Check your accounts people, I've got a pending transaction of about $1700 (3 x Cat 1 tickets for all 3 matches). Looks like they've done the PMA draw!
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Check your accounts people, I've got a pending transaction of about $1700 (3 x Cat 1 tickets for all 3 matches). Looks like they've done the PMA draw!
Also Look like I have been robbed $600 dollars from my CC .
Went for 3 x cat 1
Congrats mate - see you there
Confirmed the deduction is from FIFA at the Bank.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.J.
Looks like I now have 2 x tickets for the Dutch game in Porto Alegre.
Could be a bit of an issue if they check when they have the same person with 2 tickets to the same game on the same Credit Card Same passport Same everything etc when I go to pick them up in Rio
WHats everyones rough itineraries?
Mine is
May 17- June 8 Chile/ Argentine
June 8- June12 Iguazu falls
June 13 - June 16 Manaus
June 16- 20th Porto Alegre
June 20 -23rd Florianopolis
June 23- 26th Curitiba
June 26th - July 1st Recife
July 1- 8th Rio
8th - 12th Ilha Grande
12th- 15th July Rio
15th -18th July Sao Paulo
July 18th Sao Paulo - Syd
May 30 June 3 Montevideo
June 3- June 6 Buenos Aires
June 6 - June 9 Iguassu Falls
June 9- 12th Rio De Janiero
Fanatics Tour 11th>>27th
Cuiaba Porto Alegre Florianopolis Curtibia Sao Paulo
June 27 - 5th July Rio De Janiero
July 5th - 9th July Buenos Aires
July 9th - 16th Santiago
16th Fly home get into Sydney 18th July at 7:40am
May 30 - June 6 Santiago/Valparaiso
June 6 - June 11 Rio
June 11 - June 13 Caceres (3 hrs from Cuiaba)
June 14 - June 19 Porto Alegre
June 19 - June 24 Curitiba
June 25 - July 10 (approx) Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Sucre, La Paz, Rurrenabaque)
July 10 (approx) - July 24 Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza)
PMA Portal is open. Confirmed 3 x cat 1 Tickets to Socceroos for me
Awesome. Got the same as you MFKS for myself and two mates.
Anyone received the email from FIFA yet confirming? Do you guys know how the ticket pickup works? We go to Rio before the WC starts so it would be handy to be able to pick them all up there, but I'd imagine its a venue in each city...
Could be anywhere in Rio as FIFA haven't announced where it will be yet.
There will apparently be a venue in all 12 host cities available
chance of success in the fifa random ballot just held
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game team 1 team 2 venue cat1-3 req cat1-3 sold % success
2 mexico cameroon natal 17,525 5,336 30.45%
3 spain netherlands salvador 49,849 6,315 12.67%
4 chile australia cuiaba 14,133 8,699 61.55%
5 colombia greece belo horizonte 16,861 10,856 64.39%
6 cote d'ivoire japan recife 6,266 6,260 99.90%
7 uruguay costa rica fortaleza 4,869 4,864 99.90%
8 england italy manaus 46,892 7,398 15.78%
9 switzerland ecuador brasilia 5,830 5,826 99.93%
10 france honduras porto alegre 15,195 13,630 89.70%
11 argentina bosnia and herzegovina rio de janeiro 92,682 770 0.83%
12 iran nigeria curitiba 5,609 5,605 99.93%
13 germany portugal salvador 56,501 5,153 9.12%
14 ghana usa natal 11,113 8,650 77.84%
15 belgium algeria belo horizonte 4,326 4,321 99.88%
16 russia korea rep cuiaba 2,629 2,627 99.92%
17 brazil mexico fortaleza 131,924 218 0.17%
18 cameroon croatia manaus 5,017 5,016 99.98%
19 spain chile rio de janeiro 109,140 923 0.85%
20 australia netherlands porto alegre 18,250 11,443 62.70%
21 colombia cote d'ivoire brasilia 14,204 13,134 92.47%
22 japan greece natal 7,215 7,184 99.57%
23 uruguay england sao paulo 142,764 1,072 0.75%
24 italy costa rica recife 9,484 9,135 96.32%
25 switzerland france salvador 10,483 9,030 86.14%
26 honduras ecuador curitiba 7,824 7,546 96.45%
27 argentina iran belo horizonte 35,596 5,833 16.39%
28 nigeria bosnia and herzegovina cuiaba 1,563 1,563 100.00%
29 germany ghana fortaleza 12,884 9,342 72.51%
30 usa portugal manaus 32,961 8,267 25.08%
31 belgium russia rio de janeiro 39,977 11,962 29.92%
32 korea algeria porto alegre 4,751 4,751 100.00%
33 cameroon brazil brasilia 103,110 1,541 1.49%
34 croatia mexico recife 17,078 5,348 31.32%
35 australia spain curitiba 33,965 7,409 21.81%
36 netherlands chile sao paulo 77,168 3,489 4.52%
37 japan colombia cuiaba 13,159 7,734 58.77%
38 greece cote d'ivoire fortaleza 1,717 1,717 100.00%
39 italy uruguay natal 32,158 5,682 17.67%
40 costa rica england belo horizonte 12,464 7,722 61.95%
41 honduras switzerland manaus 3,388 3,388 100.00%
42 ecuador france rio de janeiro 44,043 7,851 17.83%
43 nigeria argentina porto alegre 55,271 7,218 13.06%
44 bosnia and herzigovina iran salvador 2,102 2,101 99.95%
45 usa germany recife 36,044 6,709 18.61%
46 portugal ghana brasilia 13,124 13,117 99.95%
47 korea belgium sao paulo 25,062 13,041 52.03%
48 algeria russia curitiba 7,667 7,665 99.97%
49 1a 2b belo horizonte 104,090 1,152 1.11%
50 1c 2d rio de janeiro 69,965 1,798 2.57%
51 1b 2a fortaleza 16,624 6,846 41.18%
52 1d 2c recife 14,782 4,990 33.76%
53 1e 2f brasilia 9,345 5,647 60.43%
54 1g 2h porto alegre 28,030 11,377 40.59%
55 1f 2e sao paulo 88,822 4,089 4.60%
56 1h 2g salvador 12,866 7,315 56.86%
57 w49 w50 fortaleza 36,494 6,815 18.67%
58 w53 w54 rio de janeiro 90,999 1,105 1.21%
59 w51 w52 salvador 21,808 7,505 34.41%
60 w55 w56 brasilia 23,402 9,638 41.18%
61 w57 w58 belo horizonte 85,850 1,294 1.51%
62 w59 w60 sao paulo 115,916 339 0.29%
63 l61 l62 brasilia 11,011 5,982 54.33%
http://sistemas.mre.gov.br/kitweb/da...nformation.pdf
Found this today. 20 Pages from the Brazillian authorities with useful info for foreigners about stuff in Brazil for the World cup and general issues for tourists in Brazil
http://www.copa2014.gov.br/sites/def...amalho_820.jpg
SD I am gonna see if i can go for a swim in the pool either pre or post game here
Anyone have any luck in the FCFS overnight.
Me spent 2 and a half hours in the queue before getting in.
When i got in obviously the good stuff was long gone.
Checked a few ticket options about but most of the options were $200 a ticket and then $300-$500 transport to get there to watch two teams I had little interest in.
Best option was about $350 for ticket and transport to Algeria V Russia :banghead:but being in Sao Paulo that day I like my chances more of getting tickets to Sth Korea V Belgium.
So empty handed again but I at least got in the room this time:roflz:
I got lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Semi final in Brasilia x 3
Honduras v Ecuador x3
Semi in Brasilia???Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
Thought the semis were in Belo Horizante and Sao Paulo
The 3rd place playoff is in Brasilia though that game shouldn't be too hard to get tickets for. When I got in it was still available but no use to me as I will be gone from Brazil by then.
Should meet up with you for the Honduras Ecuador game.
Scored ticket for that myself in the last Ballot!!
Give it one thing that Virtual Queue is a joke that beggars belief. I used 3 different PC'S on 3 different browsers last night. It took me 2 and a half hours to get in. The PC I logged on last with was the one that got through and the one that was logged in first got in 2nd.
The whole virtual queue is a farce and no way in the world is there any fairness with it but more pot luck.
What is also more ridiculous is the amount of payment issues people had and lost tickets because of the System failing
Be just easier to issue more tickets in the ballots and stop with the charade of this circus and the wasting of millions of peoples time around the world only to be left dissappointed
Thats the one!Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
After watching the Classico between Real and Barca yesterday am really looking forward to seeing Spain's raping of us in the flesh. That Iniesta bloke is probably the most under rated footballer on the planet. I know he is already a great player but as far as I am concerned his profile is nowhere near as high as it deserves to be and the bloke misses out on a shitload of plaudits that lesser players get regularly
Doesn't have the highlight reel spectacular moments of Messi/CR7 etc but for actually applying the basic skills of the game you would teach kids the bloke is the best on the planet.
Shame in one regard he plays in such great teams where his skills are often hidden from receiving the due recognition they deserve. The way he won that penalty to win the game was ingenious and just the way he keeps the ball, controls it and the composure he shows on the ball are ****ING BRILLIANT
Tinks sign him up:whistling:
Iniesta is the best all-round player since Zidane.
Total freak. His though ball for Messi's first goal this morning vs Celta Vigo is all you need to know.
Love the bloke.
It's rather sad that a bloke of his talents despite being one of the few players ever in the world to score the winner in a WC Final will go down in the grand scheme of things historically way under rated and not on the pedestal he deserves to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
I think time will help him.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
His World Cup winner makes him an immortal of the game (Geoff Hurst anyone?). Add to that all of the other trophies and deep down I reakon both Messi and Ronaldo would trade their careers for his.
You are right though he is underrated, but I still talk to people who say Beckham was better than Zidane or that Michael Owen was a better striker than Fat Ronaldo.
Some people are just strange Member.
Fat Ronaldo would be remembered on par with Maradona and Pele if he never had those knee injuries that initially struck him down. (Well before he got fat even before he scored in the WC Final)Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
The season he had before he moved to Inter he was out of this world and put more performances in than Messi/CR7 do between them in a year
True story, I met Martin Peters one night at White Hart Lane he actually introduced himself to me as 'the other guy' (he scored in the 1966 final but everyone talks about Geoff Hursts hat trick). A mate asked if he was bummed out about how much money the players get these days etc he just looked at us and said " there's only one other man in the entire history of our country who has done what I've done. I'm quite content with my achievements"
Dead set legend he was.
Anyone have any luck tonight in the Last Minute Sales ??
As for me it was a turkey shoot!!!!
Got in after about 4 mins so was able to pick up all I wanted bar 1 game.
Got plenty of KnockOut games but couldn't manage the simple task of picking up a Belgium V Sth Korea ticket FFS
Looks like I have now sourced 11of 12 games i am planning on attending!!!
SWEET
I thought their was a limit of 7 games?Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
There is.
Have some trades organised where I purchase excess tickets off others.
Also the whole thing is a joke with the abilty to manipulate it anyway.
Anyone who got delivery option should have put applications in anyones name who would wear the temp credit card bill before you could fix it up and will hand them over once they get sent out in May
Add in the ability to buy 4 tickets to a match when you can easily put down your mum dad brother wife mate etc name even if they ain't going.
The rorting involved is mind blowing. Good news is it stops when people reach their targeted games
In case you missed it yesterday about 4pm Newy time Fifa released a batch of tickets.
All the good shit went quick obviously.
Had apparently Rio QF >> Rio Rd 16 >> Aus V Chile>> Other 2nd Rd and QF Knockout games >> Other random group games
I have been monitoring the FIFA site every arvo and night this week and you will never guess which day I didn't ??? :banghead:
Strange to do it at that time as it wasn't really suitable for Europeans/Sth Americans/Nth Americans etc as most would have been in bed.
Anyway on the Big Soccer forum in the WC Tickets and Travel Sub Forum their is a thread called Scorpyn's Scanner. You will probably find the link to download the program/app about 10-15 pages back from where the thread is at now!!!
Basically the thing gets hooked up to your FIFA account and it constantly scans the games for availability and if it finds the game will play an alert sound and tries to put it in your basket. You will then have your 15 mins to pay for it and complete the FIFA info you have to fill out if you don't it pops out of your basket for someone else to pick up
Now obviously many people have this so exactly how it works for the high demand games such as Final Semis Opening game Uruguay V England etc is a bit of a mystery as the amount trying to put them in the basket will obviously be above supply from FIFA. Obviously may not get lucky but should work a hell of a lot better if you are after games with less demand.
Thing can be set up to run in the background of your PC and will give you the alert at whatever time of day tickets become available. So in theory you could be alerted at 3 in the morning and then you would have 15 mins to wake up and complete transaction.
Basically you can have the thing running any hour of the day that you are home an in a position to access your PC
Thing runs off Windows so wouldn't have a clue how it goes on those inferior Macs
One other thing with it is it well come up as a suspicious file with your anti virus programs. You will need to allow it.
I have been running it for the last week ort so without incident
Happy Birthday Member :cool:
thanks Militia
Agree. Happy birthday! Nice to have it on a long weekend I betQuote:
Originally Posted by militiamon
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
Not really.
Problem is every other bugger always decides to factor in a few days break for themselves around Anzac Day every year so i always get stuck going to work.
Last 2 years I was meant to have the day off with plans for the evening and some one has bailed and the boss rang us in the morning and I had to work in the evening which meant both years never got to see anyone on my birthday and done nothing. Being that I am the boss now I just rostered myself on this morning and then rostered the most reliable staff member to relieve me.
Problem solved and now I have the night off!!!!!
Hope you had a terrific birthday MFKFC
Well then... as a birthday present to me, i decided to win a competition to attend Switzerland vs France in Salvador.. all inclusive from UBS and VISA here in Switzerland. Quick whirlwind 3 day in Brazil trip :) :) :) :) :cool:
Quote:
Originally Posted by goaliepersempre
Congrats
Am currently looking at re doing my schedule to spend a week up in Salvador and take in the QF there.
Looks a great place
Still cant believe it hey, at first i was like no way. very skeptical. But went into the bank and got it confirmed in person.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Will be a whirlwhind trip. Exams the Monday and Tuesday, Thursday fly to Brazil, Friday Game, Saturday day in salvador and sunday at somestage fly back. Funny to is 2 of my cousins are there together following the swiss national team. So will be sweet to catch up over there too.
Jesus goaliepersempre, that's awesome! I have tickets to France v Honduras in Porto Alegre but France v Switzerland should be unreal!
I got my passport back from the Brazilian consulate yesterday, everything all ready to go now. 2 months in South/Central America, June can't come quick enough!
I sent mine away 14th April, Havent got it back yet :(Quote:
Originally Posted by evolution
Although that was only 10 business days ago, so hopefully it should be on its way today or tomorrow!
What are the best money cards to use? What is eveyrone thinking of using?
Will be heading to a number of countries..
When I went to Peru in 2012 our travel agent set us up with a Cash Passport:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
http://www.cashpassport.com.au/
It was so easy to use & worked anywhere I needed it to.
I wasn't wised up enough to research conversion rates etc so I have no idea if it's the best money-wise option. But in terms of ease of use, it was perfect.
Use your credit card where possible. Just take more precaution and never let it out of your sight
You will get much better exchange rates with the CC
That is just a ploy to con the masses with its ease of use and negates the fact you lose a lot of money with its use
That thing you plugged WLG is basically a con to the masses. The fees involved in it are obscene. Cost to load Cost to convert currency etc. You would be better off getting cash out on the CC and fixing it up that night with Internet banking!!!
Not that I am encouraging the use of cash out on CC
Most of my cash transactions will be with the Visa Debit Card from the Greater BS. With it I have no ATM withdrawal fees around the world unless there is a fee for use like a Rediteller
Just have to pay the foreign currency conversion transaction fee each time. Reality is I am planning to use cash as little as possible.
Talking 2 of these Plus 2 CC
Will be planning on using my CC with a small limit of $2000 to cut down on any possible Credit Card Fraud Issues as often as possible and then Internet banking to level it up each couple of days.
My money will be stuck in a passbook account I will be able to access via Internet Banking so that should also cut down on any fund theft issues if someone was to get hold of my debit cards