Howdy all

My mum was trying to book Good Charlotte tickets for my sister this morning, she had an advert thingy saying tickets go on sale Wed 27th August at 9am. So my mum phones up for a while before 9 and at like 1 minute to 9 gets through.

Mum: Can I book 2 tickets to Good Charlotte at Brixton please?
Ticketmaster Zombie bloke: No, all sold out.
Mum: (narked off) Oh. (puts phone down)

Tries again about a minute later, hoping to get an intelligent life-form. All sold out.

She has a second number for Mean Fiddler and phones them up. Asks for two tickets.. Of course she can have 2 tickets, plenty left.

So, bit puzzled, she feels like ringing up Ticketmaster again and asking about it. So she rings....

Mum: 2 tickets for Good Charlotte at Brixton please..
Ticketmaster Zombie Woman: Sold out.
Mum: What, the whole place? Sold out?
Ticketmaster Zombie Woman: Afraid so.

So, mum decides to come out from her disguise as potential customer and tells the truth....

Mum: Hang on, how can you be sold out? The tickets only went on sale at 9am (by this time it's about 9.15am)
Ticketmaster Zombie Woman: They sell out very quickly.
Mum: Yes, but this is the 3rd time I've phoned up, the first time was just before 9am, the 2nd just after, how did you manage to sell out Brixton Academy in that time?
Ticketmaster Zombie Woman: As I said, they sell out very quickly.
Mum: This is ridiculous.
Ticketmaster Zombie Woman: I'm sorry, but I can't help you, no more tickets.

Mum chooses to terminate the conversation prematurely, as she feared for the existence of the phone's handset.

Before I allow my mum to unleash herself on those nice people at Ticketmaster, can anyone enlighten us any further? I mean, we wouldn't mind, but this was the main telephone line stated on the advert

I hate dealing with Ticketmaster. Last time I tried to buy with them, I wanted two tickets for Arsenal vs Farnborough. The guy took an age with the booking process, took my card details and everything, goes off somewhere, comes back, tells me that there's been an error with the computer and the order's been cancelled. So I say "that's ok, start again". So he says "sorry, it's all sold out now".

I know we've had Ticketmaster topics before, but they're really friggin annoying me now..

Daleo