O.K. not one to usually vent, but, I have to say what a disappointment the Rockies on-line sale fiasco was. Over Four hours on the Rockies site in the last two days and I couldn’t even “get in” to buy a single ticket. All I got to do was stare at a site with a line stating “To improve your ticket-buying experience and to make it as pleasant as possible, this site permits entry to a limited number of patrons at a time.” Watching the countdown clock get to 1 for the 1,000 time and then watching my computer freeze forever (thinking I finally got in) and then getting a site timeout error time and time again… Then having to start all over again at the “back of the line. Well Rockies, my ticket buying experience wasn’t improved or pleasant!
The most frustrating part I think, was listening to the Rockies spokesperson lying all day…stating “everything is working fine… the site is just slow”… And me sitting here thinking B.S.! I have been kicked off the site some 12 times today alone… Losing my “place in line” and staring at this stupid “waiting room” screen… This was supposed to be “the fairest way” of getting tickets to the fans but it failed miserably. The mere fact that it took two and a half hours to “sell out” proves the site was not working properly. I never expected to get a ticket… as a matter of fact I expected them all to be gone in about 15 minutes… but this was definitely the not “most fair” way to distribute these tickets.
Now I am listening the spokesman live saying “for those of you that couldn’t get tickets we feel for you” what a crock… You don’t feel for us… It’s just money to you. I hate to say this has diminished my “fanship” for this team, but I think it has… I historically have not been a huge fan of “pro” sports to begin with… I think most players are overpaid crybabies… But I have to admit I really liked this team this year. Watching a few of these player grow here locally with the SkySox, had given me a new appreciation of the game.
Well guys… I really did enjoy being at the Championship games… It was great watching how much my son actully enjoyed the games and how he actually sat and watched every minute (tough for 8 year old at 10:00 in the freezing rain). But right now I don’t know if I even care about the World Series with the Rockies in it. I guess next year it will be back to the Sky Sox… at least they’ve never let the fans down… Or lied to us… The system worked fine… what a crock…
The Rockies should have had a lottery…Only fair way to do it with a heck of a lot less headaches involved. That way, you would have known if you could have bought tix and exactly when you could have bought tix.
That’s essentially what the Red Sox did.
The leftovers should have been sold at the box office.
Also, if you’re going to do it exclusively online, you should have limited the first day to Colorado residents–accept only those credit cards with a CO address. Now, we just opened the door right up to Red Sox nation. It’s supposed to be home field advantage. The way the Rox did it, any one in the country had just as good of a shot as guys who live down the street from Coors Field. Not cool from a public relations standpoint.
Ironically the Rockies were saying yesterday that they wanted to do a lottery, but that it was illegal to do so in the state of Colorado; that is why they went with this system. Now the Colorado Legal folks are coming out and stating the Rockies never even asked them if they could do a lottery, and that they could have done one legally as long as no one was charged to participate in it… More egg on the faces of the Rockies administrative staff.
Well, the system must have worked. All the ticket scalpers have plenty of tickets at outrageous prices this morning. Somebody got them. I was using a computer hooked up to the internet via a T1 connection and had the same luck you did. Of the 2 dozen or so people that I know of that were trying to get in, not one of them did. I did hear of one guy trying from home who got in late in the afternoon and he was able to purchase 4 tickets to one game in the rockpile. I haven’t seen the tickets so I don’t know if it is true or not.
Bottom line, thanks to the Rockies, I saved a LOT of money yesterday. My living room and my small screen TV will be just fine — and the beer will be a lot cheaper too.
Go ROCKIES.
Silly Me… Plenty of tickets still available… A quick search on line and I found THOUSANDS of tickets for sale… I’ve listed them below to save you time and effort.
Game 3 2002 Tickets Upper Reserved Outfield 325 $11,149
game 4 1876 Tickets
Game 5 2232 Tickets $19,500 mezzanine
Sports Tickets.com
Game 3 320 listings with multiple tickets each – $9.00 parking pass going for a resonable $75.00
Game 4 259 listings cheapest ticket $600- what a bargain
Game 5 276 listings what an amazing # of “e-tickets” purchased “online” here at this site… hmm
buybettertickets.com
No to easily count the offers but tons available for all games. $9.00 packing pass listed as a “Great Price” at $128