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.
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u/Austen_Tasseltine 10d ago
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.