F'ing Ticketmaster

I'm so mad right now I think there might actually be steam coming out of my ears!!

So I got up early to try to get some Canucks tickets this morning. Got showered, made coffee, got ready and packed for my trip up island today. Gave myself a whole hour to click around Ticketmaster in the hopes of picking up a couple of sets of tickets. I did this last year and lucked out with two pairs of tickets.

At about 9:50ish I opened up the website to make sure I knew where to click and get all prepared. After about three clicks I received a message stating that I had exceded my number of page views. WTF?! I looked at like three pages. I didn't even try to order anything. I was just clicking the next button to get to the games I wanted. It tells me to wait several minutes and try again. Seriously? WTF?!

Fine, so I wait until after 10:00 when the ticket sales actually started. Nope, still no go. Closed IE, tried again. Cleared my cache, tried again. This is BULLSHIT! So, now it's 10:26, I still can't get in to the site and obviously any chance I had for tickets is long gone.

I wonder how many people this happened to? Cuz Ticketmaster will certainly be getting a scathing email from me (not that it will do me any good, but I'll feel better!) once I can actually get access to the f'ing site again.

Faaaaaaaargh!


"We limit the rate of web page requests that can be made by individual users in any given time period. Your web page requests have exceeded these limits and your access has been temporarily disabled. We impose these limits to protect the web site from automated programs, as part of our efforts to promote fair access to tickets. Please allow several minutes and then try again."

Fair, my ass!