If you read my post from a few days ago, you’ll know Maru and I were hoping to get Oasis tickets. Unfortunately, we missed out.
Even after waiting for 3-4 hours to get into Ticketmaster, there were 400,000 people ahead of us in the queue for our chosen concert date. There was no chance we were getting a ticket.
There’s been a lot of complaining online about how poor the ticketing experience was. Millions of hours were wasted by hundreds of thousands of fans who missed out.
It made me think that “live” ticket sales are antiquated, not to mention an impossible task for a ticketing company to manage at the point of peak demand.
Why not just have a ticket ballot that’s verified by mobile phone number? People can have many email addresses but are less likely to have many phones. And it would save millions of hours of wasted time.