Colombo, I appreciate your pedagogical impulse. However: I kept trying until 10:30 AM, continuously. I entered the password correctly. I successfully entered the captcha text many many times, starting one second after 10AM. No tickets. I did not 'give up too soon' nor did I 'do something very wrong....

I was hitting refresh on the Ticketbastard site for San Francisco starting at 9:50 AM, at which time it said that tix weren't on sale yet. At no later than one second past 10:00 AM tix did become available. I entered in the passcode info correctly and got this message: Sorry, no exact matches were f...