I stayed up all night along with many other members trying to buy tickets, after being up all night and finally realizing the pre-sale goes on sale at 10AM and refreshed at 9:59:58 took about 5-6 seconds to refresh and then "Sold Out" sign was already up, some others had the opportunity to add tickets into their basket, only to find out there is nothing added. That day I went to work late with no sleep.
Then today I was supposed to be at work at 9:00AM, called in to be late again and waited at the coffee bean near my work hoping to try scoring tickets since 10:30am and then 10:59:57 I refreshed and took me to the ticket selection page right away without any loading delay, entered the 2 Capcha codes and then "Sorry No Matches Were Found, But Other Tickets May Still Be Available on Ticketmaster" This was exactly 11:00:04
The Million Dollar question is how many actual tickets were available for the general public through Ticketmaster for them to be sold out in merely 3-4 seconds and same goes for the pre-sale. Or was it designed this way, so that if you really wanted to go to the Radiohead show, you would need to pay 2-10 times the actual face value. I've been buying tickets through Ticketmaster before there was a such thing as Online Purchase, where you had to go to a retail outlet and wait in a dreadful line, but never in my lifetime I saw any event sell out in few seconds, I strongly believe 90% plus was allocated by Ticket brokers and dealers before it went on sale to the general public. The GA Floor is selling for $800+ and middle section is $500+ and way in the back is $160-200, it almost seems like you either have to be rich or extremely lucky to purchase tickets at face value.
Either way it sucks for many True Radiohead Fans that can't spend the broker/dealer prices, and even though someone decides to sell you tickets, I don't even know if these tickets are transferable, it said only if the promoters or the artist permits the transfer, same goes for the Ticketmaster personal ticket sales, you can only sell the tickets on Ticketmaster.com only if the promoters/artist permits it. It's just a big upsale conspiracy and I am pissed.
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