Screw Ticketmaster!
If you just got back from being stranded on an island holding on to that Fed Ex package, you might want to know that da Bears made it to NFC Championship to face New Orleans Saints. Obviously, a guy living in Chicago, I try to get tickets on Ticketmaster to go freeze my ass off at the game.
It’s 10 am and I am ready to click baby!
I got IE and Opera open, one for 4 tickets one for 2 tickets, select any price and any available seat, everything is smooth, the site isn’t slow, I’m in business.
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Next step is CAPTCHA. No problem, I am human after all, I can read, right? WRONG!!!!!
The letters and numbers on Ticketmaster are so garbled up and unclear that I get two wrong entries. Call me Paul the Bot! The guy that can’t read! This sets me back by at least 10-15 seconds, a lifetime when you are competing with millions other buyers.
Of course I didn’t get the tickets and I blame Ticketmaster for all of this. Is it really that necessary to have your CAPTCHA so unreadable that even human makes mistakes? I also checked with some of my buddies if I’m just inept to make purchases online, and they all expressed their frustration with the site.
Here are some samples of their “securityâ€; you tell me what you think. (Remember: you are reading them as fast as you can so you can get on with the purchase)
  
Now here is a sample from Digg.com, just to make a comparison.
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