Regarding TM issue

[falafeluver]

Hope this comes out.

[outmaker42]

I appreciate the info from all and wait 2 mins strategy tip etc..although I am still dumbfounded how every date was sold out per TM within 1st 30 secs when my son and I tried.
Bad luck or bad timing or better luck next time or all the above??

[falafeluver]

The one buddy is a total complete computer nerd and expert. He works with very complicated stuff and programs short of a NASA engineer with 30 years of experience crammed into the same years just much younger. Then add in the mind of a video gamer who gets into pretty high scores.

In simple terms to me, yes, very true that most tickets sell out quick, but think of a red stop light that’s been in a holding pattern for 10-15 min, everyone’s honking and revving their engines.

Then the green GO light comes on, cars are now going but there’s a very short lag time. That lag time is when everyone waiting for Ticketmaster systems to open but by the time, everyone tries to get another click in, no one is on!

That’s why sometimes when people have the ticket in the cart, it may drop!

It’s overloading the system and while you’re going thru the do you want ticket insurance, want the offer for a magazine subscription, credit card deal etc.

It’s actually 2.30 mins haha as we all either at a place together or on a conference call.

Wait wait 1.75 min…then NOW!

Bingo! We’re in!

The traffic going in is now less crowded but there will always be a lot of people still getting their tickets and closing the deal in 2 min or less, gotta be trigger finger happy to decline the offers

[falafeluver]

[Sosvp1]

Best time of year!!!!! Can't wait to read all the reports

[JigginJaws]

Wow...Im so confussed on what you said works for you?
I dont see how waiting a couple of mins would allow for you to these tix? I would assume after a couple of mins that all the spots are already sold.
I just dont get the idea behind having the tickets in your cart and going to check them out as something their system would see as the tickets still being available to the masses. Ill try that in a couple of weeks, just hope to get a chance to go back as its been over 12 years since Ive gone.

Thanks Fala!

[lazyfisherman]

When you add tickets to your account to book the boat, the tickets are pulled out of whatever pool exists to hold the number of reservations. When you update your quantity to 1, it goes back to the pool to grab new reservations/tickets, but there are none because by then, everyone that got the page to load added the available tickets to their checkout which pulls them out of availability. The tickets that you were holding now needs a status update to be available in the ticket pool again. This could be a second or 20 seconds or a minute. The way this process is set up seems to be the issue. When you update the quantity, it should just remove one from your checkout vs trying to retrieve new reservations.