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Posted in music on April 24, 2009

4) How pricy

Ticketmaster

I guess it goes without saying that Ticketmaster's public relations team has no influence on what the Security Check displays.

(this is the screen I got while buying PJ Harvey tickets)

Tags: Ticketmaster
posted at 11:13 AM on April 24, 2009 in music | Comments (38)

Comments (38)

hahha. awesome.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:21 AM

ticketMEHster

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:21 AM

i thought bv didnt have to buy concert tix. isnt that point of having a music blog? are you the dude i bought those printout bunk tickets from for animal collective at bowery?

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:22 AM

That is so funny. I got "felcher" once

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:25 AM

I got Johnny Marr when buying Morrissey tickets..Seriously I'm not kidding.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:31 AM

enough with the "MEH" jokes, people.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:47 AM

I've gotten: "inexpensive", "pornographer", and perhaps most disturbingly--"Dial-a-teen"

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:48 AM

I don't want to turn this into a super long thread, but the best word I ever got was "Pat Morita." It was awesome.

Posted by Matt | April 24, 2009 11:50 AM

How about "Ticket Bastards?"

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 11:51 AM

Haha the irony. That's exactly what was going through my mind while buying my tickets.

Posted by amphibian | April 24, 2009 12:04 PM

Ticket Bastards or even Ticket Basterds is acceptable, yes. Thank you.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 12:06 PM

My captcha code for Neko Case tickets was "unsettled woman". I El-Oh-El'd in real life.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 12:13 PM

Considering that she charged $60 for Irving Plaza, I'd say she deserves some criticism.

Those ticket prices were offensive.

Posted by Whatever | April 24, 2009 12:14 PM

perfect

Posted by sarahspy | April 24, 2009 12:21 PM

Best one I've personally seen was "Kitty mounting"

Posted by Cuse | April 24, 2009 12:42 PM

I got my last name - a rare one - minus one letter

Posted by jason | April 24, 2009 1:33 PM

When I bought Fall Out Boy tickets it said "only fat chicks".

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 1:47 PM

FAKE

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 1:56 PM

"FAKE"

not fake. I swear

Posted by brooklynvegan | April 24, 2009 2:00 PM

Is p-r-i-c-y an acceptable alternate spelling of 'pricey'?

Posted by nitpicker | April 24, 2009 2:20 PM

"Is p-r-i-c-y an acceptable alternate spelling of 'pricey'?"

in this case, I would vote "close enough"

Posted by brooklynvegan | April 24, 2009 2:27 PM

Who buys Fall Out Boy tickets anyway?

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 3:02 PM

This killed me. Thank you BV.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 3:10 PM

boston tickets were $25 (before the usury fees). i was pleasantly surprised they were that inexpensive.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 3:15 PM

When I click on the continue button above, nothing happens.

Anyone else having this problem??

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 4:56 PM

Nice, pity whoever put in the word list for that app couldn't spell. How about this one:

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1-VHLFE-5g4/R4V9xr-Dw8I/AAAAAAAAAJY/XkNB9vTawbw/s800/Spam_666.jpg

Posted by tudza | April 24, 2009 5:08 PM

When the 'captcha' is 2 words, 1 is the genuine captcha security word (usually the distorted one). The other is a word from project where they are digitizing old texts in libraries. Instead of having fallible humans (paid to) read through and verify the text, they serve it up a multiple times in the captcha for us plebs to verify the word. Which is why you get some very odd words in there sometimes. Its a pretty cool use of technology. And a pretty good assessment of ticketmonster.

Posted by clairepetrol | April 24, 2009 5:30 PM

money, money, money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 6:23 PM

So, clairepetrol, as long as the would-be ticketbuyer gets the "genuine" word correct, s/he can get the other word wrong?

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 10:09 PM

yeah. there are times i know i've gotten one word wrong but have still made it through to the ticket page.

Posted by Anonymous | April 24, 2009 10:16 PM

Welcome, Consumerist readers! Please note, it is customary for female BV commenters to post a link to photos of themselves so that male BV commenters can decide whether or not they'd hit it.

Posted by Anonymous | April 25, 2009 9:00 AM

I got "prison soon" when I signed up for an account on Obama's website.

Posted by corbin | April 25, 2009 5:35 PM

i got "skeet" from ticketmaster once.

Posted by Anonymous | May 3, 2009 7:51 PM

Software development
Data collection

Posted by 数据采集 | November 5, 2009 9:19 PM

This killed me. Thank you BV.

Posted by www.drugs.com | December 6, 2009 6:24 AM

I got my last name - a rare one - minus one letter

Posted by www.paxil.com | December 6, 2009 6:43 AM

Best one I've personally seen was "Kitty mounting"

Posted by online deed poll | December 9, 2009 5:29 AM

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