My wife and her friend were intending to go and see a singer perform. This singer is now pretty old and is a singer of showa-period type songs, so you'd imagine a certain target demographic. The venue is apparently comparatively small.
Anyway, apparently the tickets started to go on sale at 10:00 AM today, and by the time my wife got online and navigated the site – poof. All gone. Ten, twelve minutes tops.
This seems to be a very Japanese thing, although having not bought tickets online in any other country for a long time, I don't have much in the way of a point of reference or comparison. (I do remember hearing that, when Kraftwerk announced a show in London, the venue thought they'd be clever and handle the ticket sales themselves rather than leave it to the experts, and as a result their website crashed one minute after launch. But that was incompetence, rather than demand).
Much like the ridiculous queues for a new donut shop / restaurant / whatever else NHK tells them to go queue up for, I can just see an entire army of people, their fingers hovering over the "book / buy" button, having been up all night waiting for the site to go live. The Japanese version of the Germans and deckchairs stereotype, as it were.
Who else has seen this phenomenon, and have you lost out on tickets as a result?
by Tasty_Comfortable_77