There's rumours about P arriving a few days before the 18th.

Oh, but I'm also arriving a few days before the 18th, and that's no rumour,
I'm even staying after the 18th
The hotel is incredible expensive, but what do you want when you're stay next to the venue. Furthermore, la Suisse has never been cheap.

I was on ur side! i was talking about the other orger ignorance not urs

http://bazonline.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Weltpremiere-Hancock-und-Lang-greifen-gemeinsam-in-die-Tasten/story/22521817

It says ( Short version)

The 7000 tickets for the 2 Prince shows did sell out in 7 min and 58 sec
according to the promoters.

Prince sells out in eight minutes at Montreux Festival
July 5, 2009 - 3:39AM

More than 7,000 tickets for two concerts by Prince at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland later this month sold out within eight minutes of going on sale Saturday, the organisers said.

Despite prices ranging between 195 Swiss francs for standing room and 480 francs (442 US dollars, 316 euros) for a seat, and a two ticket per person limit, the shows were fully booked within seven minutes and 58 seconds.

Prince is due to play two consecutive concerts on July 18, the closing night of the lakeside festival.

The multiple Grammy award and Oscar winner's appearance at Montreux was only announced on Friday, the opening night, following weeks of rumours.

Two years ago, 4,500 Prince tickets were sold in 10 minutes, then a record for the western Swiss festival which is commonly nine-tenths booked by the time it starts each summer.

The 95 paying concerts over the next two weeks include Steely Dan, Herbie Hancock, Black Eyed Peas, Alice Cooper, Steve Winwood, Monty Alexander, Lily Allen, Wyclef Jean, Marianne Faithfull, John Fogerty, Grace Jones and B.B. King among an eclectic host of top billings.

© 2009 AFP
This story is sourced direct from an overseas news agency as an additional service to readers. Spelling follows North American usage, along with foreign currency and measurement units.

Ha, they better let me know in time.
And refund me in time.
Etc.

I called them again and pretended I had a friend in switzerland whou bought me a ticket this morning. They again said, that those tickets were invalid and I should buy a new ticket at 2 pm. They asked me 2 inform my friend that he needs a new ticket but couldn't tell me how and when they would inform him officially...

Indeed, some ticket orders were cancelled today! That's what some people have found out this morning.
It doesn't have to to with the 8 o'clock a.m. thing, it's when one name (creditcard) has more than 2 orders per concert (so orders at 2pm have also been cancelled).

That REALLY makes them ticketcorners suck heavily.
They have no control over their sales process: early open, no limit on orders, manual deletion (!) afterwards, no real direction (if they had numbered the 14:00 presale diferently they could cancel the other event), no communication and thus no quality.
Everyone knows that error control is 80% of code, so they are only in it for the money and are not geared at handling the smallest of mistakes.
Sigh.

god damn, I only got confirmation for 1 show because of this shit

my latest news on this: after speaking with a dozen call center agents (yes, been seriously stalking ticketcorner from amsterdam, hehe) over the last 2 days, today at 2pm got a guy saying that is was 90% sure my '9am' tix will be valid. At 4.30pm another guy said, after checking with collegues about 4 times, that is was 300% sure the 9am tix is valid. My '2pm' tix have been cancelled today, but now it looks like I'm going to Montreux after all...but still can't believe it...

The aftershow for this gig will probably be historic, considering the main sets are to be a laid back affair.

Someone please pay off the soundboard guy for access to a jack.

god damn, I only got confirmation for 1 show because of this shit