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Quote from: TeddingtonQuin on Tuesday 18-Jan-2022, 21:28*
I sacked off the ERSC as in 4 years of membership I didn't receive any 6N games (I didn't go for the Italy matches) and only ever got Australia in the Autumn internationals so felt that I was rather being taken for a mug

It was through the ERSC (as was) that I managed to get the ten tickets for RWC2015. It was a shame to not be allowed to try for England tickets, but to get to the two QFs at Cardiff, & take my late mum to see NZ vs Arg at Wembley (including the pantomime booing of St Richie of McCaw after his yellow card that we all enjoyed!) was worth the small outlay!
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Quote from: DOK on Tuesday 18-Jan-2022, 21:30*
And some people win the lottery but I never have!

I've won't the lottery 37 times - once I won £7.80.
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Quote from: Quintessential on Tuesday 18-Jan-2022, 11:42*
Has any regular member ever got a 6N ticket via the club ballot?!

I always found that the best possible chance of getting a ticket was by being a "proper" member of a smaller club.  Quins have several thousand members potentially wanting tickets through their ballot, whereas our local club has a few hundred, most of whom are members primarily because there has to be an adult member with any playing child.

I wouldn't dream of paying the prices charged now for internationals worth seeing - the RFU ratcheted the prices right up for the 2015 RWC and never put them back down again - but prior to then, I was successful in every ballot I applied for, so have seen England play every other Tier One nation there at least a couple of times.
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Quote from: Kermitpower on Thursday 20-Jan-2022, 10:44*
I always found that the best possible chance of getting a ticket was by being a "proper" member of a smaller club.  Quins have several thousand members potentially wanting tickets through their ballot, whereas our local club has a few hundred, most of whom are members primarily because there has to be an adult member with any playing child.

I wouldn't dream of paying the prices charged now for internationals worth seeing - the RFU ratcheted the prices right up for the 2015 RWC and never put them back down again - but prior to then, I was successful in every ballot I applied for, so have seen England play every other Tier One nation there at least a couple of times.

Absolutely this.

Also they used to allocate tickets based on the numbers of teams and juniors, I believe. Not sure how they do the allocation now.

Factor in that Quins keep a chunk of their allocation for their own corporate arrangements and the odds are relatively slim.
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The RFU used to be public as to the percentage allocation of tickets for each type of ballot, sadly they have removed the image from the page that has this...https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rfu/Common/CustomPage/Index/1... but I found an old image on the internet...

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As to the Community Rugby Club allocations the RFU have changed this 2 years ago with 1100 Community Rugby clubs on average getting 2-3 more tickets than they used to.

Hopefully Quins will put us out of our misery soon by actually starting the ballot process......

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Though no confirmation, I heard that after the East stand renovation, "hospitality" now accounts for 15k people ie c18% of crowd.
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So, the weekend ended and another week is well under way.... and we have not received any further Ballot news from the Quins. The only emails we are receiving are about who we have managed to re-sign.

I have chased customer services and will see what response I get...
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Quote from: CQuin on Tuesday 25-Jan-2022, 20:11*
So, the weekend ended and another week is well under way.... and we have not received any further Ballot news from the Quins. The only emails we are receiving are about who we have managed to re-sign.

I have chased customer services and will see what response I get...

So.....he we are, the 6 nations is about to start and we've not had the ballot.

This isn't normal - any reply?

"Twickenham international ticket ballot access" is listed as a membership benefit (not that I've ever benefited).....
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It has now been a week since I replied to the Customer Experience team re the end of last week for an update going out... Sadly, but TYPICALLY... no response from them on this one.....

I have given up hope of hearing anything back from. Maybe we should all switch to supporting a grass roots club that are better with Member Experience and Admin
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never won the ballot on 25 years at Quins, gave up a while back now, it seemed more were aimed at the corps rather than normal members. I had way more success when I was  a member of the england rugby supporters club, got tickets to all the internationals and friendlies and one or two 6 nations.
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Quote from: CQuin on Monday 31-Jan-2022, 14:11*
It has now been a week since I replied to the Customer Experience team re the end of last week for an update going out... Sadly, but TYPICALLY... no response from them on this one.....

I have given up hope of hearing anything back from. Maybe we should all switch to supporting a grass roots club that are better with Member Experience and Admin

To be fair they had to let most of the staff go during covid and have barely been able to employ many back - I think the team may consist solely of Uri and some work experience.

But it's a bit off that nothing has been said publicly or otherwise.

As others have said - more chance of getting picked for the XV than actually getting tickets but still.

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Quote from: Quintessential on Tuesday 18-Jan-2022, 11:42*
Has any regular member ever got a 6N ticket via the club ballot?!

No, although about 10 or 15 years ago I did get a pair of tickets via the club ballot to see the All Blacks.
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Email received a few mins ago states:

"Our exclusive Harlequins Member Six Nations ticket ballot will be running once again for this year's tournament. Full details of the ballot will be shared with Members in the coming week.
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Thank you for letting us know the email had arrived.... mention of the ballot is well hidden (not in title) under the drive to sell hospitality seats for the games.

The cynic in me is wondering if they are selling as many hospitality tickets as they can before then opening the remainder of their allocation to the ballot process where they stand to make no additional beer and food profits....
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Quote from: CQuin on Monday 31-Jan-2022, 18:29*
Thank you for letting us know the email had arrived.... mention of the ballot is well hidden (not in title) under the drive to sell hospitality seats for the games.

The cynic in me is wondering if they are selling as many hospitality tickets as they can before then opening the remainder of their allocation to the ballot process where they stand to make no additional beer and food profits....

Ugh, yeah this hasn't been like this before. Understand there's a massive financial black hole after the last two years but it looks like exactly as you describe - sell as many tickets as possible via a hospitality package.

749 quid.

So that's 120 quid max for your seat at the game (at a different stadium)....

Leaving your champange, other booze and a four course meal costing you about 600 quid - plus a quick bit of chat from a player.

I'd rather have a few pints and a burger in the Sussex personally but each to their own.
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