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Mar152012
Question of the Day: Did You Get Googa Mooga Tickets?
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 1:42PM 
So, I just spent an hour and a half staring at a screen that kept reassuring me that I was on line for tickets to The Great Googa Mooga Festival, which will be taking place on May 19th and 20th in Prospect Park's Nethermead. Finally, it rerouted to a screen that said tickets were no longer available, so I signed up for the waitlist.
What was your experience? Did you get through? Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come...
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Reader Comments (26)
The site crashed on me before I saw the confirmation page. But a few seconds later I got a confirmation email... so I -think- I got tickets.
I got through to the registration page pretty quickly, but whenever I submitted, it crashed. I was able to fill out the form and submit it about 15 times, each time it crashed, not always in the same way. I know the tickets were free, but still it was very annoying to lose an hour that way.
I had a similar experience as Denis. Now I'm on a wait list. I was on the site (literally) from 11:45 until about one. Very frustrating.
Count me in with Denis and Mary :(
Sure didn't....was on the site for 2 hours.
Very annoyed and not pleased by the way it was handled.
After 2 hours, I couldn't even get through to the wait list. Very annoying!
I'm on the waitlist as well.. and I was on the site right at 12pm. Very frustrated!
67 minutes waiting, advanced to the registration page, 13 minutes later got a f'kachte error message "504 time out"
epic fail.
are we to believe 40,000 people got tickets (check out the comment thread on brooklynvegan.com, where groups of people at SXSW had multiple browsers open to try to score tickets)?
Can you imagine that number of people descending on the park each day (not to mention those without tickets trying to get in)? The lines for food and drink will be hours long. Let's count our blessings that we did NOT get tickets.
Negative. I was there exactly at noon, attempting to register using two different computers and after 2 hours, nothing. Ridiculous. Naturally, there appear to be plenty of $250 tickets for whatever that Extra Mooga thing is. I feel very violated.
I also spent an hour and a half on the "you're currently in line. great minds think alike" page only to have it time out and offer up a "whoops. someone's gonna pay for this" page is temporarily down error message. By then of course I couldn't even get on the wait list. TOTAL FAIL!! Handled horribly!
Waited for an hour and forty-five minutes just to get a wait list. Although many will disagree, preferential ticketing for people who actually live in the neighborhood would be nice too. After all, we're the ones who will be impacted by the influx of attendees and their inevitable trash.
Site crashed on me, queued for 30+ minutes, registration process screen then crashed after a server timeout. Got an account registration e-mail but cannot see any tickets in my account. Can we get some press on this and why Superfly didn't do what it does with all over fests and give locals first crack or priority for tickets? After all, the cleanup crew isn't going to sweep our sidewalks, stop the noise overflow, and protect us from the drunk overflow.
I had a meeting so couldn't check until now, but it seems like I may not have even been able to get them had I checked right at noon anyway. Wow. This seems like a total cluster-F.
Beware. I also got a "confirmation email" after the site crashed when I entered my info,
but I'm pretty sure it's a confirmation that I registered with Eventbrite, not that I registered with OogaMooga.
This is looking more and more like a private event cloaked as a public one in a public space
I got a confirmation email after getting multiple error messages starting at about 12:03. Eventbrite's site was real buggy: First their was the "waiting room" and then eventually a registration page would pop up. That page had a 2 minute (later they changed it 5 minute) wait time before the site would boot you. Not surprised that the tickets went so fast when you could get 4 per registration.
I have a bad feeling that the event is going to be a day of waiting in lines for rushed plates of food from some great restaurants. I do wonder why these festivals use smaller ticket vendors - eventbrite, ovation tickets, brown paper tickets, etc..- when its obvious they can't handle the traffic.
never thought I'd get shut out, but alas...guess I wont be attending a great event in a park I can walk to. Sucks
Unfortunately it seems I had the same experience as everyone else did when it came to getting tickets - I was there right at noon, kept getting re-directed & countless crashes & time outs later was told registration is full. This is really disappointing - I live a block away & won't be able to attend what sounds like an awesome event in a park that I go to everyday.
The site says more tickets will be available before the event however I'm sure those tickets won't be free.
Same as everyone else. Went on around 12:20, waited for a bit less time, but was then told tickets were no longer available. Clearly something went very wrong here. We'll see what happens next.
After getting multiple error messages, I just not got a confirmation email at 7:45pm.
big time fail. hope they don't destroy the park.
Strangest thing: despite the wait and subsequent crash, I got a confirmation at 9:45 tonight.
I think the people getting confirmation emails are great. I also think there were a great number of us who were just told there were no more tickets who won't be getting confirmation emails.
This is still a joke.
I got tickets, but I paid for the ExtraMooga. Thanksfully, I was planning on doing that all along, and was not forced into it by the crashing system.
c: report back to us after the event whether you feel your $249 was well-spent.