Game 5 Tix on Sale @ 10am tomorrow
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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.
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Yeah, I think qualifying buyers would be good. These ticket brokers hire 1000s of people in India to buy tickets for them online.
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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!
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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.
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oh, then they suck.
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You realize how long it would take to get into the RG if they did that? 1-2 hours, maybe more?
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I could agree to that.. although it would take FOREVER to get into the arena that way.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can laugh now......the shopping cart of death ate my tickets and belched them up to some scalper.
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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.
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yeah I hear ya man.. I waited and waited to hear.. sorry... we know you were in line... couldnt tell you no sooner.. but I guess its like camping out and not getting them.
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Its more like camping out, a ticket broker tells you to wait and wait...meanwhile, people in front of you are telling you its been sold out already while the ticket agent STILL tells you to hold on.
Then....blammo, yeah bro, its sold out!
Its more the inefficiency than anything.
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Who thinks this will work out for this guy?
If I had cheap seats and no one wanted the tickets, I'd think about it for the hell of it if he passed a blazers quiz over the phone.
Yeah, that's true. My season ticket rep said he knows some of his "clients" are scalpers just by the way they talk when he calls them to see how they're doing. They don't seem so interested as fans, the way a guy like I am. And I talked to a broker mid-season, asking how they could possibly make money off season tickets - I know I lost money on games I had to sell - and he said scalpers bought up blocks of season tickets prepared to lose money until the playoffs, and the future title runs, when they'd recoup their investment.
Those are the guys clogging craigslist!
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Yeah, I guess as long as the Blazers are happy selling their allotment and meeting their budget for ticket sales, they're fine with it. I just hate seeing the true fans being priced out for these other idiots who couldn't care less about the Blazers.
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I'm super psyched that I was able to get two tickets this morning. When I entered in my credit card info and clicked submit or whatever, I got a "page not found" but just clicking refresh and hoping my card didn't get charged twice worked.
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anyone down for some incognito social engineering?
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We apologize for inconveniences you experienced during our Game 5 online on sale. The system has a time limit, and we experienced unprecedented demand. We're back in an era that the only way to guarantee playoff tickets is to become a season ticket holder. Please click here to join our season ticket holder waiting list:
http://hello.trailblazers.com/forms/2009-2010SeasonTicketRequestForm
I have your e-mail information, and we'll send an e-mail to you if any inventory is released by the league or media. There is no guarantee for tickets, however.
We want to put each fan in the best possible situation to purchase tickets in the future. In order to do so, every fan needs to have an account set up PRIOR to the on sale. This includes your account credit card address matching the billing information address.
Fortunately, we have a secure, secondary alternative in our Ticket Resale Center on trailblazers.com where fans can buy tickets directly from season ticket holders. All playoff games will also be televised on KGW channel 8 as it is our hope that every fan has the opportunity to see this great team during this exciting time.
RIP CITY UPRISE!
yay.
http://hello.trailblazers.com/forms/2009-2010SeasonTicketRequestForm
I have your e-mail information, and we'll send an e-mail to you if any inventory is released by the league or media. There is no guarantee for tickets, however.
We want to put each fan in the best possible situation to purchase tickets in the future. In order to do so, every fan needs to have an account set up PRIOR to the on sale. This includes your account credit card address matching the billing information address.
Fortunately, we have a secure, secondary alternative in our Ticket Resale Center on trailblazers.com where fans can buy tickets directly from season ticket holders. All playoff games will also be televised on KGW channel 8 as it is our hope that every fan has the opportunity to see this great team during this exciting time.
RIP CITY UPRISE!
yay.
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I think this was the most important part of the email. If you're not willing to pony up for the Tuesday games against the Grizzlies all year, then you can't be promised anything come playoff time.
If I could sign up for the Lakers, Cavs, Celtics, Jazz, and Playoffs Only package I would.
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