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Please please please Ten Club
inmyohiotree
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You guys do a pretty good job with ticket policies cracking down on scalpers ect. Why can't you beat the flippers and allow us who have a ticket through ten club buy through a presale the event posters and shirts. Chicago and Boston will be insane. It was hard enough getting the wife onboard for back to back shows I can kiss waiting 3hrs in line good bye!
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That being said, it would be nice to put limits on items to maximize enough going around and to minimize flipping. 2 of anything is enough. I get that they don't want to have stock at the end of the shows. They could possibly lift limits once the show begins.
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That being said, would love if the 10C brought back the poster pre sale form ticketed members.
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makes much more sense to live in the present tense...
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That said I'm not a huge merch guy and typically only line up or buy merch when there's something I really want or the poster is really nice. It would be weird to pay in advance for a poster I don't like once I receive it.
However there are a few options the band can do for example 1 poster per person or an express poster line. Poster only, cash only, transaction done in 30 seconds..
A pre-sale on here would be great. Hope 10c can come in clutch and do that for us.
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this topic comes up everytime they tour, and they obviously prefer its fans being in line for hours.
paying a yearly memerber ship you would think they would throw its fan club a bone when it comes to tour merch but na instead they rather give flippers an oppertunity to buy merch without a ticket to the show.
awesome business strategy.
I mean, a couple exceptions aside, pretty much every poster is sold through the site after tour. I don't know if you consider that a bone or not.
Sure everyone has ideas on how to make it better, but we don't know how their business is run (we only have assumptions) and we have to assume they are doing what they can to run a viablel organization, offer products fans want and try the best they can to maximize happiness from their customers.
They did do preorders for posters for the 09 tour (or at least part of it). It was awesome. Didn't have to lug a poster tube around a completely GA show.
I doubt I'm going to be able to convince friends and/or wife to stand in the merch line for 4 hours at Wrigley. We're GA so you kind want to go straight to the floor and not stop for merch inside.... but yah the stadium show merch lines are gong to be brutal.
Pro tip, btw: the first Wrigley show had a merch stand (albeit with only 1/4 posters) at the very, very top of the stadium which had literally no lineup at all. If they have it there again this year it's a godsend. Just get on a ramp and go up.
They tried it... it seems like it wasn't good for them because it was abruptly ended. On one hand, it would be limited to 10c ticket holders, right? so largely the 'problem' would still exist.
I do think they can do a better job of streamlining the poster situation. A poster dedicated booth with efficiency would help alleviate the problem 10 fold I think. Many people (me included) really just want the poster (and maybe a couple stickers). These transactions could/should be very quick. They can have someone carefully pre-packing tubes. One guy transacting, another grabbing the posters. Would cruise through the line.
The merch line as it is sucks. People ask for one item, the worker goes and gets it, then they ask for a different size, worker switches... then they ask for another item, worker gets that item.... one at a time it seems most of the time. Then the worker has a calculator, adds everything up, etc...
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