Big Blue Ticketmaster Madness
Posted by:
Big Blue Barry on
September 29, 2007 at
10:13AM EST
I got up this morning at around 5:40am. This being a Saturday, you may
be asking yourself "...so Big Blue, why did you get up so early today?"
Well, I'll tell you why. Today at 6am Central tickets for the Big Blue
Madness went on sale. Supposedly. Well, if you went to the ticket booth
then, yes, the tickets were available then. But if you tried to order
them online at TicketMaster's web site, then you weren't so lucky.
I
was on their web site right at 6, waiting for them to make the tickets
available. At around 6:05am the page finally let me in to look for
tickets. But once I entered in the security code verifying that I was a
real person I then was taken by surprise. The site said that there were
no tickets available!
I knew that people were really excited to
go to this year's BBM to get our first glimpse of our new coach, Billy
Gillispie, but I thought this was ridiculous! I kept trying but had no
luck so I just gave up hope. I was pretty bummed out. I've had the time
off approved for about 5 months now to be able to make the trip up
there. So this morning I was feeling pretty sad.
I decided to go
work with my new recording software. I did that for around an hour or
so. I then thought I'd check to see if the official UK site had posted
an article about how fast the tickets sold out. I'm so glad I did. They
had posted an announcement that there was a problem with the online
tickets and they were working to resolve it. A ray of hope suddenly
appeared!
So
I went back to the TicketMaster site and tried again. Still no luck. I
tried again. No luck. Then on the 3rd attempt... I got a ticket!!!! Woo
hoo!!!! It's in the lower level, Section 39 Row N, on the opposite side
of the arena from where I sat last year. I'm closer to the UK bench
this time. So I should be able to get some pretty decent photos (Click here to view pictures from last year's event).
Last
year was the first time that I had ever went. I'm even more excited
about going this year. I'm hoping to do some videos this time in
addition to the pictures.
Ahhh.... I can hear the dribbles now...
(1) Comments
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Posted by: lmartin on September 27, 2008 5:41PM EST
BUDDY, IF YOU HAD TROUBLE THIS AM... SO DID I BUT I WAS NOT FORTUNATE LIKE YOU... I ENDED UP WITH NO TICKETS FOR ME AND MY FAMILY... HAVE FUN.. MY WIFE TRIED UP UNTIL 9:00 AM... SHE CALLED THE 800 # AROUND 7:30-8:00 TRYING TO BUY OVER THE PHONE THEY STATED THEY HAD TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.. THEN AROUND 9:30 SHE FINALLY REACHED AN OPERATOR AN THEY TOLD HER NO TICKETS WERE AVAILABLE... SO HAVE FUN FOR ALL OF US BACK HERE IN EASTERN KENTUCKY
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