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New York Comic Con Sold Out For The Weekend… Except When It's Not
The New York Comic Con has been justifiable boasting about its sellouts for the weekend, with only Friday tickets available this morning Odds are they will be a bit on the scarce side as well. Well, the owner of Bleeding Cool, William Christensen on Avatar would like me to point out that there are Avatar VIP[...]
Being A VIP At NYCC
There's the full blown NYCC VIP Status for $400 which puts you at the front of the queue every day, seating at the IGN Theatre, tickets to the Jay And Silent Bob podcast show, signings with Matt Fraction and Frank Quitely and a stack of variant comics And with a big hole in your wallet. But[...]
Fifteen Hundred Tickets For San Diego Comic Con Still To Be Sold
Whatever the reason, one thousand five hundred four-day tickets for the San Diego Comic Con 2011 have been returned by their purchasers for a refund. And now, with probably a hundred thousand people wanting tickets, this many will be put on sale again. At some time. On some day. You will get an hour's notice if you follow this[...]
A Techie Explains Just What Happened With San Diego Comic Con 2011 Ticket Sales (Or Lack Of)
After the song… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvcL-oBXOFs[/youtube] After the mad rush… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTQVomQIXI[/youtube] After the other song… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0y-eywao44[/youtube] …Keith Fitzgerald, VP Engineering at Ticket Leap explains just what the hell happened on Saturday when people tried (and failed) to buy tickets for San Diego Comic Con 2011. Saturday, February 5th we experienced an unprecedented level of ticket demand for the wildly popular Comic-Con International event[...]
33,000,000 Hits In One Day
When San Diego Comic Con sold a thousand tickets online in a test last December, they received half a million hits as people tried desperately to buy tickets. Yesterday, they got thirty three million hits. And that is the reason that TicketLeap were unable to cope Despite having the ability to increase servers based on load, and[...]
The Day San Diego Comic Con Brought TicketLeap To Its Knees (UPDATE)
UPDATE: Get past the green screen of death and it looks like the Junior 4 Day Pass may be about to sell out… "Why don't you use a proper ticketing company" was the cry after San Diego Comic Con had failed to sell tickets for the third time, as their site kept crashing Expense was cited[...]
Two Plead Guilty To Forging San Diego Comic Con Tickets
Forged tickets are hard to get away with – but not impossible. However just photocopying your own entrance badge and selling the copies on Craigslist isn't going to work Especially when you are still going to Comic Con and can be tracked by your own original badge. Farhad Lame and Navid Vatankhahan, both 24, pleaded guilty to[...]
San Diego Comic Con Sells Out Of A Thousand Tickets In One Minute
Selling 1000 four day tickets for the San Diego Comic Con next year, to see if the system could cope, after two false starts earlier in the year. The answer was yes… ish. There was still error messages for some people trying to get through There were two websites to register with, But they did manage to[...]
San Diego Comic Con 2099 Take On Touts By Beating Them At Their Own Game
I recently ran a story showing how people have been selling tickets to San Diego Comic Con for over $600 on eBay. It looks like Comic Con have stepped up and have been selling a limited amount of tickets on eBay for cover price Which has destroyed the tout market overnight. Unless of course touts buy all[...]