The Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival is SOLD OUT!!!
Tickets to the “3rd Annual Blue Ribbon Festival: 2010 A Bacon Odyssey – A Bacon Odyssey, One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Bacon” are officially sold out. 600 tickets were sold in 25 minutes through the Iowa Events Center ticket office today at noon. “We are overwhelmed with the positive response to the ticket sales this year and excited to have a bacon-drenched throw down with 600 of our newest friends,” says the face of bacon, Brooks Reynolds.
Capacity was more than doubled for this year’s event due to the positive response received at last year’s event. The Iowa Bacon Board is overjoyed at the response and is mindful of those bacon lovers who weren’t able to purchase a ticket in time before the event sold out. The Board will be congregating in the coming days to confer on possible adjustments to the event and expansion for future events.
I am deeply saddened that I attempted to purchase tickets from 11:30 through 1:30 today, only to be denied as the event sold out. I have attended each of the prior years and am stunned in disbelief that I will be missing the 3rd annual event.
They sold out a lot faster than 25 minutes! 600 tickets don’t go far when the event is so highly publicized.
25 minutes…try more like 10 minutes. I tried at 12:10 and was unable to get tickets.
I think you need to put a 2 ticket limit on ticket buyers. Someone HAD to buy all 600 tickets at one time for it to sell out that fast. VERY FRUSTRATING!
I too attended previous years and was shut out this year too despite trying from before noon until 12:45. A couple times it said I had a ticket but errored on checkout. Not a big fan of the online thing. Very disappointed I won’t be able to attend this year. Think the event may have outgrown what made it unique and fun.
I have been looking forward to this years Baconfest ever since I attended last years event…sad day. The max cap for tickets should not have been 8, people end up buying in bulk this way leaving no chance for those people that simply wanted to buy a single ticket or so
Very dissappointed that we aren’t able to attend because tickets sold out so fast. I was on the internet at 11:45 until 1:00 trying to buy tickets!!! We even had to schedule our vavaction around the Bacon Festival because we would ABSOLUTELY not miss it. Guess we were wrong
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Ha. I was on exactly at noon. Could not purchase anything for 25 minutes but you can still get a ticket for the 27th event if you also purchase the 24th dinner. Weird????
Congratulations, bacon team! What a great grass-roots event!
Hey everyone, quit your bitching! If you really want tickets, go post on Craigslist that you will pay more than face value to get them. If you won’t pay top dollar, then shut up and go have a BLT.
The fact that this event has such a demand for so few tickets is what makes it special!
Wow, I didn’t realize it was going to sell out so quick. I got shut out last year so I’m happy I got my six…
OOOOOOOHHHHHH BACON
Ohhhh bacon!!!!!!!
From Davenport but read about this in DSM Register while in DSM earlier this week. Thought to myself, now this has to be my kind of Festival. I was surprised at how quickly the tickets went, so there must be bacon people out there besides me.
Sad to see people being turned away, especially if people “hogged” the tickets. I agree, two tickets per order.
I’ve used Iowa Events Center tickets processing before and the same thing happens with every concert ticket. X number of people jump online when tickets go on sale and “reserve their tickets” or put them on hold until the sale is complete. They’re not available for someone else to look at but it is not sold. A ticket can remain in counter-hold status for like 7 mins. If the sale is not complete in those 7 minutes the ticket is returned to the available status which allows someone else to put the ticket on hold and possibly complete the sale. We’re at the mercy of the internet age, y’all.
WOOOTTTT!!!! I found tickets and excitedly prepare for my 3rd bacon festival!