I tried to buy tickets for the 2001 Australian GP from the UK. You could only get them through Ticketmaster 7. No idea if this is the same company, but at the time the website was only open during office hours for some inexplicable reason. Australian office hours. On top of this, it constantly timed out.
Eventually managed to order by going into work in the morning (my home internet at the time was too slow). Had to put all my answers to the web form into notepad in advance, then copy/paste into the website as fast as possible hoping I could get it to complete without timeing out, before the website closed for the (Oz) night.
I can't recall how many attempts it took. I know it was more than one, but was eventually successful.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
