I was clicking on refresh as fast as possible and couldn't get in.
Seems like it was actually less than that. Just enough time for 5,000 (or whatever the max number is) of tickets to be transacted, and then everyone else was locked out.
One minute. I was on the checkout screen at 1:01 and it was sold out.
Same as us here. Just entered our info and bam, request failed.
Same here.
At 1:01, had ticket, purchase being confirmed and then errored out. Damn.
Me too.
Same thing happened to me and I just got off the phone with Apple support - they are saying that this has happened to a lot of customers and since it is a "developing story" they can not provide a lot of details. They did say however that if you made it to the checkout process your ticket was in fact reserved and once they get things sorted out they will e-mail you at your Apple ID to allow you to actually purchase your ticket.
I had a ticket in my cart and then got an error when I tried to actually buy it. I hope you're right!