Country music fans are still fuming over the Garth Brooks ticket sale fiasco.
His July concert at the Saddledome sold out in 58 seconds on Saturday, leaving thousands empty handed.
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The Stampede says 11,000 tickets were made available to the public, but it was the volume of online orders all at once which led to the speedy sell-out.
“There’s approximately 3,800 accounts that purchased tickets through the Ticketmaster site on Saturday morning, so that means that 3,800 people pressed ‘buy tickets’ all at the same time,” says Jennifer Booth, Calgary Stampede.
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3,800 orders at a limit of six per order, and it took 58 seconds for the Ticketmaster system to calculate a sell-out.
Ticketmaster suspects some of those online orders were made by so-called ‘web robots’ which use high speed software to make multiple purchases.
About 4,000 tickets were held back for Flames president club members, the Stampede, Garth Brooks and emergency reserve.
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