philly 2 presale=biggest waste of my life

carveyourniche
carveyourniche Posts: 21
edited July 2009 in The Porch
i left work early, logged on at 430 began trying at 5 sharp, got the fucking buy butting at least 20 times and got either error messages or sent back to the temp out of stock page....i dont understand

looks like iwont be going to philly since i cant afford regular tickets worth a damn and their ass raping charges on top of traveling and a hotel stay, i cannot believe i wasted 2 hours of my fucking life on this to be disappointed
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  • starmap3333
    starmap3333 Posts: 3,925
    You and thousands of others... not to worry, there's always public onsale Friday. I always hang by the 10C pick up windows to try and score one when I get shut out...
  • uprq
    uprq Posts: 15
    I'm with you dude. Absolute garbage, I should have spent the last hour and forty-five minutes slamming my balls in a dresser drawer, I'd have more to show for it.

    **Idea** Prepare website for massive traffic spikes during ticket sales, just a thought...
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  • reflectedfromafar
    reflectedfromafar Posts: 235
    Biggest waste...of your life ??

    You sir (or madam) must lead one charmed life if this is the worst of it.

    carveyourniche wrote:
    i left work early, logged on at 430 began trying at 5 sharp, got the fucking buy butting at least 20 times and got either error messages or sent back to the temp out of stock page....i dont understand

    looks like iwont be going to philly since i cant afford regular tickets worth a damn and their ass raping charges on top of traveling and a hotel stay, i cannot believe i wasted 2 hours of my fucking life on this to be disappointed
    There's a lot to be said for nowhere...
  • PearlJamPatriot
    PearlJamPatriot Posts: 2,426
    I feel your guys pain. I really do. But im just happy I got night 1. I knew this would be a cluster fuck.
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  • nothingman44
    nothingman44 Posts: 1,496
    i had to take a dump the whole time.

    how do you think i felt when it said out of stock?
  • Swanton
    Swanton Posts: 77
    Agreed. The system is terrible, and I'd say the same thing if I was lucky enough to get tickets to one of the shows. Some people from the fan club have tickets to both shows while others got shut out for both.

    System makes no sense.
    You will try.
  • CServant
    CServant DCO Posts: 1,182
    nothingman44 wrote:
    i had to take a dump the whole time.

    how do you think i felt when it said out of stock?

    I know what you did afterwards...
    HAHA Good humor here!
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  • scw156
    scw156 Posts: 442
    I logged in at 5:05, got tickets in a little over 5 minutes, logged out, logged in to a friends account, and STILL got tickets for him

    shit i'm awesome








    just kidding, wouldn't you be pissed if that really happened though?
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  • carveyourniche
    carveyourniche Posts: 21
    reflectedfromafar, i wasn't really looking for someone to respond with something condescending, thanks though.

    waste of my time? yes. over exaggeration? yes. am i pissed? yes.

    i've never seen pj in concert so yea, im disappointed. not asking for a pity party, just knew others are feeling the same way right now
  • Bathgate66
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    Proxy Error

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    The proxy server could not handle the request GET /store/index.spring.

    Reason: Error reading from remote server

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  • SC119444
    SC119444 Posts: 6
    I agree I wasted over almost 2 hours trying to get tickets. I got through 3 or 4 times and clicked the buy button and it sent me to a page that wouldn't allow me to complete my transaction. I have been buying fan club tickets for years and every time they have a pre-sale they can not handle the volume and the server crashes. Hopefully one day they will get a server big enough to handle the fan base. PEARL JAM is the best band in world and the Ten Club website is a third world site.
  • andrewb
    andrewb Posts: 488
    nothingman44 wrote:
    i had to take a dump the whole time.

    how do you think i felt when it said out of stock?

    Thank you for making me laugh
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  • mike-sizzle
    mike-sizzle Posts: 186
    If it you makes you feel better I was dumb enough to take a vacation day today and was shut out of both concerts. The worst is that by the 10th time I got to "buy" I still some how thought I was going to get them, so it goes.
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  • satansbedbugs
    satansbedbugs On Tour Posts: 2,413
    uprq wrote:
    I'm with you dude. Absolute garbage, I should have spent the last hour and forty-five minutes slamming my balls in a dresser drawer, I'd have more to show for it.

    **Idea** Prepare website for massive traffic spikes during ticket sales, just a thought...


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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    so whats the difference between those that got tix and those that didnt?
    dumb luck?

    I think not.

    people were still scoring tix 45 mins later

    internet speed and persistence pays off as far as I can tell

    and the servers are a heck of a lot better than they used to be

    of course thats easy for me to say
  • autumn
    autumn Posts: 191
    Get_Right wrote:
    so whats the difference between those that got tix and those that didnt?
    dumb luck?

    I think not.

    people were still scoring tix 45 mins later

    internet speed and persistence pays off as far as I can tell

    and the servers are a heck of a lot better than they used to be

    of course thats easy for me to say

    I disagree, I think it can have something to do with dumb luck. I did the exact same thing from the exact same computer for both pre-sales today. I was lucky with Philly 1, but unlucky with Philly 2. Sounds like a combination of preparedness, persistance and yes, a little dumb luck!
  • uprq
    uprq Posts: 15
    Get_Right wrote:
    so whats the difference between those that got tix and those that didnt?
    dumb luck?

    I think not.

    people were still scoring tix 45 mins later

    internet speed and persistence pays off as far as I can tell
    I respectfully disagree with your assertion sir. My internet speed is 12MB, nowhere close to the best, but more than adequate in this regard. I spent 105 minutes of my life opening what was probably a thousand tabs with Firefox, saw the 'buy' button about 50 times, and it glitched out every single time. I even saved one of the 'buy' pages as .htm, hoping I'd be able to click it multiple times instead of when it randomly generated - nada.

    Exactly two minutes before 5pm (2 Pacific) their system crashed because of the amount of traffic, I know this is a fact because it told me so. After freaking out and repeatedly trying to get back in, I started clicking away and finally got the Buycon, clicked it, and it timed out, again because the system was overloaded.

    This is not about internet speed, or a "lack of persistence", it is solely about an insufficient system to obtain concert tickets for our favorite band, which unfortunately for me is the main reason I remain in the fan club.

    To sum up the experience, please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    well my connection runs at 100mb, and its just a DSL line, so 12 seems very slow

    but hey I guess I was wrong as there is always a little luck involved

    this is nothing new-same thing happened with MSG last year and the tickets sold out even faster than today
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,865
    it was tough.

    I was on before 5 and started the refresh train. Right at 5, the server went down. I got it back up at like 5:01 and kept trying to click on the ticket Icon. It would take me back to the Goods home page and say the item isnt for sale. This happened until about 5:05 or so.

    Then I was able to get into the ticket screen and click buy, but then I would get the website was unavailable message. Then I was locked out for a long time, until maybe 5:10.

    Thats when the lab experiment started. the temporary out of stock race. I got buy a handful of times, but no matter how quick i tried to click on it, the tickets would be unavailable.

    At about 5:47 I got lucky and hit the buy button and it took me through the transaction.



    I have a very good track record with these sales and I was at work on a very good internet connection. Things were very fucked up today and it was very tough to get tickets no matter who you were.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    carveyourniche wrote:
    i left work early, logged on at 430 began trying at 5 sharp, got the fucking buy butting at least 20 times and got either error messages or sent back to the temp out of stock page....i dont understand

    looks like iwont be going to philly since i cant afford regular tickets worth a damn and their ass raping charges on top of traveling and a hotel stay, i cannot believe i wasted 2 hours of my fucking life on this to be disappointed

    Hmmn...you can't afford the extra $8 charge that TM puts on, so you aren't going to Philly? A whole $8 is going to stop you from going to Philly? Sorry you didn't get tickets, but really the whole issue is here is that 2,000 people get tickets, and 200 don't, and we all would just prefer to find out within 2 minutes and not an hour.

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