Parade Tickets Sell Out in Minutes

5,000 tickets for the bleacher seats for the inaugural parade went onsale at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today and, according to reports, sold out within minutes. Or less than a minute. Here are some of the comments on our blog from those who tried to get tickets:

I just tried to get a parade ticket and it said no tickets found. Posted by: wendykroy1 | January 9, 2009 1:09 PM |

yeah and ticketmaster was sold out of parade tickets literally one minute after the on sale time. ticketmaster is lousy-there's always the ones who get to the 'front of the line' when it comes to this stuff, then resell them on ticketmaster's ticketnow.com site for astronomical prices. Posted by: kasalexis | January 9, 2009 1:12 PM |

No luck on the parade tickets. Posted by: wp11234 | January 9, 2009 1:14 PM |

I got on the ticketmaster site at 12:30...kept refreshing until 1pm...I had placed my order for 4 tickets and typed in the two secret words within 20 seconds...no luck...all sold out...what a joke. Posted by: rparker543 | January 9, 2009 1:28 PM |

I agree. Ten minutes after parade tix went on sale there were people selling them on craiglist for hundreds of dollars. It would have been nice for the PIC to figure out a way give people tickets who actually wanted to use them, and not try to make a buck. source>>>

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