We are quickly coming up on the start of Beer Festival Season here in NC, it will kick off this coming weekend for us with the
Summertime Brews Festival in Greensboro, NC on Saturday.
October 4 of this year will be the
13th Annual World Beer Festival in Durham, NC.
150 different breweries with over 300 different types of beer at is being held this year at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. This is the highlight of my beer festival season (some people refer to this as "fall" ~ tomato /
tamato).
It's a big event here in the Triangle and a big event for the husband and I. The first year we moved here, by the time we got here tickets were already sold out. Last year, with some good friends in town for the event, not only did we attend, we reveled in it all weekend long.
Tickets sell out. Fast. For the Spring Festival in Raleigh, tickets online sold out in 4 hours.
All About Beer Magazine has offered
pre-sale tickets to subscribers beginning on Aug 15. I bought a subscription strictly for this reason.
As of Aug 15 the
pre-sale site for subscribers had problems and wasn't working. The message now says:
We are currently experiencing a problem with the subscriber's advanced ticket sales. We will send an e-mail to our subscribers as soon as this problem addressed and we are ready to take advanced ticket orders. We will ensure that subscribers have time to purchase online tickets in advance of the general public. Thank you for your understanding.It has been
6 DAYS.
Understanding? Let me tell you what I understand.
I understand that clearly, you fuckers are complete idiots. This is a big deal and you have totally dropped the ball. Is the entire IT department on vacation? Doesn't someone have 15-year old kid who can fix it?
WTF.
So they have had to push back ALL TICKET SALES because of the
pre-sale issues. Today, the outlet tickets were supposed to go on sale and then in two days the General Public tickets.
These dates are been scheduled for
months. Now, everything is post-postponed until? no one knows.
I have been checking my inbox obsessively for 6 solid days about this.
We have plans,
damn it. People have purchased tickets, scheduled vacation, lied to their bosses... whatever it takes.
I need
TEN TICKETS mother fuckers and I better get them.
If The Liquor Fairy isn't happy, no one is happy....
and thank YOU for your understanding...