What a farce – been trying to do this on a mobile without Wi-Fi for 1 hour 40 mins. Have got through to payment authentication page then get some error message. Entry Central get your f***ing act together!

finally I’m in

I’ve signed up for two more places for me and my brother stuck at the confirmation screen again. This will mean me and him are entered twice if it goes through. If we are both entered twice I will resell the entry on here.

Official website still says:

“Event entry will be available online only via this website from 12 noon on 5th January 2013”

!

I’m in…here’s the entry list (if you can get in)

http://www.entrycentral.com/index.php?raceID=100199

my brother is in I’m not how can that be? I paid at same time? grrrr I love this event and want to be in it

FINALLY! YES I’M SHOUTING!

..526 🙂 Only hope I’m up to it by then 😀

Sign up list on line here HONC Entries

OK, that system is the worst i’ve ever used

Managed to get tickets for Glastonbury 7 years in a row, 200,000 tickets in 30 mins….

Barclay’s have just called me to check out why i’ve just had 7 transactions, totaling £135, paid to EntryCentral…

I’ve seen the successful screen shot once for 2 race entries, for which i received confirmation emails

God knows what happened with the rest

I don’t know how much EntryCentral take on each transaction, but i know that i’d be happy to pay £5 to £10 more to ensure a good system which can handle a couple of hundred people trying to enter

Maybe at 8am or 9am as well so it doesn’t screw up a days riding

Grrrrrr

Genuine LOL at AA – see you there!

Have entered 6 people, bank confirms £90 paid, but only 1 of us appears on the entry list 😯

Winchcombe CC facebook page has a few comments on it from the harassed club members, appears its entry central who are too blame! 👿

Anyone know how to get a refund off entry central if they have taken our hard earned money but given us no places?

My payment was accepted 40 mins ago but still no confirmation e-mail.

I’m on the sign-up list though, so fingers crossed!!

Tried it twice. Got bored of protx having a hissy fit. Decided it was fate’s way of telling me it’ll be raining and horrible.

My payment crashed, had no email, never looked to see if i was on the last, this happend 3 times before payment was taken.now I’m on the list 3 times.BLimy that’s 300klm i have to do,i better start training for that distance.

Bummer, entries closed. I may be looking for one if anyone has a spare, looks like there might be a lot of duplicates?

I must be lucky, just went through no problems, either that or everyone else gave up! Entry No. is in the low 300’s, by this time last year all entries taken an hour or so since.

FFS! Now closed and my name is no longer on the sign up list.

Bloody shambles.

Entry has been suspended until further notice, please check the organiser’s website for updates

my name has just disappeared from the list 😮

it looks like they’ve closed it now…

Sweet baby jesus… Seems I’ve got pending transactions galore for apparent failed payments which have actually been accepted! Someone needs a **** kickin!

Just received an email confirming my entry but is says it is a duplicate receipt and does not have my number. At least I have an entry. I hope.

The two of the group I entered, who were on the list are no longer, but the inital entry I did for myself now seems to have gone through, and I’ve got an email.

Still waiting to see if the rest of the group are in or not?

I got this email and I’m on the list

Your entry for 29th Hell Of The North Cotswolds (duplicate receipt)

Hello Clubber This is to confirm that you have entered 29th Hell Of The North Cotswolds on 14 April 2013. The organiser has added information that you need to know about the event, to the bottom of this email receipt. A copy of this email has been sent to the organiser, who requested that this receipt be re-sent to you.

Your Entry Details

If any of your personal details need to change, you should contact the event organiser, John Taylor (honcwinchcombe@aol.com), and not EntryCentral.com. Allocated Entry Number 206

Got the same email now.

Your entry for 29th Hell Of The North Cotswolds (duplicate receipt)
Hello Gareth Partington

This is to confirm that you have entered 29th Hell Of The North Cotswolds on 14 April 2013. The organiser has added information that you need to know about the event, to the bottom of this email receipt. A copy of this email has been sent to the organiser, who requested that this receipt be re-sent to you.

Feel sorry for the organizer having to sort this s*** out now due that crappy website.

Right I’m going to go tweak my bike and pretend I don’t have two lots of money going out the bank.

Went away for an hour or so, came back, checked my emails!! I’M IN!!! 😀

I appear to be in, I just don’t have a number allocated in the email. Fingers crossed only one lot of money going out, had to enter card details so many times I could be bankrupt lol

I don’t have a number either, but I’m on the list and I have an email confirming it!! Numbers can be sorted later!

Next thing I need to do is sort accommodation for the night before!

it’s worth reading the fb page :

http://www.facebook.com/WinchcombeCycleClub

sounds like they’re having a tough time…

Winchcombe Cycling Club
Current situation we have asked ‘Entry
Central’ to suspend entries until we can
establish how many people have entered and
we will then depending on places remaining
(if there are any) device a system to allocate
any remaining.
This time last year all 1200 places were taken
in 40 minutes. this year only 300 places were
handled in the first hour.
This is a quote from ‘Entry Central’ an email
extract received a short while ago…
“I suggest you protect your reputation and
pull further entries, when you confirm I will
close the event. The server allows 10k
concurent connections and is not able to
handle the demand for your 1200 places.
All payments will be honoured, nobody will
be overcharged. Some shoppers will have
shadows on their accounts, but the collection
will not be made against these
authorisations”
Clearly the site was receiving over ten
thousand requests causing a total melt down
of the ‘Entry Central’ server.
We will review the current situation and
provide further updates within the next hour.
Thank you for your patience and we will do
our utmost to resolve this as fast as we
possibly can this end.

I feel for the Winchcombe and ‘Nam CC guys, they lay on a smashing event and they’ve been let down by the EntryCentral hamsters.

Please, please, please let’s not let the shambles with the entry system reflect badly on what is a brilliant event that raises a good chunk of cash for charity (and, no less significantly, provides a good chunk of cake for every participant)

hi all, i think my failed payments (5 of them) have either gone through or frozen from my available balance in my bank account, naughty naughty

To add some balance
The Entry Central System normally works quite well. We use it for club membership and its used extensively for tri events.
The problem is the number of hits. Given last years event was sold out in less than an hour I guess there was always a chance it would go into meltdown

has it sold out? website says entries closed, but places look available?

I think this is the relevant bit:

we have asked ‘Entry
Central’ to suspend entries until we can
establish how many people have entered and
we will then depending on places remaining
(if there are any) device a system to allocate
any remaining.

read clubbers post..

I guess they don’t know how many places have gone so its shut untill its worked out..

Entry Central seem to have massively messed up here. It was fine last year. In fact I don’t ever remember a problem entering.

It is a great event, as IHN has said the organisers have been let down by a 3rd party.

thanks for the heads up guys, i’ll keep an eye on the site.

Gutted, paid twice, no entry showing on Entry Central.

Will have to wait for it to come back up.

PANTS CENTRAL

Looking at the list it seems about 700 entries are on the list my brother was 306 at the time they suspended entries so I guess its slowly getting sorted and ammended, good luck. It does state the servers are capable of handling over 10000 people so I guess more than tried to register at once causing problems. Can we blame the Olympics and Brad Wiggins?