In the time that it is taking for me to purchase a ticket

Tiahaar · Post by **Tiahaar** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:43 pm

Wind_Borne wrote:Staying up late and waiting on an overloaded server to get $165 tickets is like camping out all night to buy concert tickets when the box office opens: it make sense for people with more time than money. Those who have the dosh buy concert tickets from ticket agents, pay some multiple of retail, and are happy to do so to save their valuable time. Likewise, burners of means will just wait and buy their tickets later at a higher price and greater convenience.

Bravo Wind_Borne, you've captured it well! My father and I still chuckle when my dear mother of 79 (bless her heart) hustles from the car to the restaurant to beat others walking up to the line : )

Wind_Borne · Post by **Wind_Borne** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:41 am

I suspect that the uncertainty was the worst part of the big wait Monday morning -- the lack of a sense of progress through the queue. In hindsight, some clever client-server scripting could have instilled that needed sense of progress: imagine a virtual "Take-A-Number" scheme with a little "Serving Number nnn" window. To be fair to the ticket folks, I'm sure they never saw anything quite like Monday morning before!

Rob the Wop · Post by **Rob the Wop** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:14 am

Wind_Borne wrote: To be fair to the ticket folks, I'm sure they never saw anything quite like Monday morning before!

Sorry, gotta disagree with you there. Part of the whole deal of being a professional service is proactive planning. If you know that an event has 30k people and there is a tiered payment system- you should take adequate precautions in the first place. Simply limiting the number of open connections to their SSL server would have forced a queueing system that would let the "first come" complete their transaction before cutting them off. There are ways to get around what happened the other night. I'm sure next year they will be better prepared, but if you are a professional ticket agency- and you see the issue coming- they should have been better prepared.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:56 am

When the infrastructure gets too refined and predictable, it's time to consider escaping from it for a week and finding something big to burn.....

jbelson · Post by **jbelson** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:16 pm

Quote from the simpsons

"This little baby could deep fry and elephant in 12 seconds"
Homer Simpson "12 seconds. But I want deep fried elephant now!"

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:58 pm

zarniwoop wrote:the natural laws with which I am familiar have suddenly ceased to apply.

the Natural Laws I am familiar with are too filled with inertia to apply themselves anytime, anywhere.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:13 pm

BUMP

Just so everyone who already has a ticket can remember how painful it was last year. Plus, I wanna mess with your heads.

Crankful · Post by **Crankful** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:19 pm

when you are out on the playa and looking up at a zillion plus stars...who is going to care what they paid for the $%#^)_ ticket?

regynalonglank · Post by **regynalonglank** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:16 am

you should feel lucky that you can afford one at all. i can't. hopefully i will soon ;)

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:28 am

In the time....

17,000 children under the age of 10 (cites available) have died in the world since 12:01pm until now. These numbers remain constant despite the horrific tsunami in asia.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:27 am

Thanks for dragging me through the mud of despair, Iso.

P-Mobius · Post by **P-Mobius** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:37 pm

yeah--i couldnt get through either yesterday

i wonder if having a faster internet connection would have helped, but 56K modem is what i can afford---

i signed out and now i see that tickets are 200$ today---

so much for first tier tickets

In the time that it is taking for me to purchase a ticket

Re: It's true -

slow and painful ticket process