Originally Posted by USCHAIRMANS
There's a shock system totally overwhelmed on first day. Great testing juniper/us folks. Did you notice the clock counted down to six seconds then froze went back up to 8 seconds then counted down again.
Screens froze again then got message saying try again in 15 seconds. that counted down and from then on people getting the 'too many connections message'
what a fiasco closely resembling juniper coustomer service that i have experienced today where staff refuse to transfer you and refuse to give you any identifying information instead placing you on hold in the hope you will give up with yr enquiry . some upgrade from B of A !
Although I didn't get a ticket, I had none of the problems you experienced. Got right through at noon, but got the "It's not too late, keep trying" screen. I did that every 20 seconds until 12:03 when I got the "Too many connections" message.
All in all, this seemed better set up than, say, trying to get Springsteen tickets on Ticketmaster, when it goes from "Your wait time is approximately 30 seconds" to "Your wait time is approximately 19 minutes."
But let's face it, with only 50 tickets to give away, if you don't get through in the first :30 seconds, you're not likely to get a fifty-cent ticket, unless someone's request is rejected for some reason and they throw that single ticket back in the system.