45 Minutes Of My Life I Want Back

As a nice welcome back to autographing, the Baltimore Orioles wasted my time for 45 minutes today.  Autograph Vouchers went on sale for the Orioles February 1, 2014 Fanfest.  And exactly like last year the site sucks ass.  Again, glitch after glitch and volume issues caused myself, and I am sure others to be shut out from buying autographs. 

Here is this years lineup.

11:20 a.m.-12:20 p.m.	Mike Bordick Bill Hunter Matt Wieters	Zach Britton Kevin Gausman Steve Johnson Calvin Maduro	Dylan Bundy David Lough Ryan Webb	Steve Clevenger Chris Davis Liam Hendriks
12:40-1:40 p.m.	Al Bumbry Nolan Reimold John Russell Chris Tillman	Ryan Flaherty Adam Jones Steve Pearce	Nick Markakis Jonathan Schoop Josh Stinson	Tommy Hunter Darren O'Day Henry Urrutia
2:00-3:00 p.m.	Kevin Gausman TJ McFarland Buck Showalter	JJ Hardy Chris Jones David Lough	Miguel Gonzalez Jim Palmer David Wallace Ryan Webb	Tim Berry Steve Clevenger Manny Machado Joe Orsulak
3:20-4:20 p.m.	Chris Davis Steve Johnson Johnny Monell	Dylan Bundy Darren O'Day Troy Patton Jemile Weeks	Tommy Hunter Brian Matusz Chris Tillman	Adam Jones Wayne Kirby Josh Stinson
4:40-5:40 p.m.	TJ McFarland Michael Ohlman Jim Palmer Nate Snell	Mike Belfiore Manny Machado Jonathan Schoop Larry Sheets	Larry Bigbie Kelvin De La Cruz Henry Urrutia Matt Wieters	Brad Brach Ken Dixon Miguel Gonzalez JJ Hardy

5000 tickets sold out in 45 minutes and the Orioles were again ill-equipped to handle the volume this process demands.  Buy a ticket for $20 (up from last year) and you get 3-4 autographs.  A great deal when it can be found.  But it could not.  For the first 30 minutes an error message popped up saying volume was too high.  When that finally disappeared half the stations were sold out and a new error message appeared, "request could not be processed".  Then at 10:45am, done. 

I was left with zero vouchers and a bitter taste in my mouth.  The last three years have had the same issues and the team doesn't seem to care, cause they sold out.  I get it, I am in business, money is money.  But service should count for something.  I thought with an increase in price that was the idea this year.  Nope.

Just for shits and giggles I looked at season tickets and was greeted with another error message.  I am done.

So I am now relegated to grovelling, trading, buying from eBay and hounding during the day.

I need some help, a lot of help. 

Mike Belfiore (Postcard)

Tim Berry (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Brad Brach (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Steve Clevenger (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Kelvin De La Cruz (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Liam Hendriks (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Bill Hunter (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Chris Jones (Anything, prefer Postcard) 

David Lough (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Johnny Monell     (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Michael Ohlman(Anything, prefer Postcard)

Steve Pearce (Postcard)

Josh Stinson (Postcard)

Henry Urrutia (Anything, prefer Postcard)

David Wallace (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Ryan Webb (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Jemile Weeks (Anything, prefer Postcard)

Can anyone help, either trade/consignment/anything?  I would even be willing to help in line if anyone has multiple vouchers. I am desperate. 

#OriolesFail