Pearl Jam finally made the announcement about their 20th Anniversary weekend festival. It's Labor Day weekend at Alpine Valley in East Troy, WI... You know, where it all began (insert major sarcasm here). It's a two day music festival with many bands, including Queens of the Stone Age and The Strokes. There will special fan club only areas, a special poster and "some other goodies", again only for fan club members.
Tickets went on sale to fan club members on Monday. Here is the short version of my ticket purchasing experience.
Took a couple hours off work on Monday to purchase tickets.
Problems with the 10 Club site from the very beginning.
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Go back to work empty handed after giving my friend, Chris (who took the whole day off, smart woman!), all my log in and cc info, just in case.
Text from Chris, got tickets in both our carts, cannot make the purchase.
Text from Chris, the site has crashed.
Text from Chris, the site is working. Still cannot make the purchase.
Get home from work and can see the tickets in my cart, but can't make the purchase.
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5
Hit F5... for hours!
10 Club announced the site is down for the night. "We are so sorry, blah, blah, blah.... Please be patient, blah, blah, blah... If you had tickets in your cart stick with us, blah, blah, blah..."
Tuesday I had a class and no access to the internet.
10 Club announced the major malfunction of the site has been fixed, tickets back on sale at 10:00 am.
I snuck to the bathroom (how old am I again?!) to called my friend Nick (who somehow mangaged to get tickets the day before) to give him all my log in and cc info, since Chris was at work trying to purchase her tickets.
Text from Nick at 9:00, GOT THEM!!
Apparently if you had tickets in your cart the day before, they stayed there waiting for you to log in and purchase them before the "official" sale started.
*Side note: By 10:20 the site had crashed again!
That was truly the most stressful ticket purchasing experience I've ever had.
I'm just so thankful to have some great friends who basically got tickets for me, even though I put in a lot of time pushing F5!!
Whew! Glad you got your tickets! Sometimes online ticket purchases can be rather boring so at least you got your heart beating and blood pumping on this one!
Posted by: Lisa | May 28, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Wait. They won't be playing at Blogfest West?
Posted by: Mental P Mama | May 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM
Alas, only on my stereo!
Posted by: Tammy | May 30, 2011 at 09:25 AM
I'm beginning to learn my lesson w/ online ticket purchases. Uh-Huh. Smart friends are always a perk too, LOL!
Posted by: Liz C. | June 01, 2011 at 10:50 PM
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Posted by: mulberry alexa | November 18, 2011 at 04:18 AM