Seat Counters - 2024/25

After this draining slog of a sales process I'm sure it's natural for some veteran seat-counters to think that this is their Everest and believe it may be a good time to hang up their devices. They've fought on valiantly against the Eurovision kick off clash, FA returns, scandalous pricing and idiotic criteria set out by the ticket office.

There's a lot of new seat-counters that have come of age over the past week and I hope a few of the old guard stick around in what is likely to be a transitional period for us going forward.
 
Lee the Blue said:
The Seat Counters amongst us know that the bonus prize of an FA Cup win is an early return to duty and a Community Shield seat count in August, should we be successful at the weekend (please god)
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The Semi Finals of the CWC are a month before the Community Shield and the final less than a month so, should we win on Saturday, surely we’ll withdraw from the Community Shield as we’ll have no players available!
 
Cobwebcat said:
There is no way of knowing how many seats are left. We will only know it’s zero when it says “sold out”

It’s game over for counters on this one I’m afraid. The algorithm is pretending unsold seats are sold to maximise money. You can’t know.
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I admit that the algorithm has disrupted seat counting but we are learning to work around it. You need to work as a team and use the highest figure that anyone gets and disregard the lowest. It’s damaged our credibility and made our jobs a lot harder but has also spiced things up and added an element of mystery that wasn’t there before.

Maybe the algorithm wasn’t introduced to encourage sales but to smash the seat counters. Has anyone considered that?
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I admit that the algorithm has disrupted seat counting but we are learning to work around it. You need to work as a team and use the highest figure that anyone gets and disregard the lowest. It’s damaged our credibility and made our jobs a lot harder but has also spiced things up and added an element of mystery that wasn’t there before.

Maybe the algorithm wasn’t introduced to encourage sales but to smash the seat counters. Has anyone considered that?
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Haha. I could be wrong but I think the algorithm might be partly based on how much time is left to sell rather than just seats remaining. My theory is that however many seats are left it’s programmed to show a certain number at a certain time to generate sales.

Of course I don’t think that means there are thousands left (that wouldn’t help sales) but if there were a few hundred I would not be surprised. If you add up all the times the total reduced and then increased again immediately they were holding hundreds back. I don’t think these were all returns; there is something else going on and I think I see a pattern.

If I’m right it makes your job almost impossible. If it sells out my prediction is that, just before it shows sold out, it will appear that there are around 100 tickets left which will all vanish together in seconds.

I’m probably wildly wrong but curious.

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And I thought Glastonbury ticket sales were interesting.... This thread is just something else... Never known a ticket sales like it... From low double digits to over 100 in minutes
 
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