Serenity

[davidlevine]

I just scored two tickets to the Serenity preview on June 23 at the Eastport! Act fast, and you might too. http://www.cantstopthesignal.com/ says it's sold out, but at the moment Fandango still shows availability. Click here: http://www.fandango.com/TheaterPage.aspx?date=06/23/2005&tid=AAJMZ

Good luck!

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

OK, now these things are just taunting me. This time there is one in the NYC area (by their definition New Jersey=New York, NY...) but by the time I find out about tickets they're all sold out. How does one find out about it before it's too late? Did you have to refresh the website every five minutes or something?

Oh well. Looks like I'm waiting until September, then. Have fun!

[davidlevine]

I learned about the date of the preview through a rumor posted by jenwrites in her LJ. I knew where the previous preview had been, so I checked Fandango for that theatre on that date, but it wasn't yet available... too far in advance.

I checked Fandango again the next morning and the next afternoon, then every few hours, until the show did appear. But when I tried to buy tickets it just hung. I tried again several times, until it started working. This time it went all the way through the purchasing process only to end with "sold out."

This was like half an hour after the show first appeared. Because the time was so short and the link to buy tickets was still active, I suspected that "sold out" in this case might mean "not yet fully available," so I kept trying. I tried every half an hour or so, with the same result, until the link to buy tickets deactivated, when I gave up.

But I tried again later that afternoon, and this time the link was active again, and the process went all the way through and I got my tickets.

So it was a combination of listening to rumors, using knowledge gained from earlier events, knowing something about how websites work, dumb luck, and persistence. Lots and lots of persistence.

Having a rather slow workday helped too.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Well, you certainly earned it! I guess I just didn't want it enough. :P