10c have TM somehow make us log in w/ 10c accounts

ruggs1996

If TM could make us log in with our 10c accounts everything will be okay for the presale.!!!!!!!!

Kevinman

How would TM be able to give the code out to everyone else then. Like radio stations, promoters, and so on.

CC9172

That is an excellant idea! I think ticketmaster can do that now. We would sign in thru the club and the club would send us to ticketmaster. Plus if they have a good programmer, they can prevent fans who already bought thru the fan club from buying again.

Solat13

We used to all have our own individual ticketmaster code in our profiles. Fan Club tix were sold for the VFC tour through presales on ticketmaster with each member having their own password. But there's not nearly enough time for them to do something like that again for the presale.

100 Pacer

ruggs1996 wrote:

If TM could make us log in with our 10c accounts everything will be okay for the presale.!!!!!!!!

CC9172 wrote:

That is an excellant idea! I think ticketmaster can do that now. We would sign in thru the club and the club would send us to ticketmaster. Plus if they have a good programmer, they can prevent fans who already bought thru the fan club from buying again.

the logistics necessary for this to happen aren't feasible.

Kevinman

Solat13 wrote:

We used to all have our own individual ticketmaster code in our profiles. Fan Club tix were sold for the VFC tour through presales on ticketmaster with each member having their own password. But there's not nearly enough time for them to do something like that again for the presale.

I remember that. Good memory.

pdalowsky

This is a really great idea. Make the password specific to the log in so they can't be sold. No idea how easy or not that would be though

Solat13

Kevinman wrote:

Solat13 wrote:

We used to all have our own individual ticketmaster code in our profiles. Fan Club tix were sold for the VFC tour through presales on ticketmaster with each member having their own password. But there's not nearly enough time for them to do something like that again for the presale.

I remember that. Good memory.

Thanks ... I just found the old email we got from 10 Club about that. We all had a unique 11 character password for presales that tour:

Hello -

Yes, yes, yes!!! Ten Club and Pearl Jam are proud to announce a presale ticket opportunity to the Vote For Change tour for all eligible Ten Club members. Please read carefully.

Because this is not an exclusive Pearl Jam tour but a political fundraiser for ACT, we are required to work in conjunction with Ticketmaster to provide tickets for the benefit of America Coming Together. If you are an active Ten Club member as of August 6, 2004, you have the opportunity to participate in a password-protected presale through Ticketmaster for the Pearl Jam shows on the Vote for Change tour. Please note, standard Ten Club ticketing policies are not valid for this presale, therefore seniority for seat selection does not apply.

Due to the federal regulations of Pearl Jam’s involvement with Vote for Change, you must be at least 18 years of age and a registered US Citizen to purchase tickets to these shows. No exceptions.

You may access the Ticketmaster presale with a special access code, and you will be allowed to purchase 2 tickets to each Pearl Jam show on the Vote for Change tour while supplies last. Ticket price will be $50 USD each, plus applicable fees and taxes. If you elect to purchase tickets to the Vote for Change tour, you are making a financial contribution to ACT.

The presale will begin on August 19, 2004 at 10AM local time and end at 5PM local time. Please note, all tickets for venues located in the Eastern time zone will go on sale promptly at 10AM EDT. Tickets for venues located in Central time zones will be available at 10AM CDT. Ticket prices and show venues are subject to change.

YOUR TICKETMASTER PRESALE ACCESS CODE IS:

XXXXXXXXXXX

IMPORTANT: DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL. Please save this password for any additional shows that may be announced in the near future.

Paul Andrews

What they could do - easily.

Ticket master produce a special set of pages, fan club presale and then only display this pages to traffic that comes from this website. A really simple thing to do using the .htaccess file - or you can use more complex ways too. They would even 'wrap' the tickemaster sales page through this content management system so that it opens within the site frame. Performance would hardly suffer because the ticketmaster site will be doing all the work.

This would force all purchasing these tickets to sign in to this site to access the event page. No doubt, someone would find a way to link to the checkout or something, but for the majority of punters, this would work.

It could be a job that is as simple as a few lines of code and dupilcate entries in the ticketmaster events system - or it could be a nightmare

Bathgate66

how about 10C just simply gives TM a list of membership numbers who've used their account for tickets already.

Omit the security words and add typing in your membership number in between steps

if your numbers used,
then you dont get tickets .

Poncier

Solat13 wrote:

IMPORTANT: DO NOT DELETE THIS EMAIL. Please save this password for any additional shows that may be announced in the near future.

You really took this part to heart.
6 years is a long time to keep an email.

Alpine Bound

this isnt possible.

Paul Andrews

adspj wrote:

this isnt possible.

What I've suggested it's possible with very little stuffing around from 10c's end. I do a similar thing on a couple of websites I run.

The stuffing around comes at ticketmaster's end in setting up a script to block all traffic from certain pages that doesn't originate from 10c and also set up a duplicate event in their system that is only accessable to traffic from 10c.

Now, would TM do this for the band that fought them in the 90s when the gigs will sell out anyway??? Hmm yer right, it isn't possible.

Gibson

U2 does it. I et a unique code which allows me to buy 2 pairs of tickets total.

Why couldn't a similar situation for 1 venue take place?

Paul Andrews

Gibson wrote:

U2 does it. I et a unique code which allows me to buy 2 pairs of tickets total.

Why couldn't a similar situation for 1 venue take place?

I'd say time and effort for return is the main reason. They'd need to export the membership database to ticket master to verify or set up some system to check back to the 10c dupral database. My solution is probably the most practical given the timeframe, but I can't see ticketmaster doing it. Remember these are ticketmaster tickets we're now purchasing, they've probably already done as much as they are willing by setting up our own presale.

In future sales, 10c could do this... a booking system I run on a site works similar.

Take the gigs out of the shopfront and into an events booking system.

Post the gigs online and people just sign up for them in a first come first get basis. IE. 1000 spots, and the first thousand to sign up get the spot.
The system then takes waitlist places, ie 500 more
The first member then has a set amount of time to pay for the ticket before it is automatically released to the waitlisted orders.
The thing with this system is that people can automatically cancel their ticket if there is someone on the waitlist and the system updates it's records accordingly.

The above would solve a lot of issues and also allow members to release their tickets to someone else if they can't make the gig - refund policy can be worked out.