rockies online world series ticket sales was a corporate scam

[leftofthedial]

utterly bogus and has the benefits (to the corporatists) of both institutionalizing the cronyism inherent in the process and shielding it from public scrutiny. They should have had fans line up at the ticket office and buy tickets in person.

[librechik]

1. nobody here can get in either.

boo!

[likesmountains 52]

2. no shit...the page has been reloading for an hour here...who got tix?

[leftofthedial]

5. according to the Post poll,

0.577% say they were able to get tickets

77.73% say they tried and couldn't

[otohara]

3. Fans Did Line Up

and the lottery system was used.

I find any big event being sold via internet is a scam. How is it ticket brokers end up with the bulk of tickets, if not it all being a big scam.

[leftofthedial]

4. the corporate sponsors got plenty of tickets

nobody lined up. the servers wouldn't even let people "in line" (the countdown screen) until after 10:20. Then it kept dropping connections. I've been on the phone with friends all over the metro area and all had pretty much the same results.

randomly denying access to those without T1 lines is not a lottery. It's a scam.

[Turn CO Blue]

9. My company is a MAJOR sponsor and didn't get a single tkt

(which the company would have lotteried to the employees) but we only signed up for regular season sponsorship, not "post-season" sponsorship. I heard that even the big sponsors (like Qwest, etc.) only got a few tickets.

I'm not sure who got the tickets, but it wasn't the fans and it's possible it wasn't even the sponsors. Must have been the scalpers with their arrays of machines.

[hasbro]

6. News release

http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=79459

I'd also like to chastise the Rox for giving anyone equal shot at tickets, when the taxpayers built them a stadium. That alone means Coloradans shot have had first shot at the tickets.

[likesmountains 52]

8. Did you see on the 9 news site the little story about how the Sox sold their

tickets...what a difference!

[hasbro]

7. More good news

The Fan says there are enough fans around Coors that it's disrupting traffic.

I'm sure the Denver cops will freak out and start gassing.