A Rant About Ticket Websites.

I like gigs. Fact.

I get my tickets from Seetickets which is actually Gigsandtours which is most likely also to be Buyticketsfromhere.com [fictional] or Whydontyoucomehereifyouwantthewebsitetocrashwhileyouretryingtobuytickets.com [also fictional, may be real].
Yes, I'm moaning because today I tried to buy some tickets, was put in a queue for half an hour, finally got through, tried all the seats which were supposedly unavailable, finally found some really crappy seats, entered credit card details for really crappy seats, clicked okay, the server messed up, clicked refresh, clicked OK for transaction went through all of that and then the website cocked it up. 45 minutes later I don't have tickets. So, we phone up and apparently it's my fault because I didn't complete it in time [which I did because I timed myself].
No tickets for me then. An injustice. I BOUGHT those tickets and it's not my fault if the transaction didn't go through because their site was busy.

Alternatively, I could have used Ticketmaster which apparently people had no problems with whatsoever, not to mention the fact that they send the tickets out straight away rather than leaving it to the last minute.

Grr!