Don't know much about it, except that I was up and on
the phone at 8:30 this morning, phoned Stargreen,
they were engaged, so went online to their website.
The ticket-purchase page was online, but they were
not selling yet (8:45) so every 2 mins I checked
back. At 9am (the official time tickets go on sale)
they were still not selling. I refreshed the page
(properly!) constantly, only to see the same message,
until at 9:02 something had changed: instead of 'buy
tickets here' it said '1 ticket left!'. Eh?!
I went to buy it actually, but the server (their end)
had a problem and I couldn't complete the
transaction :( I tried to refresh again, and the
message had changed to 'off sale', Shortly after, it
changed once more, and finally, to 'sold out'.
Now, to me, that makes little sense, unless they were
selling like, maybe, 100 tickets online! I reckon,
actually, that the 'off sale' message indicated they
decided to take them off the site because of server
overload, and to make those remaining web tickets
available only by phone (of course, constantly
engaged).
Ticketmaster started selling at 9am, but they were
sold out also in a ridiculously short period of time.
I think people 'in the know' were getting tickets
reserved for them (which is against ticket agents'
policy), and were able buy more than the stated '2
tickets per household'.
Anyway, I've been pissed off all morning about this.
If anyone finds tickets for this gig, other than
those on ebay (£200 each, on average!) then please
email me on ody@cds-web.net. I'll try and make it
worth your while. Failing that, I'm going to try and
get tickets for the Amsterdam gigs.
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