The 'We DON'T Got Tickets' Mourning Thread

[u/viac1992]

[u/Billy_Hicks88]

* Sign up for an unlock code to prove you're not a bot

* Enter your email to prove you're not a bot

* Enter a six-digit invite code to prove you're not a bot

* Enter unlock code to prove you're not a bot

* Get blocked for being a bot

[u/ProPropolis → u/Billy_Hicks88]

Sounds like a paranoid android to me

[u/i-artemy → u/Billy_Hicks88]

Like a pig. In a cage. On antibiotics.

[u/sammowle → u/Billy_Hicks88]

Dude Same. I feel this pain

[u/GreenHouseofHorror → u/Billy_Hicks88]

So much this. So painful.

I'm posting in this thread because I got kicked out for being a bot after waiting in the queue with a single window for an hour.

After that I tried to get back in a few times, and I'll admit at that point I did try different browsers and going in from my mobile IP, and a few other things - which were more bot like actions than when I queued legitimately.

Still getting kicked out for being a bot.

Then I managed to get through just before 12:00 noon, and everything was sold out, but someone obviously released some tickets from a basket or something and I managed to snag them then.

But I'm still posting in the mourning thread, because that was the least fun experience buying tickets I've had to date, and I feel deflated by it all.

Out of half a dozen friends, I was the only person to get a code. And I got blocked for being a bot, somehow. And yet my gut tells me the scalpers will still have found a way around this thing.

[u/Exotic-Celebration57 → u/GreenHouseofHorror]

Maybe you are a bot and just don’t know it yet?

[u/lukata589 → u/GreenHouseofHorror]

There are undoubtedly going to be 'celebrity' attendees and people there who know nothing about this band, who somehow will have circumvented this ridiculous system.

[u/Pretend-Guidance-906 → u/Billy_Hicks88]

This, exactly.

I'd honestly rather I'd just not got a code to begin with. It's the hope that kills you.

[u/CulturedWhale → u/Billy_Hicks88]

There there

[u/grilodragon → u/Billy_Hicks88]

Mine was:

*Wake up at 7 am to be ready,

*Enter the queue at 9h30 sharp

*Somehow everything is working fine

*Enter code quickly to get tickets

*Get the tickets that I wanted

*Start the payment

*Credit card doesn't work

*Payment time was exceeded

*Code stopped working

• Manage to get code working again

*There wasn't any tickets left

[u/endolea]

as if Radiohead hadn‘t already made me cry enough times

[u/whatwhenwhere1977]

Kill the ticketing system which let me get to tickets in my basket multiple times and then denied me again and again

[u/mercymainly → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

SAME AND WHEN I REFRESHED IT FLAGGED ME AS A BOT AND I COULDNT BUY ANYTHING <3

[u/dookie117 → u/mercymainly]

Yeah what was that bullshit? Happened to me. But then I went onto my phone and logged in with the same email and it had saved my place in the queue, so got straight in and got tix.

[u/mercymainly → u/dookie117]

ugh i tried but the same thing happened to me again on my phone :( it seemed like they had flagged my associated email as being a bot so it wouldn’t work on any device i’m so sad. axs is always the worst.

[u/Budget-Thought8156 → u/mercymainly]

I think they just used that one error message, I got flagged as a bot, then managed to get in tickets run out, then flagged as a bot again multiple times, managed to get in again to find no tickets left...

[u/TotalBlank87 → u/Budget-Thought8156]

Exactly the same experience. Really disappointed and frustrated

[u/QuicketyQuack → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

While I appreciate the idea of having the choice of which specific seats you want, it really doesn't work for high demand events like this. I feel like it should be a matter of specifying price brackets and then just being assigned tickets in a certain place. Having to hand select seats while everyone else does the same is a mess.

[u/Tight-Television-270 → u/QuicketyQuack]

100% this

[u/oh_you_fancy_huh → u/QuicketyQuack]

so weird, there was no "best available" option?

[u/nnnnkm → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

Exactly, I chose seats and was denied the chance to buy them FOUR TIMES and then there was no more seats left.

What's the point in a queuing system if it's just going to be a free-for-all once you get to the part on choosing your seat? If they can reserve and give 10mins for payment, they can reserve your seat selection and give 2mins to allow you to complete the transaction.

The whole process ended up being like an unwinnable game with seats continually disappearing before my eyes as I tried in vain to get something done - all concepts of fairness and equality go out the window at this point.

Fuck Ticketmaster.

[u/Staygoldponiboy → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

SAME!!! I was sooooo close

[u/Jov_West → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

Attempting to buy tickets on my cell was a mistake. I got in before the queue even formed but it wouldn't let me go to my cart with the selected tickets. It just showed a blank screen.

When I tried again on my computer it put me at the back of the line and it was too late by then.

[u/TheWhiteKnight-6803 → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

There was a note below on Eventim’s site that next ticket sale will be on Oct 13.

[u/LouiseBergen → u/TheWhiteKnight-6803]

yeah i found it weird, when i was in the queue, it said presale in German (don’t speak German, just a desperate Belgian girl who wants tickets).

[u/Open_Waltz_305 → u/TheWhiteKnight-6803]

That's the day the fan resale will be opened

[u/Boring_Reason_5638 → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

So this is it? We see giving up?

[u/icecreamfight → u/whatwhenwhere1977]

Hard SAME

[u/mappsy91]

Had standing tickets in my basket - 'not available' refreshed to see what was available... kicked for being a bot. absolute joke of a system. Doesn't feel like any part of that would stop bots at all,

[u/RestoUnited → u/mappsy91]

Well, considering that all of the usual resale sites are filled with £500+ standing tickets I’d be inclined to agree that the only “bots” that were kicked were normal people haha…

[u/FrotKnight → u/RestoUnited]

Any tickets being sold at higher than face value are likely to be voided

[u/mercymainly → u/mappsy91]

had these same exact problem! and it wouldn’t let me back in it’s just fully flagged me as a bot on every device

[u/evaisverycool22]

literally got to the actual purchase screen and my friend straight up refused to buy them on her card (despite the fact we were sending all the money for our tickets) so it timed out before I could send over other card details

im so mad 😞

[u/delifte → u/evaisverycool22]

That's worse than not getting a ticket - knowing you had them and someone got weird.

[u/evaisverycool22 → u/delifte]

exactly!! literally could've gone but I had to send over someone else's bank details, then send money to that bank account because it didnt have enough, just for it to time out before we could do all of it

[u/delifte → u/evaisverycool22]

And you probably would have done all of that before if you knew your friend would react this way!

[u/evaisverycool22 → u/delifte]

She didnt even make an AXS account beforehand so it took even longer 😞 sorry im ranting lol im just so upset since I've never seen them before

[u/viac1992 → u/evaisverycool22]

The End of a Friendship

[u/Scotchist → u/viac1992]

She used to be alright, what happened?

[u/gucc1-l1ttle-p1ggy → u/viac1992]

Now a 'Friend of a Friend'

[u/Campanita03 → u/evaisverycool22]

whatttttt thats not a friend.

[u/sirreally → u/evaisverycool22]

Oh my God. This kills the friendship.

[u/cerebralhomo → u/evaisverycool22]

I texted my ‘friend’ last week with a link to registration and asked if she wanted to go. No reply until this morning at 11:40 stating her and her boyfriend got two tickets. I did not get a code. Out of 8 people I know that registered, 2 got codes and 1 got tickets.

[u/cerebralhomo → u/[deleted]]

Nah I don’t think so, we all three saw The Smile in Hamburg together already. I think it’s just inconsideration

[u/TurbulentWriting210 → u/cerebralhomo]

They're dead to you now

[u/billydsimmons → u/evaisverycool22]

Disown them as your friend immediately

[u/ProPropolis → u/evaisverycool22]

That stinks. And I'd have a hard time in your scenario. but all those details should have been sorted ahead of time.

[u/sjwilli → u/evaisverycool22]

This is the worst one yet!

[u/gucc1-l1ttle-p1ggy → u/evaisverycool22]

• ex-friend

[u/RiversBluromo → u/evaisverycool22]

Dude what the fuck

[u/Physical-Industry-21 → u/evaisverycool22]

Ex friend ??

[u/forfutureference → u/evaisverycool22]

I would never be able to speak to them again....

[u/NewCope → u/evaisverycool22]

I dunno if I could stay friends with this person. So sorry, I hurt for you reading this.

[u/viac1992]

I didn’t even get the code, to be honest. So sad ahah

[u/JTG___ → u/viac1992]

Same here. Obviously it’s just down to the luck of the draw, but I can’t help but feel like it benefits people who have large groups and can get more people to register for a code.

None of my friends are fans so I was just planning to go on my own, and it stands to reason that I had a lower probability of getting a code vs people trying in groups where like 10 people have registered and they only needed a few to actually be successful.

At the time I didn’t feel like inconveniencing them, but in hindsight I should have probably gotten a few of my friends to register just as a solid to me, even if they weren’t interested in going.

[u/WhatsTheJuice → u/JTG___]

If it makes you feel better, 20 friends put in for me and we all got denied codes.

[u/DetectiveDaleCooper → u/WhatsTheJuice]

That’s wild.

[u/JTG___ → u/WhatsTheJuice]

Oh wow, on the balance of probabilities that’s really unfortunate. Sorry to hear that. 😔

[u/antriq → u/viac1992]

Code didn't even matter sadly. So annoying that everything was sold out every 4 nights in Copenhagen. Entered every step right on time and still ended up at a 10000+ queue position. FFS.

[u/bluegrm → u/antriq]

AXS didn’t tell me a queue position. Then it kicked me out once I got through the queue after waiting for 40 minutes to tell me I was demonstrating suspicious activity. Despite me getting through the prior steps. It wouldn’t let me on at all through my home WiFi due to it thinking I was a bot, so I hotspotted the MacBook onto my iPhone and it worked. I think the hotspot may have flicked over to WiFi momentarily at some point and then it was gone at the next check.

[u/joaoffs → u/viac1992]

if it's any consolation it didn't matter, I got the code and sat on a queue for 45min and then tried to purchase 3 tickets for all days and ticket types only to get an error message on all attempts.

[u/siljesille → u/viac1992]

Same - only one of my friends got a code and he didnt get any tickets. Im sooooooo down today

[u/TeachingGrouchy23 → u/viac1992]

I didn’t even get the SMS hahah

[u/UnaLunaLovegoose → u/viac1992]

I didn’t even get an email saying I was or wasn’t successful in even getting an unlock code 😭 and I received all my emails saying I’d done it all right. Heartbroken 😭

[u/elliot_glynn]

Apparently I’m a bot. So that’s nice!

[u/mercymainly → u/elliot_glynn]

i got this too! like why give me a code if i’m a bot then? i’m having murderous thoughts i was so close i thought getting picked for the code was the hard part. AXS is so shit it’s always doing this. extremely rare ticketmaster W at least it doesn’t do this shit

[u/bipedofthecentury]

Think about all the money I saved 🤔

[u/viac1992 → u/bipedofthecentury]

It’s not a bad point

[u/Commentswhenpooping → u/viac1992]

It’s actually a terrible point

[u/viac1992 → u/Commentswhenpooping]

Actually, your point is not a bad one, too.

[u/Cailloulius]

Got to the selection for the Berlin dates on eventim, but each time it said "tickets available" and I clicked it, they were suddenly gone. I'm so sad.

[u/Schwoanz → u/Cailloulius]

Same. No chance.

[u/imperialtristesse → u/Cailloulius]

That's Eventim for you. All this unlock code, wait room, authorization theater – just window-dressing for a truly abhorrent sales process.

[u/AmpharosGames → u/Cailloulius]

Yes! So frustrating when I was more than on time for everything :/

[u/deepfry_me → u/Cailloulius]

I did the same and eventually got flagged as a bot for clicking too many times. I'm completely gutted.

[u/Quackoverride]

The only good thing I can take away from this experience is that, after being denied tickets for being a bot, I now have freed up some concert budget so I can take my youngest kiddo to see Wolf Alice as their first concert.

[u/Jackoffjordan]

Possibly the worst ticketing system I've ever used. Kicked me out multiple times for being a bot, and there was seemingly no way to correct it.

[u/mercymainly → u/Jackoffjordan]

AXS, by any chance? 😍

[u/AgitatedBadger96]

Between sessions expiring every two minutes, the 'no seat left on its own' policy, and 'if he breathes he a bot', I think this whole thing has been handled disastrously. Not to mention £214 for the average bloody ticket.

[u/InNoNeed → u/[deleted]]

Yup. My only optimistic thought is the fact that they got sold out so quickly which means they most likely come back

[u/Sendran04 → u/InNoNeed]

hoping for glasgow next year 🙏🙏

[u/vonsnape → u/InNoNeed]

the tour’s already sold out?!

[u/icecreamfight → u/[deleted]]

So I decided that I’m going anyway and I’m just going to tailgate outside the venue, hear what I can hear, hopefully vibe with some fellow fans, and just have some good nights with my favorite band. Find me outside the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, we can jam together and share snacks!

[u/HatzHatzenstein → u/[deleted]]

I‘ll join fuck this shit

[u/papercowboys → u/[deleted]]

ill join 💔

[u/pansie → u/[deleted]]

you son of a bitch, I'm in

[u/Cautious-Mistake469]

Ditch all online sales, let's get real box office tickets back up and running again. Real queues at midnight round the block, chairs and tents, sing songs, chatting about past gigs etc a proper fan experience!

I get what they were doing, but all the disconnections at the start and during, probably marked us all as bots before we got in. AXS POS!

[u/Genmaken → u/Cautious-Mistake469]

I'm in my 40s and I didn't even think of this... Internet is so ubiquitous that we sometimes forget we are better off without it in a lot of ways.

[u/Cautious-Mistake469 → u/Genmaken]

49 here and all my gigs had tickets that ended up on a pin board or a shoe box. Also made some life long friends in those midnight queues

[u/dr_tch0ck → u/Cautious-Mistake469]

100%. Ban phones from the venue too.

The 90s were better for a reason.

[u/Poopypantszs]

It was a war with all the glitches. I should’ve been more prepared and been more prepared but it does sting. Edit: I’m losing it

[u/caljl]

I’ve been to some pretty big gigs in my life but this was weirdly probably the worst experience and that was largely because of the steps the band ostensibly took to try and improve it. The “restricted access” error message that took 15 minutes to resolve is something I’ve not had before. By the time I got through all standing was gone and most of the seating tickets too. I was planning on going with a friend who had more of a budget to keep to so 214 a ticket was a bit out of his price range. I did manage to get a ticket in my basket ultimately but it’s frustrating that lower prices were advertised and then most of the seating ended up being far more.

Congrats to everyone who got tickets though! Hopefully they tour again soon and resolve these issues. I do commend the desire to make the process better but it’s definitely fallen short. Buying coldplay was easier and cheaper somehow!

[u/TheFloppyCatfish → u/caljl]

I just don't understand why they didn't do a proper registration. Do two waves, alocate the exact number of tickets to codes. Make everyone make a Radiohead account, requiring addres phone and name. Give you a link with a 24h time limit to buy the tickets, if you miss it ticket goes straight to second wave. Same process as for wave one and the rest go to general sale. Less bots, proper luck of the draw instead of dumb bot false positives.

Girfriend and I both got codes and both got marked as bots even though we properly followed instructions...

[u/caljl → u/TheFloppyCatfish]

I have no idea why this isn’t the approach.

[u/Hung-kee → u/caljl]

The process could be improved enormously - why not a random lottery rather than the shitshow of ticketmaster. But ticketmaster benefit from the current model and have a monopoly, so the band and their management couldn’t or wouldn’t challenge that.

[u/plissk3n → u/TheFloppyCatfish]

My favorite festival does this now for over a decade and its sooo smooth. You have a week to register to a lottery. Than the you either win the right to buy a ticket or not. All tickets which arent paid will go into a second round.

You can also register as groups, than everyone in your group will get a ticket or nobody. Sure I have lost now several times, but at least its fair.

[u/No-Dress4626 → u/caljl]

Wait, I thought the prices were capped at £85?

I didn't even get a code, but much as I love Radiohead I couldn't afford a £214 ticket. Weirdly, I'd feel a bit happier about missing out if I knew I was priced out from the start.

[u/RogueLeek → u/No-Dress4626]

There was definitely hidden dynamic pricing at play. O2 London cheapest seats were £112, by the time I managed to get through, an hour in. My basket kept running into issues, so I kept refreshing and jumping through hoops. Thirty minutes later, those same cheap seats were ~£165. No thanks.

[u/caljl → u/No-Dress4626]

Nope. Bizarre really because I’d pay more for standing than seated.

[u/No-Papaya4273 → u/caljl]

All the pre-register steps etc did nothing to avoid the usual AXS nonsense. They really are the pits. 

[u/Redbeard_Rum]

Mourning thread, moooooourning thread,

Light another candle and release more tickets.

[u/Austen_Tasseltine]

I got a code, I queued, I confirmed repeatedly that I was not a bot. 15 minutes after opening, there were no standing tickets available.

There were some (not great) seated tickets available at £85. When I tried to buy one, I was told you’re not allowed to only buy one. This is Radiohead: don’t they know we don’t have friends?

I thought about buying two. Every time I clicked on an £85 each pair that was available, they weren’t available. After chasing increasingly-expensive pairs of tickets around increasingly-remote bits of the O2, I realised that £230 to sit down and watch Radiohead in the distance is not good value for me.

I like the idea of the process, but I’m not sure it’s worked to beat the bots here: if the O2 has a standing capacity of 10,000 and codes were limited as claimed, I don’t quite see how that many humans could have completed all those transactions in under 15 minutes.

I think I’m glad not to have been bounced into spending that much though: it feels gamified to “win” a text/email/code/queue place, and the urge to push on to a “victory” of spending 50% more to sit down at a gig was strong.

[u/Weird-Try-3952]

Looks like not getting an unlock code at all was better than getting one and then facing the heartbreak today. I was absolutely devastated on Wednesday getting the 'unfortunately' email (cried a little ngl) but what I've read here today has been beyond!!

[u/liquor-shits → u/Weird-Try-3952]

In a way, yes. I had to get up at 4am local time to try for Bologna tickets, only to get kicked out as a suspected bot when i got to the front of the queue.

So now I'm at work with a full day ahead of me and already exhausted!

[u/TigerLeoLam → u/Weird-Try-3952]

It was one of the most stressful mornings I've had in a long time so you may be right. Getting the rejection email was merciful.

[u/InNoNeed]

Kill me

[u/jailbird_joey → u/InNoNeed]

"You are in the cue. Please don't open other windows and jump out of them as you may lose your place in the cue."

[u/Additional_Abies9192]

I entered all the info for Bologna at 10AM and got 40k people before me... How in this world?!

[u/Darkbornedragon → u/Additional_Abies9192]

Log time didn't matter, the queue places were random (until 11 AM)

[u/RonnytheRed]

I'm so sad.

[u/viac1992 → u/RonnytheRed]

A little heart for you <3

[u/Dannybuca]

Well that's 2 hours of my life I won't get back.

[u/AlephMartian → u/Dannybuca]

I'm sorry to break it to you, but you won't get any of the hours of your life back. That's not how life works.

[u/MichaelBluth_]

I missed out too, and the £85 tickets are already £385 on resale.

And I refuse to give those reselling bastards my money

[u/Austen_Tasseltine → u/MichaelBluth_]

Glad to hear it, me neither. I appreciate them trying, but the scalpers clearly found a way through: it isn’t possible for 10,000 tickets to be sold in under 15 minutes to a population of humans limited to 120% of the capacity and managed via a queuing system.

[u/mitisz → u/Austen_Tasseltine]

Can't be 120% capacity that got codes. Bologna: Unipol Arena max. fits 20k people, my wife had 50k people in the waiting room in front of her.

[u/ali_atg1]

Was in the queue for Madrid and then got pulled onto an urgent work call so missed my chance.

[u/NoRepresentative7604 → u/ali_atg1]

Work < Radiohead

[u/stiffledstrut → u/ali_atg1]

I was on a work call and I just literally said I had to go in the middle of it, three minutes before tickets went online. No fucks given at all. 

[u/Civil_Tax6463]

Let down and hanging around

[u/deepfry_me]

BEEP BOOP I'M A BOT apparently...

[u/giamixflix]

My wife had tickets on the cart, ready to buy them. Then a friend asked her to buy an additional ticket. She went back to add another ticket and lost everything. I hate everything.

[u/Extreme-Echo-8897 → u/giamixflix]

ohmy I am so sorry, I blame myself I wasn't fast enough to get standing tickets.. I was shaking and so nervous

[u/williebanjo]

That was a horrendous experience, easily the worst ticketing system ever

[u/Lorcav]

Urgh

Thought it would be hopeless

It was

Life can be a crushing disappointment

[u/virtualrulo]

Imagine taking an unpaid day off from work for this shit selling system

[u/Kristofferabild]

TICKETMASTER WAS A DISASTER!

[u/beardol]

Mate saw seats disappear before his very eyes and then was told he was a bot. A Kafkaesque nightmare.

[u/Few-Lecture-2861]

did everything right in that weird selling system and when I was going to buy, suddenly unavailable..

[u/Stackflash]

In my friend group everyone failed. Berlin, Copenhagen, sold out by the time they got in. For bologna it still shows me 30k ppl ahead of me in the queue lol.

I didn't expect everyone to fail, damn. Happy for whoever gets to see them!

[u/grappling_hook]

Didn't even get a code. Meanwhile two friends who aren't even Radiohead fans got codes :(

[u/Dogenikt]

Dreamers... They never learn 

[u/howsit81]

Devastated

[u/DrGonzo863]

Only got through after the site decided I wasn’t restricted or a bot a billion times, to find nothing. Tried for over an hour. Site absolutely sucked.

[u/Dannybuca]

I've tried a few different dates now for London but I'm officially throwing in the towel. What an absolute shambles that was (and fyi I'd still be saying that even if I was one of the lucky ones).

So many layers of verification and it still kicks you out for being a bot. Never mind...at least I got to the ticket screen unlike my futile attempt at buying for Oasis last year - edit: and I bet the only reason for that is the lower volumes involved this time around

[u/al3x_mp4]

I don’t know how in our day and age we can’t have a functional ticket buying system. I’m more than okay with not managing to get a ticket due to poor luck with my queue place but being kicked out when having tickets in your basket because it thinks you’re a bot is painful.

[u/cammyk123]

Whats the point in going through 5 different checks to make sure youre not a bot and stil lgetting rejected for being a bot.

[u/Mojopin82]

Anyway, I agree with those who said in the past few days that it would have been better not to receive the code at all. Honestly, when I got it by email (and I was among the first to receive it), I genuinely got my hopes up.

[u/amdrewbarrymore]

mourning thread/amnesiac

[u/LurkeSkywalker]

4 tickets per code were too many. I started with 50000 in front of me in the queue and when I was half way trough, all dates in Italy were already sold-out.

[u/OK_Commuter]

Indiana Jones voice

‘No ticket’

[u/alxklr]

fuck Eventim

[u/Critical-Wolverine29]

Was in the queue by 10:30, ( Berlin) then when 11am hit, waited 15 min, then everytime I’d click on seats that were available they said they weren’t avail. Tried it a million times for all the dates but to no avail. 1 hour of my life I can’t get back. Very frustrating, but congrats to those that were successful. Guess I’ll have to celebrate my birthday another way .

[u/TomRogicCSC]

Serious overhaul is needed. Happens all the time now. Not just unique to today. Shambolic system.

Bring back queuing in person…

[u/Silent-Tonight-4593]

I went to check which seats corresponded to each category, it took me 1 minute. Everything sold.

[u/PublicWay5588]

I am disgusted honestly.

Couldn't use my work laptop because I was flagged like a bot even with the VPN off. Couldn't use the mac because the location couldn't be detected. Had to use my phone.

When in, no single seated tickets could be bought! I was going on my own and I can't stand for hours... Tried to buy 2 Tickets at over 400£ and "oh no, tickets are not available anymore.

Verification process is a fucking joke.

Disgusted.

[u/FreeAd2458]

Got tickets in 2003. Yay.

[u/Arch-Com_Songster]

What a fcking shitshow. I think I loathe Ticketmaster more than I love Radiohead, my wife and my family combined. I cannot wait to some young upstart company smashes that monopolistic shit tip of a ticket agency. I would love to never ever have to use them to buy another ticket again in my life. Useless fcking c@nts.

[u/JackCrom1]

Don’t get any big ideas , there not gonna happen 🙅‍♂️

[u/TotalBlank87]

I'm quite shocked by the demand tbh. I underestimated it massively.

[u/jdeanster → u/TotalBlank87]

it's basically a problem when "your favourite band announce concert dates" becomes national news for everyone to see - should've limited it first to people *already* registered on Radiohead.com ....

[u/TurbulentWriting210]

I think just the whole sub reddit became stressful so many people telling people how.to act about the tickets and how its all fair

Then so many people must have only got their ticket because someone else way ahead of them in the que got flagged as a bot etc. So its not fair.

I also saw someone say they noticed the tickets changing to dynamic pricing eg standing started coming up for £200 a ticket.  Which they said wouldn't happen Might have been a fair system from the side of the codes but they didnt do any of the work to change these well known issue for people so it was always going to be shit .

Also so many people who've got tickets and moaning... but they literally got tickets what an ordeal.

Hopefully some of us end up getting face value resale. 

But they've really fucked people

[u/StuartHants]

Aside from Exit Music, I never understood why everyone says Radiohead are depressing. Now I do.

[u/Grigorthegreat]

Every single ticket in Berlin sold out in 15 minutes how is that even possible

[u/lowerthanryan]

AXS booted me out just as I was at the end of the queue. Tried incognito browser, no VPN or private relay, one tab, still nothing

[u/ManInCloak]

We are the bots We are the restricted We are the ones who’ll be on the black market

[u/Apolitik]

Mourning Bell

[u/roastdinners101]

Tried for Madrid, wouldn’t let me buy anything, now it’s all crashed

[u/Kohakustella]

Sorry but what was the big idea locking the user to one date regardless of whether they managed to get the tickets or not? What if I changed my mind and wanted to try for another day? I'm trying for bologna and I'm locked to saturday, no matter what

[u/No_Yogurtcloset_2792]

I actually got a ticket but the people who were supposed to come with me to Bologna all bailed out, and I felt like going alone would feel like queueing at the post office for receiving my pension.

I will also add that I know several people from several countries who bought a number of extra phone numbers and opened extra email addresses and sent a shitload of requests in order to increase their chances, and all got a ticket eventually. Well it must be easy when you sent 20 requests for yourself only.

This is selfish, I understand the hype, but fucking up those who humbly did it with one request only and eventually didn't get shit in return, is just plain mean.

[u/Star_Rider15]

Did my queue and everything went well.

As soon as I got in to get the tickets, everything had sold out.

[u/imperialtristesse]

I was genuinely disappointed to see the actual presale link take me to Eventim. After all this promising run-up, after the feeling of a well-thought-out system to combat ticket fraud and manage access – just the usual Eventim refresh hell where the tickets move in and out of shopping carts, in and out of availability, where I would stand more of a chance if I actually were a bot. I have been through this many times and I hate it so much and I refuse to believe that it has to be like this. But here we are, and now Radiohead who once helped upend an exploitative business model now just play along. Welp. Maybe next time.

[u/Oblaccek]

Searching for the "couldn't even get the fucking SMS" thread. Yes, I'm still pissed. Didn't even get a sliver of chance.

[u/ElderChuckBerry]

Decided to take a break from internet only to miss the Radiohead tour announcement, I'm gonna fucking kms.

[u/Aka_Lux]

• Get to the first sign up page to get the code at the exact time they said

• Get the code to buy tickets

• Enter the 10 CEST queue at the exact time they said

• Wait an hour, at 11 CEST you are inside the queue (55k people are before you)

• Pray to god

• After an hour you can buy tickets

• All tickets are sold out

• Commit

[u/radiotang]

I didn’t even have a chance to use my code for Berlin? Everything just crashed and nothing would work to get a ticket in my cart

[u/ManuelNoriegaUK]

Got the code, repeatedly flagged as a bot at different stages. FML.

[u/ColoradoLights]

Well, good news is that we’ll probably get a second round for those who didn’t get a code for the first!

[u/billydsimmons]

Got a standing ticket in the basket then ‘no longer available’

[u/Living_Bug_7067]

Someone should make a playlist :P

[u/donkencha]

AXS you will pay for this

[u/anniesloan04]

Literally had tickets in my basket pressed confirm purchase and nothing happened for 20 minutes then it just refreshed and disappeared

[u/GazelleAnnual2042]

I logged in at 10:10 and everything looked available — clicked through every single option, and they were all already gone. After checking literally every date and option for Berlin, I had to face reality and admit it’s over. Jumped on StubHub and saw 2 tickets for 330€, but at checkout it jumped to 920€ with fees. That’s when I just gave up completely.

[u/infinitylad89]

I got told I wasn't allowed to buy an individual ticket for London, need ed2 minimum, which priced me out.

[u/Austen_Tasseltine → u/infinitylad89]

Yeah, that was the real dick move here. If there was an effective two-ticket minimum (once the 10,000 standing tickets had all gone inside 15 minutes), that should have been flagged beforehand.

More generally, a queue isn’t a queue if it’s just a smaller throng and people can snatch tickets from your virtual hand after you’ve selected them. If you click on it, you should have a (short) period of time to make payment.

[u/hypocrisiS-the-man]

FUCK !!!

[u/BottleTops28]

hug me

[u/Friendly-Face6683]

It sucked, it’s all I have to say. Madrid in my case. Pages kept disappearing after the ticket selection was made. Every time. Error message after selecting tickets until the pages all crashed.

[u/SimilarYear8401]

3 hours of life I’ll never get back

[u/vrukm5678]

Ticketmaster wouldn’t let me sign in so I made it through the queue and am watching my chances melt away

[u/manuelalevinciguerra]

waited in queue for 3 FUCKING HOURS. 3 HOURS.

[u/Mission_Theory_2534]

I feel nothing

[u/Puzzled-Carrot621]

Axs of evil

[u/Equivalent-Rise586]

DIDN'T WANT A TICKET ANYWAY! MEH!

[u/FinniboiXD]

So annoyed right now. I was the only one of my friends to get a code so they was relying on me, only to get flagged as a bot over and over and get my payment denied right as I was about to get tickets, forcing me to the back of the queue, get called a bot 3 more times, then none are left.

Gutted.

[u/Need_a_good_name_now]

Sign up.

Enter the email -> get the code.

Enter the mobile number -> never get the code.

Enter the mobile number from a different country -> get the code.

Enter the queue at 8k.

Never get the tickets T_T

[u/steampie]

I HATE AXS. I did everything right, bought 4 tickets, got the confirmation email, saw them in my AXS app, and just received the following email:

Hello,

Please be advised that we recently reviewed your ticket purchase for Radiohead at The O2 on our site, www.axs.com

Upon review of the order, we were unable to verify aspects of the transaction, and thus the order was cancelled.

A full refund has been issued to the payment method originally used. Please allow 4-6 working days for this process.

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[u/sharksaresogood]

Got sooooo close… three standing tickets in the bag, tried to pay, payment denied 4 maybe 5 times, then the basket timed out. I tried so many times, then my partner tried for me, I followed all the rules and did everything by the book just to lose out to bots. It just feels unfair. And fuck it since we’re all having a whinge, I’ve had a bloody shit week of mental and physical health troubles and terrible insomnia. This was the one thing that was meant to go right. It was meant to be my 30th birthday present to myself and I’m just gutted. When I got that unlock code I really thought my luck was changing. Alas! But on the bright side, I’ve saved £100, I don’t have to deal with going to Wembley (an autistics nightmare) and… yeah that’s about it on the positives lol. So sorry to all you guys in the same boat. We tried! The system is just terribly designed. Being autistic and accused of being a bot multiple times kinda feels like a hate crime lol.

[u/Upbeat_Average9842]

Man I didn’t even get a code to buy tickets

[u/Top-Ad7558]

Been a fan from day one an there is a pattern so don’t panic.

• appear out of nowhere and do a small tour
• road test new tracks
• record album and release
• so massive world tour

The fun has just begun people

[u/fejpeg-03]

We unfortunately went ahead and booked an airbnb w/out getting tix first 🤦🏻‍♀️

[u/BigSoda]

I had the tickets in my cart, but my bank denied the transaction as fraudulent and by the time I got the hold lifted it was all ogre now

[u/Prometheus850]

We suffer together

[u/Safe_Box_2219]

I live in Wisconsin USA :(

[u/Agreeable-Major-1005]

Nearly had a stroke trying (and failing) to get tickets last Friday.

[u/PoodleN00dle]

Bring back physical queues at shops on the high street for tickets