Can Anyone Solve This Ticketmaster Riddle?

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on August 9, 2007 - 3:14am.

I am a passionate hater of Ticketmaster.com.  Paying a surcharge to a site whose main purpose is to make it difficult for me to complete an online transaction seems wrong on every level.  Imagine you were forced to make every travel booking for any hotel you ever wanted to stay at through Expedia.com.  That's the equivalent of the monopoly Ticketmaster has, and it's amazing in our world of increasing choice online that an old world monopoly like theirs has managed to last this long.  Here's my latest frustration:

Imb_ticketmasterriddle

If you can tell me what this CAPTCHA actually says, I'll give you a million dollars.  Just post your best guess, along with your swiss bank account number so I can wire you the money if you're right ...

Rohit Bhargava

This piece was originally published on Rohit's blog, Influential Marketing, and is posted on DMW with the author's permission. Rohit's bio can be viewed here.




Comments

Translation

burnt.... You gotta believe there's an easier way to keep spammers at bay. n

Agreed.

I fully agree. Ticketmaster's reign of tyranny has gone on far too long. As for the CAPTCHA, does that say "burnt"? bank account number to follow...

YES YES YES! I am INFURITED

YES YES YES! I am INFURITED by TM. I called the theater box office to find out if they did, indeed, sell tickets in person, but the Box Office phone number told me to call Ticketmaster too! My personal favorite is the way they want to charge you for the "premium" service of printing the tickets on your own computer.. using your own ink and paper...

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