It sucks though when the person who is doing all the tickets is slow. I had that happen at Rite Aid once, I figured no one would go to my local rite aid to buy tickets, and I was right, no one did. I was the third person in line. But I got no tickets, because the ticket person was so slow it took them 5 minutes for each person.
What was cool was once at Tower records this one employee sae how many people were in line and then cranked out that many tickets when they went on sale. Kind of screwed everyone not there, but we didn't care at the time.