Anyone get Google I/O tickets?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3761552

by rms • 14 years ago

7 17 14 years ago

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I was about 3 seconds late and coming up empty. :(

cowmix• 14 years ago

No. ARG!

mcdillon• 14 years ago

I've hit the 'no available tickets page' twice so far, 10:03 and 10:07est. Are they really already sold out?

willwagner2• 14 years ago

I'm assuming others get to a "There are no tickets available at this time" alert and then you have to start over. At least, that is what is happening to me.

rms3• 14 years ago

I have a lot of practice buying first come first serve tickets as a sometimes occasional scalper, and I'm good at it. In the industry, scalpers would have labeled this onsale as "suspicious", as in a lot of tickets were likely held back and there probably were far fewer than 5000 tickets onsale.

I've hit no available tickets 4 times now. My advice to everyone reading this is to keep trying until 8AM in case they are releasing the tickets in batches.

EDIT: Definitely batches, got 1 at exactly 7:15.

Jun82• 14 years ago

This is ridiculous, the sell out time has gone from days to 10mins (last year) to 30 seconds this year, even at $900! At this rate, next year they'll be gone in microseconds.

willwagner2• 14 years ago

I finally got through and registered as of 7:16

Edit: I got "no tickets available at this time" several times before getting through so don't give up.

eternalmatt3• 14 years ago

Has to be batches. Nothing else explains why it would say "no tickets available AT THIS TIME" several times in a row, then suddenly open up and let a few people get a ticket.

That said, I don't have one. Waiting for an academic ticket too.

Jun82• 14 years ago

Academic tix are gone as of now.

rms3• 14 years ago

Academic tickets are always tougher to get, if it's really important to you to go to the conference you might consider putting the full price one on your credit card and selling your swag.

eternalmatt3• 14 years ago

That is a tempting idea, but I'm on the east coast, so I really can't handle the cost of a ticket plus airfare there and back, even if I got reimbursed a little by the swag. I'll probably just end up taking a few days off and watching the live streams like the rest of the world.

lzm• 14 years ago

I've been trying since 7:00.00001 and still got nothing.

Edit: All tickets sold out. There goes my plans to visit the US!

yummies• 14 years ago

both ticket types are all sold out now... can't even try again.

eternalmatt3• 14 years ago

All tickets sold out as of 7:29 AM.

sjg2• 14 years ago

Yeah I managed to grab a ticket at 7:00:34 PST, Looks like it's only academic tickets that are sold out.

sjg2• 14 years ago

Oh well, I was wrong. Official page says that it is sold out! https://developers.google.com/events/io/register

ek• 14 years ago

Yes, I managed to claim an academic ticket and then the payment page was timing out and I wasn't sure why. Turns out it was Ghostery, but once I disabled it, it worked. I wonder what happens for all the people who have claimed a ticket but not paid. Will Google release their tickets and sell them? Call them and tell them they owe 300/900 dollars?

It's pretty clear that Google needs to restructure this event if they want it to continue to have meaning as a developer conference. This sort of waste of people's time, only to have tickets sell out in 30 seconds or whatever ridiculous number is just not valuable.

What would Google have to do to maintain the substance of the conference? Simply promise that there won't be any free toys given away? I missed out on I/O 2011 after having attended in 2009 and 2010 because bad people went simply for the hundreds of dollars worth of free and early-release hardware Google hands out.

I would have paid 300 dollars for the conference regardless of whether Google gave me the latest gadget.

rms3• 14 years ago

>Call them and tell them they owe 300/900 dollars?

We were using Google Checkout to do registration for the Singularity Summit and ran into this problem, and the answer is basically yes.

Anyone get Google I/O tickets?

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