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WWDC Tickets on sale

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A few seconds after 10:00am, when I had a link to buy the ticket, I got an error page that told me to restart my browser. When I did, I got the maintenance page. When I tried again a second later, it said they were sold out.

Crazy. They should go to a lottery system.

I agree about the lottery system idea. Blizzard has exactly the same problem with BlizzCon tickets every year. I wonder if they don't use a lottery because of some random jurisdiction's gambling laws.

I, too, had to restart my browser. I only couldn't buy because they didn't accept my credit card - which the Apple Store has otherwise always happily accepted :(

Got the error page too.

... though I immediately received a 500 ("We are unable to process your request") after attempting to purchase, then saw "Sorry, WWDC Tickets are Sold Out" at 10:02am Pacific.

Maybe they're still bouncing servers..

That's what I got. I was ready right at 10am, couldn't log in, then sold out. Someone I know managed to get the ticket into his cart, but when he went to check out, it was gone.

It couldn't have been more than 60s, maybe 90s tops.

Same story here. I had a ticket in my cart, all the billing/shipping info filled out, then it was gone when I actually hit the "Purchase" button. I got kicked back out to the Store page.

Here's my theory -- I bet Apple prioritized accounts based on App Store/sales activity. So if your account has been active for a while, but you haven't put anything in the App Store what's the point in coming? (from Apple's point of view; you can get the videos online).

EDIT: I heard there was a pre-sale yesterday for the "blessed" companies (you may have noticed that the developer centers were down for a bit yesterday as they were again today). So there were probably not that many tickets actually available today.

I got through the entire ordering process. No confirmation email yet but I think i've made it. Hit the front page again immediately after ordering and got the sold out message.. ouch.

Now I just need to convince my workplace to pay for it/airfairs/accomodation lol

Sold out :( While I was trying to buy the ticket, the stupid store gave me a "Could not verify your credit card" message, so I couldn't buy. :(

Looks like they sold out in ~2 minutes :(

I don't believe it, but maybe I'm in denial.

I'm now seeing this page: https://devimages.apple.com.edgekey.net/maintenance/

Well, did anyone get a ticket ?

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