Europe 2012 Ticket Pre-sale Update

wolfamongwolves

In the US if they add shows to a tour, everyone gets a heads-up on the site plenty of time in advance. Why not here?

In the aftermath of probably the biggest PR disaster in the band's history, they had the perfect opportunity make amends, to bandage the wound. Instead, they rub salt in it.This is utterly disgraceful.

Well done, everyone who was lucky enough to be online and grab tickets while they could. I picked a bad time to look away from the screen.

Ojay

CloudDog23 for primeminister!!
Standing tickets for me and the crew for the Thursday night. YEAH BOY!!!

Ojay

[quote="scribblechap"No, the band won't be happy with the way things turned out, but the community kicked in and solved problems for a number of people.[/quote]

Fuck yeah!!

ericlered

Just seen this too late to get standing for night 2 sadly.

Will be looking for one spare if anybody has one, pm me thanks!

Jamie_The_CFH

if anyone is looking to sell/ exchange/ part exchange 2X Berlin standing tickets, I've got 2X standing tickets for both the Manchester shows...really need to get my hands on Berlin standing tickets! It's a matter of life and misery!

Regards,

Jamie.

flintstoned

Aren't Berlin tix personalized?

Jamie_The_CFH

ah, nightmare... Not so good! ho hum! :(

Jamie_The_CFH

...I've found a few people trying to sell their Berlin tickets online...are they trying to pull a fast one, or is there a way to get around the personalized ticket situation?

flintstoned

I don't know. It sucks a little bit. I get that the prices are high anyway and it is some way to cut off the scalpers, but then again - my buddy has little kids and doesn't know if he'll be able to go. In another situation such people would be able to book tix and then resell them for face value.

Ah, just complaining. There is no perfect solution I guess.

Dr Emmett Brown

Berlin tickets are definitely personalized - mine have my wife and I's names on them

Tine

I think if you sell or buy tickets through the tickets.de ticket exchange (http://pearljam.tickets.de/en/customer/ticketbox), they take care of the personalization issue as well.

Jamie_The_CFH

ah, that's not good...really wanted to get Berlin tickets,even at inflated prices!

Thanks for your help though folks...I would have felt even worse if I had bought the tickets only to find out they are invalid! I've emailed tickets.de to see what they say about it, but I'm not holding my breath! Ah well, looks like the girlfriend will miss out! :(

Pegasus

Rossum20 wrote:

At this point, I actually think this was the best way to do it...word spreads through the fan base and on here and it takes MUCH longer for scalpers to catch the scent and buy up all the tickets....some people will still unfortunately get the short end of the stick, but considering the ticketing system they had setup failed miserably, there werent too many options to explore at this point (right now)


Obviously the whole process needs a complete makeover, but if they gave advanced notice even with a presale, i guarantee more GOOD tickets would end up on the secondary market than they will now.

first I heard of it was an email from a ticket agency, so I can guarantee you the scalpers knew about it before any one of us!

Turnout Trout

So having been a 10C member and forking out my $50 annual subscription to get pre sale ticket opportunities, I found that laike many others I was left "supposedly sabotaged".

So had to join the general public who hadn't paid $50 to try and get a ticket for Manchester and surprise surpirse all the standing tickets (the only way to see a band) had gone.

So I had to resort to a bona fide agent paying £10 per ticket more than my 10C membership would have cost me.Then only to find out that a second date had been added - no notice to 10c members regarding this, no pre sale opportunity.

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. Okay a get to see PJ again and will enjoy every second of the experience AS ALWAYS (probably go back for 2nd night as well).

But 10C and Pearl Jam sort this out, $50 for nothing this year!

booksandjealousytellmewrong

Jamie_The_CFH wrote:

...I've found a few people trying to sell their Berlin tickets online...are they trying to pull a fast one, or is there a way to get around the personalized ticket situation?

There is a facility on tickets.de to change names for a fee of 5 euro. Assuming thats where you got them.

Good luck.

Tez

Turnout Trout wrote:

So having been a 10C member and forking out my $50 annual subscription to get pre sale ticket opportunities, I found that laike many others I was left "supposedly sabotaged".

So had to join the general public who hadn't paid $50 to try and get a ticket for Manchester and surprise surpirse all the standing tickets (the only way to see a band) had gone.

So I had to resort to a bona fide agent paying £10 per ticket more than my 10C membership would have cost me.Then only to find out that a second date had been added - no notice to 10c members regarding this, no pre sale opportunity.

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. Okay a get to see PJ again and will enjoy every second of the experience AS ALWAYS (probably go back for 2nd night as well).

But 10C and Pearl Jam sort this out, $50 for nothing this year!

My thoughts exactly, I may be going two nights in a row now, Suppose same as I had to pay per ticket last time they were in Manchester!

I think most people would be happy with at least being kept informed.

malc

I think they've been quite cute by simply letting it out via places like this....as most people on here are 10C subscribers. Or am I being naive and its another faux pas?

Monster Rain

When 2nd shows are added in this manner it's usually because there is an agreement to add a 2nd show if tickets to the 1st show sell out within a certain time. I don't remember if they've ever mentioned the possibility of a 2nd show being added beforehand (I think they may have in 1 or 2 cases) but it's definitely not something bands normally do. However, it would have been nice to let fans know about the possibility in this instance seeing as how the pre-sale went so badly. Even if it was just an e-mail sent out last night saying it was possible that a 2nd show could be added but they didn't know for sure and didn't have a set on-sale time.

Chrisilein

flintstoned wrote:

Now we wait for Berlin night 2 before 04.07. That would make a hell of a news.

Still so lucky to score Amsterdam + Berlin on the preseale.

Same here!

icemanap

Got Manchester tickets thanks to Joe, I think his username on here is Monkeywrench. The guy is a hero. Amazing how 10clubbers rally around together. Can't wait for Manchester now! Although the whole fiasco has left a bitter taste.