Fans Rage as U2 Ticket Sale Site Falls Over

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

funny how scalpers on ebay are boasting "86 pairs" of "exclusive fan presale tix" but most in the U.S. as well as the UK came up empty-handed. The old system U2 used worked perfectly for over 20 years. The second they turned it over corporations like Fanfire and Ticketmaster-as well as having the tour sponsored by Clear Channel, things went to shit

By Tim Richardson
Published Wednesday 26th January 2005 16:00 GMT

Thousands of U2 fans are up in arms after the website handling the advanced ticket sale of the band's 2005 Vertigo tour fell over

U2 fans - who had forked out $40 (£21) for the privilege of joining U2.com enabling them to snap up tickets to gigs before they went on general sale - had received a six-digit code which they could use to buy tickets.

But organisers misjudged the demand for tickets and the site flogging the tickets ground to a halt rendering the codes - which can only be used once - useless.

Sources say that as many as 15,000 fans were hit by the glitch, but Ticketmaster, the outfit handling the ticket sales, declined to comment on numbers.
more at www.register.co.uk

[KurtNYC]

1. "fell over" = crashed?

When are them english people gonna learn to speak english? ;-)

Actually I think it is kind of a funny expression - as if the computer system fainted from exhaustion.

[miss_kitty]

2. your link is wrong. It goes to DMR, because you have no 'the' in the URL

Here's a link to the story.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/26/u2_ticket_blunder/