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presales...clusterfuck. god i loved the spiral.
so here's the story. toronto went on sale at noon. i went on at 11:50 to log on and get ready. page won't load. finally, it loaded, logged on...then wouldn't load. loaded to the sale page, but click the link to buy...won't load. 12:06 finally loads, sold out. fantastic. reload for 20 minutes, and then i really had to leave to be at the terminal at 1. no luck. eric managed 1 ticket by reloading, but no one else i know got any. we have to bet on the public sale friday now.
5 pm brought cleveland, detroit, nj, philly presales. loading time was still awful, but i had logged on at 4:15 to get to the sale page, then had to wait for the "buy now" links at 5...sloooow sloooow slooow loading. i got cleveland fairly easily....and that's a relative term (took at least 3 refreshes, and slow loading, to get it to work). got 2 tickets to that, just in case. then the captcha images stopped loading (with another problem of half the time the system not accepting what you typed in, though it was correct). fantastic. detroit image wouldn't load, neither would philly. finally got nj to work, got 1 ticket. back to detroit, image not loading, somehow finally it worked and got 2 tickets (i think) for that, just in case. back to philly....image finally loaded, sold out. refreshed for about 15 minutes and managed to get 1. so i THINK i am set. i say "think" because their "ticket allotment" page is not the best, it just lists NIN as every option, it doesn't tell you which show and I have yet to get any confirmation emails (i got 2 now, nj and cleveland, and now managed to buy a 2nd ticket for nj). i'm nervous that my address was screwed up because they make you type it in, then have this absolutely silly "select city" button to choose the name of your city. I JUST TYPED IT IN! wtf. so my typed in city is correct, but the select city still says niagara falls from the info used in the 05 tour presales. (*edit* all emails in, i have 2 for cleveland, 2 for detroit, 2 for nj, 1 for philly)
everything was so much smoother when it was spiral only. i don't understand the reasoning behind eliminating a pay-for fan club. every major band does it. nin is too big for a public free presale, despite putting names on tickets and will call only to deter scalpers. music today servers just flat out can't handle the traffic, and the system is very very buggy. i know ticketmaster sucks in every way, but even their "fan club" presales that require a password go better than this, mainly because they have the server power.
non spiral fans bitch that the spiral was elitist. well i'm sorry if you couldn't afford 40$ to join. but the point of fan clubs was to be special, and to get special things. through the history of rock and roll bands had pay for fan clubs. and for alot of the time, they weren't even run by the bands, but by random ppl who decided they were experts and could provide a service. now most are run through the bands, the bands get the money, and clearly history shows that i have no problem forking my money over to trent. 1000s of dollars later, yes, i do feel like i deserve to have special treatment, and be offered a private presale.
shit i gtg. this was all so irritating i'm going to be WAY fun at my friends for dinner :P
so here's the story. toronto went on sale at noon. i went on at 11:50 to log on and get ready. page won't load. finally, it loaded, logged on...then wouldn't load. loaded to the sale page, but click the link to buy...won't load. 12:06 finally loads, sold out. fantastic. reload for 20 minutes, and then i really had to leave to be at the terminal at 1. no luck. eric managed 1 ticket by reloading, but no one else i know got any. we have to bet on the public sale friday now.
5 pm brought cleveland, detroit, nj, philly presales. loading time was still awful, but i had logged on at 4:15 to get to the sale page, then had to wait for the "buy now" links at 5...sloooow sloooow slooow loading. i got cleveland fairly easily....and that's a relative term (took at least 3 refreshes, and slow loading, to get it to work). got 2 tickets to that, just in case. then the captcha images stopped loading (with another problem of half the time the system not accepting what you typed in, though it was correct). fantastic. detroit image wouldn't load, neither would philly. finally got nj to work, got 1 ticket. back to detroit, image not loading, somehow finally it worked and got 2 tickets (i think) for that, just in case. back to philly....image finally loaded, sold out. refreshed for about 15 minutes and managed to get 1. so i THINK i am set. i say "think" because their "ticket allotment" page is not the best, it just lists NIN as every option, it doesn't tell you which show and I have yet to get any confirmation emails (i got 2 now, nj and cleveland, and now managed to buy a 2nd ticket for nj). i'm nervous that my address was screwed up because they make you type it in, then have this absolutely silly "select city" button to choose the name of your city. I JUST TYPED IT IN! wtf. so my typed in city is correct, but the select city still says niagara falls from the info used in the 05 tour presales. (*edit* all emails in, i have 2 for cleveland, 2 for detroit, 2 for nj, 1 for philly)
everything was so much smoother when it was spiral only. i don't understand the reasoning behind eliminating a pay-for fan club. every major band does it. nin is too big for a public free presale, despite putting names on tickets and will call only to deter scalpers. music today servers just flat out can't handle the traffic, and the system is very very buggy. i know ticketmaster sucks in every way, but even their "fan club" presales that require a password go better than this, mainly because they have the server power.
non spiral fans bitch that the spiral was elitist. well i'm sorry if you couldn't afford 40$ to join. but the point of fan clubs was to be special, and to get special things. through the history of rock and roll bands had pay for fan clubs. and for alot of the time, they weren't even run by the bands, but by random ppl who decided they were experts and could provide a service. now most are run through the bands, the bands get the money, and clearly history shows that i have no problem forking my money over to trent. 1000s of dollars later, yes, i do feel like i deserve to have special treatment, and be offered a private presale.
shit i gtg. this was all so irritating i'm going to be WAY fun at my friends for dinner :P