I Hate Ticketmaster

by alcor805 on Feb 2, 2007 5:38 PM PST

Earlier today I went to the UCLA ticketexchange to buy tickets for tomorrow's game. To my shock and amazement I saw 2 tickets available in section 212B row 2 seats 5 & 6 for only $43 each! I scrambled to log in and buy them. I filled out my credit card information, checking everything closely to make sure it was right. I hit submit.

"Incorrect Billing Address"

So I check it.....and it's correct.....so I submit it again.

"Last 3 on back of card are incorrect"

I go back to the form and realize that hadn't populated when I went back in my browser.

So I try a different card. But by the time I entered all that information someone else had bought the tickets because ticketexchange doesn't hold them for two minutes like normal ticketmaster purchases. To make things worse I had the same problem buying the other tickets too.

So I called ticketmaster and they told me the bank rejected it and it wasn't the billing address. I got paid today so I wondered what was up with my bank.

So I called my bank and they said my balance was easily more than enough to cover the purchase. So they sent me to atm/fraud protection. 10 minutes on hold. The lady tells me she can't hear me and to call back. 10 more minutes on hold. This guy tells me that when the 3 digit number on the back of the card was entered incorrectly it shuts down my card. He's turned my card back on now....

I'm left asking myself 'What the hell happend the first time when it said billing address incorrect?'.

To sum up this stupid story, I need 2 tickets for tomorrows game against Oregon St. Please email me at alcor805@yahoo.com if you can help.

Thanks

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Ticketmaster is THE WORST

I had a similar problem when trying to print out my tickets for the Michigan game. The night before the game, at around 8, I went in there to print out my tickets, but the site would not allow it. It took a few hours of reloading and emailing and complaining in general before I was able to print out my tickets at around 2am. Same thing happened to a friend of mine but he didn't have the same luck and had to miss the game. This is compounded by the fact that I never got my physical tickets mailed to me, so I'm forced to rely on their shitty website. Ticketmaster must be one of the worst websites on the web. You'd assume that after all those ridiculous fees you have to pay, they'd at least find some web developers that knew what they were doing. Hope you had some luck getting tickets to yesterdays blowout alcor.

by sfatoo on Feb 4, 2007 1:29 PM PST reply actions

Got Tickets.....

I havn't seen a game at Pauley since Howland's first year. When did they paint the upper concourse blue? It looks ugly as hell and accents how out of date the building looks. I prefer the older aspects of Pauley the best this new paint job looks like Circus Circus.

by alcor805 on Feb 4, 2007 11:13 PM PST reply actions