6 minutes?!?
June 1st, 2007 - by Ana Ng
Damn you, Ticketmaster!! Damn you, and your $9.40 PER TICKET “convenience” fee!
I was logged on at 11.59a, reading and waiting for the 12p release of Ryan Adams tickets. I had them. Two of them. And then came the screen with that damn fee. I faltered. Stupid stupid girl! I faltered. I checked the venue website to see what their handling fee was. In the meantime, my minute expired and I lost my tickets. No problem, I thought, it’s only 12.05p. I returned to the start page to take another pair and just that fast:
“There are no events that match your request.”
Are you f@#$ing kidding me?!?!
Apparently not. I mean, okay… I expected the show to sell out, but 6 minutes?!?!
I blame Ticketmaster, of course. First of all, there’s nothing convenient about paying $20 extra for two stinking concert tickets. Second of all, let’s not even get me started on the “pre-order for advance tickets” scam (as alluded to in this post). Because the fine print was that it was for shows *in the fall* which is kind of easy to overlook when you’re psyched about the show that’s happening in LESS THAN A MONTH! And finally, Ticketmaster just is an evil evil empire that conspires to keep people away from the shows they really want to go to.
Really, I know it was my own damn fault. I’m a cheap-ass bastard, and now I’m paying an even bigger price. Argh!
