Acquiring Concert Tix
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Dear Vast Network of Contacts:
Do any of you have connections at Irving Plaza in New York, or at Ticketmaster, or are otherwise able to procure highly-sought-after concert tickets? My Mom is an insane (insane!) Chris Daughtry fan, and she desperately wants to go see him in concert. Tix to the Irving Plaza show go on sale on Wednesday at noon, and Mother is concerned about not being able to get tix in the mad rush (someone at Irving Plaza wished her a skeptical “Good Luck” when she called to find out more information about the show). So I just want to make sure she gets the tix, because she’ll be terribly disappointed if she doesn’t get to see him. Anyone got any connections, or failing that, advice? I’ve never actually tried to get concert tix to an event that was likely to sell out before.
Incidentally, the Ticketmaster website was driving me fucking insane the other day, because it has this rule about too many page views per IP address or something, and it was only letting me view like three or four pages. Turns out this is not as stupid as it seemed; the reason it was shutting me out is because of the Google Accelerator program, which is supposed to speed up your web browsing. Because of the way it works (something about pre-fetching pages, I think?), it causes the server of the sites you visit to be hit more often, or something like that. So if you use Google Accelerator, be aware that that might happen on some websites. When it does, you can turn it off, or you can go into the preferences, where you can add certain websites to the “do not accelerate” list. Wikipedia is another one that needs to be added (well, if you want to be able to edit pages, anyway–if you just want to view, it’s fine, I think).