jediyoshi
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At best, these are both equally insane.
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PAX Prime 2015 Attendees Thread
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At best, these are both equally insane.
Dreamwriter
Member
If you *do* buy a ticket from a scalper, make sure you take the scalper to the Will Call booth to verify that the ticket isn't counterfeit before paying for it.
As for non-PAX hotels, look into downtown Bellevue - from the bus transfer center there you can take an express bus directly to the convention center, takes about 35 minutes.
friskykillface
Banned
bummer, i was working yesterday so i would have bought tickets if i were home, oh well.
luckyboyceo
Member
People should definitely be able to find places to stay closer than Bellevue. Traffic is always nuts that weekend, the last thing you'd want to deal with is the bridge.
Syph Medwes
Member
noooooo
Heads up people, if you check out twitter it looks like a bunch of cancelation emails went out to people who exceeded the purchase limits.
If you still want tickets, better set SMS notifications to your phone for when @Official_PAX tweets and panic every time your phone beeps starting NOW!
The second batch of badges only lasts minutes.
If you still want tickets, better set SMS notifications to your phone for when @Official_PAX tweets and panic every time your phone beeps starting NOW!
The second batch of badges only lasts minutes.
You mean for people who ordered more than four tickets per day by trying alternate accounts / multiple computers?
I think so. Most claim they did nothing wrong and didn't exceed any limits and think they got flagged in error.
Seems like a mix of people who blaitently went over the limit, multiple people using same billing address or some other identifying marker, and some people who straight up say they didn't exceed any limits.
Rodney McKay
Member
WOW, I completely missed tickets this time by a MONTH.
I had no idea these had gone on sale already.
I had no idea these had gone on sale already.
WOW, I completely missed tickets this time by a MONTH.
I had no idea these had gone on sale already.
Well in your defense, you are in the Pegasus Galaxy.
This really sucks for me this year since getying scalped tickets was the only way for me to go with no luck at checkout Had to contact the eBay seller and he mentioned that he was aware of it. Sounds like he bought a lot. Really hope I can get those 2 tickets...
I do hate scalping so I know it's hypocritical but I didn't have any other option :/ Hope it teaches them a lesson for next year, to give the rest of us a fighting chance.
Had to contact the eBay seller and he mentioned that he was aware of it. Sounds like he bought a lot. Really hope I can get those 2 tickets...I do hate scalping so I know it's hypocritical but I didn't have any other option :/ Hope it teaches them a lesson for next year, to give the rest of us a fighting chance.
Bringer Of Bacon
Member
If you want tix, just go to the convention center and you can buy them on the street at face value from people with extras. Avoid the sketchy scalper looking people and buy from people in cosplay. You will get in no pr9blem.
luckyboyceo
Member
This. If you're patient it's really not that hard. Although, I completely understand it's hard to buy a plane ticket to Seattle without the promise of tickets, for those of you coming from out of town.
Yeahhh I already booked my flight and hotel... I've honestly never seen a legit seller outside, they mostly look sketchy and shout to the other scalper "workers" from each street corner. As a last resort if mine end up getting cancelled, I can always make them GO inside to get the badge checked through a black light before purchasing. No way would I buy them and just trust their word :/
Screw the guy that bought 10 freakin sets. Geeze! People like them is why I couldn't buy an actual ones this year. (Trust me though, I'm not a fan of supporting it this year...)
My friends have all received both their tickets and a shipping confirmation.
I have received neither; but when I checked 4 days ago my tickets were listed as shipped.
Considering I live in Seattle I should have had my tickets ASAP. Getting worried.
Spending $640 and not receiving a shipping notice sure feels like amateur hour.
I'm wondering if this is one of those situations where the software for ShowClix doesn't pay the vendor until they mark orders as shipped; PAX marked mine as shipped to collect their money but I'm not actually shipped.
I have received neither; but when I checked 4 days ago my tickets were listed as shipped.
Considering I live in Seattle I should have had my tickets ASAP. Getting worried.
Spending $640 and not receiving a shipping notice sure feels like amateur hour.
I'm wondering if this is one of those situations where the software for ShowClix doesn't pay the vendor until they mark orders as shipped; PAX marked mine as shipped to collect their money but I'm not actually shipped.
Dreamwriter
Member
ShowClix, who handles the passes, is located in Pittsburgh, not Seattle...
ShowClix does not handle the passes.
luckyboyceo
Member
I live in Seattle too and just recently received a shipping notification. I wouldn't stress it.
If you still don't have anything in a few weeks then I think it'd be time to email them, but for now I think you're good.
Nah; e-mailed them already. Marking something as shipped and not sending tracking for a $640 order isn't acceptable to me.
My friends who received shipping notices the day I checked and saw "Shipped" on my order received their passes 2 days ago. I have a serious mail theft issue in my hood so the lack of tracking number really irks me.
Not sure; doesn't really change the facts in my case. Seattle area friends got shipping notices, and their tickets already... I got my order marked "shipped" and nothing else for 4 days.\
edit: I have a feeling they simply marked it as shipped on ShowClix.com. That could have happened ages ago for all I know, I wasn't paying attention.
edit 2: Yup, got a response from them. They didn't specifically say it but it looks like they've marked ShowClix orders as shipped without actually shipping them. Not a huge deal, just a bit nerve racking.
luckyboyceo
Member
Glad to hear everything seems to have been worked out, Riotous.
Super stoked for PAX. We're only a month away now!
Super stoked for PAX. We're only a month away now!
That makes sense since the badges are produced by a third party. The "Shipped" box on their site is meant for tickets they print and mail off using their own system/ticket stock. Since PAX uses a third party to produce the badges the tagging of shipped probably means "we sent the list of orders to be badge manufacturer" or "the tickets have begun being couriered out".
I'm sure they just mail so many per day. Your turn will come.
luckyboyceo
Member
I got my tickets in the mail earlier this week, so hopefully anyone from Seattle-GAF that was concerned about not receiving their tickets got theirs as well.
On that note, I've got an extra ticket for Friday, Sunday, and Monday. If any of you guys want them, send me a PM, and I'll set them aside for you.
Just a few weeks away, ya'll!
On that note, I've got an extra ticket for Friday, Sunday, and Monday. If any of you guys want them, send me a PM, and I'll set them aside for you.
Just a few weeks away, ya'll!
It was its own app on android, I didn't find it via the guidebook app.
PAX has moved outside Guidebook to its own App (which is made from Guidebook... it's basically just a version of Guidebook that just has PAX).
It'll be the first hit if you search PAX.
EDIT: And yep, the iOS also has the schedule... although it's clearly not final. Hence the "people doing panel" at 10:30 a.m. in the main theater on Saturday, for instance.
Curious if there's some game announcement holding things up?
And they have the Omegathon finals on Sunday?
How much for Friday and Sunday?
https://guidebook.com/app/PAXPrime/
They just tweeted app now has schedule while they prep main site.
They just tweeted app now has schedule while they prep main site.
Sorry, tickets already sold.