More insight into the ticket purchasing process for Sundance

 Think of the most f'd up process you can imagine when making an online purchse.  Now double that and you've got the Sundance ticket ordering process.

I too received my confirmation that I do in fact have a ticket package, which also includes credentials, and makes me a passhole.

One thing that's particularly interesting is the fact that you have to get confirmed for something you purchase.  Would you go to say, Amazon.com, and look at a selection of books, find one you want (or the second one that you want since the most popular one is sold out 5 minutes before you got there) and go through the shipping/credit card purchasing process only to find out you needed them to say "oh yes, I guess we can sell you this book". If I spend $350, shouldn't that mean I will definitely be getting what I'm spending my money on?

"Well maybe they need to check their inventory and make sure they actually have those packages"

Well, shouldn't the database on the site (assuming there is a DB) have the real-life amount of packages there, so as soon as someone purchases one, it reduces the available by 1?

I know I know, we keep harping on the Sundance ticket purchasing process.  If you think this is bad, wait until we're in mid-December before we even get to SEE what films we may or may not be able to see... and when all of the tickets for the days we are there are sold out before we even login. :)

I wonder if Skinde remembered to click the generate RSS/XML link when he posted.... On lookithat!  He did!  Oh Skinde!