alas, stuck with IEXplorer at work. but there is still general onsale. the tickets are all the same. and there will be a bit more of them and while we ll have to fight off scalpers at least that ticket site wont crash with heavy traffic

Like the last Chicago show I kept getting "tickets not available at this time" after selecting the ticket count and putting in the security code. I just took a deep breath and kept clicking "2" for my tickets and hitting enter. After probably close to a 100 times as fast as I could, the confirm order page finally popped up. At 14 minutes after 5. I learned that unless the order page is taken down to keep trying. If you're going for any LA tickets, try that method. It's better than giving up.

I feel horrible for those who didn't get them. If they didn't put ALL the tickets in presale(which I doubt they did), they should do a second round of presale so fans, NOT SCALPERS, can get a fair chance.

I know I'll have a good time, but I'd rather be around real fans than rich people with disposable money who are there "just because they can".

had problems just before the New York presale, then was shut out until around 5:30 est. Logged in, went to the ticket page and waited. Refreshed at 6, had my receipt printed by 6:02. Sucks everyone had so many problems.

Hey all, sorry some had a hard time getting tix.

I waited till 5:00 then clicked on the presale link.

Waited in " Queue " for about 2 min, if that.

Once into the ticket page, I tried to get 2 tix for Sat.

Yep it said there were not enough tickets to fulfill order.

But I kept tring, time and time again. Kept my cool. Kept tring.

Two showed up.

Did the same thing for the Friday show, got two more.

That message of "can not fulfill ..." throws a lot of people off.

But those who waited in "queue" pre 5:00pm CDT probably got pushed to the back of the line.

But do not dispair, this was the pre-sale, a small percentage of the venue's full capaticy.

Most will be able to buy tix through ticketmaster on the 31st, only with less stress.

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Anyone want to trade?

I need one ticket for Saturday.

I have one extra ticket for Friday.

UPDATE: I am covered. Thank you. However, people with an extra Saturday ticket who were shut out for Friday should still show up on Friday afternoon holding a "will swap" sign, because you never know when a fellow pre-saler might be able to set you up.



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i am mildly bummed out. in 15 years of attending nin shows i have never not gotten tickets and i feel confident i will get my tickets through general on-sale. my friends and i, we have enough of a posse, to score at least 4 tickets. so i am confident ill be seeing everyone lucky to get tix at the show, and again, if by soem chance i do not, my offer will stand, i ll put people up at my crib for free and drive to the show, etc for a ticket.

I think it was lack of preparation-the site problems started happening I think around the time the New York pre sale started. I think that Trent may have expected this (hence deleting his Twitter Account, knowing he'd probably have a ton of complaints coming at him at once). There ARE ways to reinforce your server capacity (I don't know what they are, but I'm certain they exist), but it does take a good deal of time and money and add to that the fact that Trent and Co. are probably miles away from where the servers are located so it's not like they can give it any direct attention either. The plan to add the tour dates alone was a bit of a last minute thing as well.

My guess is he may have EXPECTED this to happen, but there was really nothing he could do about it-which I imagine frustrates him as much if not MORE than it's frustrated us.

I do feel pretty lucky that I managed to snag one ticket for Saturday, although I'm still jealous of those who somehow managed to get some for both days.

Btw, any idea if GA Standing INCLUDES the balcony or if only floor tickets where sold in the pre sale?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2009 05:34PM by DJGamer.

For what it's worth I was logged into nin.com on the tour page all day. At 3:50 central time someone said the website was down. I clicked 'ticket info' and it took me to the waiting room at 4pm. The waiting room spit me out into the ticket purchase area. At 5pm I clicked on the ticket info. link and it said they weren't on sale yet. The third try took me straight into the ticket purchase page.

Feel bad for everyone that got screwed, but I'm pretty damned sure Trent envisioned it working like my experience...

Anyone putting two of these tickets up on Ebay for $4,000 is a piece of shit.

First of all to everyone that was unable to get tickets I feel your pain. This has happened to me many times over the years for a NIN show and it always felt like the reason was some fascist bullshit.

Thankfully I got mine but not without problems. Like everyone else the site completely crashed on me at 3:58pm eastern time. Yea, that's right I noticed the time like it was an assassination attempt. Thankfully, I made the smart decision to open as many tabs as possible to the nin.musictoday.com ticket portal both from the nin site and from twitter posts. What actually worked for me was the ones I opened from the twitter posts in regards to the NY tickets. The tabs kept automatically refreshing and when the first one showed the page to choose tickets I picked Saturday and proceeded to check out.

Personally, I think they should have made the Chicago sale later by one hour so they wouldn't have been as much congestion on the servers from the NY pre-sale. That was ultimately what I think caused everyone to have problems since the initial ticket portal is the same for all the shows. But hey hindsight is 20/20 right.

To anyone trying for LA tickets try this method along with the links from nin.com. 1) Go to the NIN Hotline's twitter page and right-click on their link about the nin.musictoday portal. Open this link in a new window. 2) Open as many of these as your internet browser will allow. 3) DO NOT HIT REFRESH WHATSOEVER!!! The tabs should keep refreshing automatically. 4) Kill time till it gets to 10 minutes before the pre-sale and bounce from tab to tab. 5) Once the show page shows up just do what you normally do.

**NOTE!!** To anyone not familiar the captchas are CASE SENSITIVE. Once you have the tickets you want you have 10-15 minutes (can't remember since I didn't pay attention till the last step) to finalize all the info for the purchase so no need to rush and make a mistake.

If you're going for the general sale on the 31st then make sure you're logged in with an account to TicketMaster at least 3 hours before the start time. I know that sounds extreme but in my experience at 3 hours you should have no problems with traffic congestion on the site. At 2 hours you'll encounter some so don't try it unless you have a very fast DSL connection, or better, and your computer's location in your residence is located as close as possible to the main control box for your neighborhood. If you want, or are forced by other obligations, to wait till 1 hour or less than my suggestion would make sure your connection is a minimum of a T1, have at least dual-core processor, and over 1.5gigs of RAM for your computer.....or use a supercomputer. Seriously, I know this all sounds extreme but I've had to go through TM's website so many goddamn times I could write a book on how to easily get tickets through it.

Other than that I really feel for everyone that wasn't successful and to the people who are going to keep trying best of luck.

I got an extra ticket for the show on the 28th. I'll trade someone for a ticket on the 29th. please pm me.

Luckily I got my tickets. I waited from around 3:30 and it was a pretty smooth experience. The credit card I used is owned by someone else though. Do I absolutely have to bring it to the show? In different areas around it said I need the card OR the receipt but other parts say I need both. It's confusing...



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I couldn't even get on the damn site..... FUCKKKK.... I have been a NIN fan since before time and all of the shows I have been to I should have gotten VIP tickets sent to me for free! LOL

Shit, some of us couldn't even get a chance to go to one show and I see some of you all are going to both of them. There's not enough punching bags in the world right now to quell my frustration.

21niko21 posted:

Anyone putting two of these tickets up on Ebay for $4,000 is a piece of shit.

Totally agree!

schmeckle posted:

Also, again any clue if these tickets include the balcony or are only for the floor area?

It's all general admission, no separate tixs for the balcony. Hope to still go if I can get some damn tixs on the 31st!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/17/2009 07:26PM by chicagoreznorfan.