San Diego Con (4-day badges sell out in < 4hrs)

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:51 pm

Comic-Con 2011 Attendee Registration will open at 9am PT on Saturday, February 5

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_reg.php

Post by **JohnMayo** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:50 am

BobBretall wrote:Comic-Con 2011 Attendee Registration will open at 9am PT on Saturday, February 5

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_reg.php

But will it still be up at 9:01am?

I mean, do they have a viable plan for the mass influx of traffic?

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:51 pm

their bucket brigade system more or less held up last time. At least they were able to sell some tickets.

It's the dumbest system I've ever heard of, but I guess the goal is to sell the tickets and it's not they won't sell tix with a (bleep) system.

GABE! · Post by **GABE!** » Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:08 pm

Since this has year has been such a pain with tickets, I wonder how the scalping market will be this year.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:53 am

GABE! wrote:Since this has year has been such a pain with tickets, I wonder how the scalping market will be this year.

It's really difficult, though not impossible, to scalp San Diego tickets (except if you are physically planning to pick up the badge and then sell it afterward).

You need to give a name when you buy the ticket, and you have to show a valid photo ID with that name to pick up the badge. This would make it impractical to scalp tickets on a widespread basis, as you'd need a lot of people with different photo IDs to buy the badges who would all go to pick them up and then sell them after.

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:21 am

Apparently, they opened up volunteer registration the other day and that is already filled up and closed.

Good luck to anyone who attempts the craziness on Saturday.

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:37 am

Did anyone actually get through to purchase San Diego tixs? TicketLeap is an epic fail from my end.

Frank Castle · Post by **Frank Castle** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:42 pm

SDCC FAIL!

Again.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:45 pm

Wow. Any stories? I haven't seen any reporting on it yet.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:55 pm

#SDCC hashtag was #2 in the world on Twitter for a while......

TicketLeap.com could not handle the trafiic, but did not crash, you just got a

We are currently over capacity.
Try again momentarily.

Screen. Keep refreshing, you get a screen to buy tickets that says there are none available. Check Twitter to see that this is not really true, just problems with the systems. Refresh some more, finally get to put a ticket in your cart. Then getting to the screen where you enter your personal info gives you the over capacity screen.

Twitter advices tells you NOT to start over, just keep trying to refresh and the ticket is still in your cart.....

Long story short, I finally bought a ticket just shy of 3 hours after Registration opened up.

I think I'd be OK with TicketMaster fees, I think they have a system that can stand up to the traffic better than these little fly-by-night guys SDCC keeps trying out.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:56 pm

BTW --> You guys who will be at the con....CALL ME when you get in line to buy your tickets next year at the show, I'll come & hang out with you. I want to have the ticket before I leave so I don;t ever need to deal with this again.

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:07 pm

Reading up on a cosplay site, Bob's experience seems to be the norm. People are frustrated, had to try for a number of hours, but eventually got tickets. 4-Day badges went quick so people were buying tickets for each of the four days. Now Saturday is gone. But, at 1pm PST, TicketLeap seems to have tickets open for the other days. If you are Senior or Military, 4-Day passes are apparently still open.

People are also thinking that, when the dust settles, there might be some tickets that open up if the system is still confused with those who chose 4-Day but got impatient with refreshing and just dropped out.

Fail? Once you clear out the people declaring "Fail" who aren't even going, it really is up to that individual. Definitely FAIL on the process but people seemed to have eventually gotten their tickets.

I think the ticket line for next year's con will now be huge. I'm going to hit that line early but fully expect to spend half a day waiting now. It might be like Disney Land now.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:24 pm

atomic99 wrote: Fail? Once you clear out the people declaring "Fail" who aren't even going, it really is up to that individual. Definitely FAIL on the process but people seemed to have eventually gotten their tickets.

4 day tickets sold out in < 4hrs.

People (like me) who sat there screen refreshing for ~3 hrs had their persistence pay off, I guess.

But, if you took your eye off the ball and didn't get in there in that 1st 4 hrs? Pretty crazy for so quick a sell-out.

onemaddog · Post by **onemaddog** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:26 pm

I tried a few times then gave up. I think I will just have to make do with the San Francisco comicon instead. At least it's local.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:34 pm

Tweets at ~1:05pm pacific time:

Comic_Con
Four-day tickets are now sold out. As refunds are processed, additional inventory may be released to the public at a later date.

ticketleap
@Comic_Con Four-day passes are officially sold out. One-day passes are still available. #sdcc

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