Okay-for the time being I'll ignore how out of control that these scumbags have gotten with their service charges...in the case of the $73 Denver-Pitt tickets, it was ~$13 (17.8% on top of the ticket price).
After Pitt beat Indy, Denver-Pitt tickets went on sale at 4pm Mountain time. When 4pm rolled around, I had no fewer than 20 connections to the Denver-Pitt ticket sales page (I have remote access to a lot of computers at my office). I was putting in various orders for pairs of tickets at various prices-including several with the blanket "any available price".
By 4:05pm, Ticketmaster's online ordering system was returning "no tickets available" on my orders---ALL of them. Resubmitting at that point was pointless, because the queue was backed up 15-20 minutes.
Despite Ticketmasters claims that the online system has access to the same ticket pool as the ticket windows, the windows were selling tickets past 4:30pm.
I'm not the only one pissed off about this-there is quite a stink hitting the local news.
Ticketmaster claims that 80% of the tickets are sold online.....I say BULLSHIT!!!! This is a scam.
After Pitt beat Indy, Denver-Pitt tickets went on sale at 4pm Mountain time. When 4pm rolled around, I had no fewer than 20 connections to the Denver-Pitt ticket sales page (I have remote access to a lot of computers at my office). I was putting in various orders for pairs of tickets at various prices-including several with the blanket "any available price".
By 4:05pm, Ticketmaster's online ordering system was returning "no tickets available" on my orders---ALL of them. Resubmitting at that point was pointless, because the queue was backed up 15-20 minutes.
Despite Ticketmasters claims that the online system has access to the same ticket pool as the ticket windows, the windows were selling tickets past 4:30pm.
I'm not the only one pissed off about this-there is quite a stink hitting the local news.
Ticketmaster claims that 80% of the tickets are sold online.....I say BULLSHIT!!!! This is a scam.