Game 5 Tix on Sale @ 10am tomorrow

I would have been fine if I didn't have to wait an hour plus to find out the event was sold out in my Queue. At ticketmaster, they at least let you know that. also, the thing about people losing tickets in their cart would have pissed me off too.

 

There is no perfect way. But I'd make the people who bought the tickets attend the game. Put their name of the tickets and have ID ready to match the name and the ticket with their party attending as they go through.

 

Are you serious? I'd have to be a complete moron to assume that only 250 tried to get tickets. Probably 5,000+ people tried to get tickets IMO.

 

Yeah, I think qualifying buyers would be good. These ticket brokers hire 1000s of people in India to buy tickets for them online.

 

Ticketmaster is who did the online sale.

http://ev8.evenue.net/

 

Yes, that is why I said it was a stupid assumption.

The system didn't work for many people. for more people..it didn't work due to the queue and the shopping cart of death!

 

What if you buy 4 tickets, and are giving two away to friends? Do you have to know this morning who you are taking? That's not practical, and to ask such a thing is seemingly ignoring how tickets have been transferred, sold, etc. for a long time now. So now the problem is with what scalpers do, and not the TrailBlazers ticket selling. That's a different issue all together.

 

oh, then they suck.

 

You realize how long it would take to get into the RG if they did that? 1-2 hours, maybe more?

 

Next time, maybe you should set up your online account BEFORE the tix go on sale, so all your info is in and ready to go once the small window of time comes to get the tix.

 

No, just put the buyer's name of the tix and have your party with you as you go into the game -- not the names of every single person in your party. I don't know, I was just throwing out ideas.

 

Not fishy - I'm a season ticket holder but I couldn't go to Game 1 (friend's birthday party), so I sold them on CraigsList. (Sure glad I sold Game 1 and went to Game 2!)

Also, it's really expensive to go to a lot of playoff games - if I knew we were likley to advance a round or two, I'd probably pick and choose - sell a few games and go to a few. I didn't add up what it would cost me to go to every game if we made the Finals but it would be many thousands of dollars.

On another note, the Blazers' website sucks, and I have complained to my ticket rep over the course of the season. It's Paul Allen's team, for god's sake, and the ticket forwarding feature is alway crewing up. Plus it's just busy and hard to use.

 

Like was said above, that woudl take forever to get into the game,a dn then instead of people complaining about not getting tickets, people would be complaining abou tmissing half of the first quarter, because they had to show their ID to get into the game.

 

Yeah, no doubt. Just tossing ideas around, I didn't say there was a PERFECT way of doing it. If there was one, then I'm sure some team would've came up with one already.

 

It takes them an HOUR and 20 minutes to realize that the tickets are gone? That's the thing that pisses me off more than anything.

 

I can laugh now......the shopping cart of death ate my tickets and belched them up to some scalper.

 

I don't question that some are legitimate, but I still believe some scalpers hide behind them being season ticket holders who can't make it to the game and then sell their tix for 4-5 times the price.