Soundgarden Tour

pjsteelerfan

Honestly, the first 3-4 times I tried, it kept saying no tickets available. But on my 5th-6th try I got them. I can still pull singles and doubles for Monmouth. But that show may not be as in demand as others. I only picked it since I used to live within walking distance from the campus growing up and my brother's still live 5 minutes away.

Newch91

badbrains wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. I couldn't get 2 for GA. I got 2 tickets for Wallingford in section 204, row YY, seats 3 and 4.

At 10 sharp I was on, entered 2 for GA and it had nothing.

I think the fuckers at borgata held all the tix! I was quick and on a fast computer with ZERO tix available. Something's fishy.

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

pjsteelerfan

Newch91 wrote:

badbrains wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. I couldn't get 2 for GA. I got 2 tickets for Wallingford in section 204, row YY, seats 3 and 4.

At 10 sharp I was on, entered 2 for GA and it had nothing.

I think the fuckers at borgata held all the tix! I was quick and on a fast computer with ZERO tix available. Something's fishy.

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

Also, I just picked best available and not GA. And try just scoring GA one ticket at a time- that works for me sometimes as well.

badbrains

Newch91 wrote:

badbrains wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. I couldn't get 2 for GA. I got 2 tickets for Wallingford in section 204, row YY, seats 3 and 4.

At 10 sharp I was on, entered 2 for GA and it had nothing.

I think the fuckers at borgata held all the tix! I was quick and on a fast computer with ZERO tix available. Something's fishy.

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

Getting tix these days is an out right joke. Something has to be done.

Newch91

pjsteelerfan wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

Also, I just picked best available and not GA. And try just scoring GA one ticket at a time- that works for me sometimes as well.

I think I'll be fine. I'm in the orchestra section, just far back. Hopefully the sound isn't too bad like people have said. Oakdale Theater holds only 5,000.

pjsteelerfan

Newch91 wrote:

pjsteelerfan wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

Also, I just picked best available and not GA. And try just scoring GA one ticket at a time- that works for me sometimes as well.

I think I'll be fine. I'm in the orchestra section, just far back. Hopefully the sound isn't too bad like people have said. Oakdale Theater holds only 5,000.

When I saw them in DC the sound was fine. I've read more reviews where the sound was good, not sure what happened on the west coast with them. Seems that was where most of the trouble was.

MaxGoldenrod

No problems getting a pair for the 2nd Atlanta show.

red mos

ok, so it's almost 10 am, and no link for Houston?? Figured tickmaster might do the presale, but they aren't doing a presale until March 14th here's to hoping for a link at 10 am :?

No link, so I guess no presale through fan club- great! :nono: :evil:

Spoony C

Newch91 wrote:

Agreed. Something is going on. I'm in the computer lab at school with perfect connection and I couldn't believe it. It's just ridiculous that at exactly 10, no GA tickets were available.

While I don't disagree that the ticket business is shady, it's not that surprising to click at exactly the sale time and still get no hits. In my market (Louisville), they're playing an approximately 3000-seat theater. Assume 10% of tickets available for the "fan club" presale (based very loosely on the ballpark figures we've been given in the past by Ten Club for PJ sales, though it's probably apples and oranges), and that's 300 tickets that were available at 10:00. And they could be bought in quantities of up to four--so, conceivably, the first 75 people in the entire Louisville area (or with interest in getting to Louisville for the show) could eat up all the tickets immediately--which is to say, have tickets in their cart that are blocked from other users looking at until they're bought or the transaction is cancelled. And surely there were more than 75 of us trying to log on for that show.

It was about ten minutes of "none available" and re-entering my request before I had tickets pop up, probably because someone timed out trying to find their credit card number or something. Once a pair of tickets showed up on my screen, I grabbed them, even if they were four rows from the back wall of the theater. I'm glad to be in.

And I keep putting "fan club" in quotes above, because this wasn't a protected fan club sale, like 10C (where, whether it's F5 or lottery, you have to go through the fan club website as an active member) or like U2, where each member gets a unique password with a limit on the number of tickets it will buy. This was a mass mailing to anyone who wanted to sign up for the mailing list, with a password common to all recipients that could be passed around to anyone. So there's no keeping scalpers/brokers from taking advantage of the password to lock up tickets early. I'm just relieved there was at least an attempt at keeping it fan-friendly by limiting orders to 4 tickets--there have been several arena shows recently where the presales all had 8 or 10-ticket limits, which is super scalper-friendly (they can gobble up more tickets in fewer transactions). The system is incredibly crooked (and always has been, even going back to the "camping in line at a record store" era), and we all suffer for it as fans as long as we value the live experience enough to put up with it.

cmm6734

I guess Houston isn't getting them today.

Spoony C

Houston was the one city in the e-mail that didn't have a hyperlink, so it must not have been part of today's presale.

red mos

Spoony C wrote:

Houston was the one city in the e-mail that didn't have a hyperlink, so it must not have been part of today's presale.

which sucks cause the BMC has a website, guess they are strictly partnered with Live Nation for presale, and theirs is March 14rth

Jenfarr

badbrains wrote:

I think the fuckers at borgata held all the tix! I was quick and on a fast computer with ZERO tix available. Something's fishy.

Hmmm, I was busy earlier this moring so I just tried for Borgata tickets and got two! So try again!

Release Me

tickets for the worcester show just went up. soundgarden in a club is going to be insane.

Of The Aggie

Does anyone know what the $75 club seating was for the Austin show? Just picked up two GAs but the club ones were sold out? I know in the past Austin Music Hall has set aside some VIP reserved seating on the balcony. Maybe that was those. Wonder if the C3 presale will have the option for reserved seating. I truly hate Austin Music Hall. Their seating and acoustics suck big time. Wonder why they didn't play ACL Live and I guess they can't sell out the Erwin Center anymore.

badbrains

Jenfarr wrote:

badbrains wrote:

I think the fuckers at borgata held all the tix! I was quick and on a fast computer with ZERO tix available. Something's fishy.

Hmmm, I was busy earlier this moring so I just tried for Borgata tickets and got two! So try again!

It's fucken 1:40 and I got tix how the fuck!!! Something's weird. Almost 4 hrs later and I got em! Wow

Blind3

STOKED . My dear friend Dream Traveller (YOU DA MAN , er, WOMAN !!!!) scored me a Borgata ticket . I was in at 1000 sharp and nada. Almost one hour later, she scored one for her . Truth being stranger than fiction, she then went back in and scored one for me. Not sure what hijinks were up , but everything worked out in the end.

Newch91

You must be out of your fucking mind, Live Nation! You screw up, claiming there was a "glitch" and want me to pay $30 each for my two tickets. You screwed up by not preparing, in the case of a glitch, and you want to screw me over.

Part of the email they sent me:

Dear Soundgarden fan,

A technical glitch prevented your presale password from scoring pit seats for you at your upcoming event, and we’d like to give you the chance to upgrade to pit tickets.

Soundgarden
Oakdale
Friday, May 17th at 8:00PM

What do I need to do?

There is an additional charge of $30.00 per ticket if you would like to upgrade to pit seating. To get the upgrade, just reply to this email with your permission to charge your card the difference in price...

Newch91

I've calmed down now. I took the upgrade. I'm still not convinced there was a "glitch" in the system this morning.

Atomic Punk

I got 4 GA tix around 7PM for Monmouth