Colorado Rockies Tickets
Some people don’t like the fact that the Colorado Rockies World Series baseball tickets are only being sold online. Exactly why are people upset? Do people actually LIKE standing in line or camping out ala Thanksgiving night at the Best Buy automatic door?
Online ticket sales should be preferred. It’s fair to people that can’t take the day off work. What better method of purchasing tickets than to take a coffee break at 10am, hover over the refresh button, and have the same chance as anyone else? People are worried about others snatching them all up and reselling them. Well they’re doing that anyway, and it can be online or real world.
Here’s a video of Matthew Barnett fearing “What if a Hacker came in and bought 100 tickets.” And then qualifying his internet prowess by admitting he’s on dial-up.
Hackers? Please. People who throw around the work “hacker” have no idea what it even means or the scope it encompasses. The guys who shut down Estonia’s internet were hackers. Just because someone has multiple computers and a few credit cards doesn’t make them hackers. You can control IP addresses, e-mail accounts, credit cards, and number of tickets sold per party. Together these offer MORE scalper protection than vending them brick and mortar style. Any unscrupulous scalper could easily recruit a group to purchase their ticket limit individually. It’s MUCH more difficult to establish a system to do that online.
With the scale of the World Series games I don’t think the MLB and the Rockies are going to sell their tickets via a low rate internet hosting service. As stated they’ve contracted with a reputable firm which specializes in short term high web traffic.
In other Rockies news, the legal department of the team is now trying to patent the word “Rocktober.” When they realized that newspapers, advertisements, car dealership, restaurants, enthusiastic fans, and others were all using the newly coined moniker they then decided only THEY should have control over it. It’s a slap in the face to try and steal a collective term BACK from the public and market to is as your own.
The Colorado Rockies didn’t create the term “Rocktober.” The people of Colorado did. The public had it first. Leave them alone.
Um…who buys tickets from box offices anymore?
Online ticket purchases are a blessing…
i agree about people using the term “hacker.” unless they actually pronounce it “haXoR”…then they might have an idea what they’re talking about.
Another site featuring ebay auctions for Rockies World Series tickets:
http://endingnow.com/rockies_world_series/
No luck getting tickets for me. Can’t even connect to the server. Better than waiting outside, in line, overnight to then get turned away at the box office.
Rock on!
yeah, this internet sales thing was totally convenient, except it didn’t work.
this is strangely reminiscent of denver’s computer voting screw up not too long ago.
egg on our face again. thank you rockies and hickenlooper.
Hubs…you are blaming Hickenlooper?! WTF are you just retarded or a Republican..oh wait.
The issue today plain and simple, regardless what the Rockies are saying it as a malicious attack, was a insuffcient architecture of the ticketing application. From what I can gather they had 15 application servers and 1-2 F5 BigIP LD’s. DB backend unknown. Single POP.
Just plain and simple not enough hardware, blotted ticketing application, and ego’s at the ticketing site (not coloradorockies.com nor mlb.com).
Thanks for the comments. THIS PHOTO explains why we had problems with the voting system. In various lines throughout the city we had 10 times the amount of people that would be attending a U2 concert – and at my voting location I didn’t see ONE I.T. person scurrying around and ensuring everything was running up to speed.
I certainly hope these same folks weren’t manning the Rockies ticket server.
p.s. where are we getting our homemade “Rocktober” banners made?
to clarify: i was making a comparison of denver’s recent computer bungles. i was partially blaming hickenlooper for the voting mishap. i blame the rockies (management and pr) for the ticketing mishap.
wow, oh please, you are an aggressive one. seriously, asking people if they are retarded makes you look like a jackass (or a republican).
Here is my idea about for the Rockies:
http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2007/10/24/go-colorado-rockies/
Pass it on if you think it’s a good idea.