Best of the Porch Hysteria 2/18/08

j.ro
j.ro Posts: 111
edited February 2008 in The Porch
My friend compiled this list and sent it to me in an email...I just had to share it with the board. The quotes will remain anonymous. After two of the most stressful hours of my recent life, we were fortunate enough to get two sets of tickets for Berkeley. However, the stress was enough to send me home into the arms of a bottle of red wine and a few milligrams of klonopin. I hope everyone is at least breathing a little easier today...

AND...see you in Berkeley!!!
- Jenny, Lisa, and Ariel :)

1) refresh for an hour, 11:01 Vancouver was in my cart. If I were a smoker, i'd have been through a pack by now...


2) Im ALREADY having a seven and seven...and a smoke..GOD that was stressful!!! I need to take a valium and an aspirin now to avoid the coronary...


3) I thought I had tickets in hand .... the system suddenly crashed, my cart was suddenly empty and now I have NOTHING to show for the solid hour of "refresh" stress.


4) Holy Fuck Balls!!!!
Three pending transactions later under one 10C number and two CC #'s, I finally have a fucking confirmation in my profile. *Breathes HUGE sigh of relief*
But with the $288 of extra charges pending on my accounts, my husband is going to be PISSED.



5) Is this the fucking April Fool's joke?


6) I need to call someone at 10c
I was just finishing my payment
had all my info in
and it said an unexpected error has occured
and went to try again and it says out of stock
WTF!!!!!!
Im gonna cry
This is shit


7) i think i'm gonna puke....


8) thank god i got through....really thank GOD. what a nightmare this was....


9) i'm gonna faint, totally stressed out on this.


10) I had to take a Clonazepam (anti-anxiety pill)!


11) I didn't want to be this panicky before noon on a Monday!! haha


12) between the cigarettes and the stress, I should be close to dead.....


13) i took screencaps of the page that said it went thru, just in case!
god i need a drink lol


14)Yeah, at this point "SOLD OUT" would almost be a relief. At least, I could get on with my day...


15) Got through to 10C.
said Van is sold out.
I guess its ticketbastard for me.


16) blood pressure went so down now, was gonna faint off my chair this past hour.


17) These places are small and there really isn't a bad seat in the house. Unless of course you want to be ON TOP of eddie
raising hand
He wouldn't even have to sing


18) Both LA shows now say out of stock...
boy, I'm glad I've paid my membership dues... I get to buy tix to shows in town... no wait, I'm fucked after over 2 hours at the computer.
And what about that elusive Deep Magazine? I wonder if I'll ever see one of those...
Did I accidentally log on to the Creed Fanclub website?
Guess I'll have to suck someone's dick for tickets...



19) I put a message in the bitching thread, about this but -
who else got charged for everytime they saw "unexpected error" on the CC page? I did, I was charged 5 times over, now my account is drained, and explains why my card was denied when i tried to get LA tix.
What should i do? I am now broke and poor, and i dont want my tickets cancelled, just my funds back! I also got charged an overdraft fee for everytime i got the error message. Do i just eat the cost of $36.00 X 5 = and extra $180????? fawk!
Oh half his life, a hand me down, wasted away
Of he fills it up, with the love, of a girl...
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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    AWESOME!! That was hilarious!! Thanks for compiling and posting!
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    j.ro wrote:
    7) i think i'm gonna puke....

    yea! i made the list!! hehehehehehe :D:D
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    man that explains the hell that most of you went through, glad i wasn't involved in this one, feel sorry for all you that missed out...
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    Hehe

    I recognise some of those.
    the person below me smells like cat pee and raisins...
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Nice list .... hopefully most people put this all into persepctive ... sadly, I'm sure there are plenty that don't.

    Did I curse at the computer screen yesterday? More than once, yeah. (My curse of choice is to call the computer a "whore" in case you're wondering.)

    Would I have bitched if I got charged several times but got no tickets? Yeah, moreso for the process, not because of charges that will be refunded to me. (But, dig this people ... if you're living paycheck to paycheck and an extra charge from the 10c for a week before getting refunded is the difference between you paying the rent or not ... perhaps you need to reevaluate your priorities .... or sell some blood or semen).

    Would life go on? Absolutely!

    Heck, there are still 80-90% of the tickets going on sale in the future ...

    This west coast living has really chilled me out ... that, and getting old ...

    Deep breaths people ... deep breaths.
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    Even in my angriest moments of any 10c sale, someone manages to make me smile :p
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    j.ro wrote:
    19) I put a message in the bitching thread, about this but -
    who else got charged for everytime they saw "unexpected error" on the CC page? I did, I was charged 5 times over, now my account is drained, and explains why my card was denied when i tried to get LA tix.
    What should i do? I am now broke and poor, and i dont want my tickets cancelled, just my funds back! I also got charged an overdraft fee for everytime i got the error message. Do i just eat the cost of $36.00 X 5 = and extra $180????? fawk!


    is this one for real? if so then if it were me i'd be drawing up legal papers... thats repugnant.. i feel sorry for this person.. what a total disaster :(
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    jimed14 wrote:
    Nice list .... hopefully most people put this all into persepctive ... sadly, I'm sure there are plenty that don't.

    Did I curse at the computer screen yesterday? More than once, yeah. (My curse of choice is to call the computer a "whore" in case you're wondering.)

    Would I have bitched if I got charged several times but got no tickets? Yeah, moreso for the process, not because of charges that will be refunded to me. (But, dig this people ... if you're living paycheck to paycheck and an extra charge from the 10c for a week before getting refunded is the difference between you paying the rent or not ... perhaps you need to reevaluate your priorities .... or sell some blood or semen).

    Would life go on? Absolutely!

    Heck, there are still 80-90% of the tickets going on sale in the future ...

    This west coast living has really chilled me out ... that, and getting old ...

    Deep breaths people ... deep breaths.

    Well said jimed. Everyone needs to relax. Taking an anti-anxiety pill? Jesus.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    dunkman wrote:
    is this one for real? if so then if it were me i'd be drawing up legal papers... thats repugnant.. i feel sorry for this person.. what a total disaster :(


    yeah this shit is real, i know a few people that this happened to.

    sucks. that money is tied up for days now. and for most its an overdraft, so now they have to deal with the bank too.

    its a nightmare.
    Peace, Love.

    "To question your government is not unpatriotic --
    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
    -- Sen. Chuck Hagel
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    j.ro wrote:
    5) Is this the fucking April Fool's joke?


    classic :)
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    im glad none of those are me
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    rrivers wrote:
    Well said jimed. Everyone needs to relax. Taking an anti-anxiety pill? Jesus.


    tell that to number 19 on the list then... i'll get you there phone call as they've had to sell their computer for bread..

    this is quite serious for some people
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    dunkman wrote:
    tell that to number 19 on the list then... i'll get you there phone call as they've had to sell their computer for bread..

    this is quite serious for some people

    that's the point ... it's a shame that PJ and like events are being priced out of some people's living style ... a damn shame. Honestly.

    But if you're that close to bankruptcy to begin with ... while not expecting to get hit with $200 - 300 extra, if you only that far away from major financial issues ... perhaps a show isn't the thing to be "quite serious" about.

    I sincerely hope all works out for those that were overcharged.
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • shell bell
    shell bell Posts: 337
    Some good ones. I just accepted that I wasn't going to get tickets,and moved on with my day. The one that I feel sorry for is the poor bastard that was charged 3 or 5 times over. That would suck.
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

    "You damn well can't lick the system,but you can sure give it a good fondeling."-sleazy estate man(Hugh Laurie on A bit of Fry and Laurie)

    "Judas Priest on a two stroke moped!"(Stephen Fry)
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    jimed14 wrote:
    that's the point ... it's a shame that PJ and like events are being priced out of some people's living style ... a damn shame. Honestly.

    But if you're that close to bankruptcy to begin with ... while not expecting to get hit with $200 - 300 extra, if you only that far away from major financial issues ... perhaps a show isn't the thing to be "quite serious" about.

    I sincerely hope all works out for those that were overcharged.


    there is somebody on here who got hit for $3000 worth of pending charges... i also know of one more who had $1600.. now how much is in someone's account is none of anyone's business.. but if i had $150 in it and i tried to buy tickets for a show and got charged 4 times therefore making me poorer than a Russian I'd be highly fucking annoyed.

    if someone wants to spend their last $150 on a show then who are we to say their priorities are wrong... might be a 17 year old kid for all we know.. now he has $450 worth of funds missing from his account.. not good
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Wow, just wow.
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  • edvedder913
    edvedder913 Posts: 1,810
    ha. only the fan club members can appreciate this! no one else comes close to understanding the stress of a 10C ticket sale. it's an anxiety attack waiting to happen. I am just thrilled for once it wasn't during a work day.
    i didnt have to yell at anyone who walked in my office :)
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    dunkman wrote:
    there is somebody on here who got hit for $3000 worth of pending charges... i also know of one more who had $1600.. now how much is in someone's account is none of anyone's business.. but if i had $150 in it and i tried to buy tickets for a show and got charged 4 times therefore making me poorer than a Russian I'd be highly fucking annoyed.

    if someone wants to spend their last $150 on a show then who are we to say their priorities are wrong... might be a 17 year old kid for all we know.. now he has $450 worth of funds missing from his account.. not good

    $3k? You mean they hit submit about 20 times?
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    jimed14 wrote:
    $3k? You mean they hit submit about 20 times?


    maybe he was trying to buy tix to 3 or 4 shows... then that might only be 4 or 5 times each show? i know of one on here for $1600 and another for $1050...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    dunkman wrote:
    maybe he was trying to buy tix to 3 or 4 shows... then that might only be 4 or 5 times each show? i know of one on here for $1600 and another for $1050...

    just saw your link in a different thread ...
    "You're one of the few Red Sox fans I don't mind." - Newch91

    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez

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