Olympics Tickets

Mark · 07-06-2011, 21:39

Trouble with that approach is that the system goes into meltdown. Imagine 1.8 million people all trying to get tickets at the same time - instant distributed denial of service. Most sites can barely handle an event with 60,000 tickets - let alone one with 100x that.

In addition, woe betide anyone wanting tickets for one event - by the time you've fought your way through the system to get one, all the others have gone.

Ticket lotteries can and do work - there wasn't all this mess with M2002 which also used a lottery for oversubscribed events. Big difference there - it didn't make headline news every day - so they must have got something right. This one could have worked too had they:

Told you what you were getting before taking payment.
Not made it VISA-only
Not given away all the best tickets to their cronies

So what if some allocated ticket sales fail for lack of payment. That's what the second-chance sale is for. Their botched-up system doesn't avoid that problem anyway. Fail!

07-06-2011, 21:39	#11
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Trouble with that approach is that the system goes into meltdown. Imagine 1.8 million people all trying to get tickets at the same time - instant distributed denial of service. Most sites can barely handle an event with 60,000 tickets - let alone one with 100x that. In addition, woe betide anyone wanting tickets for one event - by the time you've fought your way through the system to get one, all the others have gone. Ticket lotteries can and do work - there wasn't all this mess with M2002 which also used a lottery for oversubscribed events. Big difference there - it didn't make headline news every day - so they must have got something right. This one could have worked too had they: Told you what you were getting before taking payment. Not made it VISA-only Not given away all the best tickets to their cronies So what if some allocated ticket sales fail for lack of payment. That's what the second-chance sale is for. Their botched-up system doesn't avoid that problem anyway. Fail! Last edited by Mark; 07-06-2011 at 21:43.