Ten club tickets...aren't they supposed to be good?

vedder_soup

quit your whinging all of you
you are in the fucking building, you did not have to pay a tout, or deal with ticket bastard
enjoy the show, and just rock the fuck out wherever you may be sitting

caruso

We were also in the 300s. We've never had such bad seats for their show. I understand they can't reserve the whole venue for fan club members, but in this economy, they should have been straightforward with fans and let them know where their seats would be and that they weren't as good as years past. While I love the band had I known I would have seen the show from the nosebleeds with limited views, I might have rethought the purchase or tried my luck with ticketmaster.

shadowcast

That show had the most fan club I have seen and I have been to over 20 shows. The whole floor was fan club. I would say the crowd was about 80% to 85% fan club. Thats a lot.

Blade

I know im a little slow but can someone tell me where your seniority# is in your profile? I cant find mine.

Blade

i agree that it would be nice to at least know where your sitting prior. I was up in Sec.334 next to a bunch of 10 clubbers. I was jacked just to be at the show and we rocked out but,if i would of had prior knowledge of the nose bleeds i was in i would have upgraded. Oh well, it was still PJ!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason P

shadowcast wrote:

That show had the most fan club I have seen and I have been to over 20 shows. The whole floor was fan club. I would say the crowd was about 80% to 85% fan club. Thats a lot.

There were just a ton of 10C members there. Yes, I know there were some "outsiders" mixed in but when PJ only announces one show for the entire U.S., everyone is going to jump on them.

Sandman75

Well 1st off the show was great and set was awesome.

The problem here which everyone is talking about and I hope I can figure out the method behind this madness for everyone. We were in sec 318 and I am a 244xxx (6 years) and were 4 rows from the highest seats. The people directly behind us on our left were 402xxx (2 years) were at the DC show with seats in 100s from what they said. Next to them and directly behind us on our right were 186xxx (10 years). So in theory seniority played no role in the seating assignments and I heard on guy say he has been a member since '93 but I didn't get his 10c number. Entire section was 10c member and everyone seem irate but rolled with it. I even heard that day of there were some 100s still available on TM, don't know if this is true or not but...Anyway I would just like to find out the reason behind this and I hope to God that TM didn't bump 10c members in favor of giving the better tix to brokers to get more money for the tix. Reason is I know if I was a member for 10+ years and didn't have my membership lapse and was flying in from either the West or East cost only to find out I was in the nose bleeds I would like an answer. It just seemed there was a confetti mix of what your member ID is and where you sat. It was my understanding that the lower the number you are closer and goes back from their if I am wrong please correct me on this.

I am not bitching by any means I would just like an answers for this so we can put this thread to bed.

TRoshford

I was in 305 last night, member # 423xxx, just picked up today's tickets, and i'm in 102 row 3.

not bad at all. must be a fraction of 10c members today compared to yesterday.

8 hours 45 minutes until PJ takes the stage again!

iamica

TRoshford wrote:

I was in 305 last night, member # 423xxx, just picked up today's tickets, and i'm in 102 row 3.

not bad at all. must be a fraction of 10c members today compared to yesterday.

8 hours 45 minutes until PJ takes the stage again!

Good news! Maybe my seats won't be so bad after all...

BinFrog

Indifference71 wrote:

JF268706 wrote:

Thanks for the guidance! little slow today FC# 412974

Shit. I have a worse 10c number. I'm praying I'm not in the 300's. I thought the point of 10c tickets was to avoid the shitty seats way up.

Depends on the size of the venue and how many tickets the 10C got. In a smaller venue, with a 10C# in the 400k area...no offense but you won't be getting great seats. You're at the show....be happy.

Indifference71

iamica wrote:

TRoshford wrote:

I was in 305 last night, member # 423xxx, just picked up today's tickets, and i'm in 102 row 3.

not bad at all. must be a fraction of 10c members today compared to yesterday.

8 hours 45 minutes until PJ takes the stage again!

Good news! Maybe my seats won't be so bad after all...

That would be a nice surprise for tonight.

High Fidelity 2000

SC244408 wrote:

Well 1st off the show was great and set was awesome.

The problem here which everyone is talking about and I hope I can figure out the method behind this madness for everyone. We were in sec 318 and I am a 244xxx (6 years) and were 4 rows from the highest seats. The people directly behind us on our left were 402xxx (2 years) were at the DC show with seats in 100s from what they said. Next to them and directly behind us on our right were 186xxx (10 years). So in theory seniority played no role in the seating assignments and I heard on guy say he has been a member since '93 but I didn't get his 10c number. Entire section was 10c member and everyone seem irate but rolled with it. I even heard that day of there were some 100s still available on TM, don't know if this is true or not but...Anyway I would just like to find out the reason behind this and I hope to God that TM didn't bump 10c members in favor of giving the better tix to brokers to get more money for the tix. Reason is I know if I was a member for 10+ years and didn't have my membership lapse and was flying in from either the West or East cost only to find out I was in the nose bleeds I would like an answer. It just seemed there was a confetti mix of what your member ID is and where you sat. It was my understanding that the lower the number you are closer and goes back from their if I am wrong please correct me on this.

I am not bitching by any means I would just like an answers for this so we can put this thread to bed.

I'm sorry, but if that's true--186,000 and 4 rows from the ceiling in the 300s...that sucks. There had to have been a mistake somehow when they distributed these tix.

BK185920

Yup, my seats for tonight are much better than yesterday. And on Mike's side this time

caruso

I called the fan club and they said they bought a large amount of tix for yesterday's show. They thought they were doing a good thing and didn't realize longtime fans might be disappointed about sitting in the nosebleeds. While I appreciate all the tix being bought, had I known they were in the 300s, I would have tried ticketmaster since people walked up to the box office last night and bought far better tix for face value.

The FC said they can't please everyone and won't try. They said being in the FC doesn't guarantee good seats and people should never expect to have quality seats as the nosebleeds are always a possibility.

They said they put a disclaimer on the Web site about the possibility of bad seats, but I never saw this unless it was posted after tix were bought. If that's the case it's pointless since you can't return the tix anyway. Did anyone see anything like this?

norm

http://www.pearljam.com/ten-club/tickets

BK185920

norm wrote:

http://www.pearljam.com/ten-club/tickets

From the site:
We reserve the best seats in the house for fan club tickets, starting from the first rows on the floor and extending back. We also reserve the side sections closest to the stage when necessary. All Ten Club tickets are for reserved seating unless otherwise announced.

I think most of the complaints are the 300 level sections such as what I received. These are hardly "best seats in the house".

norm

BK185920 wrote:

norm wrote:

http://www.pearljam.com/ten-club/tickets

From the site:
We reserve the best seats in the house for fan club tickets, starting from the first rows on the floor and extending back. We also reserve the side sections closest to the stage when necessary. All Ten Club tickets are for reserved seating unless otherwise announced.

I think most of the complaints are the 300 level sections such as what I received. These are hardly "best seats in the house".

yes and due to the overwheling amount of 10c members going to this show, people were seated higher up...10c cannot secure all the best seats from ticketmaster

Since the beginning of the Ten Club, Pearl Jam has been dedicated to making sure that fans get priority seating whenever possible. Sometimes, there are circumstances beyond our control that limit our ability to do this. But we go to bat for you...and most of the time, we find a way.

decides2dream

Parksy wrote:

A satellite forever orbiting wrote:

ummmm...is the box office staff pulling some fast ones? :? 10c doesnt allocate seats behind the stage.

i went to Boston 2004 and had 10C seats behind the stage... 14 rows from the stage...

it was pretty decent actually!!!


My thoughts on this whole thread are as follows:

I do hear ya on this one. That doesn't seem normal. The ONLY explanation I can think of is that they had a lot of 10C seats. And these were the first US shows announced, so I would think that alot of 10C members would have wanted to go to this show.

Hopefully, we'll find out after/during the show if any non-10C members got better seats.

In Toronto on Friday, a girl and some deuchbag had better seats than me... they got it through his company. I've been member since 2002... wasn't thrilled about that.. but what can ya do.

My only hope for you is that the show is just fuckin' awesome and it doesn't matter where you're sitting...

better in the arena than in the parking lot.... or on the thread watching the setlist come in as I will be doing.

boston 2004 was not 10c tix, but a 10c TM presale. i remember well b/c i managed to score 8th row mike's side night 1.....and row 2 dead center behind the stage night 2. just sayin'. :P

BeerBaron wrote:

As I posted in the other thread ...

My girlfriend is a VERY HIGH 10C number - 412XXX and is up in the 300s.

I am 178XXX and I am section 112, row 16

My friend is 140XXX and is section 121, row 20.

Must be FULL OF 10C tonight...

and i hope you ANd your GF used YOU seats, together...or really, she should'nt be your GF anymore.
j/k

hope you had a blast...hope everyone has a blast tonight!

youphoric

mem # 414042, i was in 317 last night, literally the highest row of the united center. not sure what gives, been on the floor twice before w/ fan club tickets at UC. :( hope for better tonight

A satellite forever orbiting

decides2dream wrote:

boston 2004 was not 10c tix, but a 10c TM presale. i remember well b/c i managed to score 8th row mike's side night 1.....and row 2 dead center behind the stage night 2. just sayin'. :P

oh, yeah...i remember now. :P