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misleadtheworld
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
 Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:09:11
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tell me about it. if i see one hoodie there, well....it should be ritualistically burnt or something.
i hope they add more dates, and i hope frank reads all about the bastards on ebay and gets them sorted out somehow.
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bedrock_barney
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
871 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:10:53
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Not for long...
Well, if Frank and the rest of the band had any doubts that people would be up for the reunion then this morning's chaos has put that to rest!!
I repeat. I'm convinced that other gigs will be announced.
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mishkabunny
- FB Fan -
23 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:11:38
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i can't believe i was trying to get tickets from the dot of nine and still didn't manage it
ticket web suck big time! i even got as far as the make payment button, it just wouldn't load the page after that, then i got through on the phone, to be told the system had crashed but they hadn't sold out yet, then must have got on ticketweb within seconds of it working again, only to find it had sold out.
i can't believe how crap this is
fingers crossed for glasto
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benji
> Teenager of the Year <
New Zealand
3426 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:15:02
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i can see the predicament that all those bastard ebayers are in:
do they set their auction to end in 1 day whereby they might not get maximum price for their tickets, but then if more dates are announced after they've sold their 1-day tickets, the cocks who set it as 10-day will be fucked.
ah, what a conundrum they face.
i'm mad, i'm mad, i'm mad.
ps, i hear ya mishkabunney, the exact same thing happened to me.
cook me some fucking eggs! |
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usernick
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:15:06
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Damn - just found out that in my haste to buy a ticket for the Thursday gig, I managed to select 'Circle'... :< Anyone up for swapping a circle ticket for a standing?
Cheers, Nick |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:16:45
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when you got through to the guy one the phone you should have asked him to write your card number on a piece of paper with a real pen. People in call centres seem to be devoid of common sense.
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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gracie
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
573 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:20:37
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Let this be a lesson to those in other countries who have yet to experience this crushing disappointment.
I'm also hoping for a glaso appearance but lets face it, the soung at festivals is crap and the experience will be no where near as good as seeing them at a smaller venue.
However, it is better than not seeing them at all! |
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toby1kenobi
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Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:22:06
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I've just emailed Ebay customer support - probably fruitless, but if no-one comlpains then we know nothing will ever change, so if you ca nbe bothered why not drop them a line? Here's mine:
Subject: #2223807216, #2223809426, #2223809752, #2223810108, #2223810783 etc
What's Ebay's position on ticket touts using Ebay to re-sell concert tickets? I think this is pretty sick - all of the above (and more) are tickets for The Pixies at Brixton Academy. These went on sale at 9am this morning and sold out within 30 minutes; many of these sales it would seem were to ticket touts aiming to sell at grossly inflated prices on Ebay, as they appeared instantly on your site.
If this is not illegal, it's pretty immoral at the very least, and not something I should think Ebay would want to be associated with. These are the same guys that hang around concert venues fleecing real fans at sold out events, not people selling items they've inadvertently acquired an excess of.
Perhaps you are not interested in the ethics of such trade, but I really think you should be.
Toby
PS I actually do have tickets, but I still feel strongly enough about this to raise it with you. I think it's disgusting behaviour that you should be discouraging. |
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gracie
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
573 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:25:05
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| Hey Toby, if any of those tickets need a home..... |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:26:28
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quote:
Originally posted by usernick
Damn - just found out that in my haste to buy a ticket for the Thursday gig, I managed to select 'Circle'... :< Anyone up for swapping a circle ticket for a standing?
Cheers, Nick
i'll swap you the circle ticket for nothing, or some hard earned cash? ;)
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:28:18
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I really feel washed out right now, I want to cry or puke or scream or something but I feel totally drained after this morning. I want to sue ticket web for mental anguish.
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:29:20
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quote:
Originally posted by guy_nolan
when you got through to the guy one the phone you should have asked him to write your card number on a piece of paper with a real pen. People in call centres seem to be devoid of common sense.
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began...
actually... we're not allowed pens or papers in the call center. because we could be writing down your credit card numbers. we're not allowed to write down numbers, for obvious reasons... and as they're using the very same system the people trying the online booking were, chances are when it all came back up they wouldn't have had chance to book them anyway, especially as they'd be on a different call and have to deal with that first... common sense really. :)
let's not start laying into my call-center chums guys... ticketweb, fair enough... but the people on the other end of the call are just dudes and dudettes like me, mostly students, who are forced to work a shitty job so they can afford to go to uni...
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:30:44
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Originally posted by toby1kenobi
I've just emailed Ebay customer support - probably fruitless, but if no-one comlpains then we know nothing will ever change, so if you ca nbe bothered why not drop them a line? Here's mine:
nice one! thanks, saved me the bother, although i might do too just to re-enforce how annoyed we are with the touts.
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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MMD
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
233 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:32:19
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| Where Is My Mind? More like Where Are My Tickets, oh god someone shoot me. |
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pudmeister
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
159 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:32:39
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Maybe ticketweb are bullshitting us by saying theyre sold out??and they just dont want the system to crash again?? KEEP THE FAITH
"Looking through the eye of a pig I see it all" - Cypress Hill |
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toby1kenobi
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:34:22
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Gracie, I'd love to help you (and everyone else) out, but I only have two and I think I'm the only one of my (many dyed-in-the-wool, authentic 1980's Pixies fans) friends who got any :-(
Sick isn't it? I can see around 60 tickets on Ebay at the moment and I'm sure there'll be more. Oh well, I'm sure people like XFM and 6music will have plenty for competitions and stuff, and I'd be very very surprised if they don't add at least one more London date. And if they play Glasto that will be awesome. |
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usernick
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:35:00
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Originally posted by bumblebeeboy2
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Originally posted by usernick
Damn - just found out that in my haste to buy a ticket for the Thursday gig, I managed to select 'Circle'... :< Anyone up for swapping a circle ticket for a standing?
Cheers, Nick
i'll swap you the circle ticket for nothing, or some hard earned cash? ;)
Cheers (!), even if it's just a circle ticket, I think I'll suffer!
Quite why ticketweb make this the default option, who knows?
Anyway, if they announce Friday or Saturday tickets, I'll make sure a) I'm around, b) Check several ticket sites at once, and c) Make sure I select the 'Standing' option! 
l8rs,
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:37:17
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quote:
Originally posted by pudmeister
Maybe ticketweb are bullshitting us by saying theyre sold out??and they just dont want the system to crash again?? KEEP THE FAITH
"Looking through the eye of a pig I see it all" - Cypress Hill
they really are all gone. i spoke to my mate who is working there today... he very helpfully said "you should have given me your details, i could have got some for you" - yeah, thanks mate, like i knew ticketweb was going to go down and tickets would be gone in a matter of minutes... 
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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DruggedBunny
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
395 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:37:36
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we're not allowed pens or papers in the call center. because we could be writing down your credit card numbers. we're not allowed to write down numbers, for obvious reasons
Are you allowed to remember them, or do you have to submit to hypnosis at the end of a shift?
I agree though, criticise TicketWeb, not those on the phones -- I do a similar job for BT (eewwww), but it's pretty funny that you aren't allowed pens and paper!
28 Ebay listings now. What a bunch of greedy cnuts.
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:40:55
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Hey, I work the shittiest job of all picking and packing thermal underwear, but I still think most call centres are staffed by cretins. Either I sound uncomprehensible or you guys just can't spell!! Sorry bee boy, I don't mean to tar you all with the same brush ;)
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:43:12
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Originally posted by DruggedBunny
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we're not allowed pens or papers in the call center. because we could be writing down your credit card numbers. we're not allowed to write down numbers, for obvious reasons
Are you allowed to remember them, or do you have to submit to hypnosis at the end of a shift?
I agree though, criticise TicketWeb, not those on the phones -- I do a similar job for BT (eewwww), but it's pretty funny that you aren't allowed pens and paper!
28 Ebay listings now. What a bunch of greedy cnuts.
heh, well we have a notepad like thing open on our screens to make notes on, it's just pens and paper we're not really allowed... to stop us from taking your numbers on a shopping spree... i'd be impressed if someone did manage to memorize all the credit card details after a 6 hour shift, taking abuse from people over service charges with hardly any breaks... not the best job ever, which is why i'm slightly defensive at the mo! 
i didn't get tickets either, and ticketweb stinks. but pays well.
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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gracie
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
573 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:48:15
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You didn't get ticket?, isn't that a perk of the job being first in line.
I've actually been considering giving up my legal career to work at Wayahead if it'll get me pixies tickets to the next Brixton gig, (there will be one won't there Frank?) |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:50:29
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Originally posted by gracie
You didn't get ticket?, isn't that a perk of the job being first in line.
I've actually been considering giving up my legal career to work at Wayahead if it'll get me pixies tickets to the next Brixton gig, (there will be one won't there Frank?)
kinda, but you have to be working really, like i said my mate might have been able to get me a couple, but i didn't think what happened would have to be honest... and it's debateable if i'd have got any anyway with the speed they went and the system problems. like i've said, they use exactly the same web system over the phones... so they'd still have to be pretty quick about it. can't buy them before the on-sale time... bit gutted. and feel like a bit of a chimp for not getting my mate to have a go at 9 for me.
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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DruggedBunny
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
395 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:52:50
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I think Frank and co probably deserve some criticism for this. You can't reform a band like the Pixies and not do it right; playing the whole of Europe for the lengthy period of 3 months (with 2 whole gigs in the UK) and the whole of the US and Canada for less... and playing second fiddle to Red Hot Chi-- (no, I can't finish it). What were they thinking?
I'm going to T in the Park to see them, but I'm nowhere near as enthusiastic about that as I would be for a proper Pixies gig.
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2638 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:54:40
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quote:
Originally posted by DruggedBunny
I think Frank and co probably deserve some criticism for this. You can't reform a band like the Pixies and not do it right; playing the whole of Europe for the lengthy period of 3 months (with 2 whole gigs in the UK) and the whole of the US and Canada for less... and playing second fiddle to Red Hot Chi-- (no, I can't finish it). What were they thinking?
I'm going to T in the Park to see them, but I'm nowhere near as enthusiastic about that as I would be for a proper Pixies gig.
agreed. seems they're playing manchester, but supporting the rhcp's... i don't get this? if they had the time to tour, why not headline their own tour? was it too much hassle to organise? or would they not have made as much money that way?
we should have a big t in the park meet up! :)
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I'm flat out, you're so beautiful to look at when you cry. Freeze, don't move, you've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequal to your life. Shady Lane, everybody wants one, Shady Lane, everybody needs one. |
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csmall09
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Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:56:00
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Jonathan wrote:
>The whole thing about Brixton is it's NOT a big venue, so you get a >proper intimate club gig. it's not much bigger than sheperds bush
I think you'll find Brixton Academy holds 4700 people. It's a big venue. |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 03:59:48
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I know Johnathons not into this idea but given the craziness of this morning does anyone else think they might move it to a bigger venue? Brixton sounds cosy, but there's obviously a lot more money to be made elsewhere.
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:01:53
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oh, didn't see that.
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2463 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:10:43
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Well I've been CHARGED FOR THREE TICKETS and I only meant to order ONE.
Damn Ticketweb made me input my details too many times because the server couldn't handle it.
Here's the best part... I haven't had a single confirmation email or code. And Ticketweb claim not to have a record of a transaction!!!!
'Took his plane to Columbia/So I could sell at my school" |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:12:48
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Ill buy one of those ziggy :)
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:13:17
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so i got two tickets.
what are the pixies like? i've only heard that "where did my mind go?" or something... yeah that was cool. "oooh oooh" LOL!!!
are they anything like linkin park, cause i love them!!?!?!!!1 |
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Ziggy
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
2463 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:16:11
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Yeh the sucky thing is that they won't be sending me any tickets if they don't have a record of it. Took the money and ran.
'Took his plane to Columbia/So I could sell at my school" |
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guy_nolan
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
417 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:20:17
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Originally posted by Ziggy
Yeh the sucky thing is that they won't be sending me any tickets if they don't have a record of it. Took the money and ran.
Buying tickets is really hit and miss now
For ten thousand years he slept, his mind feeding on the nightmares of the weak. Now he has awakened. As the night turned crimson, the fire-blade shattered and his power died. Then, the slaughter began... |
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usernick
- FB Fan -
United Kingdom
12 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:21:12
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Hmmm... Wonder if that's the same with me, when I (unsuccessfully) tried to order tickets for Wednesday?
Time to check with bank! |
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <
Poland
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Posted - 02/07/2004 : 04:22:29
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| guys, when do they take the money out. now(ish) or when they send the tickets? |
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