now 5100 in Sep22

As gold membership is capped at 30,000 members, the number of upgrades we can do each year is equal to the number of gold members who cancel each year. As this is based on members choices, the number of upgrades each year varies greatly and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation of how many years it will take. Essentially, your waitlist number is how many people are waiting to be upgraded ahead of you. For further context, the most recent members upgraded to gold membership first joined at the beginning of 2010.

 

[mattpolo8]

Fyi from helpful AFL members team today
We were 5800 in Nov2020 and now 5100 in Sep22

As gold membership is capped at 30,000 members, the number of upgrades we can do each year is equal to the number of gold members who cancel each year. As this is based on members choices, the number of upgrades each year varies greatly and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation of how many years it will take. Essentially, your waitlist number is how many people are waiting to be upgraded ahead of you. For further context, the most recent members upgraded to gold membership first joined at the beginning of 2010.

12 years. thats alot better then i thought.

 

[RightYouAreThen]

12 years. thats alot better then i thought.

But slowing by looks of it. Moved 800 spots in 2 years

 

[kriles76]

But slowing by looks of it. Moved 800 spots in 2 years

Not that bad. My kids were in the 1980’s at the beginning of the year and were upgraded a few months ago. They joined in October 2010.

 

[Satan]

Not that bad. My kids were in the 1980’s at the beginning of the year and were upgraded a few months ago. They joined in October 2010.

Think last 2 years were covid affected so I think more people left afl membership

 

[mrb1]

Yeah, I think it will keep showing that on the app for those games until Thursday,
I never checked last week but Demons v Swans final I would have gone if I could have fitted it in Friday night and sometime Thursday night or Friday morning I clicked on the app to look and sure enough like home and away matches could find a GA admission barcode for that match. As it turned out Friday night did not have enough time to fit match in at night so did not go but had a barcode as a ticket saved on phone from Thursday night to attend had I wanted to. I plan to do the same for this weeks two finals here. My guess is Melb v Bris will be about 55,000 to 60,000 so should be plenty of seats spare and Pies v Freo maybe 70,000 so I won't be spending the booking fee to reserve seats like had to do for Cats v Pies final.

If Brisbane beat Demons no need to book for prelim final v Cats either.
But if you had any fear Pies v Freo 80,000 or more, you would probably pay to reserve seats.

GA admission for AFL members is now available for Melb vs Bris through the app and so I have locked one in. It looks like a few seats have become available for the Coll vs Frem match and I have just snapped up one for $28. So, I win one and I lose one, but I am going to both games.

 

[footyfan1978]

GA admission for AFL members is now available for Melb vs Bris through the app and so I have locked one in. It looks like a few seats have become available for the Coll vs Frem match and I have just snapped up one for $28. So, I win one and I lose one, but I am going to both games.

Yeah, done the same this morning. It is absolute bullshit nonsense they pull off with Freo v Pies match trying to make it seem like a sell out yesterday.
Check yesterday and tries to tell us only standing room available. Absolute farce and manipulation of AFL membership expectations to try to extract extra money out of us rather than just rocking up on the day, knowing there will still be actual empty seats there.

 

[BMW3]

Fyi from helpful AFL members team today
We were 5800 in Nov2020 and now 5100 in Sep22

As gold membership is capped at 30,000 members, the number of upgrades we can do each year is equal to the number of gold members who cancel each year. As this is based on members choices, the number of upgrades each year varies greatly and it is difficult to give an accurate estimation of how many years it will take. Essentially, your waitlist number is how many people are waiting to be upgraded ahead of you. For further context, the most recent members upgraded to gold membership first joined at the beginning of 2010.

This one doesn't sound right to me
You've moved 800 spots in 2 years (5,800ish to 5,100ish) - but other people that were in the 1,980's were upgraded this season

Hopefully when you get you're next waitlist number on renewal - it is closer to 4,000

 

[NetworkNerd]

12 years. thats alot better then i thought.

I am expecting 30 years for me. I switched to AFL silver in 2016

 

[TigerR]

This one doesn't sound right to me
You've moved 800 spots in 2 years (5,800ish to 5,100ish) - but other people that were in the 1,980's were upgraded this season

Hopefully when you get you're next waitlist number on renewal - it is closer to 4,000

Correct When people reported here they were offered gold in June, I asked the AFL for my waitlist number but it hadn't changed since the last renewal. So I am expecting to jump 2000+ odd places.
800 in 2 years is hopefully only because of discounts during Covid and a good 1000 drop off each year in future.

 

[kriles76]

This one doesn't sound right to me
You've moved 800 spots in 2 years (5,800ish to 5,100ish) - but other people that were in the 1,980's were upgraded this season

Hopefully when you get you're next waitlist number on renewal - it is closer to 4,000

That experience is possibly a result of the farce that is Absentee Memberships.

Basically, you're allowed to elect to become an Absentee Member for the year without any justification and retain your membership for a minimal fee. Allegedly, Absentee Silver Members still progress in the queue; and Gold Members are the first ones offered reactivation of their memberships when upgrades are made available.

In the case of the latter, they typically become active again only when their team has a sniff of finals action - and are otherwise happy to stay dormant when their team is not so good. But this screws with the number of Silver Members that are offered upgrades if a whole heap of Absent Gold Members decide to become active again all at once. This allegedly happened in the years following the Essendon drug scandal when full AFL Members with Essendon club support ended their boycott and reactivated their AFL Memberships.

I seem to remember when I first joined in the 90's you could only get an Absentee Membership if you could prove that you had to reside interstate or overseas. This required stat decs, or rate notices and so on as proof. In absence of that, you paid your full membership fees year on year or you lost it.

There were also rumours this year of fully lapsed Gold Members being offered reactivation straight back into Gold - which was a contentious point among posters in this thread.

These days, it's just about harder to get out of AFL Gold Membership than to get into it.

 

[Satan]

That experience is possibly a result of the farce that is Absentee Memberships.

Basically, you're allowed to elect to become an Absentee Member for the year without any justification and retain your membership for a minimal fee. Allegedly, Absentee Silver Members still progress in the queue; and Gold Members are the first ones offered reactivation of their memberships when upgrades are made available.

In the case of the latter, they typically become active again only when their team has a sniff of finals action - and are otherwise happy to stay dormant when their team is not so good. But this screws with the number of Silver Members that are offered upgrades if a whole heap of Absent Gold Members decide to become active again all at once. This allegedly happened in the years following the Essendon drug scandal when full AFL Members with Essendon club support ended their boycott and reactivated their AFL Memberships.

I seem to remember when I first joined in the 90's you could only get an Absentee Membership if you could prove that you had to reside interstate or overseas. This required stat decs, or rate notices and so on as proof. In absence of that, you paid your full membership fees year on year or you lost it.

Yep , living os or interstate was the only way to get absentee

There were also rumours this year of fully lapsed Gold Members being offered reactivation straight back into Gold - which was a contentious point among posters in this thread.

These days, it's just about harder to get out of AFL Gold Membership than to get into it.

Contentious was an understatement , posters screen shotted what they received . I wonder if they targeted lapsed members who were likely to make the finals?

 

[footyfan1978]

Standing room only available for Collingwood v Fremantle. Public is down to limited availability with standing room sold out.

Hope no one here did that.
There were seats this morning to reserve.
Undercover level 1 or level P which where booked this morning.

 

[Gydafud]

Based on the email from AFL membership today, doesn’t look like club support gets any priority access to the prelim. Tad annoying.

 

[Underarm]

Based on the email from AFL membership today, doesn’t look like club support gets any priority access to the prelim. Tad annannoying

Why would they?
There will be no issue getting tickets for the Geelong Prelim anyway.