Had to share my frustration at obtaining World Series tickets. Now that I'm a colorado resident, I thought it would be awesome to go see my first WS game. The management, for whatever ungodly reason, decided it would be the most fair to sell tickets via the internet on Monday. When the site recieved over 8 million visitors in less than half an hour and a supposed "malicious attack," we fans were told we'd have to try again Tuesday.

So today I logged on and, low and behold, after an hour I was able to 4 purchase tickets just off of 3rd base for $250 each. Everything went fine up until the point where I sumitted my credit card info. The site proceeded to freeze, and wouldn't go past the "submit" screen. After half an hour, I called the support line, spent 45 mins in a queue, then was told that my tickets had been given away to someone else because I didn't purchase them quick enough. I had taken screen shots of the process, and told them that, but they said there was nothing they could do.

A lot of cussing later, I've come to the conclusion that this terrible experiment should never be repeated. I would have happily spent all night camped out to buy my tickets. There is no way it's fair to the fans to have the tickets sold to anyone in the US (scalpers, mostly, I'm sure). Colorado residents should have had first crack at them, not a Yankees fan in New York who is selling the tickets at 8 times the price he paid (yes, there is one of those).

Any other Coloradoans have this experience?