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quite an onsale experience

slug420slug420 Posts: 316
edited July 2013 in Given To Fly (live)
I have historically gotten 10c tickets about 60%-75% of the time....for this on sale I wanted hartford, worcester, brooklyn 1 and 2. All I got was hartford.

Public onsale I had about 10 friends trying from different places to get tickets for me for all of those shows...and collectively we got 0. Got "in line" immediatly and then 20 minutes later got a sold out notification. The captchas were pathetic and in some instances were repeating so I wouldnt be surprised if the bots grabbed em all instantly...

I have been buying concert tickets for close to 20 years now and this is one of the worst results I have ever had, especially considering it included a fan club presale and a public onsale.

I am sure im not the only one who got shut out but I just had to vent....so pissed that im going to probably have to pay way over face on ebay to some scalper.

/rant

btw...cant wait for hartford! :)
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  • slug420slug420 Posts: 316
    oh and to add insult to injury I got "I just bought tickets!" as my captcha like 10 times.
  • JoshoeuhJoshoeuh Posts: 167
    I got pretty lucky in the end that I was able to obtain tickets at all, but I lost much better seats than what I inevitably settled for at the end of the process after I'd entered all my info and pressed the final Submit.

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  • YouGotRONDO-dYouGotRONDO-d Posts: 42
    Frustration on my end too. After close to three dozen times I finally got two seats...albeit nose bleeds behind the stage. Ticketmaster continues to disappoint, but at least I got a pair. It's funny too how floor seats and upper balcony are all the same price. This makes zero sense.
  • MS29359MS29359 Posts: 9
    FC member for 17 years and 36 shows and the club showed me the sandpaper instead of the lube for this tour. Such a shame...Add a second worchester FC show guys!!
  • YouGotRONDO-dYouGotRONDO-d Posts: 42
    They tend to do two Boston area shows, but I guess not this time around.
  • rawlsrawls Posts: 15
    So thankful for the 10c lottery. I got GA tickets for Hartford but I'm 5'1 and my husband cant hold me on his shoulders anymore! The lottery didn't work out for Barclays though, and we were quite disappointed by the Ticket Bastard experience this morning too. Next time I am going to get my ass out of bed and drive to the closest Ticket Bastard outlet and buy tickets there. I am done with this online BS. If PJ could do something about it they would. There are not enough venues where TB doesn't have a stranglehold. It's settle for TB venues or don't see them at all. I'll take my side stage (Mike's side!) Barclays tickets over nothing at all. Grateful to be on line for our 20th and 21st shows!
  • Sobelberg8Sobelberg8 Posts: 985
    I got into Hartford 5 minutes after it went on sale. Brooklyn was a pain in the ass. I wasn't getting in, and then this girl at work decided to try and was able to get into BOTH shows an hour after they went on sale. Tix are behind the stage but I could care less at this point. The crappy part is that I decided to buy Charlotte tickets (the only show that I could actually find tix to) so I can sell to overpay for Brooklyn and now I don't have to. This was a huge pain in the ass and my condolences to those who came up short this morning.

    On that note, I have two Charlotte's for sale. Maybe I'll give them up for close to face ;)
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  • jt4266jt4266 Posts: 37
    The lottery system...well to be nice about it, it needs work. Myself and 3 other people I know were shutout entirely from both Brooklyn shows and 4 people trying to get tickets this morning on Ticketmaster had no luck. Only my friend who went to a ticketmaster kiosk was able to get tickets...who knew they even existing.

    I prefer the old system, even if I did have to try for hours to get tix. At least I would usually end up with something!
  • AF37698AF37698 Posts: 2
    Remember when we could just check off the shows we wanted, gave em our credit card number, and we were guaranteed tickets? They might not have been the best tickets (based on seniority), but we knew they were the best we could get AND we didn't have to deal with TM.

    Spent the last two hours with my mom frantically trying for Pittsburgh and the two Barclays shows. Got two sets of crap tickets to P'burgh and Night 1 of Barclays. Nada for Night 2. Bought 2 Floor (ten club reselling??) tickets to P'burgh off StubHub and will hopefully sell the 4 crap from TM tix I have for that night to break even. StubHub not even offering tix to Barclays. They're up on TicketsNow for HUNDREDS to THOUSANDS EACH. Ugh.

    Just wanted to reminisce about the good old days. I remember going to the post office for a money order to send the 10c.

    Mind you, I'm 30. I'm too young to be reminiscing! Just bring back the old way cause this lottery did not work out so well.
  • MeijinMeijin Posts: 51
    Managed to snag an LA2 on TM after getting shut out of LA on the lottery. Completely blanked on San Diego; if I wind up going I guess it's broker city there, but prices already look outrageous.

    It's a far cry from the days of frantically reloading for tickets a la '06 through '10; while those were nail-biters, I managed to see every show I wanted to see at a fair price. This, I got one and barely got a second.

    I'd love to see the process change a bit to allow catching more shows local. I understand that perhaps the organization doesn't want people to get blocked out of their hometown shows by people coming from all over the place bearing greater seniority than Stone. Still, the '06 tour from Vegas to SF was one of my favorite memories and I hate to think I'm going to have to struggle for tix. Not abandoning 10C, just voicing my opinion that this new system could be improved.

    (Maybe 10C members express interest/commitment farther in advance and use that when negotiating with venues & ticketing cos for a guaranteed take on 10C tix? "We have XYZ cash-in-hand commitments"... Could also help with tour planning & routing, no?)
  • CarmineGCarmineG Posts: 30
    Ticketmaster website is maddening. I was refreshing from 9:40am every second - soon as search form popped up I searched for 2 tix to Brooklyn 1 (got Brooklyn 2 through 10c lottery, so very happy about that!) and still now - at 1:45pm EST the black circle is spinning and ticketmaster is still searching for tickets for me. :shock:
  • berje2000berje2000 Posts: 4
    Got shut out on TC tix (4 brooklyn requests) and all i could find were garbage seats through TM today. God bless TC for trying, but the system for this tour was a complete whiff. If you know that NY and Philly and LA are the most popular cities, then why not stagger those cities' on-sale dates so that people who live there can find out whether they need to put in for other cities? I would have flown anywhere in the country to see one or two shows (and if work permitted, i would have flown to every single one of the shows), but be reasonable TC, if i get tix in my backyard and somehow wind up with tix in five other cities, then what am I supposed to do? Get stuck holding the bag? Not cool.
  • tcadd94tcadd94 North Jersey Posts: 611
    rawls wrote:
    So thankful for the 10c lottery. I got GA tickets for Hartford but I'm 5'1 and my husband cant hold me on his shoulders anymore! The lottery didn't work out for Barclays though, and we were quite disappointed by the Ticket Bastard experience this morning too. Next time I am going to get my ass out of bed and drive to the closest Ticket Bastard outlet and buy tickets there. I am done with this online BS. If PJ could do something about it they would. There are not enough venues where TB doesn't have a stranglehold. It's settle for TB venues or don't see them at all. I'll take my side stage (Mike's side!) Barclays tickets over nothing at all. Grateful to be on line for our 20th and 21st shows!

    I hear ya. I plan on going to a Ticketmaster outlet next time, this online nonsense is too aggravating. Still hunting down tickets for Brooklyn to see my first show!
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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,757
    today felt like 1996 all over again. crazy how in demand this tour is!
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
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