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Post by mbabeav on Jun 6, 2018 14:57:44 GMT -8
My son went to Gill to see if he might be able to get a ticket at the ticket office when they went on sale at 3pm - but there were just two people behind the window hitting the enter key on the computer while the scalper bots were online buying any available tickets so no one without said scalper bot can get one except from said scalper.
Guess they like all the fees they get from online purchases - they could have posted "don't bother coming to the ticket office" online so all the people that showed up wouldn't have had to waste their time.
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Post by beaverbeliever on Jun 6, 2018 15:09:12 GMT -8
That does seem crazy that no tickets were available in person.
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Post by blueheron on Jun 6, 2018 15:25:25 GMT -8
My son went to Gill to see if he might be able to get a ticket at the ticket office when they went on sale at 3pm - but there were just two people behind the window hitting the enter key on the computer while the scalper bots were online buying any available tickets so no one without said scalper bot can get one except from said scalper. Guess they like all the fees they get from online purchases - they could have posted "don't bother coming to the ticket office" online so all the people that showed up wouldn't have had to waste their time. Serious question: how do the scalper bots work? Is that really what's going on? Are there no precautions taken to ensure bots can't buy? Like a Captcha image or something? Honestly I have no idea. Sorry your son couldn't get any. |
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Post by mbabeav on Jun 6, 2018 15:30:35 GMT -8
scalper bots work by basically jamming the computer systems with so many requests so fast that a person on their computer can't get through. Given that there were probably only a few hundred tickets available anyhow, that doesn't take much effort, but there are ways to stop it - given how many people want those tickets, it is very possible for so many people to be trying at once, the same effect could occur, but most vendors don't care who buys the tickets, just as long as they are purchased. If you can sell 25,000 seats online to a Rush concert in 30 minutes, you can sell 250 seats to a super regional in 30 seconds.
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Post by 56chevy on Jun 6, 2018 15:30:55 GMT -8
My son went to Gill to see if he might be able to get a ticket at the ticket office when they went on sale at 3pm - but there were just two people behind the window hitting the enter key on the computer while the scalper bots were online buying any available tickets so no one without said scalper bot can get one except from said scalper. Guess they like all the fees they get from online purchases - they could have posted "don't bother coming to the ticket office" online so all the people that showed up wouldn't have had to waste their time. Which game does he want a Tix for? |
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Post by mbabeav on Jun 6, 2018 15:32:52 GMT -8
he was going to get two three day passes for the series for father's day gift (even if I think we only will need two days of them!)
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Post by needmorebeav on Jun 6, 2018 16:58:19 GMT -8
scalper bots work by basically jamming the computer systems with so many requests so fast that a person on their computer can't get through. Given that there were probably only a few hundred tickets available anyhow, that doesn't take much effort, but there are ways to stop it - given how many people want those tickets, it is very possible for so many people to be trying at once, the same effect could occur, but most vendors don't care who buys the tickets, just as long as they are purchased. If you can sell 25,000 seats online to a Rush concert in 30 minutes, you can sell 250 seats to a super regional in 30 seconds. That's a DDoS attack. Bots constantly refresh the page and then complete the prompts faster than any human can hope to. Although the combination of bots refreshing and humans trying to buy tickets can have a DDoS effect. No need to slow the humans down when you are faster in the first place. In regards to supers tickets, they were available for like 30 seconds any reasonable computer user could have got them if they were on the page right at 3, I did. |
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Post by mbabeav on Jun 6, 2018 17:42:30 GMT -8
scalper bots work by basically jamming the computer systems with so many requests so fast that a person on their computer can't get through. Given that there were probably only a few hundred tickets available anyhow, that doesn't take much effort, but there are ways to stop it - given how many people want those tickets, it is very possible for so many people to be trying at once, the same effect could occur, but most vendors don't care who buys the tickets, just as long as they are purchased. If you can sell 25,000 seats online to a Rush concert in 30 minutes, you can sell 250 seats to a super regional in 30 seconds. That's a DDoS attack. Bots constantly refresh the page and then complete the prompts faster than any human can hope to. Although the combination of bots refreshing and humans trying to buy tickets can have a DDoS effect. No need to slow the humans down when you are faster in the first place. In regards to supers tickets, they were available for like 30 seconds any reasonable computer user could have got them if they were on the page right at 3, I did. I guess I was a second too late lol, sigh. |
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Post by mbabeav on Jun 6, 2018 21:28:42 GMT -8
Yah, I know........
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