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T O P I C Discussion Started: 10-15-2007, 10:04 PM Add to the Discussion
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Discuss everything and anything about the Colorado Rockies with your fellow baseball fans.

What do you think of the Rockies' policy of selling World Series tickets online?

Have you had any luck purchasing tickets? Tell us of your experience.

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milehigh 10-29-2007, 5:49 PM Add to the Discussion
If the Rockies had played on the internet, they would have won the series. After all, all the ticket sales were ON the Internet. Next year, all the games will be ON the Internet. After all, doesn't everyone have a computer at work and at home and in their car and isn't everyone computer savy?

Ron

poetsmom 10-29-2007, 2:34 PM Add to the Discussion
Congratulations to the Colorado Rockies. You made us proud and took us ( baseball wise) where we had never been before.Luck or whatever they want to call it! I call it talent and perseverance.I love you and will be supporting you next year.I recognize and give credit to The Red Sox for their performance, I congratulate them and wish them the best. Do I think they are better? NO! There were only two teams standing at the end of the season and Colorado was one of them! Rockies,Thanks for the memories of a lifetime !!!!!

whatamess 10-29-2007, 12:50 PM Add to the Discussion
The better team won. You can't blame ticket sales or 8 day layovers. When you are up against the wall, you have to ask yourself, "How badly you want to be champion?". Cleveland backed the Red Sox to the wall, and the Sox decided they were going to fight to the end. They did, and they won. This is a great time to be a Red Sox fan. I watched in '67, '75 and 86. Every year after they lost I said, "Wait until next year!". Now that they have won twice in four years, I find myself saying, "I can't wait until next year!".

Congrats to the Boston Red Sox and all of us lifelong fans! We Are The Champions!

boston07 10-29-2007, 6:07 AM Add to the Discussion
Congrats to the world champion Red Sox!!!!!

judyhelen 10-28-2007, 11:39 PM Add to the Discussion
Congratulations to the Colorado Rockies for winning the NLCS and bringing the World Series to Colorado. Sooo Proud of you all. Your championship is the first in Colorado for the 21st century!! Remember, too, that 28 major league teams did not make it to the World Series.

God Bless and Protect you and your families. Love you.

longspeak1 10-28-2007, 11:28 PM Add to the Discussion
Te Rockies lost the Series, but the city of Denver got just what it wanted--not a World Series Championship, but a bunch of loudmouth tourists from Boston. No wonder the AP story about the Series' final game had this paragraph: "Rockies fans spent part of the night trying to outshout hundreds of Red Sox rooters - Boston folks apparently figured how to cut through Colorado's online ticket mixup."

The Rockies front office, Major League Baseball, the city of Denver, Pacolian and everyone else that participated in the online ticket sales scam that favored non-Colorado buyers got just what they wanted: a pocket full of green. But the ticket snafu and the team's poor on-field performance meant that the Rockies' loyal fans got burned in more ways than one during this World Series.

Do you think all those Boston fans will also fill the empty seats at Coors Field next summer?

scotts53 10-28-2007, 10:25 PM Add to the Discussion
The Rockies were exposed as a fraud by their pathetic and embarassing performance in this series. Eric Byrnes was right. This team was the luckiest team on the face of the earth to get to this point.

nanimal262 10-28-2007, 11:46 AM Add to the Discussion
Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey, hey, hey Good-Bye...... Go RED SOX!!! Get the brooms out!!!

username 10-28-2007, 11:09 AM Add to the Discussion
I will note that the online ticket setup was FAR from fair. Why do I know this? I got more than a dozen tickets.

First of all- it's cookie based, with the URL for the refresh embedded in the URL of the "waiting room" screen (which is not really a line at all, just a refresh window that beats you against their servers).

Second- when the "cookie" is set to the point you get to the "SINGLE EVENT TICKET" window, you can cut/paste that window's URL into multiple tabs, thereby ensuring ONE of the cloned windows will not time out.

It gets a little hairier with the word confirmation. You can't have multiple word confirmations running... so you have to process them serially (one at a time). That's a bottleneck- so it's good to have three or four browser instances (on multiple computers, if you have them), so you can get past the word confirmation screen.

Once you're into the confirm/pay screen, you can then clone THAT window into multiple tabs as well.... I never ended up in the same browser tab than I started- one of the cloned windows would ultimately break through to confirm your purchase, check out, and get your confirmation screen.

Basically... when the cookie changes, clone the windows. I got through 5 times this way, and was able to get seats for my family/friends. None were resold above face.

There is also another safeguard- the "ev3,ev4,ev5,etc." server pool is not random in the way it jumps.

evenue.net didn't even enforce the 4 ticket limit in software. Their cookie mechanism was not that complex... and needed to be beefed up to be fairer.

bruff23 10-26-2007, 9:31 PM Add to the Discussion
I was one of the people who got to the buying tickets stage for Game 4 before the Rockies server kicked me out. This was on Tuesday after all of the supposed problems were fixed. Needless to say, I did not get any tickets out of it because the server timed out on me. Very frustrating!! I have tried calling the ticket office but have sat on hold for over a half hour each time before giving up as no live person ever answered. I have also emailed the Rockies (at rockiestix@coloradorockies.com) to see if there is some way I could possibly get the tickets (or any tickets) I had back because it was THEIR fault that THEIR system did not work. Should be interesting to see how they remedy this type of situation! Oh so close, yet so far. If anyone else is in the same boat and got some tickets, I would love to hear how you did it.

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