TM presale thread

rubi76

nukeboot wrote:

But then TicketBastard wouldn't have gotten today's cut.

Can't have that, now can we?

In a monopoly, no.

luvisatower

:(
that is all

FAITHFUL PJ FAN

for night 1 got Seat location: section 334, row L

for night 2 got Seat location: section 131, row E

inglorious

So what's the solution then?

How do you...
1 ensure that tickets get to genuine fans, and
2 allow unwanted tickets to be passed on (at face value) to other genuine fans?

Answers on a postcard. The winner becomes a millionaire!

Rob

Aliveguy1

just like they used to...u get a mailing listing all the pearl jam shows...u can get 2 tickets/show....you preorder them....pearl jam gets everyone's requests...randomly assigns location for fan club members and the remainder goes on sale to general public. that would be ideal.

MattyJoe

Aliveguy1 wrote:

just like they used to...u get a mailing listing all the pearl jam shows...u can get 2 tickets/show....you preorder them....pearl jam gets everyone's requests...randomly assigns location for fan club members and the remainder goes on sale to general public. that would be ideal.

It's true, the internet is really the root cause of all these problems.

josevolution

MattyJoe wrote:

It's true, the internet is really the root cause of all these problems.

i agree but 10c probably just doesn't wan't to hassle with the mail orders anymore the internet does blow big time .....

BinFrog

MattyJoe wrote:

It's true, the internet is really the root cause of all these problems.

Yeah, and since the internet is on computers now, it's all downhill.

inglorious

Ok, I’ve come up with this suggestion after very little thought (which either means my idea is not very good, or the problem not very difficult…and it may well be already in place in different guises for all I know). Anyway, prepare to shoot this down…

- tickets are sold on a ‘first come, first served’ basis via an online company

- tickets are not actually issued; the credit card used to buy them will be used on the door to verify entry (maybe a ticket issuing machine, or hand held device for door staff).

- if tickets are not needed/wanted, they can be made available through the original vendor, for sale at face value and refunded if sold. If you want them to go to a specific person, a trading process would allow this to be done (again, face value only). In either case, ownership of the tickets will be passed to the credit card of the person that will actually enter the gig

The current process only works for scalpers because they have physical tickets to trade. Once you introduce an element of proving your ID at the door, that’s eliminated.

The only major problem that I can see is managing this at the venue…but it shouldn’t be beyond the wit of man to devise something to cope with this and not add too much time.

I’m sure it can’t be this easy. What am I missing?

Rob

rubi76

josevolution wrote:

i agree but 10c probably just doesn't wan't to hassle with the mail orders anymore the internet does blow big time .....

The could do the same on the internet, no need to do mail orders.
Imagine if a tenclub member would have a week to log on into pj.com, and order the shows they want, 2 tix max per show.

The problem:
TM doesn't accept an MSG full of fans. They don't make the same $ that they would make by selling to scalpers, or through other 'channels', reserved seating, hot package, auction, ticketexchange, blah blah.
In a concert without fan clubs, the front or better seats might have the face value of other seats, but rarely they are sold for the face value.