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I tried for 3 hours to buy World Series tickets online today (the only way they sold them). Alas, it was not to be.

This sucks unbelievably. I hate virtual waiting rooms.

Radbird wrote:I tried for 3 hours to buy World Series tickets online today (the only way they sold them). Alas, it was not to be.

This sucks unbelievably. I hate virtual waiting rooms.

Modern day hell.

I suggest trying the day of the game. Sometimes they'll release a few.

Happened to me last year here.

Climb to the top of the rockies and look down with a binoculars.

i tried all afternoon. I was going to just resell them or let you guys have them but it says sold out for all three games now.

cardsfansince82 wrote:i tried all afternoon. I was going to just resell them or let you guys have them but it says sold out for all three games now.

I wonder how many people were in the virtual waiting room with no intention of going to the game? I'm guessing a very high percentage. People in Columbus, OH looking to turn them over for a quick buck on stubhub.

jim wrote:

cardsfansince82 wrote:I wonder how many people were in the virtual waiting room with no intention of going to the game? I'm guessing a very high percentage. People in Columbus, OH looking to turn them over for a quick buck on stubhub.

You gotta be able to afford Todd Boeckman's hundred dollar handshakes somehow.

jim wrote:

cardsfansince82 wrote:i tried all afternoon. I was going to just resell them or let you guys have them but it says sold out for all three games now.

I wonder how many people were in the virtual waiting room with no intention of going to the game? I'm guessing a very high percentage. People in Columbus, OH looking to turn them over for a quick buck on stubhub.

I'm sure a lot of people. Especially with the Red Sox involved it's a pretty easy way to make a nice profit for doing nothing. That wasn't my intention though. I have a Rockies fan friend here that would have gotten first shot. Then I would have offered them to any Colorado folks on the board here and last I would try to resell them online. I was pissed last year when one of my high school friends who is a Cubs fan scored some tickets online for the WS and wouldn't let several of our close friends have first shot at them. All he cared about was making some money by putting them on EBay.

cardsfansince82 wrote:

jim wrote:

cardsfansince82 wrote:i tried all afternoon. I was going to just resell them or let you guys have them but it says sold out for all three games now.

I wonder how many people were in the virtual waiting room with no intention of going to the game? I'm guessing a very high percentage. People in Columbus, OH looking to turn them over for a quick buck on stubhub.

I'm sure a lot of people. Especially with the Red Sox involved it's a pretty easy way to make a nice profit for doing nothing. That wasn't my intention though. I have a Rockies fan friend here that would have gotten first shot. Then I would have offered them to any Colorado folks on the board here and last I would try to resell them online. I was pissed last year when one of my high school friends who is a Cubs fan scored some tickets online for the WS and wouldn't let several of our close friends have first shot at them. All he cared about was making some money by putting them on EBay.

You could do the same to him the next time his team makes the Series (except he's a Cubs fan).

My wife and I were going to use 2 of the tix, then ask either our friends who have a split household (he is Boulder native and big Rox fan; she is from NE and rabid Sox fan) or our neighbors down the street who are Bos fans (real ones who had the Red Sox sticker on their car before 2004...)

Maybe someone we know got lucky, will think of who the biggest baseball fan they know is, and my phone will ring.