The level of hyperbole with regards to these tickets going on sale, suggest some of you are practicing for future iPad reviews. It's taken TM years to get where they are in the "ease" of getting tickets on big onsale days, I remember having hit reload over in order to place an order. Or having to wait for the system to let you place the order.
And Sweetcell how does this Ticketfly experience compare to the Livenation Phish ticket buying experience? I'm guessing for one there was customer service providing alternate ways of getting tickets.
http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=18399.msg273301#msg273301"so, last week a buddy of mine calls me up and asks "you're good at scoring tickets to concerts, can you help me get 2 tickets for the phish show in camden?" now i haven't seen this friend since he got married last summer, and i've never seen phish and the scene that comes along with the band, so i proposed that we make a group outing of it and that i and the missus join them to the show. on the friday that tickets went on sale, we loaded up livenation-dot-com, hit refresh at 10:00 AM and... complete and utter system meltdown. time-outs, database errors, lost orders, garbled pages, "processing your request" timers that didn't move for 5+ minutes, etc. way worse than anything i've ever experienced on tickets.com, this was an utter implosion. i eventually got 4 lawn tickets - at 11:44 AM. how's that for an indictment: thousands of people trying to get tickets, yet it took over 2 hours to sell out a show. TM would have this taken care of in less than 15 minutes. if anyone wants a laugh, i suspect that the phish message boards were on fire that day (jan 30)."
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And who could forget this Phish TM debacle...
http://www.930.com/forum/index.php?topic=18629.0