This is my alternative to murder
April 16th, 2011
Trying to buy tickets for my mom to see The Lion King on Ticketking. Here’s what the experience is like:
- Pick a date
- Choose between “best available” and a series of meaningless categories, like “Dress circle H-K”
- Squint at blurry diagram of theatre that presumably shows where seats are
- Give up and choose “best available”
- Decide to not buy the $2,000 tickets that are “best available” after looking in vain for a “How about the best that aren’t $2000?” button
- Click “Try again”
- Choose a random non-$2000 ticket category
- Get an error because it doesn’t remember how many tickets I wanted the first time
- Re-enter the number of tickets I want
- Get an error because previous error made it forget my random non-$2000 ticket category
- Choose BOTH a ticket category and a quantity
- Get a message saying there are no tickets available for that quantity or category
Repeat 200 times. I more or less wrote this instead of finding the designer of the site and doing my version of the Saw movie series on him or her.