Rockies Tickets
thedutymon
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Good day,
So anyway I fooled myself into thinking I had a chance to get some Series Tickets. Told my Boss that at 10:00 AM I was putting everthing else on hold and going to be at my computor to try for some Tickets. Go to the Rockies site and did all the Pre sign-up ect. I had heard that there were supposed to be 200,000 people trying for each game of about 20,000 seats available. So I had a one in ten chance. As I tryed for the 50th time and was kicked out starting at 10:00 am, I started to realize that I never really had a chance that the Computor Guru's and Ticket jockeys still had a way around the system and that this is all just a frustrating BS exercise. Anyway I tried to get in 50 times and was just kicked out and now have to watch on TV.
Neil
So anyway I fooled myself into thinking I had a chance to get some Series Tickets. Told my Boss that at 10:00 AM I was putting everthing else on hold and going to be at my computor to try for some Tickets. Go to the Rockies site and did all the Pre sign-up ect. I had heard that there were supposed to be 200,000 people trying for each game of about 20,000 seats available. So I had a one in ten chance. As I tryed for the 50th time and was kicked out starting at 10:00 am, I started to realize that I never really had a chance that the Computor Guru's and Ticket jockeys still had a way around the system and that this is all just a frustrating BS exercise. Anyway I tried to get in 50 times and was just kicked out and now have to watch on TV.
Neil
Actually Collect Non Sport, but am just so full of myself I post all over the place !!!!!!!
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So anyway I fooled myself into thinking I had a chance to get some Series Tickets. Told my Boss that at 10:00 AM I was putting everthing else on hold and going to be at my computor to try for some Tickets. Go to the Rockies site and did all the Pre sign-up ect. I had heard that there were supposed to be 200,000 people trying for each game of about 20,000 seats available. So I had a one in ten chance. As I tryed for the 50th time and was kicked out starting at 10:00 am, I started to realize that I never really had a chance that the Computor Guru's and Ticket jockeys still had a way around the system and that this is all just a frustrating BS exercise. Anyway I tried to get in 50 times and was just kicked out and now have to watch on TV.
Neil >>
This is how these deals operate anymore. It really leaves a lot of the true fans out in the cold (or warmth, in this case!).
<< <i>They were talking about this same thing on t.v. yesterday, except it was about getting Hannah Montana tickets and how the ticket brokers can get around the system and beat the ordinary person to the punch. >>
I live in Denver and have two girls, 7 and 5 .......
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You be all by yourself tho, in Cleveland.
<< <i>I have 3 pair of WS tix I'll make you a deal on.
You be all by yourself tho, in Cleveland.
YOu have WS tix @ Boston?
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<< <i>I have 3 pair of WS tix I'll make you a deal on.
You be all by yourself tho, in Cleveland.
YOu have WS tix @ Boston? >>
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<< <i>I have 3 pair of WS tix I'll make you a deal on.
You be all by yourself tho, in Cleveland.
YOu have WS tix @ Boston? >>
Did I miss something?
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By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press Writer
October 22, 2007
DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado Rockies suspended World Series ticket sales Monday after overwhelming demand crashed their computer system.
"Right now we're shutting the system down," club spokesman Jay Alves announced outside Coors Field, drawing boos from fans. "We expect to be online at some point."
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"We're as frustrated and disappointed as they are," Alves said.
Alves had said last week that the Rockies were prepared for any computer problems.
On Monday, there were 8.5 million attempts to connect with the computers in the first 90 minutes after sales started, he said, and only several hundred tickets had been sold before the system had to be shut down.
The Rockies put as many as 60,000 tickets up for sale online only, and team officials said their computers were ready to handle the expected crush. But two hours after tickets went on sale, many fans reported they could not get access to the ticket-sales Web site.
Officials with the Rockies and Major League Baseball did not immediately return calls.
Irvine, Calif.-based Paciolan Inc., which is running the computers for the Rockies' World Series ticket sales, said the crash affected the company's entire North American system.
Paciolan CEO Dave Butler said he did not yet know whether demand for Rockies tickets caused the crash.
"This is not the Rockies' fault in anyway whatsoever," Butler said. "We are working hard to address it."
About 20 people lined up in near-freezing temperatures outside the Denver Public Library before it opened in hopes of using public-access computers to score tickets.
"If you can't get tickets here, you're going to have to pay $200, $300 above face value," said Clayton McLeod, a 26-year-old heavy-machine operator who took the day off to try to get seats.
McLeod said he has Internet access from his apartment building but thought the library's computers might be faster. His mother, father, uncle and girlfriend were trying to buy tickets from other computers, he said.
His boss, also a Rockies fan, agreed to give him the day off and asked McLeod to get tickets for him, too.
"We'll see how many I'll get," McLeod said.
The Rockies limited sales to four per person per game.
The Series opens in Boston with games on Wednesday and Thursday. Games 3 and 4 will be on Saturday and Sunday in Denver. If there is a Game 5, it will be played Monday in Denver.
Coors Field seats more than 50,000, but about 30,000 spots per game are allotted to season-ticket holders, the two teams and Major League Baseball.
Season-ticket holders got a chance to buy their tickets last weekend. Prices range from $65 to $250.
Tickets originally were to be sold at Coors Field and Rockies' Dugout Stores in the Denver area, as well as online. The team announced Wednesday all sales would be online, saying that would be more fair.
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<< <i>I have 3 pair of WS tix I'll make you a deal on.
You be all by yourself tho, in Cleveland.
YOu have WS tix @ Boston? >>
Did I miss something? >>
It look like you were making a joke Alan.
I'm guessing - then - that you didn't get what he was saying? He probably has Cleveland WS tickets which are now phantoms since they won't be in the fall classic.
Did I say this correct?
mike
The Good news- Maybe there is still a chance to get some Tickets. I would love to be able to take My Wife and two 10 year old Boys to a World Series Game.
The Bad News-Some of us don't have jobs where we get to sit around in front of a Computor all day- I'm an Electrician out in the Field all day. Just got back and checked real quick, headed out on the next job. So how are we to know when they go on Sale again ????
If you don't happen to be able to sit in front a Comp/ 24/7 I guess your just screwed.
Neil