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Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
I really couldn't believe it when I saw it, LIVE, in front of my eyes...
well. I'll tell you the full story, personal and factual (really long)
Facts:
- if you don't have the RIPLEY card, you couldn't do anything.. it was either this or cash, no Visam, no mastercard, RIPLEY, meanning that all foreignewrs are screwed from the get go...
- if you live in regions, the only chance to get tickets were internet or the call center...
let's start with the internet/telephone sale...
it was suposed to start at 11 Pm... of course it didnt'. it sytarted like at 11:15, and of course very sloooooowly... and the thing kept on coming with error, eror, error, service unavailable.. I couldn't even get to the main page some times...
meanwhile, people started calling through the call center at 10, and already you couln'dt get through...
I woulndt be as mad as I got if my mother don't make me get in th e phone and internet, because her car broke down and IU ghad to leave her at work at 8:30, but the plan was to be in THE CENTER (as we call the center of santiago) at 7 am to be in line for the doors to open at 9 and buy real printed tickets, because I knew frome the very begining that the call center/internet thing would colapse...
anyway, after getting all furious at the sistem I went to sleep, but my mother called one more time, and she got through!!!, it was 1:15 am....
and she was telling trhe card number,m her name , etc etc, and they got to the problems... problems that all in regions here in chile have:
- for getting the ticket, you get charged MORE... field costed me 32000 (ticket), 2600 (service charges) and 3700 more that we found out the very same night (delivery)
- you'll get confirmation that the tickets are yours in 72 hours through mail or telephone... 72 hours, people cut their wrist at this... and this if you dont' have any problems with the card. If you do, you don'0t get teh tickets
- if you get confirmation, the tickets would arrive in 10 days tops... 10 days... too much.
after hearing all of this I get all fired up and start yealling that I don't want the tickets... and my mother hungs up and we get like into a mini fight because I was like 1 second away of getting the toickets and not having to wake up really early and get in line.. but I was mad at all this stupid things that had to happen to have the ticket.
we go to bed angry... I wake up at 6:30 (even thou I put the alarm at 5:45), and about 7 I leave.. I was late...
the official radio of the concert is Rock and Pop.. so I get the walkman, take the bus and just hear the thing... and they say that in the center there are about 20 people and in every other mall nobody was to be found
FACT: 7 malls had ticket sale in SAntiago, 2 in the V region, and that's it... and the CENTER one was going to start selling at 9, the first in the country
so I get into the center at 7:30, and begin to approach the place and se som 30-40 people there already in line... and I start watching and there they are, FRANCISCO AND VERONICA. He created the forum I'm in in chile (we're about 400 right now) and she's also crazy for U2, she wen to Chicago 5/9 and 5/12.. she appears in the 2nd dvd at about 2:13)... Francisco arrived at 5:20
and she minutes before me... So there we were, talking to the Rock and pop correspondant COPANO (a really funny 20 years lold guy)...
around 8 this Ripley guy appears and explains the line thing and that everyone's getting nu,mbers so we can hava normal line. I get Nº 8.
BUT, this guy behind us complained that Me and Veronica arrivesd late and that it's not possible bla blabla.... so, like at 8:40 the Ripley guy takes me and Francisco and tells us that this guy has complained and that we can work it out without screwing up the line and stuff... so, we talk and get to this. Francisco gives me his number in line and gives me the cash to buy him field...
Now... I'm number 2... Nº 1 was some old guy with crotches. Copano interview us and the guy tells him that he'll buy 4 ticktes, for his daughter and boyfriuend and for his nephew and girlfriend... the guy wasn't even going to the concert!!!
then me, and tell him that I arrived at 7, all ok...
in between, near by there was this kiosk with a really bad lyric sheets/bio that said U2 POP.... francisco goes and buys it
(Vero was showing of her scrapbook of photos of the chicago shows, how she meet the boys and gave them 4 books about chile)
well. I'll tell you the full story, personal and factual (really long)
Facts:
- if you don't have the RIPLEY card, you couldn't do anything.. it was either this or cash, no Visam, no mastercard, RIPLEY, meanning that all foreignewrs are screwed from the get go...
- if you live in regions, the only chance to get tickets were internet or the call center...
let's start with the internet/telephone sale...
it was suposed to start at 11 Pm... of course it didnt'. it sytarted like at 11:15, and of course very sloooooowly... and the thing kept on coming with error, eror, error, service unavailable.. I couldn't even get to the main page some times...
meanwhile, people started calling through the call center at 10, and already you couln'dt get through...
I woulndt be as mad as I got if my mother don't make me get in th e phone and internet, because her car broke down and IU ghad to leave her at work at 8:30, but the plan was to be in THE CENTER (as we call the center of santiago) at 7 am to be in line for the doors to open at 9 and buy real printed tickets, because I knew frome the very begining that the call center/internet thing would colapse...
anyway, after getting all furious at the sistem I went to sleep, but my mother called one more time, and she got through!!!, it was 1:15 am....
and she was telling trhe card number,m her name , etc etc, and they got to the problems... problems that all in regions here in chile have:
- for getting the ticket, you get charged MORE... field costed me 32000 (ticket), 2600 (service charges) and 3700 more that we found out the very same night (delivery)
- you'll get confirmation that the tickets are yours in 72 hours through mail or telephone... 72 hours, people cut their wrist at this... and this if you dont' have any problems with the card. If you do, you don'0t get teh tickets
- if you get confirmation, the tickets would arrive in 10 days tops... 10 days... too much.
after hearing all of this I get all fired up and start yealling that I don't want the tickets... and my mother hungs up and we get like into a mini fight because I was like 1 second away of getting the toickets and not having to wake up really early and get in line.. but I was mad at all this stupid things that had to happen to have the ticket.
we go to bed angry... I wake up at 6:30 (even thou I put the alarm at 5:45), and about 7 I leave.. I was late...
the official radio of the concert is Rock and Pop.. so I get the walkman, take the bus and just hear the thing... and they say that in the center there are about 20 people and in every other mall nobody was to be found
FACT: 7 malls had ticket sale in SAntiago, 2 in the V region, and that's it... and the CENTER one was going to start selling at 9, the first in the country
so I get into the center at 7:30, and begin to approach the place and se som 30-40 people there already in line... and I start watching and there they are, FRANCISCO AND VERONICA. He created the forum I'm in in chile (we're about 400 right now) and she's also crazy for U2, she wen to Chicago 5/9 and 5/12.. she appears in the 2nd dvd at about 2:13)... Francisco arrived at 5:20
and she minutes before me... So there we were, talking to the Rock and pop correspondant COPANO (a really funny 20 years lold guy)... around 8 this Ripley guy appears and explains the line thing and that everyone's getting nu,mbers so we can hava normal line. I get Nº 8.
BUT, this guy behind us complained that Me and Veronica arrivesd late and that it's not possible bla blabla.... so, like at 8:40 the Ripley guy takes me and Francisco and tells us that this guy has complained and that we can work it out without screwing up the line and stuff... so, we talk and get to this. Francisco gives me his number in line and gives me the cash to buy him field...
Now... I'm number 2... Nº 1 was some old guy with crotches. Copano interview us and the guy tells him that he'll buy 4 ticktes, for his daughter and boyfriuend and for his nephew and girlfriend... the guy wasn't even going to the concert!!!
then me, and tell him that I arrived at 7, all ok...
in between, near by there was this kiosk with a really bad lyric sheets/bio that said U2 POP.... francisco goes and buys it
(Vero was showing of her scrapbook of photos of the chicago shows, how she meet the boys and gave them 4 books about chile)
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lol
