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From: Dima on 28 Jul 2010 11:04
Free tickets on cardinals.com NOW.
Started on 10:00 AM CT
From: Dima on 28 Jul 2010 12:27
Im thinking, this thing is such a BS!!!!!
I was able to get pass the first waiting room and order 4 tickets (took
15 minutes to wait. started exactly at 10:00 am). then I was sent to
second room... Im in there for 1 hour and 5 minutes already.... Here is
what they are saying:

Welcome to the Virtual Waiting Room!

The event you have requested is experiencing very high demand. As a
result, all requests for seats cannot be served simultaneously. Please
be patient, and your browser will be refreshed in (here is javascript
button with 30 seconds countdown)

When we refresh your browser, we will determine your status in the
waiting room and if appropriate give you an opportunity to request
seats.

I checked the page source. There is no value submitted to anywhere.
Value is empty (people who familiar with programming will know what i'm
talking about) And this countdown refreshing every 30 seconds.
Here is the code:


var timerID = null;
var running = false;
var minutes = 0;
var seconds = 31;
var min_dis = " minutes"
var sec_dis = " seconds"
var clickmessage = "We're sorry! Right click has been disabled until
the timer expires.";
var refreshmessage = "Please be patient and wait for us to refresh your
browser. Thank you!";
document.onmousedown = rtclickcheck;
function rtclickcheck(keyp){
if (minutes != 0 || seconds != 0) {
if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && keyp.which == 3) {
alert(clickmessage);
return false;
}
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1 && event.button == 2) {
alert(clickmessage);
return false;
}
}
}

function stopTimer () {
if(running) clearTimeout(timerID);
running = false;
}
function stopRefresh () {
if (minutes != 0 || seconds != 0) {
alert(refreshmessage);
}
}
function countDown () {
if (seconds == 0 && minutes > 0) {
minutes = minutes - 1;
seconds = 60;
}
if (seconds > 0) seconds = seconds - 1;
if (minutes == 1) min_dis = " minute";
else min_dis = " minutes";
if (seconds == 1) sec_dis = " second";
else sec_dis = " seconds";
document.clock.bigdisplay.value = new String(minutes) + min_dis + " and
" + seconds + sec_dis;
if (minutes == 0 && seconds == 0) {
running = false;
document.clock.bigdisplay.value = "Click To Try Again";
history.go(0);
}
else {
timerID = setTimeout("countDown()",1000);
running = true;
}
}
function tryAgain () {
if (minutes == 0 && seconds == 0) {
history.go(0);
}
}

function startTimer () {
stopTimer();
countDown();
}
<body onload="startTimer()" onUnload="stopRefresh()">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td
width="30">&nbsp;</td><td><form

name="clock" onSubmit="0">

The event you have requested is experiencing very high demand. As a
result, all requests for seats cannot be served simultaneously.
Please be patient, and your browser will be refreshed in
<input type="button" name="bigdisplay" value="
" onClick="javascript:tryAgain(); return false">
<br><br>When we refresh your browser, we will determine your
status in the waiting room and if appropriate give you an
opportunity to request seats.<br><br> During high demand
periods such as now, the ticketing system must fulfill
requests from multiple sales channels (e.g., boxoffice, call
centers, outlets, IVR, Kiosks) as well as the Internet. This spike in
traffic means that all consumers must be patient and wait for
their opportunity to purchase tickets.<br><br>Thank you!


What a BS!!!!!!


Dima wrote:
> Free tickets on cardinals.com NOW.
> Started on 10:00 AM CT
From: Tom on 28 Jul 2010 12:59

>
> What a BS!!!!!!
>
>
>
> Dima wrote:
> > Free tickets on cardinals.com NOW.
> > Started on 10:00 AM CT- Hide quoted text -
>


With all due respect, Dima, what did you expect?

We live in a population center of about 3M people and the Cardinals
are the most popular ticket in town.

There were 8K free tickets available. I'd wager 200K or more people
were logged on trying to get tickets. That's a pretty high volume.

There is no doubt demand would be high.

Were you able to get the freebees? Did you take advantage of the $10
offer?

Go Cards!

Tom
From: Dima on 28 Jul 2010 13:24
Tom, I know it's hard to get into 2000 first buyers. I was there in
10:00:07, so may be I was in first 1000 users, that logged in in few
seconds. I got trough the first waiting room, and im still in the second
one. :)
Take a look at cardinals Facebook page. Im not alone. And they started
to delete my messages and comments... said enough

Tom wrote:
>> What a BS!!!!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dima wrote:
>>> Free tickets on cardinals.com NOW.
>>> Started on 10:00 AM CT- Hide quoted text -
>
>
> With all due respect, Dima, what did you expect?
>
> We live in a population center of about 3M people and the Cardinals
> are the most popular ticket in town.
>
> There were 8K free tickets available. I'd wager 200K or more people
> were logged on trying to get tickets. That's a pretty high volume.
>
> There is no doubt demand would be high.
>
> Were you able to get the freebees? Did you take advantage of the $10
> offer?
>
> Go Cards!
>
> Tom
From: Tom on 29 Jul 2010 11:12
On Jul 28, 12:24 pm, Dima <mail.ad...(a)beer-co.ca> wrote:
> Tom, I know it's hard to get into 2000 first buyers. I was there in
> 10:00:07, so may be I was in first 1000 users, that logged in in few
> seconds. I got trough the first waiting room, and im still in the second
> one. :)
> Take a look at cardinals Facebook page. Im not alone. And they started
> to delete my messages and comments... said enough
>


I'm sorry you had frustration over the process.

Did you ever get tickets?

I avoided the thing like the plague just because of the frustration
potential.

Tom
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