WWE.com Night of Champions webcast fails for opening match

WWE.com's "WWE Night of Champions" pay-per-view webcast malfunctioned for many paying subscribers, including myself, failing to show the opening tag match between Chris Jericho and his mystery partner against Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes. During that time, the WWE.com webcast links only offered a "404 File Not Found" error message.

This blogger instead ended up finding out Jericho's tag partner on other people's Twitter feeds while screaming at my computer for a half hour straight. The WWE.com webstream finally became accessible in time for me to miss most of CM Punk's promo as well. (FWIW, screaming at the computer wasn't so healthy for me as I ended up feeling woozy during the final two matches of the show. Thanks for that too, WWE.com.)

Approximately an hour into the pay-per-view, I received a letter from WWE.com web support that told me the feed was fine now and to delete my cookies and web history. There was no offer of a partial refund of my $39.95 or other compensation for the absolutely needless aggravation.

Before "The Amazing Race" takes up my Sundays again this fall, there was the possibility of my ordering up to two more WWE pay-per-views. At this point, my heart just isn't in it. Until any compensation is offered to those of us who were royally screwed, your heart shouldn't be in it either.

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