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Stadium of Fire sells out in minutes

I was so lucky to get tickets! I can't wait for this event! I am a local Provo guy and have grown up with the Stadium of Fire! I am so excited! Woot! Go America's Freedom Festival!

what a bunch of losers turning around and selling the tickets on e-bay. some people seriously need to get a life.

What this article fails to point out is that big donors, BYU faculty/family, and others well connected were given thousands of tickets before the "official sales" even began on Friday evening.

I know someone got tickets on Thursday because their cousin works at BYU, another because his aunt is a big time contributor to BYU. So this article wants the reader to think that everyone started on the same footing when it states, "Brigham Young University ticket sales sold its first ticket at 5 p.m." WRONG.

It would be an interesting article if you surveyed the BYU faculty/officials about how many tickets they were able to purchase before "official sales" began on Friday evening. I think the general public would be disappointed.

you sound like you are a guy from utah county

How many of those tickets will end up on Craigslist or in the newspaper for those looking to make a buck? July 4th makes for an interesting situation-Stadium of Fire and the True Colors Tour at Usana Ampitheatre. The True Colors tour will be more fun than listening to the tweens screaming and watching parents go broke buying their girls overpriced junk.

Miley Cyrus and Glenn Beck! Ah, Provo, can't you just feel your IQ dropping?

25 tickets a pop.....sounds like Scalpers had a field day. What a "Joke" the City and the Stadium of Fire have become........the city and the Stadium of Fire organizers are really promoting the right set of values........so when can I expect the first Casino to pop up in North Provo..........All those trips to watch BYU play Football and Basketball in Las Vegas seem to really be paying off for the city commissioners. It also looks like it's now a complete takeover by the California Mentality crowd of "he who has has the most bucks get all the bennies." Grinch in the city of Greed

I hope this is not allowed to happen again next year. Tickets should be limited to ten per buyer. The current method encourages scalping. In most other places, you can only get six to eight tickers, but with family sizes - ten is a more realistic number for BYU.

As mush as people want to go to the show, I hope they refuse to reward the scalpers for this greedy behaviour.

I think that the wrist band thing is not a good Idea, because the people that have numbers up in the 600-900 do not even have a chance to get tickets, It is alot faster if you buy them online I know that they still have some left, just go to www.byu.edu see if their are any left,

I was there in line and I also was two people away from getting tickets. I feel like getting a wrist band was of no advantage because they sold the tickets on line at the same time. There should have been a head start for tickets sales with wrist bands.

We think we might have tickets, but if not, we are going to be spending most of our time at Colonial Days in downtown Provo. Last year we didn't even watch the fireworks, but spent the time learning about the colonial life and what our forefathers did to settle this great country.

Much more fun that fighting the crowds and the smoke, and it's free to the public.

Nice of BYU to encourge scalping by allowing people to buy 25 tickets at a time.

Whose coming from Montana?

Will there be overflow seating at the conference Center? The Marriatt Center? The HFAC DeJong?

I think that it was great that some could afford to get up to 25 tickets but I also feel that they should have limited tickets to ten per person with those having the wristbands being the first in line. Since I don't like crowds this is not something that I would even attend. If I have a daughter or grandchild who wanted to go I would have gotten a ticket for her and one or both parents.Those who bought the tickets just to sell on Ebay for more then what you bought them for - shame on you. That is being greedy and dishonest.

The 25 ticket limit was a gift to E-bayers, many of which will make obscene money from pre-teens who want to see their star. So, like a bunch of other hopeful parents, I sat on the computer for over an hour before learning no tickets were available--only to find out they actually sold in 10 minutes. As for the comment that the sellout couldn't be predicted they would have just had to look at recent history. How can someone be so dumb about their own business? I am extremely disappointed at the Stadium of Fire folks who made it impossible for regular people to get a ticket by allowing people to buy 25 to sell on E-bay. Talk about creating some ill-will. No more Stadium of Fire for me.

I'm dissapointed they let everyone get twenty five tickets. I got online at 3 pm for the sale at 5 pm. Just as I was about to get tickets both of my computers crashed.(Due to BYU)
If feel sorry for the many dissapointed children out there. most of which cannot afford a scalped ticket.
I hope those that horded the tickets, feel bad, but I don't think they will.

So... Hannah Montana is more important and beloved than remembering our freedom? Tsk Tsk what is this country coming to?

To Alumnus: BYU employees did NOT get early access to tickets, we had to wait like everyone else. I wasn't able to get any. I'm sure big donors will get tickets, but they give millions of dollars to the university. I think we can give them a $35 ticket in exchange for their generosity.

stadium of flamers. If you cant get a ticket to this you should buy your kids tickets for the vans warped tour, its a fraction of the cost and you get a massive amount of artist (like 50 bands). And Sprint has a "Daddy and Mommy Daycare" so parents can sit in an air conditioned tent on a lay z boy and watch a movie while the kids play.

Hmm, there is no mention of the online ticket sales failure here. BYU was ill prepared for the demand for tickets online as well. The web site processing the orders was very slow and I had a confirmed hold for only 5 tickets (no scalping planned here).

I went through the complete process, entering valid address and payment information. Each screen along the process kept telling me I was purchasing the same 5 tickets I started with. When clicked on the button on final page to commit my life savings of $200 for the 5 tickets, the next screen simply read "Unable to confirm order, try again?" Of course by this time, all tickets were sold out.

I noticed there was a count down timer during the complete online process that started at about 5 minutes. The last time it was displayed it said 27 seconds were remaining. Did I run out of time?

I'm still waiting to find out what happened to my order. Did they charge my credit card or not? If not, what happened to the tickets they were holding for me?