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[PRIME] PAX Prime 2012 is COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!
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Funny that what bugs me more than having to pay the extra $40 (still well worth the money) is not having the physical, 3 day badge as memento. I am hoping to get them all framed some day.
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Doubtful. Most scalping sales occurs online these days. The only scalpers that such a law would affect are the very small-time scalpers, which usually don't have an impact on sales. If this sell-out was a result of scalpers, then it was probably a major scalping business and they'll be selling online.
Maybe someone at the con would be willing to trade you. Don't give up hope!
It's us. Lots of us. Dorks wanting to go play. More of us every year.
This... Is not a bad thing. It's inconvenient and kinda sucks if you weren't one of the dorks that snagged a 3day, but... We're all dorks, there's a crapload of us, and we all wanna go to Dorkville to party with our fellow dorks.
Look at it this way: At least it wasn't like Burning Man, which had a freaking lottery, so you had no IDEA if you could go with your friends or not.
Also, as a local, yeah, there is literally nowhere bigger. Not with "rooms" and "tables" and such. This is already one of the, if not THE, biggest things to hit Seattle each year. I literally don't know what they can do except "acquire more buildings", which be fair, has some tricky bits to it, right?
You musta missed the guy with a dozen badges outside last year.
Chances of those badges being real... Heh. Not last year.
How fast was the fastest sellout up to now? I feel like last PAX Prime it took at least a month or two before it sold out.
Last prime 3 days went 22 or 21 days. I believe 22.
Que the QQ'ing.
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Last Year they were gone within 22 Days of registration.
Statistics: That's not how they work.
you might want to pick up 3 3 day passes
So next year, Comic Con speeds... 3-Day passes sold out in 1-3 hours.
Year after that, it'll be Blizz Con speeds- 10 minutes.
Oh, and not to mention you'll be fighting the servers as they try to handle everyone refreshing. It's like registering for popular college classes at a big university like Univ. of WA... ugh.
I swear, every big con I attend turns out like this whenever I attend them for the first time. X_x
Okay, then either every outfit selling tickets has access to a titanic amount of unique name/card combos, or there's an utter TON of small-volume ticket resellers, or "there's a crapload of nerds who wanna go to PAX".
Good Evening, Mr. Occam.
If your into anime Try Sakura-con.Held in the exact same place as Pax Prime.They do reg differently.And their reg is open all year long.
The concerts and VA meetings are pretty cool, but I never feel like I get my money's worth like I do at Anime Expo in CA. At least PAX and Anime Expo has more industry announcements.
(Don't get me wrong, I like Sakura Con... I would just rather spend that money on PAX tickets.)
Presuming there's time, PAX tweets out various milestons (usually 50%, 25%, and <1000 left, but it varies based on speed and such.) It will usually appear in this thread mere moments later.
I would say there's no guarantee all three will be left an hour from now. 3 days sold out more than ten times as fast as they ever have before, so there's no way of predicting how fast everything else will sell out. Sorry to make you worry, but I'm afraid that's the truth.
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lol yeah i realized that as well.Was unable to go to it this year but i'm going to pax instead. Just saying that Sakura-con does have a slightly better registration method.Not of how long they are open but to how they make it for you to buy your badge.Pretty much they make it so only one person can buy their badge.With having to have an actual name on the badge....unless it changed this year.I noticed the form changed.
Damn you! But you're right. I was reading twitter posts and they were saying 1 days should be lasting until the weekend, but they also said people should be fine with 3 day passes the other day.
I think if the servers never went down last week, then things would never have been so hectic. People probably said tickets are up, but the servers are down and so everyone rushed to get there tickets asap once they came back online. I don't think they will sell out day 1 next year (unless the same problem occurs), but they will sell out very quickly.
This is where my mind went, but if you're a burner and have been reading their threads, a few of the cities also came up with the idea of printing names on their tickets to curb scalpers from last year. Also, BM doesn't even have an easy door for overzealous scalpers to sell their extras in front of and they still have scalping issues.
But, back to the point, there has to be a way to curb scalpers. And, maybe it's not printing names on badges, but perhaps it's tying names to badges and having all of them require IDs at Will-Call.
Does anybody know if Blizzcon, Comicon, DragonCon or any of the others have scalpers to deal with, and how they do deal with it? PAX is getting enough fame and notoriety that precautions should be advanced next year as much as possible that do not discriminate against first timers coming around.
And, in full disclosure, I was lucky enough to buy two 3-day passes this year.
I was lucky enough to get my pass, but I still find this entire ordeal bs.
While they say the average pass sale is 1.74737373 (or whatever the number is) there's still a lot of people scalping. What's even worse is now this forum isn't allowing sales because of fears over fake passes... Really? You don't have the capability to prevent this after frauds have been passed around for the past 2 years? I'm sorry, but a convention as big as PAX should have learned by now.
I've been going to PAX for the past five years and this might be my last.
Well, that was fun while it lasted. Unless something significantly changes, I can't see this situation getting any better in the coming years.
Here's hoping for the 'need a pass' thread again since I don't expect the 1 days to last til I get paid again. lol
If no because of fakes, could the trade be in person then at the convention?
I don't think this will be the case this year, but in future years to come, it might be.
--Again, just a question, whether dumb or not, I would like to know the answer.
The secret is, sadly, out.
Given the 'No Selling' of badges that has come down, I'm inclined to believe that trading is a no no on these forums as a means to avoid being called in to mediate a bad trade.
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I'm super tempted to supply you with the aforementioned hot sauce.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that'll go over really well.
Can't wait to attend PAX Cornfield.
Logistically that's probably ridiculous, but I think that it would be awesome.
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I also was in a panic because the registration system absolutely refused to take my credit cards for no apparent reason. I changed computers and THEN it worked fine. No wonder they tried to switch away from this system. The one they tried this year must've been REALLY awful to lose out, haha.
Really, my biggest fear is that I'll be done with PAX after this one because getting tickets will be virtually impossible. I really hope that they do a full analysis of the ticket situation and make sure next year's setup can accommodate the obviously increasing demand in a much fairer way than what happened this year.