sales, there after. the on-line ticket service? they sent out an e-mail yesterday to people who signed up on the website, saying the public tickets for the inauguration ball would go on sale today. also they said that before the tickets went on sale today, monday, would be on an exclusive link to buy the tickets. that is what they said yesterday, nothing more to happen on sunday, but today was the day for the link to the e-mail for the tickets going on sale. except then they blew it. four hours later, sunday night, still sunday, ticket master sent out the link to buy tickets and it worked and people were able to buy tickets before they were supposed on on sale. and yes, they say because they started to sell tickets a day early, a significant number of tickets were sold. and when they say a significant number of tickets were sold, they mean all of them. they sold all of the tickets, gone before this date on which they were supposed to be on