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I really wanted to take my OH to the Sports Personality of the Year evening, it is being held at the Liverpool Echo Arena this year, and they could seat 8,000. I got on the BBC's early warning email system and the Echo Arena's heads up email system, that gives you the change to buy tickets before they go on general realease.
So, nothing from the BBC but I did get an Echo announcement that they were going on sale at 9.00am this morning with a 4 tickets per person limit. I went on the phone at 8.55, the line was engaged so I rang non-stop until 10.00 - permanently engaged.
When I finally got through at just after 10 they had sold out! But (and this is really annoying), there were already tickets on the various ticket sale sites at £275 each (they cost £30 to buy).
So that's it - I missed out, some lucky people are making a quick profit, and I don't know what else I could have done. Oh and the website was permanently showing a 'due to the heavy traffic this isn't working' sign.
I know it's trivial and so many of you have so much more to complain about - but I am angry and want to shout at someone and you're all I've got.
So, nothing from the BBC but I did get an Echo announcement that they were going on sale at 9.00am this morning with a 4 tickets per person limit. I went on the phone at 8.55, the line was engaged so I rang non-stop until 10.00 - permanently engaged.
When I finally got through at just after 10 they had sold out! But (and this is really annoying), there were already tickets on the various ticket sale sites at £275 each (they cost £30 to buy).
So that's it - I missed out, some lucky people are making a quick profit, and I don't know what else I could have done. Oh and the website was permanently showing a 'due to the heavy traffic this isn't working' sign.
I know it's trivial and so many of you have so much more to complain about - but I am angry and want to shout at someone and you're all I've got.
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