Really bad cart setup - allows you to add items to cart and then sells them from under your feet.
Oh well, Ticketbastard for the win, I guess...
Really bad cart setup - allows you to add items to cart and then sells them from under your feet.
Oh well, Ticketbastard for the win, I guess...
Oh well. There's always general sale.
as much as ticketmaster policies blow, allowing you to reserve tickets for a few minutes while entering payment info is pretty brilliant
So, I generally dont mind getting shut out of presale tickets. But dont say that I have 2 tickets, make it all the way to the billing page, THEN tell me there are no tickets available..
Annoyed.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!
Shut out. Got all the way to payment info and then get error saying not available in quantities desired. Such bullshit.
That royally sucked. I love getting to the billing address screen and then finding out that the quantity of my single ticket is no longer available.
3 shows in roughly 10 minutes. The allocation for these presale tickets must be tiny, or there are a shit-ton of scalpers with HTDA accounts.
Tickets procured for the Toronto show. Thank fuck.
Not gloating, but I had no problems with the site. Smooth transaction, just a little slow. . .
wow. it appears I got incredibly lucky. Website went nuts for the first 2-3 minutes. around 12:05 I got in. Successful checkout around 12:08.
got them for the apollo, went to cart, NOPE GONE
I fucking hate that I can't see my favorite bands because I don't know the tricks of getting presale tickets or whatever. I refuse to believe its just luck. I mean who gets them for these ridiculously quickly sold out shows and how?
For reference, it looks like the pre-sale for the four east coast venues sold out in about 10 minutes. There will still be an opportunity to buy tickets through the normal means starting Friday at 10am.
Last edited by bgalbraith; 02-27-2013 at 11:18 AM.
See below...
Nope. Had a ticket in the cart for Toronto. It said you could "Continue shopping." So I decided to try to add an Apollo ticket instead of checking out (bad idea). Tried to add an Apollo ticket, but the system added ANOTHER Toronto ticket instead. Beautiful.
Then the system wouldn't let me remove the extra Toronto ticket from the cart. So I decided to check out anyway. Gave me a credit card error. Sent me back, and then said it was sold out. FFS
Last edited by jessamineny; 02-27-2013 at 11:18 AM.
Got shut of out NYC - same story as many of you - 2 tickets in cart but no longer available at checkout.
Mountclair: manage to get the ticket in the HTDA pre sale.
NYC: I'm in! ticketmaster.com helped me out!
Next:flight and hotel!
ahh. well not for nothing, i approve more of the ticketmaster system. once you have the tickets in your cart, you should have them in your cart until they time out or you give them up... not sold out from under you when you're trying to get the site to load under such heavy traffic. i was there, had the tickets in the cart, should have been a no brainer.
same shit happened to me trying to get two tix for the apollo. so i checked ebay..http://www.ebay.com/tickets/How-To-D...rom=R40&_dmpt=
there ya go. asshole scalpers win again. they need to fucking fix this shit. we should bombard TR's twitter.
that seems suspect--- with presales like this you don't know what seat you have until the ticket arrives. these people don't have them, so i wouldn't worry about that until regular ticketmaster sales.
speaking of which, what are you talking about, @nine_inch_nerd ?
How is this possible?!?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-TIX-How-to...item19d94c67ad
Surprised and sorry to see so many people had problems. I got 2 for the NJ show and didn't even feel like I was going at a blistering pace, but I always have good luck with these presales, getting a pair of tix to NIN @ the Bowery Ballroom proved that. The disclaimer on the site said that they can only sell 8% of tix, so if it is a 2000 seat venue thats only 160 tix not to mention that people were buying in pairs of 2 and 4 this time, hope everyone has better luck when this comes to NIN tix in the (near) future.
So, for those after tickets...
Too Late, All Gone
For those who are disappointed, assuming what the small text says is true... the amount of pre-sale tickets they had available is somewhere between 5-10% of the total tickets.
I hate to be the optimistic one, but I think Friday may be easier (and less frustrating given that TM holds onto the tics while you pay).
The issue with that is people would add them to their cart, then leave them there until their cart expired in ten minutes. Then ten minutes later there were tickets available again for a moment, until someone snapped them up. I'm guessing that's what they're trying to avoid with this system.