Unable to get to shop.bluegrass.com to buy tickets!!

[3boobykins]

We got our tickets and HS camping after 40 minutes, about a 15 minute improvement over last year, and we did get the Holiday Pricing.   When we got the "unable to connect..." or whatever message, we kept refreshing, rather than trying to start at the beginning again.  We placed the tix in the cart several times before they finally registered as being in the cart.  Also,  my credit card was rejected at first, even though I double-checked the numbers, but it worked the second time.

I hope everyone gets what they want!    Keep going, and you'll get through eventually!  

[HuckinFappy]

"Add to Cart"
Server Error!!!

Who the hell wants dishsoap for Christmas??

"Add to cart"
Your cart is empty!!

okay, will the joker who put deodorant in my stocking please stand up?

"Add to cart".....

[55kittycats]

i've been using refresh to move from page to page and is working so far... slowly tho  
 
or we select number of tickets and then it says my shopping cart is empty  
 

[oddfired]

Gonna have to give up soon to do some actual work... Not sure if I have 0 tickets, or 12 tickets, or what.

This isn't actual work?  It feels like it...

[ShatteredArm]

Screw it.  I'm done with this.  Maybe I'll try again later today, or maybe I won't go this year.  Who knows.

My payment also got rejected twice (apparently), and I'm 100% sure I had the correct billing address in there.

This is a disaster.

[HuckinFappy]

Gonna have to give up soon to do some actual work... Not sure if I have 0 tickets, or 12 tickets, or what.

"This is Carl Castles, from NPR news.  This morning the government reported a marked drop in productivity numbers for the month.  They attribute the dramatic decrease to Festivarians trying to buy tickets for Telluride Bluegrass.  They expect the productivity to stay low while those people who ended up with 40 tickets (trying to order ) try to connect to the people with none".

There you have it folks..."SOLD OUT"

[55kittycats]

DID I REALLY JUST GET THE PAGE SAYING SOLD OUT?!?!   

[marv]

.. sitting here for 6 minutes so far waiting for the page to open!!!  WTH??!!!

first things first -- i had the sameproblems as everyone else with the website.  i hope i only bought the two tickets i needed and not 6. 

second -- i finally got through for my two tickets and they are listed in the 'my account' section on shop.bluegrass.com, however i haven't received any sort of email confirmation and that makes me nervous.  did anyone else who got through get an email??

[32hour]

After 53+ minutes ... "sold out."

Can that really be true?

[Mandhoe]

Gotta love those scalpers!  What a joke this is/was.

[ShatteredArm]

Sold out... In 50 minutes.

It's like having a lottery, but not being able to just submit and not worry about it anymore.

[Rob_from_Ohio]

There has got to be a better way.  That was a painful 50 minutes only to be shut out.

[3boobykins]

.. sitting here for 6 minutes so far waiting for the page to open!!!  WTH??!!!

first things first -- i had the sameproblems as everyone else with the website.  i hope i only bought the two tickets i needed and not 6. 

second -- i finally got through for my two tickets and they are listed in the 'my account' section on shop.bluegrass.com, however i haven't received any sort of email confirmation and that makes me nervous.  did anyone else who got through get an email??

I didn't get email confirmation yet either, but like yours, the ticket and camping purchase are also listed in "My Account" with the full amount for the 3 tickets and camping passes we bought.  I'm guessing that things are so slow and backed up that the email confirmations are behind schedule. 

[Mandhoe]

I just bought a 4-day pass off Stub-hub for $1,000.  Is that a good deal?

[ShatteredArm]

There has got to be a better way.  That was a painful 50 minutes only to be shut out.

Better way: use a waiting room on a separate server, so only a fixed number of people can get to the payment server at a time... You know, what was suggested a year ago.