Think: Ticketron and Lady Gaga or Rolling Stones.
Tomorrow, beginning moments before 9:00 a.m., everyone we know will be hitting re-dial from all their phones trying to get through to the computers that will be taking ticket orders. All of the available tickets for both Sunday and Monday’s big event (March 6th and 7th) will sell out in less than 10 minutes.
It’s always a frantic 10 minutes. Busy, re-dial. Busy, re-dial. Busy, redial.
Each sector has its own phone number. If the computer picks up here's how it goes (something to this effect): "You have reached the ticket agency for Rio Carnaval 2011. Listen carefully. Have a paper and pencil handy, as well as your CPF number. You may reserve up to four tickets for Sunday, March 6th. Please enter the number of tickets you wish to reserve, or press zero if you do not want any tickets for Sunday's event. Please wait... You my reserve up to 4 tickets for Monday, March 7th. Please enter... Please wait. Your order is confirmed... Your reservation number is... To pick up your tickets you must go to the Bradesco Bank office in Centro Rio on January 13 or 14 in Centro Rio... (and pay for them). If you do not show up, your tickets will be made available to others who wish to purchace them."
While we all try to get tickets to attend, LOTS of people are trying to get tickets because they can be sold INSTANTLY upon exiting the Bradesco office where the ticktes are purchased for up to twice their value.
It’s always a crazy morning. I’ll let you know how it works out.
UPDATE!!! Luiz is a super lucky man! We used our home phone and his cell phone to try and connect. (My cell - I forgot to re-activate my chip for January so it was a dud.) Luiz got through once and used his CPF to get 4 tickets for both Sunday and Monday, then he got through again and used my CPF to get 4 tickets for Sunday -- by that time all tickets for Monday were sold out.
Of the six other friends who were dialing for tickets this morning 3 of them got tickets as well! So it looks like our entire group will be going. *happy dance*
UPDATE!!! Luiz is a super lucky man! We used our home phone and his cell phone to try and connect. (My cell - I forgot to re-activate my chip for January so it was a dud.) Luiz got through once and used his CPF to get 4 tickets for both Sunday and Monday, then he got through again and used my CPF to get 4 tickets for Sunday -- by that time all tickets for Monday were sold out.
Of the six other friends who were dialing for tickets this morning 3 of them got tickets as well! So it looks like our entire group will be going. *happy dance*
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Woo Hoo! Great Update!! I'm leaving all my eggs in one basket and hoping that my friend who's husband scores us some. It happens sometimes so fingers crossed...
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