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It didn’t take long for tickets to Thursday’s Blackhawks rally to start appearing for sale on sites like craigslist.
The event, a celebration being held in Soldier Field and requiring tickets obtained for free through Ticketmaster, sold out in minutes. Numerous complaints on social media pointed out freezes and delays.
TO THE PENALTY BOX Blackhawks fans have killed Ticketmaster
There are only about 60,000 seats available for an event that has brought millions into Chicago streets in 2010 and 2013.
A pack of four of the free tickets was being offered for $100 on craigslist, a price that seemed to be the median of the packages being offered so far.
The prices on tickets varied widely – as did the promised delivery times.
I knew this was coming. It's sad that some people are taking advantage of a FREE event for @nhlblackhawks fans. pic.twitter.com/4yvLviPBeJ
— Courtney Gousman (@cgousman) June 17, 2015
Some of the reactions/rants on Twitter:
@Suntimes pic.twitter.com/xMioG36PZb
— FoleyDub (@FoleyDub) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes Yes. Ticketmaster is killing me. It's been saying my wait time is 1 min, for the last 30 minutes. And I just heard they sold out?
— Stephanie Warsen (@AlottaSteph) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes @samjcharles Yessss. It keeps taunting me with an approx 2 min wait time, only to say
— Stephanie Warsen (@AlottaSteph) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes Wonder how many rally tics actually went to real fans...How many went to corp, city insiders, etc.
— Sher (@outlawbooster) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes I took my lunch early to get the tix and I ended up with nothing! Site crashed on me. I was shutout. Very disappointed
— Edgar Olvera (@Readyeddy1923) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes yes this was a horrible idea to let a select amt of fans see rally
— Mike Gunther (@mgunther17) June 17, 2015
I've been on this damn website since 11:13 how is nothing loading @Ticketmaster @BarackObama @Suntimes @NHLBlackhawks
— elena (@Elenaa_Reyes) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes my screens have been like this since noon pic.twitter.com/L4epfHUs42
— Brian Eberly (@beberly18) June 17, 2015
@Suntimes I really think this was a bad idea. What did they think was going to happen?
— tired. (@tired_exlibris) June 17, 2015
