Hours in the queue, error messages and free tickets that are suddenly offered for sale online. The chaotic ticket sales for the party next month on the A10 causes a lot of annoyance among the Amsterdammers.
At five to ten this morning, Chantal was ready. As an Amsterdamse, she is looking forward to the party on a closed city ring. But where she first opened the laptop in good spirits, the same courage quickly dropped her in her shoes.
“I am still in the queue,” she says more than two hours later. It rains complaints, online and also in the AT5 mailbox. People who spend hours in the digital queue, or – like Sara – get an error message when they finally get through it. “When I got through, I clicked on the tickets and filled in the code that I received on my phone. Then it said:” Sorry, problem. You close the waiting list again. “
In the end, Sara succeeded. But she spent half a day with it. “Had just ensured that we all had a code at home. That everyone can order 2 tickets, that Amsterdammers lead before. And 280,000 tickets is just really too little. If it says it is very big, before Amsterdam, and then a very large part of the people cannot come.”
“Amsterdammers must be given priority”
We do not know if Chantal finally managed to get cards, but when we spoke this afternoon she seemed to give it up. “I think that people who live in Amsterdam should somehow get something of priority treatment. Because they are also the most inconvenience.”