i have a password to buy alcs tickets that I am not going to use. If you need it (and are a Rays...

i have a password to buy alcs tickets that I am not going to use. If you need it (and are a Rays fan of course) email me a sportsindeed(at)yahoo.com and I will hook you up.

Make sure you email soon, the ticket buying start at 9 am.

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No point to it now

Sold out in less than 2 hours.

by HAHAHA OH WOW on Oct 6, 2008 11:46 AM EDT reply actions

It was sold out as soon as 9am

I was there with the code at 9am and couldnt even get 2 tickets for any section and not even a single ticket for best available.

by raysrule44 on Oct 6, 2008 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Not so...

But I do think Ticketmaster had a bit of a meltdown early on.

I got booted out several times from 9am to about 9:10am – after the wait times for processing would balloon, it would quickly shrink and then tell me something about multiple sessions. Panicked like a girl, started from scratch and at 9:19 (well that’s when the email came) I managed to secure a total of two tickets. Went back in to try for two for Game 2 but they were gone…

by AussieGriff on Oct 6, 2008 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions

It was beyond ridiculous

I know 3 people that wanted to buy 24 tickets. They would have used all 24 and they are diehard Rays fans. They got 4 tickets between the 3 of their passcodes.

I know 2 people that sort of like the Rays. They wanted to buy 16 tickets. They’ll go to the games so they plan on using 4. They are going to sell 12 on stubhub. Most likely to Red Sox fans. I’m hoping these people see the light and give their friends tickets (people from paragraph 1). If not I wouldn’t be surprised if that fractures their friendship.

Life isn’t fair.

by matthan on Oct 6, 2008 12:23 PM EDT reply actions

so....how is that really possible?

35,000 seats available.

Say…..8,000 season ticket holders for 2008. = 27,000 seats
Let’s be crazy and say they got enough deposits to double the season ticket base for next year = another 8,000 seats.

That should leave somewhere around 19,000 seats. Even if 4,000 go to sponsors and such, there should be around 15,000 to sell. No way that sells out to people with passcodes in a couple minutes.

by TallMatt on Oct 6, 2008 12:27 PM EDT reply actions

15,000 seats avail/4 tix per customer=3,750 customers

Assuming each person gets 4 tickets, it only takes 3,750 sales of 4 tickets per customer to reach your 15,000 seats sold. That’s believable depending on whether Ticketmaster can handle the traffic, and I believe they can.

by rayweaver on Oct 6, 2008 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Correcting your math

Season ticket holders had access to lottery tickets too without entering the drawing, but were limited to 4 tickets each game, so let’s also assume that 1 in 3 purchased the maximum 4 tickets allotted to them (though it is quite possible many more than this amount acted upon these tickets). 2666* 4 = 10664, + 8000 for the season ticket holders = 18664, that’s more than 1/2 of the capacity gone right away from season ticket holders alone.

that’s a hell of a lot of tickets for 8000 people.

by kericr on Oct 6, 2008 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought they'd limit to 2 per game in subsequent rounds

Which I’d be completely ok with as a season ticket holder.

What does concern me is the people selling passwords on craigslist. I wonder whether each password is unique, or if we all got the same one. The one I got was “ZQC99P”. Please let me know if yours was the same.

by GomesSweetGomes on Oct 6, 2008 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Different

And they track them… when I was buying for ALDS I tested the waters and it told me that it would exceed my password’s limit of tickets.
(not like this bloody round… f’ing Google Chrome… f’ing scalpers… I plan to buy tickets off you in the 3rd inning for less than face value and then roll you for my money back)

by AussieGriff on Oct 6, 2008 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Different

“927DDH”

The 2nd chance ticket passwords were all the same, if I recall it was “raystickets” or something simple like that, which is why I thought it was the same password for everyone.

The only thing I can guess is that they only use the password as a key to identify how many tickets have been sold under it; they obviously make no association at ticketmaster between the password and who bought the ticket, or the password and if it’s being used on multiple machines to buy tickets to separate games, or if the same purchaser is buying tickets under multiple password. The ease of duping the existing system is what I’m concerned about.

by kericr on Oct 7, 2008 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions