Wow, 25 hours later I
Wow, 25 hours later I finally scored pit tickets to the October 10th Radiohead show!!!
Okay, here's how it all unfolded.
Ticketmaster is sold out of tickets to the Madison Square Garden shows so W.A.S.T.E. is the only place left to get them and they announced that tickets were going to go on sale sometime on the 21st. Starting at midnight London time (4pm here in Washington) I checked WASTE at the top of every hour. Eventually I received a tip that it wouldn't until much later so I rested easy until 10pm.
From 10pm to 3am I checked WASTE over and over and over again. As did 25,000 other people. This caused WASTE to overload and at 3am they announced tickets would go on sale sometime after 10am the next day.
I wake up at 9:55am and get online and spend the next three hours checking WASTE over and over and over again. Suddenly they announce "TICKETS TO GO ON SALE ON THE 22nd"
Okay, now this is just too much...
I wait around 4 hours until it's 4pm here and midnight there and I get online. Once again I'm checking over and over and over again.
Around 5pm is when the magic happened. Apparently they were only letting a handful of people in at a time. They post the link for about 5 seconds then take it down and they did that about twice every hour. I managed to get in on the second wave. When I got in I filled everything out and then selected the number of tickets. Upon doing that I was booted out!
I freaked. As did hundreds of other people on the many message boards and in the chat rooms I visited. Lots of people faced the same problem and many people didn't get their tickets. Lots of tickets were being held, but no one could get access to screen to pay for them.
That's when I found an old link "http://bigtickets.waste.uk.com/ViewBasket.html" the website lacked any button to view your basket so I type it in by hand on the third wave and my tickets were there! I freaked and proceeded to pay for them. Numerous other people also got their tickets when I sent them this link and it made me feel good helping other people out, even if it was just concert tickets... it's not like I was feeding homeless people or saving lives... well maybe I was saving lives... Radiohead fans are insane like that...
Anyway, I have pit tickets to Madison Square Garden and am very very happy although this was WAY too stressful and long of an ordeal...
