10 Club GA pit ticket exchange post - Updated

SPEEDY MCCREADY

I dont need a ticket.

FlannelGal

Long list, but might as well add me! Have to start the search as some point! I'm hoping for 4, but I'm not holding my breath - also doesn't need to be GA.

PJ_Soul

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

I dont need a ticket.

Do you have one?

driowa

Add me...looking for 2 GAs. Thanks!

Wicksta

OK so everybody don't get too excited...I have a spare ticket but it's NOT GA. It's actually a 10 Club upper deck seat and I believe seated tickets were allocated on 10C membership seniority and I haven't been a member for that long, so the seat will be way, way, back....but if you're like me and are just happy to be there, PM me and it's yours. First in, first served, face value obviously.

Hope I can help someone out!

Karmaholic1

People who had GA for Springsteen at Wrigley were handed out sequentially numbered wristbands; a few hours later, a random number was drawn, and everyone with the next numbers after the random number were lined up. So it didn't matter if you were camped out for 3 days-if your wristband number was picked, you were first, etc. Don't know if this will happen for PJ though.

Please add me to the long list - looking for 2 - doesn't have to be GA, but that would sure be nice.

PJ_Soul

Karmaholic1 wrote:

People who had GA for Springsteen at Wrigley were handed out sequentially numbered wristbands; a few hours later, a random number was drawn, and everyone with the next numbers after the random number were lined up. So it didn't matter if you were camped out for 3 days-if your wristband number was picked, you were first, etc. Don't know if this will happen for PJ though.

Please add me to the long list - looking for 2 - doesn't have to be GA, but that would sure be nice.

That's a fantastic idea IMO, and others will fucking riot if they try it.

81

PJ_Soul wrote:

Karmaholic1 wrote:

People who had GA for Springsteen at Wrigley were handed out sequentially numbered wristbands; a few hours later, a random number was drawn, and everyone with the next numbers after the random number were lined up. So it didn't matter if you were camped out for 3 days-if your wristband number was picked, you were first, etc. Don't know if this will happen for PJ though.

Please add me to the long list - looking for 2 - doesn't have to be GA, but that would sure be nice.

That's a fantastic idea IMO, and others will fucking riot if they try it.

it's called GA for a reason. :fp:

mvw

dimitrispearljam wrote:

still searching!!

Hey, me too!

kasedoug

Karmaholic1 wrote:

People who had GA for Springsteen at Wrigley were handed out sequentially numbered wristbands; a few hours later, a random number was drawn, and everyone with the next numbers after the random number were lined up. So it didn't matter if you were camped out for 3 days-if your wristband number was picked, you were first, etc. Don't know if this will happen for PJ though.

Springsteen does this for all of his shows. There's a pit area of GA that's sectioned off from the rest of GA. The drawing is for access to the pit. The person drawn is first and then the rest in sequential order until capacity is reached. The rest file into regular GA.

PJ_Soul

81 wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

Karmaholic1 wrote:

People who had GA for Springsteen at Wrigley were handed out sequentially numbered wristbands; a few hours later, a random number was drawn, and everyone with the next numbers after the random number were lined up. So it didn't matter if you were camped out for 3 days-if your wristband number was picked, you were first, etc. Don't know if this will happen for PJ though.

Please add me to the long list - looking for 2 - doesn't have to be GA, but that would sure be nice.

That's a fantastic idea IMO, and others will fucking riot if they try it.

it's called GA for a reason. :fp:

Yeah, because there are no assigned seats.
I just think it is a good idea as someone who would never wait long than maybe an hour in a GA lineup!

81

lotto's suck.

if you want up front, get in line early. if you don't care, get in line late.

dougfloyd

81 wrote:

lotto's suck.

if you want up front, get in line early. if you don't care, get in line late.

OMG, now we have a lottery for the spot in GA?? :fp:

What's next, does everybody have to trade spots every few songs during the show so everybody in GA gets a chance to be on the rail? I'm fine with lottery for tickets, it's not perfect but it makes sense to me why it should be done. But if I was standing in the GA line all day long and right before the show they picked where the line will start I would be so pissed!

81

dougfloyd wrote:

81 wrote:

lotto's suck.

if you want up front, get in line early. if you don't care, get in line late.

OMG, now we have a lottery for the spot in GA?? :fp:

What's next, does everybody have to trade spots every few songs during the show so everybody in GA gets a chance to be on the rail? I'm fine with lottery for tickets, it's not perfect but it makes sense to me why it should be done. But if I was standing in the GA line all day long and right before the show they picked where the line will start I would be so pissed!

it's only fair in the new world we live in.

dimitrispearljam

mvw wrote:

dimitrispearljam wrote:

still searching!!

Hey, me too!

lawguy

Bump!

Still looking for a GA if anyone has an extra.

dimitrispearljam

lawguy wrote:

Bump!

Still looking for a GA if anyone has an extra.

good luck

MG79478

dougfloyd wrote:

81 wrote:

lotto's suck.

if you want up front, get in line early. if you don't care, get in line late.

OMG, now we have a lottery for the spot in GA?? :fp:

What's next, does everybody have to trade spots every few songs during the show so everybody in GA gets a chance to be on the rail? I'm fine with lottery for tickets, it's not perfect but it makes sense to me why it should be done. But if I was standing in the GA line all day long and right before the show they picked where the line will start I would be so pissed!

For a while now, I've been posting about this... why is the lottery good for tickets, yet bad for other things like venue entry and limited merchandise? (I personally think it's always bad.) Its just completely illogical to think that the lottery makes sense for tickets, but not for venue entry. You'd be pissed if you stood in line all night for venue entry and the handed out bracelets, but not if you stood outside for tickets all night and they handed out bracelets?

Once we lower our standards to accept a lottery for tickets, the bar will slowly be lowered until we accept lotteries for more and more things. Now it seems ridiculous to think that something like college admissions would be chosen by lottery instead of merit... but we used to feel the same way back in the day when you had to wait in line all night for the best concert tickets. We used to think that they guy who showed up in line first because he wanted the best tickets, deserved to have them.

lawguy

[/quote] For a while now, I've been posting about this... why is the lottery good for tickets, yet bad for other things like venue entry and limited merchandise? (I personally think it's always bad.) Its just completely illogical to think that the lottery makes sense for tickets, but not for venue entry. You'd be pissed if you stood in line all night for venue entry and the handed out bracelets, but not if you stood outside for tickets all night and they handed out bracelets?

Once we lower our standards to accept a lottery for tickets, the bar will slowly be lowered until we accept lotteries for more and more things. Now it seems ridiculous to think that something like college admissions would be chosen by lottery instead of merit... but we used to feel the same way back in the day when you had to wait in line all night for the best concert tickets. We used to think that they guy who showed up in line first because he wanted the best tickets, deserved to have them.[/quote]

The lottery is good for tickets because they are available to all fan club members across the world at one specific time. Due to time zones differences, work schedules, etc., it is literally impossible for everyone who wants to try for tickets to be at a computer for the 10-20 minutes before a show sells out. That is different than venue entry. Venue entry is limited to the people that have tickets and are 100% going to the building. You generally have months to plan your schedule before a show happens (versus only a couple days notice of tickets going on sale) so you can arrange to be there early if you want to get in line. Other people prefer hanging out at the bar before a show and going in right when it starts. Long story short, its much more even of a playing field for things like venue entry and merchandise because you will all be in the same area at the same time.

dougfloyd

MG79478 wrote:

dougfloyd wrote:

81 wrote:

lotto's suck.

if you want up front, get in line early. if you don't care, get in line late.

OMG, now we have a lottery for the spot in GA?? :fp:

What's next, does everybody have to trade spots every few songs during the show so everybody in GA gets a chance to be on the rail? I'm fine with lottery for tickets, it's not perfect but it makes sense to me why it should be done. But if I was standing in the GA line all day long and right before the show they picked where the line will start I would be so pissed!

For a while now, I've been posting about this... why is the lottery good for tickets, yet bad for other things like venue entry and limited merchandise? (I personally think it's always bad.) Its just completely illogical to think that the lottery makes sense for tickets, but not for venue entry. You'd be pissed if you stood in line all night for venue entry and the handed out bracelets, but not if you stood outside for tickets all night and they handed out bracelets?

Once we lower our standards to accept a lottery for tickets, the bar will slowly be lowered until we accept lotteries for more and more things. Now it seems ridiculous to think that something like college admissions would be chosen by lottery instead of merit... but we used to feel the same way back in the day when you had to wait in line all night for the best concert tickets. We used to think that they guy who showed up in line first because he wanted the best tickets, deserved to have them.

I have no problem with the first come first served system for concert tickets for public sales via Ticketmaster, etc. But I see how the lottery for 10club tickets is reasonable because we are all paying a membership for a chance to get tickets to shows and with the lottery everybody gets the same chance. That's where I see the difference.