This is honestly one of the ugliest and least user friendly websites I have ever seen. I am trying to be a SINGLE ticket for one performance of Matilda.
I still have not bought said ticket 20 minutes later and am calling to order tickets because this is ridiculous. My comments as I experience this website. (I'm using Firefox by the way)
1.) The website looks absolutely hideous. It's such a busy design for something that should be made as user friendly as possible and the blue color scheme really doesn't work. I honestly wouldn't care about this at all though if it worked.
2.) After trying to get my bearings I notice Matilda is actually one of the featured shows on the front page of your site so I click it thinking it will be easy and direct me straight to where I need to go to purchase tickets. Instead, after a white screen for about a minute, two boxes appear on top of each other one with a list of Broadway shows and one with a link to Matilda but I can't seem to click on the right box or read anything.
3.) After repeated clicks on the Matilda box I finally get a white screen again and 30 seconds later a page appears to order tickets.
4.) I click the performance I want and am then prompted with another screen asking me to confirm what performance I want and it provides me with a range of dates. This is so confusing and unnecessary (and also takes 30 seconds to load) since I already said the date I wanted.
5.) I then am brought to yet another page with more options to fill out (why couldn't you just put this all on one page - especially when the website runs so slowly and poorly that each successive click is another minute of wasted time?)
6.) I select the "Choose my own seat option" which seems ridiculous to even have such options - how many people want a machine to choose a seat for them when one can easily look at a chart and pick the exact seats they want?
7.) I type in the code and my computer completely freezes and nothing works. Finally, after about 2 minutes I'm able to see a block box with a little circle that says loading performance on top of it. This persists for about three minutes before I decide to take my dog for a walk.
8.) I return to find that the seating chart has finally loaded but a seat has been preselected for me. When I click on another seat to find out its price, an error pops up telling me that I've exceeded the maximum number of tickets. I realize one needs to deselect their ticket but the seats are all so close together that in my attempt to deselect one seat I hit the one next to it and get another error message.
9.) I then realize there is no way to choose a seat by price so I need to click on every damn seat to find the cheapest seat. This is most frustrating of all as every seat takes about 15 seconds to select then deselect.
10.) I realize it's been 20 minutes and I'm still no where near able to get a SINGLE seat I want for one performance.
I'm sorry, I usually don't like to complain but this is ridiculous.
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Updated On: 1/15/13 at 10:36 PM