I didn't try for Phish tix (not a fan), but I followed threads on this here and on PT some just because I'm curious at how this was going to go with Ticketfly.
I can understand people's frustration with the crashing system, etc., but doesn't it seem like Ticketfly might be more fair to average fans than Ticketmaster?
If you look at the seats people are talking about pulling, people are getting some great seats once they actually get through. Wlm pulled front row apparently. I ended up with insane seats for My Morning Jacket through ticketfly (4th row center). I mean, think about your experiences with Ticketmaster. How often do you pull amazing seats through Ticketmaster?
Maybe Ticketfly does less of holding tix back and feeding them direclty to scaplers and thus average fans have a better chance of getting great tix with this system.
i've gotten plenty of great seats through TM. getting a good seat is on the user - have a fast connection, be fast with the captchka, refresh at the right moment, etc.
ticketfly, on the other hand, sh*ts the bed for you. i'm an experience ticket buyer and the best the system
would let me buy is lawns, 40 minutes after the sale started, and even then only because a human posted a working link for me. a few people got good seats, a whole lot more were shut out b/c of the site crash while those good seats were being allocated. there was NOTHING i could do today to improve my chances.
if today's TF experience is going to be the norm, i'll take TM any day.