{"id":49044,"date":"2022-09-20T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=49044"},"modified":"2022-09-20T08:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:49:59","slug":"well-that-was-expectedly-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/20\/well-that-was-expectedly-annoying\/","title":{"rendered":"Well that was expectedly annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roger Waters is coming to Zurich next year for a one-day stop in Switzerland as part of his farewell tour. Through my mobile phone provider, I had access to a ticket pre-sale. Or so I thought. The sale opened at 10am yesterday. I was on the website, I had tickets selected. And then the ticketcorner website completely bogged down under scalper bot load, and I couldn’t complete my purchase. When I refreshed the browser, all the top-tier tickets were already sold out. When I tried to get another set of tickets, those disappeared before my eyes. Within 5 minutes, all the tickets were sold out. And now those tickets, that were 200chf, are available on ticket resale websites for more than three times face value. <\/p>\n

I’m going to try my luck again when the main sale starts later this week, but I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Waters is coming to Zurich next year for a one-day stop in Switzerland as part of his farewell tour. Through my mobile phone provider, I had access to a ticket pre-sale. Or so I thought. The sale opened at 10am yesterday. I was on the website, I had tickets selected. And then the ticketcorner…<\/p>\n

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