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New year, new prices! http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/01/comic-con-international-to-sell-only-single-day-badges/ It's now $200 for all 4 days + preview night ($165 w/o) and there's no more four day passes, it's all individual days. I like to think this is because they think people will only pick the days they want rather than the four day but when they made the four day cost as much as buying individually that didn't change poo poo, this won't either. People will get the four day pass "just in case" there's something they want to do on another day.
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Soarer posted:They also probably realized they don't need to actually give discounts because we will stand in line for hours and jump through any loving hoops they decide to put. They realized that like 3 years ago. They know they'll sell out so why entice people with a discount for showing up all four days when you can gouge up the price on everything year after year. When I started attending 7 years ago, I think I paid $50 (might've been $75) for a four day pass. Although, I guess even at $200 it's still got exceptional value.
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Jan 10, 2014 22:14
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Sire Oblivion posted:So if you can't get a 4 day pass anymore, are you going to get a badge for each day? Because christ that's going to be annoying. Not to mention I'll have to pick up 12 badges if that were to be the case. From http://www.comic-con.org/cci/2014-cci-badge-preregistration: New for 2014! Only single day badges will be sold. The Preview Night badge option may only be purchased if you buy a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday badge. Preview Night is not a stand alone badge option. As in 2013, anyone who purchases a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday badge will have the option of consolidating them into one 4-Day badge onsite.
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Jan 10, 2014 23:05
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Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like a double lottery? It sounds like you have a lottery for what time you can log in and then when you log in there's another lottery for where in line you are.
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Jan 28, 2014 12:51
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Alan Smithee posted:HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH ElmerTheWasabi posted:Does any know if this is still limited to people who attended last year and have member IDs? I believe it is, yes. You still need to the number off the badge to go with a member ID.
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Jan 30, 2014 14:09
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Alan Smithee posted:People last year were saying they used multiple windows and it was fine Last year had no waiting room or official lottery and you didn't put in a member ID until you got to the front. My guess is if the waiting room doesn't require a MID to sit in it, yes, use as many browser windows as possible; they can't be sure it's not an assload of people behind a nat'd firewall. If it does ask you for a MID to sit, they have an easy way to kick you out and having multiple windows open is probably not a great idea.
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Jimmy James posted:Is Pre-Reg any less of a crap shoot than normal Registration? Same crap shoot, fewer people (but not by much).
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Feb 5, 2014 20:23
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Alan Smithee posted:That's the one you have to be grandfathered into right Yes. Saturday is for 2014 registration for 2013 badge holders.
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Feb 5, 2014 22:49
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Gann Jerrod posted:Can anyone tell me if they pass the cookie test on this website that Comic Con set up? I tried it on both Firefox and Chrome, but no luck. Tried four browsers across 2 OS's and none came back with a pass.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:09
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Darko posted:Has anyone tried going in with multiple comps/browsers yet? Just curious to see if it's the normal "don't listen to the instructions because they're always wrong" thing. I just did. Supposedly I only have one active session but I have two browsers with spinning circles. Edit: It booted my other session, so yes, 1 reg code = 1 browser session RevKrule fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Feb 8, 2014 16:21
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Mobius 1 posted:I'm in, who needs help? How many you buying?
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Feb 8, 2014 18:16
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Next person with a spare spot, email me (rallyv at gmail). I got one ticket but need another.
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Feb 8, 2014 18:22
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Mobius 1 posted:Sorry about that, failed and panicked and just bought my ticket as I was afraid it would time out It's ok. I got my four days so I'm happy. Thanks for trying.
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Feb 8, 2014 18:32
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Dr Tran posted:My friend got me my pass. No preview night. I'm still in the waiting room. I still have a browser in the waiting room too. I don't need a ticket but I'm open to helping.
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Feb 8, 2014 18:36
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ElmerTheWasabi posted:Anyone get confirmation emails yet? My friend said he got my badge but is waiting on the confirmation email still. I have one confirmation email and I'm still waiting on the other so the system is slow.
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Mr. Onslaught posted:Knowing your place in line and having a meter showing how many badges are left would be nice ;[ Yeah, this is something I'd like to see next year, but in all, this is a lot less painful than previous years.
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Feb 8, 2014 18:45
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"It looks like Friday and Saturday badge inventory is running low, we promise to keep you updated. Thank you for your patience while you wait in line. Customers are completing their purchases. Thank you for your patience while we refresh this message every 120 seconds."
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Feb 8, 2014 19:18
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XOIC of Radishes posted:Tip: If they don't have all four badges available and you aren't interested in going without a 4-day, still buy a single badge (e.g. Sunday or Thursday) so you're eligible for badge holder pre-reg next year. You need to show up to use your ticket for this statement to be accurate. So you can buy a Thursday but you still need to redeem the Thursday to have an eligible ticket to 2015.
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Does anyone have a good number to call to actually get a person regarding registration? I fear one of my passes may not have gone through and I want to verify.
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After 24 hours of fear, I got the "we've charged your credit card" email. I think to be nice, we may want to organize a little better for general ticket sales. If people who have tickets, wait in line with (and for) people who don't, goons stand a good shot of going together.
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Pan Dulce posted:I don't particularly see how this works this year. Two years ago, I got a link and refreshed like a motherfucker until the time and got a number in line. Please explain in smile-as-possible terms for this poor simpleton! Here's how it worked this year for alumni. You were given a link and an individual registration code as well as a day and time when registration would open. At the appointed time, you had 2 hours to enter the waiting room. It didn't matter if you showed up 2 hours or 2 minutes early, you had the same chance of tickets according to CCI. Also, because you had an individual registration code, you couldn't have multiple sessions opened. I confirmed this. It took the last session you had open and kills the other sessions. When the waiting room closed (2 hours from the first time), everyone waiting was randomized and given a place in line. Sadly we never saw what place in line we were but there was a line. Every 2 minutes, your page would refresh. If you got to the front of the line, you could buy tickets for yourself and up to 2 other people (who had alumni member IDs). And that's the nuts and bolts. It was orderly and because refreshing the page was utterly detrimental to you, there was no server issue. Here's what I see happening for gen-pop. You're required to have a member ID already, I see them sending out individual reg codes to everyone. Another Saturday, probably early March (I could see March 8th, or 15th THESE DATES ARE CONJECTURE BASED IN NO SOLID FACT). 7 AM PST waiting room opens, 9 AM PST registration actually opens. Lots of people who don't get tickets saying the whole thing was rigged. This is sadly the only fair way to do ticket dispersal since they've created a nasty rush. Yes, I still blame them for this mess, it was never this bad until they made a big deal out of the ticket release date.
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Alan Smithee posted:I feel like next purchasing round we should use a buddy system because straight up going "who needs a ticket i need a ticket" is not working. How many tickets are you going for?
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Alan Smithee posted:Just one I'll be your buddy. I'm not going for even one ticket so that helps  We should get someone else who wants 1 or 2 tickets. Then we have 3-4 people trying to get tickets. Odds in numbers.
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Alan Smithee posted:Just to confirm if one person buys for another that other person is locked out of buying for themselves right? Yes. If you try and buy a ticket after someone's already bought, it'll say something along the lines of "Someone's already purchased tickets for this member ID"
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Neraren posted:No, you can't. You can if you start with a different member ID. The process works that once you get into the front of the line, you can put in any valid member ID you want to buy tickets for. It doesn't have to be yours, it just needs to be 1) a member ID 2) valid 3) not currently with tickets. Let's run though a scenario similar to the one I did on registration day for alumni. There are 3 people in this scenario, member ids for aguy agirl afriend bfriend, all of which are vying for tickets. Afriend gets in first with their member ID and buys for afriend, bfriend and aguy. This leaves agirl still needing tickets. So aguy, bfriend and agirl all stay in queue waiting (please note, 2 of these people already had their tickets purchased). Aguy gets to the front of the queue next. Did it tell him he couldn't buy tickets? Not yet. It asked for a member ID. He puts in agirl and proceeds to purchase those tickets without an issue. If you're playing at home, aguy was able to purchase tickets for agirl even though he already had his own ticket purchased. Just because your ticket has been purchased doesn't mean you should hop out of queue if you still have people you want to get tickets for.
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Am I the only one who thinks they're running their timeline weird this year? Like badge sales were shoved way into this year but never did a time shift for everything else. I could see a scenario where people having to try and get their hotel before they even know they have tickets at this rate.
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If I had to take a stab, I'd say registration is gonna be next Saturday. http://www.comic-con.org/toucan/attending-comic-con-101-open-online-registration
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bobula posted:Oh drat, I hope for several of my friends' sakes that they open member ID registration before open sales. But the page does say it'll reopen AFTER open sales, wah wahhhh. Member ID registration was open basically up until they made this announcement. There was more than enough time to get a member ID. It's free and takes like 10 minutes to setup. If your friends even thought they might want to go, they should've created an account. Jarnet posted:They usually open up member id reg before the resale, don't they? Yes, probably the day after open sales, they'll open up registration again. At this point you can shoot for resales.
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Woo!!! Called it! Also, I'm helping Alan Smithee and Pan Dulce if they still need it as long as my wife gets a reg code. Just fyi for you two, if there's a chance I can get her preview night, I'm taking it, otherwise I'm there to help you two (three?) get better odds on passes. Feel free to coordinate with me: rallyv (at) gmail
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Where my ticket buddies at?
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Alan Smithee posted:Oh gently caress me in the rear end that's today! Well ill be up, playing some Dark Souls 2 but I'll get ready come time Hit me up by email. Chances are low I'll get what I'm looking for so I'll need your cc info if i get tickets before you. RevKrule fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 23, 2014 |
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Alan Smithee posted:And what's with these vagueass messages? No numbering system or anything. Didn't have numbering for the alumni either. It was very annoying.
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Alan Smithee posted:So for those who didn't get it, was it literally vague messages -> oh sorry sold out! Eh, they use those vague messages to let you know as they run out but rather than hard numbers. You'll see one saying like "preview night is sold out" and poo poo later on.
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batphantom posted:Goddammit, they're not showing what place you are in line. That blows, I could be sitting here for hours. No, you'll probably be there for a little more than an hour tops.
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Remember, you need member id and last names.
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Jimmy James posted:My first con was 2005 and I did the thing where I walked up, filled out a card, and went in. I went again in 2007 but knew some professionals and got an extra badge from them since the tickets had sold out online and I assumed I'd be able to walk up and go in. So 2006 or 2007 must have been the first year to sell out. I stopped going to most panels a few years ago when a friend of mine said the best thing I'd ever heard. "There's always going to be someone with a closer seat and a better camera who's going to upload this to youtube 30 minutes after it's over." It also doesn't help that I realized 90% of panels, especially the big ones are just glorified commercials for a product. The only panel I ever went to that felt genuinely enriched afterwards was last year when they had John Lewis (D-GA) who talked about Martin Luther King, the march on Washington and being arrested 40 times. I guess it's still starfucking but a little different. I used to do the Hasbro shuffle the first couple years I went. Then one year I showed up at 6 AM to get my ticket and it was for the next day and that was the last time I ever did that. Most exclusives you get from SDCC are almost impossible to flip for even what you paid for them 3 months outside the con. So either a) you have to buy it and immediately flip it if you're trying to make money (and even that's not a sure thing) or b) you wait a couple months for a price fall. That's not to say this is how everyone should feel. I know people who sitting at the back of Hall H, where you can't even see the stage live, let alone who's on it, is what they live for simply to say you were there. There's people who sleep almost nothing and shower even less just to sit in the shadows or get that one loving toy because it's what they live for and enjoy.
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Space_Butler posted:Sounds like some of you people need to ditch Hall H and head over to the Adult Swim stuff in Indigo if you want to see panels that are genuinely funny, unique, and engaging. I've gone for 2 years now and the panels have consistently cracked me up all day. I went to the Regular Show panel last year. The panel was great and the questions were actually really engaging. The following panel was Adventure Time. The panel was great too including a guest appearance from Donald Glover w/song but the questions were god loving awful. I was gonna leave after the Adventure Time panel anyway but I left early in the question phase because it was that bad.
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Shawn posted:Apropos of nothing, my wife and I saw Billie Dee Williams at Phoenix Comic-con a year or two ago, and he was AWFUL. Maybe we were spoiled because we had seen Bill Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, Stan Lee and a bunch of other stars who have absolutely got their con poo poo together. But this is exactly what Billie Dee said over and over again, "I dunno, I did it because I wanted to get paid." Worst celebrity I've ever seen give a panel. From my understanding, Billie Dee basically is Lando. There's nothing he won't do for money but don't expect him to do it well. Just look at his appearance on Dancing with the Stars. He's basically just standing there with his "Lando grin" while his partner does everything around him. Harrison Ford I hear is a close second to bad panelists, although it depends on the tone set during the questioning. If you jump right out with the Indy and Han questions, he'll just shut the gently caress down but if you actually engage him beyond those characters, he's much better, not great but definitely better.
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