Ticketmaster with 2000 tickets this morning

[AlistarWills]

How many are going to try and get them?

 

[TidePrideGA]

Wish I could but I don't have the money to attend.

 

[TIDEnGA]

I'll be in front of the computer while dialing phone as well. I'm hopeful, but I think those 2000 will be gone in minutes. It will all come down to luck. I just hope they have many phone lines open.

Tide Pride still hasn't made its way down to me. :frown:

 

[kfo9494]

A guy at the bar I go to in Trussville is to flood ticketmaster for a ticket company in Bham (not giving the name cause he is not suppose to tell anyone).
If he score two tickets he gets $100 if he scores four tickets he gets $250.
They have guys all over town doing this.
and they will resale the tickets for about $1000 each.
I cannot understand why they just don't split the tickets up among the schools.

 

[jps1983]

A guy at the bar I go to in Trussville is to flood ticketmaster for a ticket company in Bham (not giving the name cause he is not suppose to tell anyone).
If he score two tickets he gets $100 if he scores four tickets he gets $250.
They have guys all over town doing this.
and they will resale the tickets for about $1000 each.
I cannot understand why they just don't split the tickets up among the schools.

I understand scalping is part of it, but that frustrates me when my family and I are short 1 ticket and are trying this morning on ticketmaster. I doubt they get $1000 for a ticket. If we strike out, we're just gonna try to find a scalper in LA.

 

[JTH]

I tried numerous times as soon as they went on sale and it kept saying nothing was available.

 

[jps1983]

I tried numerous times as soon as they went on sale and it kept saying nothing was available.

yep same; think ppl called in quicker than we could online or ppl used some type of bot program.

 

[AlistarWills]

well that sucked. you can tell their website is getting hammered. At this point, the 2000 are gone.

 

[theBIGyowski]

what a load of bull...this was rigged or something

 

[UAME]

I doubt it was rigged - only 2,000 tickets being fought for by every Bama, Texas, or college football fan in general who doesn't have a ticket yet.

 

[37bamagrl]

i really hate ticket scalpers....was also on there the second they went on sale - nothing.

 

[theBIGyowski]

I was in at 9:59...and didn't get anything. Server was loaded down...looked like it was going to crash. I probably should have called in at another number as well. I think brokers probably called in using a better line and were able to buy most of these up...hence the "rigged" statement.

 

[jps1983]

I doubt it was rigged - only 2,000 tickets being fought for by every Bama, Texas, or college football fan in general who doesn't have a ticket yet.

not to mention the scalpers...

 

[CrimsonChuck]

I tried too and had no luck. (I do have a ticket, but I was trying for a couple friends of mine who are going out there but don't have one.) That was just a drop in the bucket compared with demand.

The NCAA should pass a rule that for BCS bowls no more than 20% of the tickets can be sold before the matchup for that particular bowl are announced. I think that would be the most fair thing to do.

 

[RammaJamma10]

If anyone was successful trying to get tickets this morning then they need to be buying a lottery ticket! Ticketmaster is such a terrible operation IMO. Concert tickets for certain acts are the same way, it's virtually impossible to have any luck. I wish there was a way to make the people who purchase the ticket be the only one that can use the ticket. Or at least have a field where you enter the name of the person the ticket is for (in case tickets are bought for a gift). The amount of tickets held by scalpers is beyond ridiculous and I wish they had to eat every dollar they put into it.

 

[theBIGyowski]

This is capitalism at it's best/worst.

I have friends who are planning on going and I was trying to get them tickets so they wouldn't have to buy from a scalper. Oh well...just gotta let it go.

I am willing to listen to the game on the radio if it means us winning.

 

[AlabamaSooner]

I tried too and had no luck. (I do have a ticket, but I was trying for a couple friends of mine who are going out there but don't have one.) That was just a drop in the bucket compared with demand.

The NCAA should pass a rule that for BCS bowls no more than 20% of the tickets can be sold before the matchup for that particular bowl are announced. I think that would be the most fair thing to do.

I was doing the same thing for a friend as well. Never got through a busy tone and I go to the point where you enter security check phrase, entered it multiple times, but had no luck. Was always sent back to the security phrase page and it said, "There are problems with your submission. The security code you entered did not match. Please try again." Even though I was entering them correctly. Oh well, I wasn't expecting much anyway. Worth a shot though.

 

[37bamagrl]

If anyone was successful trying to get tickets this morning then they need to be buying a lottery ticket! Ticketmaster is such a terrible operation IMO. Concert tickets for certain acts are the same way, it's virtually impossible to have any luck. I wish there was a way to make the people who purchase the ticket be the only one that can use the ticket. Or at least have a field where you enter the name of the person the ticket is for (in case tickets are bought for a gift). The amount of tickets held by scalpers is beyond ridiculous and I wish they had to eat every dollar they put into it.

there is a way - with Garth Brooks shows in vegas, the person who buys them has to be there to pick up the ticket (and you can only do that the day of the show i think). You have to have ID and the card you bought them with to pick up the tickets. Now if the scalper can be there to pick them up with you i guess it wouldn't matter - but most couldn't be.

only downside is if you don't get tickets initially - makes it hard to be able to go. for example a garth show would usually be a very hot ticket for scalpers - i only see two ebay auctions for his shows.

 

[RedElephant92]

With only 2000 available, I doubt there were any available after the "pre-sale" for citi-card holders yesterday.

 

[bama16]

I wondered how many they sold yesterday...I assumed it was a set amount, we tried several times to get through yesterday too.
We had 5 people online trying today...no luck. I have a ticket but we still need a couple for freinds in my group that are traveling toether. Ebay/ Stubhub it is I guess...