Hey all readers of Korean through Lyrics,
I am so happy! I just got my tickets to FT Island and CN Blue’s concert in Los Angeles! YEAH!!!
I got up early just to make sure I log in at 10am PST. At first I got on Ticketmaster.com because I am very familiar with them. At 9:58am, it still says tickets are not available so I was patiently waiting untill 10am. I just kept refreshing the page or went to the home page and searched again. Finally when it came back with availability, it showed 3 VIP packages to choose from: Diamond VIP ($375), Platinum VIP ($85) and Gold VIP ($75). But the funny thing was the last two VIP packages did not include tickets. I wasn’t sure what’s going on and I had to choose one of the packages and click on “Find Tickets.” I didn’t know what to do but no matter which package I chose it didn’t have any. I am so confused. Since I was so eager to get the tickets, I decided to go to POWERHOUSELIVE.net.
FT Island and CN Blue’s concert icon is right at the center.
Cool! So I clicked on it and it showed me the ticket prices. Finally, something I could understand. So I picked the price and headed to fill out the rest of information to purchase the tickets. OK, so far so good! When I clicked on “Process Order” it took a long time to update the page, eventually it said “error processing.” OMG! So I clicked “Process Order” again. Same thing happened! Long processing time and came back with error. So I decided to try Ticketmaster again! Finally somehow I got to a page where I could see the ticket prices. So I was ordering there. I tried to see what’s best available at the time and the most expensive ones are gone! The best were the $150 tickets. Anyway, I ordered my tickets and I realized the total is higher than ordering on Powerhouselive.net because Ticketmaster charges a higher convenience fee and processing fee. It’s actually double that of Powerhouselive.net. So I tried to order on Powerhouselive.net again. You know, I have to juggle two pages open at the same time and see which one got me the tickets first. However, Powerhouselive.net kept having processing error and in the end I just went with Ticketmaster even they had higher fees.
I am glad that I got the tickets. I guess there must be a lot of people trying to buy on Powerhouselive.net and it just couldn’t handle the load. Ticketmaster has a higher fee but maybe that’s part of handling the traffic that they get on a daily basis. I don’t know. I am trying to not think about the higher fees and just focus on the fact that I am going to see FT Island! ^^
Anyway, you know how excited I am now. For those of you that are going, please leave me a comment and let’s meet up. For those that are not, you know for sure I will cover it here. Also follow me on Twitter as I will cover it live there during the concert. (^.^)
OK, now I have to prepare for the concert so expect lessons to come soon. I have to beef up my Korean so I can understand what they say at the concert. How exciting! ^^
