Credit: NianticAt 9:00 AM PST, tickets for the second annual Pokémon GO Fest went on sale. At least, that's the ideal situation: the website started having technical problems the moment tickets went live, indicating a strong presence of purchasing bots that are now moving their wares to resale sites like eBay. Clearly, some people were able to buy tickets. After about half an hour of trying to get the page to load, Niantic announced that the event was sold out. Niantic tried to limit this sort of behavior by only allowing people to buy six tickets at a time, but bots are increasingly sophisticated and difficult to fool.

Source: Forbes May 11, 2018 16:41 UTC