PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Individual game seats are on sale for season ticket holders now, but the phone lines are jammed and the website is melting down! What a freakin' mess!!! PTR
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 I manage to get through onlone and buy 10 tickets. Entered my credit card and everything. Get to the end and it freakin crashes!! Now I have no idea if I bought anything!!! Last year they let you fax in orders ahead of time. This was supposed to be an "improved" system! Nice going, TD! PTR
R. Rich Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 I manage to get through onlone and buy 10 tickets. Entered my credit card and everything. Get to the end and it freakin crashes!! Now I have no idea if I bought anything!!! Last year they let you fax in orders ahead of time. This was supposed to be an "improved" system! Nice going, TD! PTR 339004[/snapback] Well, you know what they say about Donahoe, don't you?
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 And now Ticketmaster has shut down the online purchasing option!! It just keeps getting better and better!!! PTR
Chalkie Gerzowski Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Save the postage, errr, hold the phone, err, come back later, errrr wait till Tuesday fer a hamburger today. Buffalo + Technology = A bad case of the crabs.
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 I called the Bills ticket office yesterday to be sure of what to do. They guy there said "relax...we have plenty of people answering phones. Besides, it's only season ticket holders. How busy can it get?" Famous freakin' last words!!!!!! PTR
R. Rich Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 I guess the Panda went to the office directly to get the tickets?
RVJ Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Your better off buying season tickets. Then just sell the games you don't want.
R. Rich Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Your better off buying season tickets. Then just sell the games you don't want. 339027[/snapback] I think he's buying them for others. If he's buying them now, he already has season tickets.
Dan Gross Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 I called the Bills ticket office yesterday to be sure of what to do. They gut there said "relax...we have plenty of people answering phones. Besides, it's only season ticket holders. How busy can it get?" Famous freakin' last words!!!!!! PTR 339020[/snapback] Yeah, after all, no one would want to buy tickets for a team that is clearly going to go 2-14 at best this season...
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 I finally get to the checkout...and it says I'm buying 52 tickets for the Falcons and 98 for the Broncos game!! WTF!!!!!! I'm buying Pats and Dolphins! PTR
Thailog80 Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 I finally get to the checkout...and it says I'm buying 52 tickets for the Falcons and 98 for the Broncos game!! WTF!!!!!! I'm buying Pats and Dolphins! PTR 339055[/snapback] Damn......how's your patience right now?
RVJ Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 I think he's buying them for others. If he's buying them now, he already has season tickets. 339030[/snapback] Oh...I guess he's screwed then.
DieHardFan Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Did you really expect it to work? This is a site that is still recruiting Blue Coats to sell tickets for a program that doesn't even exist anymore. And using 2003 Info to promote it. All incoming phone circuits are busy also. Once all the cronys and budzos get their fill of tickets things will miraculously start working.
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 Finally got my tickets. They are all in the crappy 307 section of the upper deck, but at least I got 'em. Of course I had to pay $30 in Ticketmaster handling fees!!! They need to go back to allowing faxes. That is so much easier! PTR
Fake-Fat Sunny Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 As bad as things are with the web system for doing ticket sales, i can't help but remember back to a time not too long ago (mid-90s, certainly late 80s?) when the use to sort tickets and will call orders into shoeboxes. The Bills really have moved into the 20th century finally (and TD has had a lot to do with managing this there have been some notable advances like the upgrade in pre-season operations at St. John Fishers over Fredonia) but unfortunately this means that there will be some clusterfs as the Bills come to grips with 21st century approaches.
DieHardFan Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 Whatta joke! Tried to get two in the Lower Bowl was offered the following: NOTE: There were not enough seats in the price level you requested. The following are close matches to your search criteria. Seats Price $52.00 (Inet) x 2 306 8 s 5-6 Yeah, Real close; plus I save a whole $1 per ticket.
DieHardFan Posted May 18, 2005 Posted May 18, 2005 As bad as things are with the web system for doing ticket sales, i can't help but remember back to a time not too long ago (mid-90s, certainly late 80s?) when the use to sort tickets and will call orders into shoeboxes. The Bills really have moved into the 20th century finally (and TD has had a lot to do with managing this there have been some notable advances like the upgrade in pre-season operations at St. John Fishers over Fredonia) but unfortunately this means that there will be some clusterfs as the Bills come to grips with 21st century approaches. 339088[/snapback] 1) The shoebox method worked better. 2) This isn't rocket science. This technology was available off the shelf and debugged by 98 (conservatively).
PromoTheRobot Posted May 18, 2005 Author Posted May 18, 2005 The dirty little secret seems to be that if you shop online, there is no limit to the number of tickets you can buy! You can only get 10 per order, but you can go back again and again. There was supposed to be a limit of 10 tickets per game. PTR
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