Tomorrow's Badge Sale

15 FEBRUARY 2013


A few last minute tips and reminders:


  • You can only buy for 4 people.
  • If you pre-registered and got a badge with Preview Night, you cannot buy a new badge for yourself this go-round. If you got any other kind of badge, you can. 
  • Once you're in the waiting room, do not hit F5 or refresh. You'll go right to the back of line, also known as Staying Home This July.
  • The number that tells you your place in line should refresh every 2 minutes. If it seems stuck, CCI's official advice is to take a screenshot and call them, but I think we all know what that's going to get you. It isn't a four-day badge.
  • Once you're in, you need to enter your last name and Member ID. So please make sure your name is spelled properly in your Member ID account, and that your friends buying your badge also know how to spell it.


Not to go negative, but I must point out what I feel is a huge flaw in this system. You can buy for up to 4 people, yes. My version of logic tells me that it would make sense to enter all four names and Member IDs at once, and then the credit card information to buy all of them at one shot.

Instead, the process is that you enter them one at a time - last name, Member ID, credit card information, confirmation. Then you select Buy Another Badge and start over - the next last name, Member ID, credit card information, confirmation. And so on.Which means, given how fast badges sell out, that some people will most certainly wind up with mismatching badge types within their own family or group of friends.

Sometimes I wish it was 2006 again.

I will be on Twitter monitoring all the furor, and will try to post there and here any sell-outs as they happen. I know that seeing those can be an awful feeling when you're still in line, but people do like to know. Feel free to email me, comment on here or hit me on Twitter with your experience - I will be posting what I hear.

23 comments:

  1. keep getting sent to overflow room where it says there are likely no more tickets left... at 9:03am

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  2. one computer goes to overflow and other is stuck on Click To register for 5 mins..

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  3. not looking good

    We are sorry, but the EPIC online waiting room has reached capacity and it is unlikely that badges are still available. Please click here to return to the Comic-Con website.

    If you were unable to purchase a badge today, please check our website frequently or follow us on Facebook and Twitter for important badge resale announcements later this year.

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  4. No getting Service Unavailable...Anyone else getting anywhere?
    Steve E

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  5. Now you get the overflow page instantly... @ 5:11
    Steve E

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  6. Guess there was too much pushing an shoving in line... I got trampled.

    Steve E

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  7. We need to go back to when you had to continually call the radio station to win tickets..
    +23 minutes
    Steve E

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  8. I'm still on te " click to register page " but it's still loading, nothing else poped up like the " sorry tickets may be unavailable now" I'm just waiting here to actually get in the waiting room :o

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  9. You will likely go to the "We are sorry, but the EPIC online waiting room has reached capacity "

    Steve E

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  10. If you're not in the waiting room with a number by now, you probably aren't getting a badge. I'm sorry.

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  11. Right when it turned 9 am pacific I clicked it & it's been on the loading bage for 31 minutes now .
    Gabby.L

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  12. Tried removing into my work computer to see if another IP helps but still get overflow.html..

    +32 minutes

    Steve E

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  13. Give up everyone.. go home... the show is over...

    and get out of my way so I can get one :)

    Steve E

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  14. xD I'm still gonna wait, I have nothing else to do cx
    Gabby.L
    37minutes

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  15. "Sold out" in 3 mins... see my first comment... completely amazing... even Tickle Me Elmo took longer to sell out.

    A year of planning. I even had a change detection service running on various sites just so I didn't miss any news on the topic. If it was black Friday and I missed the flat screen TV, I could just get up earlier ... but not here...

    Still trying in case someone showed up with PayPal.

    Steve E

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    1. Hopefully they do a resale like last year. Even though some people are getting badges today, this was a horror show.

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  16. I agree with you! ^^^ :o

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  17. "Comic Con Server Crashes, Badges Likely Sold Out"
    http://comicbook.com/blog/2013/02/16/comic-con-server-crashes-badges-likely-sold-out/

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  18. I got a really good place in line but my page hasn't refreshed at all and I think that means I'm never going to get in. I hate my lifeeeee

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  19. Keep waiting...

    From another site:
    9:00 and waited for 24 minutes on a loading screen before I got the "waiting room" screen. It is now 9:43 and that screen has not changed yet... I am #7095 in line.

    Steve E

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  20. after 1h I'm #27183

    Rob

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