TicketBastards

[kitsap_charles]

There's a reason TicketMaster (no, I'm not providing a link— they don't deserve the business) is known as TicketBastard.

For the last hour, riverheart has been on the phone with a succession of Wastes of Oxygen, trying to get them to recognize that yes, the address she gave when ordering tickets is the address on her credit card. She confirmed it with the card issuer, who ran ten (count them! 10!!) authorizations using the address (which also appears on the issuer's statement). But no, TicketBastard can't get it to work.

Now she's being bounced from dolt to buffoon to time-waster, none of whom seems to be able even to determine who in their vile conglomerate is capable of actually accomplishing anything.

GAAH! Urge to kill, rising!

Comments

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I finally got the tickets confirmed, though...

So we *are* going to see Simon & Garfunkel, beloved. Section AA, row 11, seats 5 and 6. See the seating chart here.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I suggest threatening media attention. If this doesn't clear by sundown, if one of you two would write up the facts of the case and post them, we can do a couple of things. One, we can forward this to the local mainstream media. Two, we can crosspost this to folks like vidicon (shadesong being unavailable) along with corporate contact numbers and have our readership DDOS their phone lines and force the post orifice to deliver their mail by the tractor-trailer load. And somebody can draft a letter to various congresscritters.

These turkeys can and should be brought to their knees. When the full power of the Internet juggernaut brought to bear, they'll be smithereens.

Will you get to see the show? I dunno. Can we trash TicketTrasher? Yes. Might be worth it. They've certainly been the bane of my ticket-buying existience for years...

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

TicketMaster has such a lock on the ticket industry that even its clients -- entertainers -- cannot beat it. Bands such as Pearl Jam and String Cheese Incident have tried to sidestep TicketMaster, and lost.

It's enough to make me want to buy a String Cheese Incident CD, even though saying the band's name makes me want to weep...

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I think GDTStoo will handle ticketing for Darn Near Any Band, not just the Dead, and they're not TicketMaster.

Why not buy the tickets on the computer??

[winged-human.livejournal.com]

Why couldn't you guys confirm the tickets via the Comp?? Can you even do that?? I wouldn't know, I've never bought tickets online. :) Be Safe


John W.