Grumblings

Ready at the keyboard, like a vicious animal stalking it's prey. I was going to get these Paul McCartney tickets.

Several refreshes later and an unbearably long wait sends me to a page telling me that the tickets for this event are sold out.

I immediately head over to stubhub, where I see SEVENTY-TWO tickets already on sale, only a couple minutes after I got shut out. This makes me question the entire structure of ticketmaster and current ticket buying processes. This has become a big enough issue that it should have enough weight to make ticketmaster turn to paperless tickets (tickets that, when bought, are assigned to your name, and your name only to be picked up the day of the show. Preventing scalpers and those types). Is ticketmaster not changing their methods because the scalpers are helping them profit? Shame on them, if so. I wouldn't even be surprised, these are the same jerks who I paid a total of $45 for 2, supposedly, $12 tickets. Charging me a facility charge, a convenience charge, and an order processing fee, thanks a lot.
Ticketmaster could make a huge move by changing to paperless tickets, showing they put the fans #1.

Until then, I will continue to grumble.

Update: Just 3 hours later there is 705 tickets available on stubhub. I'm glad 705 people who don't even want to go were able to get tickets, but a real fan couldn't even get 2.