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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Attendee Badges Sell out in 96 Minutes

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2013 San Diego Comic-Con sold out. The San Diego Comic-Con International for July 2013 completely sold out of attendee badges in 96 minutes.  The  San Diego, California-based comic book convention within an hour and a half was completely sold out. “By 9:53, 4-day badges and 4-day badges with access to preview night were gone. 15 minutes later, Friday and Saturday single day badges were snapped up and by 10:36 it was all over.”

The San Diego Comic-Con International 2013 badge prices:

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San Diego Comic-Con International 2013 badge prices

San Diego Comic-Con International 2013 badge prices

On the problems with this year’s badge sale:

Comic-Con can crow about the enormous demand for access to the July 18-21 event, but complaints about server errors and site crashes started even before this morning’s sales began…many fans came up empty-handed and feeling ripped off because of problems that plagued the convention’s complicated badge sales system for the second year in a row.

On the proposed solution:

In 2012, the organization admitted that numerous problems occurred with the sale of badges, and a resale of 5,000 returned and refunded badges was held shortly before the start of the convention. In a message accompanying today’s announcement that badges were sold out, SDCC said they may hold another such resale at a later date.

On San Diego Comic-Con International:

San Diego Comic-Con International is a multigenre convention held annually in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded as the “Golden State Comic Book Convention” in 1970 by a group of San Diegans, which included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger and Mike Towry; later, it was called the “San Diego Comic Book Convention”. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or “SDCC”. It is a four-day event (Thursday-Sunday) held during the summer in San Diego, in southern California, United States. On Wednesday evening, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors, and some guests pre-registered for all four days.

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Source: Wikipedia, Deadline

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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