Why does getting tickets take a few hours?

EddieWouldKnow

genevieve wrote:

I also suggest having the cordless phone beside you.
The 10C phone number in Seattle.
The CC companys phone number.
Your wallet.
A drink.
Something to snack on.
Your dogs are fed and have been let out.
Your children are taken care of.
Cigarettes (even for those who dont smoke).
And use the bathroom before loggin in.

You will also need a blanket for the chills and a fan for the overheating.
Tissues might be important for the tears.
Or even for cleaning up your pop when you knock it over while reaching for the phone/wallet/cigarettes.

POST OF THE DAY
Hysterical....I actually do moosst of these things,

Except I do some stretching...crack the knuckles...put my wrist bands on..then the head band ofcourse...then I turn off all of my other electronics (ofcourse only after I've checked with the neighbors to make sure their internet connections are turned off....phones & blackberries included...duhhhh)

Oh...and I forgot to mention closing the blinds...wouldnt want a chirping bird to break your concentration.

It's all for the love of Pearl Jam............

too funny

McJuicy

twolegsyield wrote:

some people are pretty stupid too...

the same people who bitch about not getting their tickets probably still use a dial up connection...tour after tour

i've only had the site crash on me using a slow piece of shit computer with a terrible connection.

i'm sure their site does have something to do with respect to the amount of traffic coming across with servers and what not, but i really never have any trouble...

*knocks on wood

you are wrong

mjb

There isn't much cause for debate here. If you get lucky and don't experience a problem, good for you and congratulations...but it is a FACT that a huge number of people who are logged in and ready to go at the moment tickets go on sale get fucked due to server issues - let's just be honest, the "system" here isn't a race or "first come first serve", it is simply dumb luck - I hope all the assholes who feel the need to question/ridicule it experience the frustration one day.

BlackCorduroy

mjb wrote:

I certainly don't have dialup and EV tickets did absolutely take two hours...here's the general scenario:

1. you prelogin 5 mins before they go up;
2. you refresh madly every 2.2 seconds until the glorious little ticket icons appear on the right hand side of the page
3. you select your show and click the "Buy" button (you begin to wonder what people around here are complaining about and assume the 10c has made modifications to the system)
4. you IMMEDIATELY click checkout (don't dick around, you've only got about 13 seconds here before the thing is crashing)
5. you confirm billing and shipping address
6. you enter your ccard number
7. the system crashes and spits out an error message
8. you panic, but you are somehow comforted in the knowledge that "it must have crashed for everyone else too"
9. in the process of continuing to refresh every 2.2 seconds, you somehow logon to the Pit and see numerous threads from members proclaiming "GOT EM'"
10. you panic again, refreshing now at a rate of every 1.4 seconds
11. the titles in the Pit threads now read "WHAT THE FUCK", "IT TOOK MY CCARD NUMBERS, AM I GOOD", "ARE THEY STILL IN MY CART", "CRAshed?!@, GUYS, IF IT CHARGED YOUR CARD YOU'RE FINE"
12. you call your credit card company and you see the charge has been put through...phew...only then you check the Pit again, thread titles now read , "FUCK, KAT SAYS UNLESS IT'S IN YOUR PROFILE, YOU'RE FUCKED"
13. you try to check your Profile only you can't
14. Refreshing now greets you with a database error
15. The Pit is down
16. The Pit is back
17. 1/2 of the site now loads, the rest has an XML:a adnasfjsjjsdfjksd ERROR
18. Site loads, your Profile shows nothing, there is NOTHING IN YOUR CART
19. Site crashes
20. Tickets are there, but they say "TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK"
21. You continue to refresh every .9 seconds in hopes of seeing the BUY button
22. You check the Pit, the thread titles now read "Temporarily Out of Stock GUYS, THERE ARE STILL TICKETS IN CARTS" (wtf?! why did they pop out of my fucking cart!)
23. In your mad fit of refreshing, you miss the BUY button ("it was FUCKING there!!!!")
24. You see the BUY button and click it! You heart soars, the next page loads and "your selection cannot be completed because the item is temporarily out of stock" you heart sinks
25. After 117 mins of refreshing the tickets are "OUT OF STOCK"
26. You spend the next 2 hours reading threads about how "simple" it was for some people wondering if you have "dial-up or something"

and that my friend, is how you spend 2 hours trying to get tickets that sell out in 30 seconds.

But hey, they could have fixed all that...isn't that what the poster sales were supposed to test GOOD LUCK. You'll need it.

hahaha so accurate. Step 23 is the worst of them all

Azera

I understand the theory for staggered on sale, but as has been pointed out, people will be online for hours after the start time of an on sale trying to buy tickets. The server will be jammed and crash. It will be ugly. We all know it. Good luck to all.

grjammer

Azera wrote:

I understand the theory for staggered on sale, but as has been pointed out, people will be online for hours after the start time of an on sale trying to buy tickets. The server will be jammed and crash. It will be ugly. We all know it. Good luck to all.

That is a good point. I think it would have been better to allow closer to 4 hours between sales. Oh well. It will be interesting.

The key is to not give up. In 06 I got tickets to the second Camden show using a dial-up connection about 45 minutes after they went on sale.

over bends

You know, I was just thinking about it and it still isn't really clicking. I won't be able to get tickets myself so I have to train my pops to do it for me, and unfortunately he doesn't have 3+ hours to focus on this. Is there a chance that everything goes smoothly? and I'm just not getting how people are still able to get tickets after 3+ hours of trying.

I haven't been able to focus on anything else all week.

poto101

mjb wrote:

23. In your mad fit of refreshing, you miss the BUY button ("it was FUCKING there!!!!")

happened with the Into the Wild LP. luckily i got it again. i swear i was one of hte last people to actually get it, sooooo lucky. it was like an hour and 15 after they went on sale and i luckily dropped onto the pit and was reminded.

i nearly threw my laptop into the wall.

oh and i would add...

have something to punch in frustration, pillows work better than drywall

10 Years Alive

over_bends wrote:

I keep hearing people say this, but I have no idea what they really mean by it. I've never gotten 10c tickets before and am completely dumbfounded by this statement. How can obtaining tickets to a show take hours? Either you have them or you don't, no?

From my experience, getting tickets for a special performance such as The Vic or EV's solo tour is challenging. However, I've always been successful purchasing tickets in a matter of minutes for any show part of a tour.