RE:People's issues with shows like KC not selling out yet...
Mechanicalape
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Ok after so many issues over fan club ticketing because of an overwhelming number of fans in larger markets trying to squeeze through to get tickets, I've seen a few threads giving shit to the smaller markets for not having ENOUGH demand, with presale tickets still available a couple of days after the on sale date. Can someone tell us all exactly how many fan club members a metro area should have? Because apparently New York has too many and Kansas City doesn't have enough. 
The math just doesn't hold. Apples to apples: MSG holds 19522 people for an end stage show. Sprint Center in Kansas City holds 19000, barely a difference. The NYC metro is 19 million strong, and the KC metro is about 2 million. (Venue capacities and metro area populations per Wikipedia). So, even with a 2 to 1 ratio of shows, splitting the NYC metro in half still throws 9.5 million people against the 2 million in KC.
For this equation, IF the percentage of venue capacity reserved for the fan club is the same at each venue, and as the venue capacities are almost identical, and just IF the percentage of Ten Club members is the same per capita, what else would you expect from such a massive difference in population for the same number of tickets? That's a pretty substantial difference in demand for what would amount to nearly exactly the same number of seats if the percentage of Ten Club seats is the same per venue. So to make a difference, the percentage of Ten Club seats at MSG AND the per capita fan club ratio would both have to be substantially larger to support an arguement that it's unreasonable for KC tickets to still be available.
And this is all written with a full understanding that the fan club percentage per capita in NYC could be understandably higher then KC.
The numbers tell the story.
The math just doesn't hold. Apples to apples: MSG holds 19522 people for an end stage show. Sprint Center in Kansas City holds 19000, barely a difference. The NYC metro is 19 million strong, and the KC metro is about 2 million. (Venue capacities and metro area populations per Wikipedia). So, even with a 2 to 1 ratio of shows, splitting the NYC metro in half still throws 9.5 million people against the 2 million in KC.
For this equation, IF the percentage of venue capacity reserved for the fan club is the same at each venue, and as the venue capacities are almost identical, and just IF the percentage of Ten Club members is the same per capita, what else would you expect from such a massive difference in population for the same number of tickets? That's a pretty substantial difference in demand for what would amount to nearly exactly the same number of seats if the percentage of Ten Club seats is the same per venue. So to make a difference, the percentage of Ten Club seats at MSG AND the per capita fan club ratio would both have to be substantially larger to support an arguement that it's unreasonable for KC tickets to still be available.
And this is all written with a full understanding that the fan club percentage per capita in NYC could be understandably higher then KC.
The numbers tell the story.
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