Originally Posted By Lisann22 Once again, the website is jammed and due to high traffic nothing is happening. Ugh! They really need to work on how they handle this. I've been hitting the refresh button for the past 1/2 hour.
Originally Posted By VickiHD I was able to get the number of tickets I wanted but then I wasn't able to go further. I wasn't even able to the get credit card info in before it just "locked up"
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Same, so I tried to refresh and it kicked me out. So now I'm back to the front page with no link and this at the bottom... Ticket Sales: Please wait a moment as we are experiencing a high volume of ticket requests. A link to purchase tickets should display when the page refreshes in 30 seconds, or you can manually refresh the page until the link displays. I'm irate.
Originally Posted By VickiHD I was able to get in for a THIRD time and I can't get to the credit card purchase part!
Originally Posted By dznykyd No luck here, either. Does anyone know when the process started this morning? Was it this morning?
Originally Posted By cstephens People on another website have reported having lots of problems as well, but some have managed to get through after almost an hour of constant trying. Many of the restaurants and seatings are sold out. /cs
Originally Posted By DlandDug I am so sorry to hear this. We decided to forego the dining option this year, in part because the on line registration has been so stressfull.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer The system was activated at 10 AM PST today. And already every package has sold out.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I've graduated from economics 101, and with my vast business knowledge (insert sarcasim indicator here) they obviously need to raise the dinner package prices--signifigantly!
Originally Posted By Hannibal 8 I had a great time last year with my daughter at this event. I was not as lucky this year, but maybe that is for the best. I plan on taking the $200 that we would have spent at Steak House 55 and donating it to Care or the Red Cross for relief in Bangladesh. My daughter and I will watch the Procession from behind the ropes and I'm sure we'll have a very nice time again.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Maybe it's just me, but doesn't this happen every year? I've heard rumours that the Spice Girls reunion tour has sold out in some places in less than one second, but Disneyland can't manage to come up with a system to make dinner reservations without crashing. The technology is there. Why can't DL get a hold of something a little more recent? I know they don't need the newest, best, fastest thing out there, but there has to be a happy medium that won't kick people off year after year.
Originally Posted By DlandJB This was moved to tickets.com today which was supposed to have been a better site than last year's. Clearly the powers that be still don't have an understanding of the popularity of this event. Sorry for everyone who had trouble and I am (selfishly) glad we decided not to try this year.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Here is an idea, do something like the NCAA does for the Final Four Basketball championship tickets, and what Disney has done in the past for AP previews, such as Finding Nemo. Open up a period of a few days where anyone who wishes to have a chance to get tickets can register and pre-pay for the experience (and no refunds). You place your name, and get up to 3 requests for times and locations, so if someone can only do one of the 2 days, they can pick the date they need. Once the registration period is over, they can have a random drawing to assign the available dining reservations to those who registered, and if someone fails to get lucky and doesn't get any of there requests, then a refund of the money deposited is sent back to the credit card used. The winners are sent e-mails, and are also required to show up at the appropriate restaurant with their ID and Credit Card, to prevent scalping. This will allow folks to register and enter their info without servers "crashing", and then everyone gets the same "odds" of getting a dinner package.
Originally Posted By pjhorton21 I went into the site at 10:00 AM sharp, selected the tickets, and pushed the submit button every 30 seconds until 10:45, when I finally got in to enter my CC info. When I went back to the site at 11:15 AM, ALL of the tickets were sold out. Since this event is so popular, it would seem logical for Disney to cash in on this and offer more shows on more weekends. Is there a reason why they don't do this?
