April 6, 2012

  • Grrr.......

    So I'm kind of pissed at the moment (slight understatement). I was trying to get tickets to the SM Town Live Tour III, to see my girls live in concert again (it's on May 20 at the Honda Center in Anaheim). I was signed in to the website, Powerhouselive.net (cause their convenience fee was $30 less than Ticketmasters), I had the tickets in my cart, entered all my billing information, and was all ready to go. Here's  screenshot as proof:

    So then I hit the "Process Order" at the bottom of the page, and it takes a really long time for this piece of shit error message to pop up:

    I scrolled through the stupid message, and it basically said that the server took a massive dump and kicked me out of the transaction. Their stupid servers couldn't handle all the traffic they were getting, cause shit to timeout. I tried refreshing, but to avail. The tickets in my cart were gone :(

    We were going for the floor tickets, the closest & most expensive. Last time, back in September 2010, we had floor tickets, but they were only $180.

    This time, it's way more cause I guess the venue is smaller, but at least this one comes with access to dress rehearsal before the concert starts. And since we had good tickets last time, we had to get the same one this time.

    I'm really, really hoping it turns out exactly like last time. Last time, the floor tickets sold super quick, and we were initially left with the cheap nosebleed seats. And we were fine with that, and thought we were lucky just to get in. So day of the concert comes, and we're at Staples Center waiting for them to open the doors, and Chris just randomly decided to ask the box office if they had any floor tickets. And son of bitch, they fucking had some available! We swooped on that soo fast.

    So tomorrow or this weekend, since Chris is already going to be down in SoCal visiting his girlfriend, he's gonna swing by the Honda Center box office and check if they have any floor tickets. I'm really hoping they do. If not, we'll just have to settle for the mid-range seats. I wouldn't mind, it's just that we're really spoiled from last time. We were this close, and it's not even at full zoom:

    Only downside to any of this is that Chris' friend Jayr is most likely going. I wrote about him after our Korean Music Festival trip last May. He will not ruin this trip.

    edit:
    Of course, as always, thing's worked out in the end. Chris wasn't able to get any good seats at the box office. When he texted me that, I went back on Ticketmaster.com, and they had some decent lower level tickets available, not floor seats like we wanted, but to the side and 4 rows up, so it was close enough. It's almost exactly where we sat at the last concert, but we'll be in rows 4 & 5 instead of row 1, so it shouldn't be that bad. I couldn't get 6 seats together, only in groups of 2, but we're kind of close together. And these tickets also give us access to the dress rehearsal.