Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

Re:Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes by SeoxyS on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:28PM (#5608580)

Put bluntly: this is bullshit. The advance notice was slightly better than last year, but the website was intermittently down for the entire two minutes tickets were on sale.

I was there, trying to buy them at 9:59am, at 10:00:20am the website finally went live, pressed the buy button and was greeted by "unable to process your request."

Seriously, Apple needs to figure this shit out. Whether that means opening up more seats, making tickets more expensive, or even just having a website that doesn't go down on you… something.

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Re:Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes by smackfu on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:30PM (#5610019)

Was the advance notice any better than last year? Last year, you either knew about the sale in the window or you didn't. This year, even if you knew about it, people missed out.

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Re:Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes by schwa on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:01PM (#5609825)

Worked perfectly for me. Sucks for you.

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Re:Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes by SeoxyS on Thursday April 25, 2013 @05:19PM (#5609935)

Lucky :).

But that's my point: It's not even first-come first-serve anymore, it's a server-load-powered lottery.

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