My morning:
Arrived at Blacktown Myer at 7:30 and am first in line. Next person arrived at 8:40. Much annoyance.
Queued outside the car park entrance to Myer. Typically, security opens that door at five to nine so that Ticketek people can be at the counter at 9:00am when it all kicks off.
Security forgets to open the door, so a shopwoman does it. At the same time they open the roller doors. The second guy in my line sprinted to the ticketek counter, getting in a footrace with those at the front doors. When he arrived first, he had me go in front of him to the front of the line.
The women at Ticketek look blankly at us. "Oh, is something going on sale today?" they ask, as they switch on their computers. We nod yes.
With their computer finally on they ask who I am buying tickets from, I tell her and she says "How do you spell that? C-A-R..." "No no no, K-A-N-Y-E West". She types it into the computer (by this stage it is 9:10) and tells us it's sold out, and then chastises us for coming to Ticketek and not going to the Opera House directly (meanwhile I chastised myself for going to Blacktown and not Castle Hill, the other option I considered).
She then told us about the other concert (after some people had already walked away, pissed off) and then got us to stand there, in line, for the next twenty minutes, thus ignoring the half dozen people or so who came along for other concerts (one of whom by coincidence happened to be a schoolfriend of mine, so I had a pleasant conversation while waiting around in my boredom).
Finally, I got the ticket (though am annoyed about unreserved seating, given the lengths I went to getting there so fucking early).
Ah well, at least I saved $6.