Getting Radiohead presale tickets is a case study in fanaticism. The presales are run on their own website out of the UK. They typically tell you the date of the pre-sale but not the time. Because it's hosted in the UK, the time is usually sometime convenient for the webmasters working in that timezone. People will wait up all night by their PC hitting refresh to see if the presale has started.TheWalrus wrote: getting tickets to big concerts is a case study in introductory economics.
The last one started around 9:00 a.m. EST. I decided I wasn't losing a night's sleep and started checking around 6:00. I also had an automated program scanning the website for changes every 5 seconds so I didn't have to sit at my PC. I instantly scored tickets (for the wrong show (stupid venue name changes)) but after a web-site crash, I eventually got tickets for the right show.
The worst ever was the '07/'08 Hannah Montana tour. Talk about an enormous number of people trying to get tickets who were not well versed on the nuances of ticket sales. There was a fan club presale for that, but you actually had to be a member of a paid-subscription fan club which got you a unique password, and this still didn't guarantee you seats. Parents were frantic, kids were crying and everybody wanted to sue somebody. I got pretty good seats from the presale taking advantage of a free one-month membership timed to get a password and we got to take our girls without jumping through too many hoops.
