Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes • Hacker News Board

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

dzlobin wrote: post #5

Anyone else get this screen in Chrome? http://cl.ly/image/2E2a1y0u1g0N By the time I pivoted to Safari one minute later it was sold out.

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Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by maqr » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

I tried to log in as soon as the site came back up, it offered me team selection for another company, and even then wouldn't let me continue. I switched browsers to try again and they were already sold out. Very frustrating.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by jfb » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

Under two minutes. Bonkers.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by deminature » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

dzlobin wrote: post #5

Anyone else get this screen in Chrome? http://cl.ly/image/2E2a1y0u1g0N By the time I pivoted to Safari one minute later it was sold out.

I got that at first, opened an incognito window and re-logged in and that appeared to have fixed it, perhaps sessions created from before the maintenance were broken?

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by n9com » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

This is pretty unbelievable. Refreshed at 10:00 and the site was already down with a "we'll be back soon" message.

Obviously, the bigger devs would have got their tickets days (weeks?) ago.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by kemiller » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by grbalaffa » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

blueprint wrote: post #2

2 minutes after they went on sale…

Seems like it was actually less than that. Just enough time for 5,000 (or whatever the max number is) of tickets to be transacted, and then everyone else was locked out.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by yardie » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

Logged in at 10:04. Fuck me.

I thought I barely missed the cut, now I see that I wasn't even close.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by ryanlbrown » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

blueprint wrote: post #8

dzlobin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One minute. I was on the checkout screen at 1:01 and it was sold out.

Same as us here. Just entered our info and bam, request failed.

Same here.

Re: Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes

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Post by kerbs » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

kemiller wrote: post #16

When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.

Bigger than Moscone? Cowboys Stadium for the keynote?