Get rid of Ticketfly

Sweetcell -

    Your suspicion is understandable, but wrong.  I won't bore you with all the details except to say that 1) a verification word should be something that a person of average vision can read, and 2) if an alternative is to listen to the verification word (which causes another instance of the browser to open up), the url should not be to busy to respond 100% of the time.

Interesting.  I don't have to enter a captcha when I send PMs.

I do not claim to know what the difference between your user account and mine might be, but I was prompted for a "verification word".  The image presented was similar to one of those images used to test color-blindness, except it appeared to be designed to ensure failure on the part of the user.  If I were blind, I could understand.  However, I am not blind.  The ticketfly "security words" that kept getting rejected (presumably due to system problems) were perfectly easy to read.

This ChrisO guy is insufferable.

i find him mildly entertaining, although i do find it confusing that he got free tickets by bitching and insulting :)

chrisO: i was implying that because it is easy to send a personal message (really, it is) and you had trouble with that; it's no wonder you couldn't figure out the ticket ordering process on TF. 

t'was joke, which is now less funny 'cause i had to explain it.  *sigh*.

Now ChrisO is sending me PMs. Dude is boarding hard.


"«  Sent to: reggie  on: Today at 01:09:39 PM »

Insufferable - yeh, that's me all right.  You must have a PhD or something.

By the way, I'm sending this only as a test (and, of course, to be insufferable).  I am not being prompted for a verification word to send this.  Apparently, there is an account setting that TFlyAmy has turned on.  If one does not want PMs, I guess that's a good way to do it."

Hah! I was offered free tix to for complaining about the process. What is wrong with telling people when a system is broke. Trust me - I plan on making my voice heard when it comes to the MTA. At least ticketfly listens and does something, Im pretty sure the MTA will just say 'f— you all and give us more money'! :(

sweetcell wrote:
i find him mildly entertaining, although i do find it confusing that he got free tickets by bitching and insulting :)

chrisO: i was implying that because it is easy to send a personal message (really, it is) and you had trouble with that; it's no wonder you couldn't figure out the ticket ordering process on TF. 

t'was joke, which is now less funny 'cause i had to explain it.  *sigh*.

reggie wrote:
Apparently, there is an account setting that TFlyAmy has turned on.  If one does not want PMs, I guess that's a good way to do it."

It's probably because she's tired of all my advances…

To be fair to ChrisO, the forum is setup that for any user who has less than 5 posts, they are required to enter a code in order to send a PM.  Now I can't speak to the ease of that process…. 

kosmo vinyl - many thanks for saying something useful.  At this point, many thanks for being civil.  I trust you can see the downside of the policy - Amy asked for a PM, I didn't ask for tickets or anything else.

xneverwherex - you got that right.

sweetcell - what you said was obvious, and I do not know why you thought it needed explaining.  Relax, I got it.

reggie - take your meds.

EOM

to be fair it's setup that way to prevent spambots from sending out PMs….

Hey hey hey calm down in here before I get all Mr Belding on you guys.

ChrisO- I got your messages and I sent the info over so be sure to give us a call!

Vansmack- You lie! I haven't gotten one advance yet on this board! Although once I got one on the Phish board. I declined.

Glad everything is worked out. OOh ooh what can we hassle somebody about NEXT?!

How come MonkeyPants wasn't offered tickets? ;D


I watched a bit of that PT Phish brutality. The threads over there made this one look like a lovefest.

I pulled front row tickets for The National today and was not able to checkout. Every time I hit continue, nothing would happen. I even tried on other browsers (IE and FF) and the same problem. Any help, ticketfly?

http://imageshack.us/a/img89/2453/thenational.jpg

Probably want to hit Ticketfly up on email or twitter, don't think they check  here much anymore…

They'll probably just say "oh man, so sorry… wish we could help but…". I had tickets for Fall Out Boy (yeah, yeah) the second they went on sale last month, and their server crapped out during the credit card authorization. Unfortunately, it hung there for 2 minutes before booting me back to the homepage and saying "your order may have gone through, if you don't receive a confirmation email in the next 15 minutes, try again", like that would do me any good.

I called them up to see if maybe they had some record of my attempt, but of course… no dice, and since the concert sold out within 5 minutes, I was SOL.

Almost 2 weeks later and I have not received a reply from numerous emails to ticketfly. I guess ticketfly's great customer service is the reason why their fees are higher than ticketmaster's…

wow . . . should one stay away from ticketfly?  i havent seen this thread in awhile, and i seem to remember that i never had a single problem with them.  of course i never had a single problem with ticketmaster, in fact i love ticketmaster and am glad they exist for my concert experience outlet.

I was thinking that ticket fly was the one that actually refunded my service charges for a cancelled show but turns out that was ticket alternative.  So I have nothing to add.

walkonby wrote:
wow . . . should one stay away from ticketfly? 

if you have a better alternative, yes.  most of the time, there fees are 33% of incurred cost for a transaction.  if they cannot provide helpful costumer support (which is something i've never had first hand experience with, but looks like others are), then they should be avoided.