PINBURGH PINBURGH PINBURGH! HOLY!!!!!1111oneonetwo

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748

I kinda figured I would not get one of the 50 but tried. Really hoping to be one of the 950 left.

749

Roughly half of the VIPs are already accounted for in this thread without bots/scripts. I wouldn’t be too paranoid.

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750

Almost 20%. 4 more VIP tickets here. And of course no bots or shenanigans, just refreshing like hell. Can’t wait to hear the official sell-out time; I’m assuming 1 second.

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751

Being popular is a great problem for pinball to have. Even if there are a few sneakerheads in pinball that could theoretically bot it, clearly not all (if any) were bought that way. Exciting times. Also crossing fingers for the batch of 950.

752

It would likely have to be attended to, i.e. script is only performing the ticket selection and clicking through to the checkout process, after that would be manual. Many ticketing sites have controls in place to prevent scripting.

753

They do it with names - the bot mostly just speed-fills out the forms and passes it along.

To be fair Showclix hired the most notorious bot creator to counterract this in 2017 and compared to TicketMaster, it’s a complete pain in the neck to even find a script/bot for Showclix (for posterity reasons). I love me some internet, and I’m finding it impossible…

754

So how does this work for people doing the same thing at noon since the tickets don’t get released in 15 minutes? You have 5 people that add them to their cart and only one checks out. That leaves 20 tickets caught in “limbo” to later be distributed to the wait list.

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755

This is the real Pinburgh competition now… come up with creative ways ensure you get in.

756

Awwwwww Yeahhhhhh

757

I think only one of them got in so no tickets in limbo

758

I meant for the noon rush.

759

Based on @chesh’s comments on the updated waitlist policy, perhaps a bunch of people will be placed on the waitlist and then promoted to the ticket list just a few minutes later.

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760

Will there be a vip waitlist for any unclaimed vip tickets?

761

Was there ever a doubt that pinball players would figure out how to find an “exploit”? :wink:

762

is there a link for the waitlist? or is it the same?

763

Any idea how we would know?

764

AFAIK everyone just goes to the same ticket purchase page. I haven’t seen the main list vs waitlist behavior myself.

765

Annnnd they’re off!

766

Refreshing while watching Time.is, pinburgh tickets became unavailable at 12:00:30

767

Regular also sold out by the time I selected quantity doing 3-sec updates.