Let me know if you get those extra sets. :-) I'm looking forward to the stories. I have been drinking the Ballistic IPA this week at your recommendation from a different thread.

Now I'm setting my sights on Darkness day at the Surly brewing company in the Twin Cities. Which actually works better for my schedule. I'm 0-2 on Pliney The Younger and Darklord this year.
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From what I've read, they're going through every order one by one and fixing all the screw up's and over charges. In your case, I'm sure you'd accept the screw up and take the extras, but it likely won't happen.
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Here is a new blog post from 3Floyds:
We wanted to give some context to Golden Ticket sales now that we have gotten a chance to look at the numbers from the other night. First, we want to say thank you to everyone. If the sheer volume of traffic that we received is an indicator of the popularity of Dark Lord Day, this year will be better than any other, and we are doing our best to make sure that we can meet expectations. After reading through the beer forums, it seems that most of you understand that it’s very difficult for us to anticipate demand for our limited number of Golden Tickets, and that we are making a good faith effort to fix any problems that have arisen. We tried a number of different things this year to try to make the process as painless and smooth for everyone involved. As Lincoln said on Beer Advocate,

Will we learn from our mistakes and work to avoid them next year? Absolutely. Will other mistakes be made along the way? Most likely. As an organization of only 9 people, we appreciate the patience and understanding a lot of people on this site are showing. At the end of the day, We’re just trying to throw a fun party for thousands of people and do it in a way that is the most fair we can manage.

So with that being said, here are some numbers to consider.

* Our store had 50,423 hits by 5,115 visitors in less than one hour effectively crushing Shopify’s servers
* The majority referred through twitter
* darklordday.com had 16,963 unique visitors
* 3floyds.com had 12,542 unique visitors
* #DarkLordDay and “Golden Tickets” were both trending topics on Twitter at the same time.

Pretty big numbers when you take a step back and look at them. And again, thank you all for your patronage and most of all patience while we sort everything out over the next few days. The shipping charges that were erroneously added during the melee are being removed. A whole lot was happening and we were trying to fix the charges on the fly while the site was crashing.

So with all of that in mind, please don’t forget that we are a comparatively tiny brewery trying to plan a kick ass time for a whole bunch of people, and we don’t even know how many people are going to show up. Even with all of the planning in the world a successful Dark Lord Day still depends on all of you out there making it a great time for everyone else that shows up. Keep an eye on Darklordday.com for updates and we’ll see you on April 24th.
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Looks like I only got two tickets charged, hopefully it stays this way.

I was kinda scared that I would lose all my tickets. I figured since they had all kinds of computer difficulties they would just get rid of all the ones I didn't get an email confirmation for.
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It looks like I'll be hanging out at the new Montecristo lounge in Chicago Friday night with our Oliva rep for that area Paul. Apparently this place is nothing short of amazing. If anyone would like to meet up for some cigars and drinks, hit me up.
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Is there going to be a massive herf at DLD? We have a bus of 20 heading from the north burbs down there.
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Herf, yes..... massive... maybe not.... quality... most definitely.:-)
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Well, we have 15+ on our bus of herfers
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Looks like my friend got a couple rooms so I will be staying down there close by.
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Looks like tickets are going to start going out on Wed. :-)
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Sounds good. I'm sure they had to straighten out a lot from that they sold them.

Looking forward to this!:-)
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First bottle on eBay already.....
Who's buying?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Three-Floyds-DAR...#ht_500wt_1182
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How in the hell did someone get a bottle already and also $405?!?!

Wonder if it's older bottle filled up with crap beer and re-waxed. :-)
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At first glance, it looks to be legit.
I assume that it is already bottled and the label appears not to be a butcher job.
The item location leads me to believe that it is either an inside job or a theft. I cannot imagine that FFF would be to happy about a gifted bottle being sold on eBay... at least at this point in time.:-)
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$405?

Crap, I'll sell one of mine for $399.99, and throw in an Earl Schieb paint job.

:-) :-)
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I don't know if I would buy it for $405 but $15 I would!! :-)
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Got my 2 tickets in the mail. Can't wait!
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Glad to hear they that people are getting them.


:-)
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I will sell people sips for $15 each.
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If I wasn't already getting a few bottles I would take you up on that. :-)
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