Originally Posted by
Globetrotter
Do not assume bots did all this.
Do not say that tickets were gone after 1 minute - there's a number of people on this board that got seats, and not within the first minute.
Dont assume it's all scalpers.
Many have written that they hit refresh with 1 second into the sale, and came up with nothing available. I know you would be bummed out, but stop and think about it. If there's 5000 seats, and there's 50,000 individuals online hitting refresh at the same time as you, the 5000 will go INTO RESERVE immediately - with everyone else on hold. Assume the average is 2 tickets for a search, that means that there's really only 2500 pairs (options) available for those 50,000 people. That's pretty low odds of being one of those that got through within the first second or minute. (numbers are only shown for demonstration purposes...)
What happens is people end up with a seat they dont want, and maybe do another search. That releases the ticket to the huge crowd still hitting refresh. This happens repeatedly. There were a number of people here reporting they got through after the first 30 minutes, and even moments before the general public sale. That means the seats were not sold out - they just weren't visible to anyone other than the lucky person who had it in front of them with the decision to buy or try again for better seats.