Hey, Live Nation?

What the hell, man? I mean, I understand the scam you're running. I get it. But with the nin.com presale you're supposed to at least sell THOSE tickets on the up and up, right?

*shrugs* Guess not.

Kourt and I both logged in for the Camden presale at 3:00. We both get in, and both pull up seats. Not a problem... if we'd wanted seats. Call us silly, but we want lawn tix. We can't afford pit, so we'll sit in the back on the grass where we can have some fun with the other fans we know. And we need three tickets, so Kourt was going to buy one and I was going to buy two. Thinking that maybe your computer system would start spitting out lawn tix after the seats ran out, we emptied our carts and kept trying.

Now, here's where it gets weird. After a little while, we're on the phone (logged on from different places) talking about what we're going to do and contemplating trying to pull up three adjacent seats, and suddenly Kourt says the tickets are sold out. She's getting the "not enough available tickets to fill your request" message.

Funny, I'm looking at a pair of seats. Section 202, Row R, Seats 1 and 2 or something. So I dump my cart and go back and see if I get the sold out message.

Nope, now I pull Row R, Seats 32 and 33 or whatnot.

Kourt tries again, still nothing. I try again, now I'm on Row Q.

She keeps trying, I keep pulling tickets. Single tickets, pairs of tickets, Row P, Row Q, Row R, all different seats...

So I figure maybe she's got something in her cache or her cookies or hasn't emptied her shopping cart or something, so I tell her to try logging out and logging back in and trying again.

Still sold out for her.

I'm still getting available seats. In pairs.

By now it's 3:15.

I go upstairs to my other computer and log in under her name there, still logged in as myself on my laptop. She's about to blow a fucking gasket. I try to pull up some tickets.

Under her account, tickets are sold out. I try again and again, singles and pairs, different price levels, all sold out.

Under my account, I'm still pulling various seats in Row R.

So what's the deal, Live Nation? Kourt's not good enough for tickets? Did you tag her account to sell out early? Or am I just that special?