“A large number of Apple Computer’s iTunes customers, who paid in advance for rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album ‘Stadium Arcadium’ in order to receive a Ticketmaster code that would allow them to purchase advance tickets for the bands upcoming tour, did not receive those codes before ticket pre-sales began on Tuesday and are now enraged with the iPod maker,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
Marsal reports, “Apple has made no official comment on the issue, though several customers who contacted the company’s various telephone hotlines were informed ‘Apple is aware of the problem’ and that it is ‘working to get the emails [with the codes] out as soon as possible.'”
Marsal has all the sordid details here.
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Apple can do no wrong, it is the idiot Apple consumer that is always at fault. Always.
Oops. Please put down your torch and pitchfork and slowly back away from the computer.
First?
Pre sales are a dodgy thing, often very few good tickets are released anyways, U2 had a big screw up with this last year with their tour as well (not u2 ipod related). ticket broker seem to get all the great seats anyways, now with presales just sooner…..
Wow. Apple beats the %#$)(&@! out of the Beatles and the stock moves not an inch.
Now they f$*k up at something so basic and the stock drops more than a dollar.
Good show, Apple. Good show.
You can bet that this is the LAST time that Jobs will ever sanction this kind of promotion. If he even ever knew about it.
And if he didn’t, then I imagine someone’s head has already rolled.
Ohhhhhh, Apple . . . (2 … 3 … 4 …)]/i]
“. . . Cause you had a bad day
You’re taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don’t know
You tell me don’t lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don’t lie
You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day”
Ouch. This isn’t gonna be pretty.
“”A large number of Apple Computer’s iTunes customers, who paid in advance for rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers’ new album ‘Stadium Arcadium’ in order to receive a Ticketmaster code that would allow them to purchase advance tickets for the bands upcoming tour”
How many was that? 20?
but I’m sure people will get their money back. It’s only been a few hours. Apple screwed up but they might just fix it as they usually do.
Why the hostility, Macfanboy? Get another virus on your Dell today?
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Yeah, right. The stocks fluctuated based on a Chili Peppers promotion.
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I got my code and my tickets. No problems here.
Why would I want to pay 10 bucks to listen to inane music much less to get concert tickets to listen to inane music live.
“Now they f$*k up at something so basic and the stock drops more than a dollar.”
Stock doesn’t drop over stuff like this. Trust me the drop in the stock is just a regular daily occurence. If you are juding Apple’s stock price based on these kinds of stories, I’d suggest taking a course on investing.
Who cares? It’s RHCP, folks…
Gil
maybe you’re unaware, but people are different and have different tastes than you…
The 115 remaining fans of this irrelevant band have the email filtered into their spam box because they can’t use their email program properly, and now the rest of us have to suffer through the tempest on the internets that is sure to ensue.
I love people now putting their mypsace address – The home of Generation Dumb. I won’t touch myspace with a ten foot pole but, I’d guess Brenton is one of the people who think people a) care about his most current random thought (based on his enlightening comments here) and b) want his music oozing into their already playing itunes music.
Myspace is like having to watch all of your friends home videos. Possibly worse, now I know how dumb many of them are with their dark blue lettering on black backgrounds, and the asinine comments they leave to other people.
Hey I should get a myspace page. I think people care about my most current random thoughts too.
I usually don’t write the MDN Magicword but “Children” how do they make it work so well.
Yep – only Apple fans will turn on a band when Apple fucks up a promotion. It’s no wonder Apple fans are considered jackasses of the computing world that think Apple can do no wrong.
Man some people are ignorant. It’s not about the band it’s about the service and the promotion. OK, if you don’t like RHCP fine, replace it with whatever thing you’re into and perhaps you’ll have a different view.
iTMS promised “x” to the customer if they bought “y”. Custmoers who bought “y” have not been given what they were promised. It’s not 10 or 20 customers it sounding more like thousands.
The problem is not because of spam filtering or the band being lame or how it affects Apple’s stock price. It’s about quality and service which is what Apple’s all about. I hope they can figure it out.
Ticketmaster f*ed up the promotion. Apple will end up having to fix it, though.
Are the Chili Pepper still relevant? Or is it still the mid 90s?
Actually I have a MySpace because its an absolutely hilarious “community.” I never blog or anything on there, I certainly don’t care how many comments/friends I have, and I’m certainly not in any position to use it as a dating service. It just happens to be something I’ve had for a while and its acutally a great way to stay in contact with friends .
If you actually read my profile “hmm” there isn’t really any concrete information about me and my “current random thoughts” are nowhere to be found.
:shrug:
Chill out. It’s not like its for Tool tix.
Apple screws up big time, MDN idiots defend Apple. Nothing new here.