rockies ticket frenzy

Yesterday, baseball tickets for the World Series went on sale via the Colorado Rockies site, but nobody was able to get in. I personally tried to get into the site, which was obviously crippled under heavy traffic as it kept giving me "server not found" errors. The news reported that the site was under stress due to "malicious attacks", although I have to wonder if this wasn't just an excuse for an ill-prepared attempt at selling these tickets exclusively online, especially when unofficial sources are estimating a potential 8 million interested purchasers.

Adding further to my speculation is the fact that the site appears to be having similar problems today. The site puts you into a queue, in which you have a counter that attempts to contact their server every 120 seconds. The problem is that after a few count-downs, the counter stops and eventually the site fails to connect and you need to start again. What a joke.

For a corporation that has been trying to thwart scalper sales, they sure are driving up the cost of resale tickets by making them so hard to purchase legally.