Early bird tickets to a giant water slide event at Port Kembla sold out in as little as two minutes as fun-seekers threatened to crash the event website Wednesday morning.
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Interest in the March 21 City Slider Wollongong visit pushed the event’s website servers to capacity and saw four of the six available sessions sold out by 10am.
Only the evening sessions - 6pm and 8pm - still have tickets available.
Some visitors to the site were disappointed to miss out on early bird tickets, which are priced at $29 instead of $35.
‘‘I was online instantly as the site came online so surprised I couldn’t get [an early bird ticket],’’ wrote Scott Le’Moth.
‘‘Got the NBN here too so no slow connection.’’
Other ticket-buyers reported missing out at 9am or 9.02am and questioned whether the cheaper tickets existed.
‘‘I was on the site well before 9am and kept refreshing the page,’’ said Alana Hyde.
‘‘At 9am the early bird tickets for 2pm were sold out! Was there actually any for sale?’’
According to organisers, two hundred tickets in each session were priced at the early bird rate. This was one-third of total tickets, they said in a post to social media.
‘‘Wollongong has been crazy. We've never had the site go down like that before. Half of all the tickets we have had sold by 9.10!’’
The two lane, six-metre-wide water slide will be setting up around the country over the next month in the middle of several cities, including Adelaide, Hobart, Newcastle and Toowoomba.
In Port Kembla, it will run between Church and Allen streets, and will also include a free mini slide for children, as well as space for water fights and water-themed games.
The event will start at 10am and run until 10pm, with the final two hours conducted under lights.
Tickets, which are sold for 90 minutes sessions, cost $35.
A small portion of each ticket sold is donated to children’s cancer charity, CanTeen.
Ticket information can be found here.
