The Stages of an Adele Pre-Sale Ticket Queuer

This morning, presale tickets for Adele's 2016 North American concert went on sale. At 10am sharp in the local time zone, thousand of hopefuls (like myself) crossed their fingers for some British luck.

As soon as the tour was announced, people began to freak out to get tickets. I was watching the twitter world and realized that everyone (and yes, their moms) wanted a piece of the Adele pie.

Can you blame them? Did you see the Adele special on NBC this week? Hello, Talent.

I signed up on adele.com for more info (little did I know that also included the potential for early access tickets. Bright and early, Twitter was abuzz with people who did or did not get a presale code.

Luckily, I was one who did. 

After a little bit of convo (and no hesitation on either of our parts) Friend S and I decided to get tickets to one of her Bay Area concerts, as she'll be in town for three.

Californians are SO lucky. And Spoiled. 

So this morning, I mentally prepared myself for ticket queue battle (hunger games style) and logged on. Being on the west coast, you get used to being a bit behind in the times, however, it often works in our favor. I could see, via the tweets heard round the country, how insane the queues were for people on the east. It didn't seem like that many were getting tickets, but I wasn't going to let that get me down.

(this totally reminds me of last week, when I was waiting to hear about the lottery for the NYC half) 

People suggested starting to refresh at 9:58 because tickets seemed to open up at 9:59.

So that's what I did. I clicked and I clicked until the little button said "BUY TICKETS" 

I realized that there are a number of emotions that go through one's head while waiting in an invisible line. 

A) The hope of getting tickets.

B) The dread of seeing the queue line. 

C) The sadness you feel as time passes. 

D) The surprise when you actually get through. 

E) The immense joy and satisfaction when you finally have those golden tickets in your (virtual) hands.

I was pretty lucky, I got onto the Buy Me! page in about 10 minutes. Not to long of a wait, and those suckers were mine. It was as easy as that! 

I will say this, I really appreciate how Adele's website and Song Kick did the ticket handling. I know people were a bit frustrated trying to get in and figure out the queue, however they are forcing people who bought their pre-sale tickets to pick up via will call. That's amazing. Scalpers take so much money from people who missed out on these tickets because they buy in bulk and buy out fast. It is one of the worst things about concert going and it's always unfair. So, thank you Adele and Song Kick for trying to keep that at bay and giving real Adele fans a fair chance for seats.

I have no idea if the seats are even that good, I've never been to the SAP in San Jose, but I have them and in a few months, I will be in the same room as Adele. And her voice.

Merry Christmas to me!

And FYI: This totally makes up for my bike getting stolen yesterday. (Bike? What Bike? I'm going to see Adele). 

I am so excited for July! 2016 is really shaping up to be an amazing year!!