Ticketmaster.com: just another skills competition that boils down to one judge
I know how you feel, Iggy. |
Here's the short version. Trying to get tickets to the All-Star Practice, which I estimate sold out in two minutes, was like a veritable skills competition on the keyboard. Only thing is, even if you were like Andre Iguodala and you thought you did everything right, a little computer program could be that final judge that keeps you from attaining glory.
It might as well have been a lottery.
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Labels: all-star, andre iguodala, ben wallace, bizarro, bruce bowen, earl boykins, mardy collins, mxyzptlk, nba, practice, tickets
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what?!?!? the NBA isn't a corporate league? Didn't David Stern send you the memo (which included among other things 'Making our Sport more appealing to Red Staters and CEOs). How dare you try to make the NBA accessible to the man from the streets? Maloof Bros probably bought out all the tix and gave them as stocking stuffers to all the Hollywood stars, pro athletes, and high-stake rollers. Funny thing is that I would bet a penny that the arena is going to be half empty and many of the tickets are NOT going to be used up.
You know what's funny (or maybe not), last year at Houston we scored some tix to the Slam Dunk Contest and there were tons of empty seats.
Wow, you can see what time it is on this comment's timestamp. I just tried the same thing to get tickets to the Celebrity game, which supposedly went on sale at 10:00AM PST today. Sold out in like a minute, and I was once again refreshing the screen all the way up till 10:00AM sharp. There's definitely something fishy about all this.
It just occurred to me to clarify the following: I got thru the Ticketmaster codes, on 2 browsers even, with no hitch, practically right at 10:00AM sharp. So I no longer think it boils down to a lottery process. Buying tickets online to the All-Star Practice or Celebrity Game this year was simply a FACADE.
FYI...
The Dirty World of Ticket Scalping
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"Of course, the best brokers have figured out how to take advantage of the new landscape. I've heard stories – perhaps apocryphal – about a computer program that automatically plugs the security word into Ticketmaster.com." ...from Diary of a Scalper
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