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Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2002-10-13 10:22 am
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Well, damn.

I went down to Ticketbastard to grab our tickets for The Other Ones (yes, Kiri, you were going too.. surprise winter gift.)

I'm about the 15th person in line, and we're a good old-fashioned Deadhead reunion, when they open. Suddenly, things begin going wrong. First I find out that the price on the website was an error. Tickets cost $42.50 each, not $24.50. With charges, that takes us over $100 for the two of us. Not enough money to cover that after I picked up my meds yesterday.

Then before it ever becomes an issue, they announce that the shows have sold out! Ten minutes! There were at that point about forty of us in line who let out a collective "say what?" as the clerk raised the sell-out sign.

Thanks to everyone who sent funds, we'll figure out methods of repayment soon.

Ten fucking minutes. Unreal.
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[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2002-10-13 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
One wonders how many of the tickets were presold through other outlets. Or, for that matter, if the guy up front was a corporate scalpreseller who opened up a suitcase and said, "I'll take one thousand, please."

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2002-10-13 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
They had a four-ticket to each show limit. But I knew these were going to go fast.

[identity profile] valkyrwench.livejournal.com 2002-10-14 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Online tickets sold out, too?
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[personal profile] kshandra 2002-10-14 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
TicketBastard doesn't separate for online vs. walkup. You can't, really - particularly not for a reserved-seating show (which this wasn't, but I digress), as that's just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

And I'm not the least bit surprised this sold out as quickly as it did. I worked for a company that had a TicketBastard counter in the late 80s and early 90s, and was on duty the morning tickets went on sale for Paul McCartney's '89 tour. That show was reserved seating, in a football stadium, with a four-ticket limit (and one of the very last major on-sales before the wristband policy went into effect; our first customer lined up at 1600 Friday for a 0900 Sunday on-sale) - and we were down to single-seats-only in five minutes and completely sold out in under 20. The venue these shows are at is maybe a third that size, if that.
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