Aggravating news for everyone trying to get Police pre-sale tickets yesterday morning:
An automated ticket broker script was programmed to start hitting our system at the start of presales today. Our security measures blocked the attack, but the automated scripts from the ticket brokers continued to try to find a way into our ticket system and all this build up of traffic caused the site to crash. We have stabilized the site and will continue with presales today as scheduled below.
Members were supposed to be able to get tickets at 10 AM, which was bumed to 11 AM on the Ticketmaster site without any fanfare. This got bumped back to noon after the above announcement hit the web page, much to the consternation of just about everyone on the message boards.
So to sum up, existing members got to buy at noon yesterday, people wanting to wait for the "bundle" on Ticketmaster (electing to join if tickets were available) got their shot at 4 PM, while the general public has to wait until Saturday morning.
And then there are those of who were able to get in and get their tickets at the regular time anyway. That's right, I'll be at the Toyota Center June 29 with all the other almost-middle-aged idiots desperately trying to cling to the dissipating tendrils of their youth.
Any chance they won't play "Every Breath You Take?"
We got tickets yesterday. By nine minutes into the presale, the floor was already sold out. We got section 109. And this is the “presale,” which means that for every four tickets sold, somebody shelled out $100 for the privilege of buying tickets. Just because the market will bear it, it doesn’t make it right.
Also, I applaud them for TRYING to boot out a “ticket broker.” Anyone want to take a guess at what percentage of those tickets yesterday went to brokers? I bet it is outrageously high. I used not to mind that scalpers were in the mix, but it seems that more and more, it’s just making it really suck for anyone trying to honestly get decent seats to a show.
To balance things out, I’m paying $18 to see the Old 97s again in a few weeks. That’s what I paid the first time I saw Pink Floyd, and less then half of what they were charging for a t-shirt at Clapton last week.
Three cheers for capitalism, anyone?
I’ll be in the nosebleeds. I got my tickets around 10:07 on Saturday morning.
I wouldn’t hold every breath you take waiting for it.