I did it

I am so happy at the moment. Tickets were going onsale at 9 and I got to the U2 line at 6am and thought "Yea, there's bugger all people here!" until I walked around the corner. Then my face dropped. Still there was only about 200 people in front of me so I thought "I'm bound to get those A-reserve tickets I want" Stood in the rain for 3 hours until they went on sale, the people around me bonded together and we went and got coffee for each other and sausages that The Rock (radio station) were putting on.

Come 9am and I thought I should also start on the phones... And holy fek I got through! I managed to get out my order of 4 A-Reserver tickets and my address and phone number _however_ after she'd taken my credit card details and was processing it THE PHONE WENT DEAD! It just hungup on me. The network must have exploded because I couldn't call back. I didn't have a reference number so I wasn't sure if my tickets were mine or not.
So I keep standing in the queue, sure it was the best plan anyway and tried to ring the bank to see if my Credit Card had been taxed. Sure enough, it had! So I was pretty happy that I'd got my tickets but still wasn't sure.

Another hour in the queue and it hardly moved forward at all. Messages came down the line that the website was down, NZ Post's system had crashed and that phones were impossible. But then we got an annoucement that the show had sold out! We were gobsmacked. Then it came back that only A-Reserver and GA was sold out AND that there'd be a second show. So many people were gutted though, some having stood in the line since 5am had nothing yet.

I kept on the phone though and finally after an hour and a half since ordering got the man on the end of the line to confirm that yes, I Tim Harman was the proud owner of 4 A-Reserve tickets to the U2 on St Patricks Day. After I'd talked to him I handed the phone around to people in the line with me so they could order as well, though most decided they wanted to try and get tickets to the second show instead.

So that's my morning! I got rained on and I feel terrible for all those people lined up in the pouring rain to get tickets that never showed up. I think Real Groovy only had 1 person selling tickets which to me is just stupid. What's even worse is there are low down f*ckheads selling U2 tickets on TradeMe already. People who just rung up to sell them again and make a buck. I could have bought an extra 4 tickets for no one and sold them, but I'm not that much of a prick.

I guess all us people lined up learnt a harsh lesson though, the days of queuing are pointless, phone and online (though it totally crashed out and even now still isn't working) is the way to go.

Tim