RE: by WhoIsRiver

I did try that one, and someone is supposed to be callimg me back, but that was an hour ago. And as stupid as it may sound...I don't want to bother them!

:D

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:23 AM

Rob
if kittykat doesn't want tickets can i claim them

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:26 AM

LUIGITOO

Who was tempted to leave a message for the darlings on the answer phone. The height of frustration is NOT a one armed man, hanging off a cliff with an itchy butt, it is a browncoat deperately trying to get through to the Edinburgh Film Festival for a pair of tickets! Excuse me while I grab the whips and salt.............

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:26 AM

HEB

I know for sure that tickets are sill coming up from time to time.

I think it's worth still trying

...................
Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
.................
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:33 AM

MEVLOCK

Yes keep trying all day, heck for the rest of the week if you have to. As my experience shows(I ended up with 6 extra tickets!)the online booking system is causing a major headache and I'm guessing that a ton of people have ended up just re-entering their card details after getting blank pages or errors and have then been allocated more tickets than they need.

So I'm guessing many tickets will slowly be released back into the system as these over sales are sorted out.

So don't lose hope and keep trying and maybe I'll see ya all there next month.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:40 AM

The woman called back! I've got one for the 22nd! Now I just need to keep trying for the Reel Life thing, she was lovely and helpful but I didn't get chance to interrupt her flow and ask about that too. I know if I manage it I'll get charged an extra pound again, but I don't really mind too much.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:45 AM

HEB

Great news. Well done!

...................
Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood
.................
I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:55 AM

DIETCOKE

Just FYI, I was on the website and it's showing that tickets are still available for "Reel Life."

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

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Friday, July 15, 2005 4:59 AM

I'm keeping trying for that, but I'm getting errors when it's doing the availability check atm, before it even gets to whether its sold out or not!

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:00 AM

CLARRY

Finally managed to get a ticket for the Wednesday for Browncoat Katie on holiday in Russia at the moment. You do get an email response by the way.

Advert time.

Some of the London Browncoats will remember Katie from a shindig earlier in the year. She asked the Star Wars questions in the quiz. Well all you lucky people heading for Edinburgh should check out her latest play if you have time:

http://www.edfringe.com/shows/detail.php?action=shows&id=USEON

End of advert

Don't know how to post weblinks on this site.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:05 AM

I'm sure the woman on the phone spelt my email address completely wrong, but I'll survive! She said the tickets would be posted to me tomorrow.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:14 AM

KITTYKAT

That's really cool (although her Star Wars questions were hard!) I've been intending to go to the Fringe for a while but I can't afford to stay anywhere this year. I'll literally be going for Serenity, staying up all night and then getting the train back the next morning!

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:23 AM

CLARRY

Hope you're going along with someone if you're staying up all night. It'll be a bit safer, although at festival time I'm sure somewhere will be open.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:25 AM

SOUTHERNSLAYER

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:29 AM

I've booked mine assuming I can get time off work. My boss is *awesome* about this stuff - I only work there in the Uni holidays so she lets us just tell her what we can't do and she marks it down, because she wants to keep us onside.

But if there's a problem with it, you all will be the first to know I have a spare.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:41 AM

i just got through on the website
i think they must be going through sales that didn't complete
occassionally you get a message other than sold out - i think its still worth trying folks

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

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Friday, July 15, 2005 6:03 AM

I did it! I got a ticket for Reel Life!

*dies* Now I can actually relax.

So there you go - it's 5pm and it stopped showing sold out for ten seconds and I got in there - the system all worked really fast, too. So for anyone without tickets, I agree with the people who said keep trying - DO!!

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Friday, July 15, 2005 6:42 AM

Becsthebeast did you get tickets in the end or do you still want my spare 2 for the 24th?

Rob

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Friday, July 15, 2005 6:52 AM

I kept trying by phone but to no avail - if someone has a ticket or 2 for monday can they please let me know, thanks *Whimper*

Darin (Zol.)

p.s. just had the worst drive down to Torquay and back for a company meeting that wasn`t worth attending

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Friday, July 15, 2005 6:53 AM

ROB,

sorry for not getting back to you - i had to do some work!!!

i did get tickets thanks

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:00 AM

I think there was an advance clue in the fact that it was being held in Torquay.

The dreadful state of the phones was bad enough. But the abysmal web setup was really too much. Even someone with a rudimentary knowledge of site creation would have setup proper balancing between the front end and the back end to ensure that the mass dropping of baskets didn't occur. We're not talking a £5m solution here, just a day sorting out proper setup.

Perhaps if the designers had spent a little less time thinking of amusing quotes to put on the pages and more time doing their job, we'd all have been finished a couple of hours earlier.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:03 AM

Cool, glad you got tickets.

Okay, once more... anyone who didn't get a ticket, who wants two for the 24th?

Rob

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:04 AM

yup those quotes weren't quite so amusing the fiftieth time round!

'forgive my rudeness. i cannot abide useless people'

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Clarry:
Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
I'll pass as I saw the rough cut and I shouldn't hog.

Can I say this is very noble and very Browncoat behaviour.

Well, actually it originally read "Right, I'm the first person to reply to this message so that means by divine law I am entitled to these tickets for the screening of Serenity on the Monday that have been offered on this website." Sadly someone posted before me so I just edited my post to make me look better. Damn my loquaciousness.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:40 AM

ANASTAZIUS

Robsthell - I'd be VERY interested in two tickets!

I tried to get on the website at midnight to book tickets ahead of the rush but the database was down or something, then I tried quite a few times during the day but it was constatntly engaged..

You can e-mail me at anastazius@hotmail.com or just reply here or whatever.

:)

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:44 AM

DIETCOKE

So is Endinburgh Film Festival the second oldest film festival. I notice that Venice is about to have their 62nd annual festival.

NY/NJ Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

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Friday, July 15, 2005 7:53 AM

SOUTHERNSLAYER

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:00 AM

NIKNAK

I tried at lunch time but failed. Now it's sold out. I didn't keep trying for ages because it reminded me of two years ago when I tried for nearly 24 hours to get glastonbury tickets and failed.

I doubt Edinburgh has ever had a film that is so eagerly anticipated before. It's pretty rare for non-sequel to have so many fans before its release.

The problem is that online shopping is pretty demanding on web servers, requiring database transactions and encryption. They could have big expensive distributed system running on multiple servers around the world - like google or windows update. But that is very very expensive - especially if you just need it for one day!

What they should do for things like this is scrap the shopping basket and compress the whole process to one big form and one stage. That would reduce the load on the server and would eliminate the frustration of struggling to get through several steps only for it to fail at the final hurdle.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:05 AM

NIKNAK

Forgot to say: I would like a spare ticket. Send me a message if I'm not too late.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:06 AM

It's a fairly simple process to allocate bandwidth space to different parts of a website. They just didn't do it.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:09 AM

Aaaaand they're gone! The lucky person knows who they are!

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:32 AM

ANASTAZIUS

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's not meee!

:(

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:35 AM

Sorry dude!

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Friday, July 15, 2005 8:43 AM

ANASTAZIUS

Oh well... guess I'll have to wait till October 7th like everyone else.

Unless someone else has a spare ticket or two? I don't mind paying a bit extra - you don't realise how obsessed I am about 'Firefly'

:)

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Friday, July 15, 2005 9:02 AM

I`ve started a thread for tickets, maybe everybody can use that in asking and maybe some will be lucky? I`m keeping my eyes peeled but not neccesarily hopeing for too much.

I have accomodation booked on the 22nd within 10mins walk of the cinema - but that will need to be canceled unless I strike it lucky.

Darin (Zol.)

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Friday, July 15, 2005 9:03 AM

Some good news, guys!!

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/articles/detail/16

After the extraordinary demand for the World Premiere and debut feature from director (and Buffy creator) Joss Whedon?s new film Serenity, Edinburgh International Film Festival and distributor UIP reacted immediately today by arranging two more screenings.

Keen not to disappoint the fans EIFF Artistic Director Shane Danielsen said: “When we get such a clear signal from the fans that they’re so passionate about a particular film, we’re more than happy, wherever we can, to make additional screenings possible.”

The first new screening will be a matinee on Wednesday 23rd August . The second screening will be part of the Festival’s Best of the Fest line-up on Sunday 28th August. Tickets for the first new screening will not be available until Mon18th July and tickets for the Best of the Fest screening will not be available until Mon 22 August.

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Friday, July 15, 2005 9:16 AM

Cheers!

That could be my last best hope - it`s been posted on browncoats board too, so word will spread quickly.

Darin (Zol.)

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Friday, July 15, 2005 9:21 AM

I've got mine sorted, so I'm torn between a "more the merrier" approach in which I try to get a couple of tickets for those who don't manage it themselves, because the more people trying the more chance there'll be, and a "stay WELL away and have less people on the system" approach.

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Saturday, July 16, 2005 12:32 AM

CLARRY

"The second screening will be part of the Festival’s Best of the Fest
line-up on Sunday 28th August."

Thats the bit I like - in the Best of the Fest line-up without being shown yet.

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Saturday, July 16, 2005 4:49 AM

MATB

Quote:
Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
[url] http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/movies/show/serenity/ [/url]

Edit: You may need to goto "find films" and enter "Serenity" to see it - Fireflyfans.net forum software is messing up the link above.

That's cos the forum software is crap I've just tried everything I know to fix the url and it won't display the link properly..

For anyone clickig it, when you get the 'film not found' link on the site it goes to, add the end '/ manually and hit return, it'll get you to the film. Crappy forum software.

Thanks muchly for the link; I feel a trip north o' the border coming on.

MatB

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Saturday, July 16, 2005 11:10 AM

KITTYKAT

Quote:
Originally posted by Clarry:
Hope you're going along with someone if you're staying up all night. It'll be a bit safer, although at festival time I'm sure somewhere will be open.

There'll be four of us, so it all should be funky dory. Thanks for your concern though

Pretty darn cool to get those two extra screenings but I have to admit, I'm glad I don't have to go through the same ordeal of struggling for tickets again!

Pretties! http://funkydory.net/firefly.htm

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Sunday, July 17, 2005 1:41 AM

IAMZOE

Just thought I'd add a note that Serenity made the national newspaper today - the Scotland on Sunday. Just a little article about all the problems with the phones and websites, saying it was unprecedented, mentioning the two extra screenings that were going on, and then the synopsis of the film copied out of the festival brochure. Mentioned Buffy too.

Many thanks to the person who posted that different phone number - that's the one that helped me get some tickets - though I didn't get enough for everyone in our party, which is quite upsetting. I'm holding out hope.

I've just about forgiven my little sister too: she was working at midday, took a break about 12:15, called once, got straight through, and got 3 tickets for the Monday premiere. Then she innocently called me and asked if I had my tickets yet. We're speculating that maybe it was quicker to get through if you called from an Edinburgh phone number?? She redeemed herself by obtaining two more tickets for me - not sure what she did to get a hotline to the damn place though... So frustrating... The two Australians who seemed to be the only ones manning the phone line were lovely when I did get through though - even called me back to confirm the purchase.

But I am still holding on the celebrations till I have the tickets in my hand...

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Sunday, July 17, 2005 3:47 AM

MERRIEB

Man! I just got home from Scotland 2 days ago. *crying in my pillow* Wonder what the odds are that I could afford another plane ticket? I'll be having a sharp word with my best friend for not planning her wedding around this event...

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Monday, July 18, 2005 3:28 AM

JOESWEDEN

Now on the Edinburgh FilmFestival site:

"Due to unprecedented demand, the additional Wednesday 24th August screening of Serenity has now sold out.

But all is not lost Serenity fans- tickets for the Best of Fest screening on Sunday 28th August go on sale from noon on Monday 22nd August. "

Congrats to all who got tickets! Hope you have a great experience!

Summer Glau. the most beautiful and lovely woman I have ever met!

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Monday, July 18, 2005 6:44 AM

Unfortunetely I wouldn`t be able to make the 28th - so 22nd-214th was my only options.

My offer of a signed DVD box set still stands for a ticket (including payment of ticket too) for the 22nd

Cheers!

Darin (Zol.)

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Monday, July 18, 2005 7:00 AM

LITTC19

Quote:
Originally posted by Zol:
Unfortunetely I wouldn`t be able to make the 28th - so 22nd-214th was my only options.

My offer of a signed DVD box set still stands for a ticket (including payment of ticket too) for the 22nd

Cheers!

Darin (Zol.)

Sent you a message, get back to me:)

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Monday, July 18, 2005 2:45 PM