Two words: Window Period

I really wish the Ten Club would follow the ticket distribution model followed by the Dave Matthews Band. Give fan club members a week to request tickets. Randomly select among those who requested to get the tickets.
Servers don't crash. People don't need to access a web site at a specific time. No need to spend an hour of more refreshing screens. No shopping cart problems. No stress.
Ten Club - please consider this model. It works!
Servers don't crash. People don't need to access a web site at a specific time. No need to spend an hour of more refreshing screens. No shopping cart problems. No stress.
Ten Club - please consider this model. It works!
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If by "randomly select" you mean, search by member name to see how many complaints, "fuck you tenclub" and "like my 'I Hate 10C Page', posts each ticket requester has, then POLITELY delete them from the lottery, then, yes, i agree.
If you mean RANDOMLY ... then, no.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
As long as you know if you have tickets or not before they go on sale to the public, it really shouldn't matter.
How would it bring up the same bitching? All of the bitching now (and during all sales) is about the web site crashing. That goes away. People who don't get tickets will always bitch of course - that's unavoidable. The technical problems aren't.
If you try to get the tickets, then at least you were actively doing something, it is less of a pure dumb chance kind of thing. What if you always miss out on lotteries for example?
I know, faster internet connections have an easier time in getting tickets, no system is perfect... but I don't know how well a lottery system would be accepted either.
If I knew where it was I would take you there.
"10C....I HAVEN'T WON THE LAST THREE LOTTERIES!!!!!!!!"
"There should be a rule that if you win one lottery, then you are not able to participate in the next lottery."
"10C....here's an idea, how about making the lottery only for those within 100 mile radius."
I can go on. The same amount of bitching would continue. It would just be about different things. I, personally, hate the lottery system and would rather take my chances online.
I did not say it would be the same, but everyone would complain about something different. Instead, everyone that did not get MSG lottery tickets would cry that the lottery sucks or is fixed.
Everyone always conveniently forgets the crying was only about high demand shows. I'm not denying that is sucks, but that is the truth. NYC, Boston, and Philly will always be like that.
I don't recall any threads last year about not getting tickets to Cleveland or Washington DC. Or Salt Lake in 09. Or Tampa in 08. Just examples.
They listened about the servers. They tried to move to the ticketing to the Amazon cloud server and it did not work for some techincal reason. They tried to use a ticket agency that obviously sold them that they could handle the traffic and it did not. I'm sure they won't use crowdsurge again.
And how is that worse than missing out on instant web sales? At least with a lottery, you don't waste an hour or more that you may not have only to come up short on tickets.
If the lottery is done on a random basis, you generally won't miss on on tickets by the law of averages.
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