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steelzeppelin
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can pearl jam ever ban their tickets from being resold on secondary ticket markets i.e. stubhub.
6/16/2008 Columbia, SC, 10/30/09-10/31/09 Philly, EV Solo 6/26/11 Detroit, 9/3/11-9/4/11 Alpine Valley, 9/30/2012 Missoula,MT 7/16/13 London, ON *****FIRST ROW****, 7/19/13 Chicago, IL, 10/30/13 Charlotte, NC. 4/21/2008 Columbia, SC, 5/2/2016 MSG2
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The London promoters for the Led Zeppelin reunion concert in 2007 went to great lengths to limit secondary resales: they threatened cancellation of tickets if anyone was caught selling them on ebay or similar sites. And they developed procedures to make secondary sales difficult: lottery winners received a passcode and after ordering their tickets, had to wait until two days before the show to pick up tickets, and the lottery winner had to be present, with a valid ID and a credit card that matched the card used to purchase the ticket. And there was still an active market for resales, including people who sold the passcode on ebay. In the end, the promoters backed off.
Perhaps the most effective method is to increase allocations to 10C members! I think, generally, 10C members respect the policies against marking up 10C tickets for resale.
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)
Now, two caveats:
1. They played all theaters in NY, LA and Chicago, so this is much easier with smaller venues.
2. People still bought two tickets (which was the limit) and then offered one of those up on eBay or CL for marked-up prices.
But, overall, scalping was severely curtailed. Not sure you could do this at arena shows simply because of the logisitcs.
good point. Also, im sure the 10C is getting the absolute largest allocation it can get (I heard it was a little higher for the Spectrum shows).
6/24/08 (MSG1)
6/25/08 (MSG2)
7/1/08 (Beacon Theater -NYC)
10/30/09 (Philly3)
5/18/10 (Newark, NJ)
5/20/10 (MSG1)
5/21/10 (MSG2)
10/18/13 (Brooklyn 1)
10/19/13 (Brooklyn 2)
5/1/16 (MSG 1)
5/2/16 (MSG 2)
3/30/20 (MSG)
TC typically gets about 10% of a venue's tickets. They gave me this answer when I had asked them a few years ago. I think for special shows they may try to negotiate more.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
Paperless tickets are a very cool idea (and very green)...but call me old school. I like having a hard ticket stub. They make for a cool souvenir. It's pretty cool to look back at all of my old concert ticket stubs from back in the day. Those ticket stubs remind me why I'm pretty deaf right now.
Hah - yeah some NIN fans complained about wanting to have a stub too, and I do save mine, but if I have to choose between GETTING a ticket or having a hard ticket I'd choose being able to obtain a ticket to the show over the hard ticket method and maybe not getting a seat or having to pay double or more.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
exactly.