according to some its 10c's fault that they didnt score tkts through tm, and people want to sue tm because they are being asked verification questions.
Takes a sick mofo to even have a thought like that cross their mind...
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nah just want to get ticketmaster back, scalpers get tickets easy they have a lot of $ some of them especially the big broker companies, they have easily 10 computers going at one time, and from what I reado n this forum some people here use 1 phone and 1 laptop at the same time that only 2 connection so whatever, but scalpers have many, and it appears as THOUGH TICKETMASTER ALLOWS PEOPLE TO ACCESS THEIR ACCOUNT FROM MULTIPLE INTERNET OUTLETS ALL AT ONE TIME? SO I CAN BE LOGGED ON TO 10 DIFFERENT THINGS FOR EXAMPLE THAT HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION BUT THEN USE THE 1 ACCOUNT FOR ALL THOSE CONNECTIONS? THAT IS NOT FAIR EITHER, ticketmaster has many problems like this for example
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WHY CANT TICKETMASTER BE SUED IF THEY ARE DOING THINGS UNFAIR? THEY SAY THEY TYPE THE WORDS TO PREVENT BOTS BUT NOTHING IS BEING DONE TO "AC TUALLY PREVENT BOTS AND SCALPERS FROM TAKING BETWEEN 7-12 PERCENT OF TICEKTS TO ALL SHOWS.. look at Calgary on stubhub 1866 available last I saw that that arena hold 18k ish, so 10 percent of tickets went to scalpers
THERE IS WAY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM MAYBE? ONLY SELL TICKETS THE DAY OF THE SHOW? would that cause a riot? if not great idea first come first serve at the stadium, or have a stadium first sale where so many seats get sold at the stadium to begin with, like if a place holds 20,000 people . have a sale at the stadium for the best 10k seats, then sell the last 10k online, not fair to allow online all the tickets clearly the scalpers have figure out how to get the best seats for the most part in the public sales
they have gone a little too far, for this la sd show, ocne in a while instead of typing the box text it asks for which is hard sometimes I cnat read it, they ask multiple choice questions most of them are idiot questions, but I got one on usa poltics who barried in grants tomb, and some other weird one, this is kind of something they could get sued for? wtf does someone have to answer a multiple choice question to get tickets wtf :nono:
It was ridiculous! I never have been asked so many stupid questions and I couldn't even read half of them! I would have gotten way better seats if they didn't do that and waste my time!
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they have gone a little too far, for this la sd show, ocne in a while instead of typing the box text it asks for which is hard sometimes I cnat read it, they ask multiple choice questions most of them are idiot questions, but I got one on usa poltics who barried in grants tomb, and some other weird one, this is kind of something they could get sued for? wtf does someone have to answer a multiple choice question to get tickets wtf :nono:
It was ridiculous! I never have been asked so many stupid questions and I couldn't even read half of them! I would have gotten way better seats if they didn't do that and waste my time!
yes I agree sometimes I get a bad word on first try and it wastes time thinking I could of get better seats if you can actually read the words every time,
what ticketmaster does that should be illegal, is they allow 1 account to log in to multi internet connections, so 1 account can be on 10 connections for example that is not fair. it should be 1 internet connection an account or else it gets cancelled, wouldn't stop scalping but might make it a little harder, the scalpers would have to use many email addresses and accounts then
also saying suing ticketmaster is ridiculous, so was suing mcdonalds for spilling coffee on yourself, but people won that lawsuit, people win lawsuits for dumb stuff.
ticketmaster asked a question about a president multiple choice who is barried in grants tomb? not everyone buying tickets is American, that is a racist question, why didn't they ask a question about argentina or something, then people would bitch about it too, that can be looked at as racist, why are you asking political questions that have nothing to do with a ticket sale?
I had decent seats and lost them because the Ticketmaster website couldn't process my request. Thankfully, I was able to get tickets, but they are nosebleeds sideview seats. Better than nothing.
First off, I've been shut out of many shows over the years, especially when I lived in NY. Ticketmaster has some shady practices but this is not all their fault. It's just supply and demand.
Let's say every single ticket for the Key Arena show was available to the buying public. Nothing put aside for 10C, the band, the crew, arena employees, etc. 20,000 tickets give or take.
Ticketmaster.com can process roughly 1000 orders per minute. I read this in a Wired or Gizmodo article before. Each person can buy four tickets. Therefore in one minute 4000 tickets gone. Five minutes - 20,000 tickets gone.
And realize that it's not just Seattle people putting in for this show. If this board is somewhat representative - many people all over the country are vying for this show. Some people around the world. Everyone has an equal, but poor chance at the tickets. What are we saying - 100,000 trying for a show? Let's be conservative - 50,000. That's 30,000 people getting shut out. That's a hell of a lot of people complaining about no tickets and feeling they were wronged somehow. If 10% of the buyers bought solely to resell on Stubhub, then pretty soon, you'll see 2000 tickets for the show available for inflated prices. Again, that's 30,000 people who are going to feel they got screwed.
And that is if every ticket was available and with an admittedly made up # of 50,000 people looking for tickets. Honestly, I think more people did. They were fewer tickets available and the reason for that is not entirely all bullshit. My guess is probably 10,000 tickets were available today?
Does TM put aside some tickets for their own resale? I don't know, maybe, probably. And that's wrong, but that number is going to be negligible when your demand is as a high as for a band that is as big as Pearl Jam.
Look, it's frustrating and I remember being broken-hearted at 15 years old when I was next in line and the seller came out and told us no more Grateful Dead tickets. And yes, some of the ways people get tickets to resell sucks, but to put it out there that the buying public is systematically being screwed - sorry I just don't see it.
Thanks for reading this. I'll sit back and watch people tear apart my argument now
also saying suing ticketmaster is ridiculous, so was suing mcdonalds for spilling coffee on yourself, but people won that lawsuit, people win lawsuits for dumb stuff.
some might say that mcdonalds was dumb for serving coffee that hot
just saying, that shit melted someones private parts :shock:
The scalpers will always be a step ahead of the regular folks that just want to go. It has always been that way. Back to the day ticket sellers were regional.
First off, I've been shut out of many shows over the years, especially when I lived in NY. Ticketmaster has some shady practices but this is not all their fault. It's just supply and demand.
Let's say every single ticket for the Key Arena show was available to the buying public. Nothing put aside for 10C, the band, the crew, arena employees, etc. 20,000 tickets give or take.
Ticketmaster.com can process roughly 1000 orders per minute. I read this in a Wired or Gizmodo article before. Each person can buy four tickets. Therefore in one minute 4000 tickets gone. Five minutes - 20,000 tickets gone.
And realize that it's not just Seattle people putting in for this show. If this board is somewhat representative - many people all over the country are vying for this show. Some people around the world. Everyone has an equal, but poor chance at the tickets. What are we saying - 100,000 trying for a show? Let's be conservative - 50,000. That's 30,000 people getting shut out. That's a hell of a lot of people complaining about no tickets and feeling they were wronged somehow. If 10% of the buyers bought solely to resell on Stubhub, then pretty soon, you'll see 2000 tickets for the show available for inflated prices. Again, that's 30,000 people who are going to feel they got screwed.
And that is if every ticket was available and with an admittedly made up # of 50,000 people looking for tickets. Honestly, I think more people did. They were fewer tickets available and the reason for that is not entirely all bullshit. My guess is probably 10,000 tickets were available today?
Does TM put aside some tickets for their own resale? I don't know, maybe, probably. And that's wrong, but that number is going to be negligible when your demand is as a high as for a band that is as big as Pearl Jam.
Look, it's frustrating and I remember being broken-hearted at 15 years old when I was next in line and the seller came out and told us no more Grateful Dead tickets. And yes, some of the ways people get tickets to resell sucks, but to put it out there that the buying public is systematically being screwed - sorry I just don't see it.
Thanks for reading this. I'll sit back and watch people tear apart my argument now
You also have to keep in mind contracts that are in place at many venues. Premium seats, usually the best ones, are often sold as NHL, NBA, and special events. For instance look at Dallas, you can buy access to the premium seats at center court/ center ice and have the first right of refusal for concert tickets.
Also, TM sucks but I don't want to sue them. Capitalism is great.
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THE FACT IS TICKETMASTER IS A JOKE, FOR YOU GUYS BASHING ME YOUR ALL FUCKIN IDIOTS AND I WANT TO KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. TICKETMASTER IS SOME FUCKIN BULLSHIT, THEY SAY PUT THE ANSWER IN THE BOX OR TYPE A WORD SOMETIMES YOU CANT READ IN THE BOX, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PREVENT BOTS, YET 1000S OF BOTS ACCESS THERE SITE THAT HOW ALL THE TICKETS GET GOBBLED UP SO FAST
IT NOT FANS GETTING ALL THE TICKETS ARE YOU FUCKIN STUPID. A GOOD COUPLE THOUSAND TICKETS A SHOW QUITE POSSIBLE EACH GO ONSALE ON EBAY AND STUBHUB, THERE IS BOT PROGREAMS THAT SCALPERS USE, TO GET LIKE 6 TICKETS LIMIT AT ONCE , OR WHATEVER THE LIMIT IS THE BEST, THEN THEY CAN REENTER THE SYSTEM AGAIN QUICK, I have a friend does computer he doesn't hack but says the scalpers hack the system with bots, ticketmaster is too stupid or cant stop it. it getting worse with the more computers
it better before when people line up in line waiting to get tickets that is more fair
Lol!!!!!
You realize people are laughing at you. Right? While you were throwing a fit here someone else offered up the tickets you needed in another thread. And they were taken by a nice fan. That could have been you. Lesson learned? Probably not.
Maybe you'll understand this
IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU GOT SCREWRD BECAUSE YOU TRIED TO CHEAT THE SYSYEM. ITS YOUR FAULT YOU BOUGHT THE WRONG TICKETS.
I knew there would be bitching today but this is just toddler gibberish.
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You also have to keep in mind contracts that are in place at many venues. Premium seats, usually the best ones, are often sold as NHL, NBA, and special events. For instance look at Dallas, you can buy access to the premium seats at center court/ center ice and have the first right of refusal for concert tickets.
Also, TM sucks but I don't want to sue them. Capitalism is great.[/quote]
Exactly. And I would guess that those people - a premium seat holder for the Mavericks who may not like Pearl Jam or Beyonce, or Bieber, or whoever, but he gets access to a prime seat early, buys it, and puts it straight on Stubhub because he knows he'll turn a profit. The hell with that guy from our perspective, but that's what he paid for when he bought those season tickets. It's just a really bitter pill to swallow for fans of the music.
1. Grant is buried in Grant's tomb. Not a hard question to answer.
2. There is nothing stopping someone from creating 100 accounts and being on 100 computers. So stop with the one account can log on multiple times. If anything, TM will probably prevent someone from locking two sets of tickets at the same time which is good for everyone.
3. When I was a kid we had to line-up in person outside the venue (which a lot of people did this time around). The venue would hold a lottery to determine your place in line. Five minutes before the lottery began, a van would pull up and about 10 homeless people would get out and line up for the ticket broker.
4. It was hard to get a good ticket to any show because 10c secured the good tickets for the fan club.
5. You could have used the phone app and not be asked any questions at all.
From what I can see, most of the people that I know that were trying for tickets got tickets.
Most of the people that got shut out of Wrigley got into Wrigley by being nice and going to the venue early the day of (Wrigley sold some tickets the day of) or went to the Wishlist party.
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THE FACT IS TICKETMASTER IS A JOKE, FOR YOU GUYS BASHING ME YOUR ALL FUCKIN IDIOTS AND I WANT TO KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. TICKETMASTER IS SOME FUCKIN BULLSHIT, THEY SAY PUT THE ANSWER IN THE BOX OR TYPE A WORD SOMETIMES YOU CANT READ IN THE BOX, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PREVENT BOTS, YET 1000S OF BOTS ACCESS THERE SITE THAT HOW ALL THE TICKETS GET GOBBLED UP SO FAST
IT NOT FANS GETTING ALL THE TICKETS ARE YOU FUCKIN STUPID. A GOOD COUPLE THOUSAND TICKETS A SHOW QUITE POSSIBLE EACH GO ONSALE ON EBAY AND STUBHUB, THERE IS BOT PROGREAMS THAT SCALPERS USE, TO GET LIKE 6 TICKETS LIMIT AT ONCE , OR WHATEVER THE LIMIT IS THE BEST, THEN THEY CAN REENTER THE SYSTEM AGAIN QUICK, I have a friend does computer he doesn't hack but says the scalpers hack the system with bots, ticketmaster is too stupid or cant stop it. it getting worse with the more computers
it better before when people line up in line waiting to get tickets that is more fair
Is this the drunk guy fucks a good time for everyone around him at a Pearl Jam show ?
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im guessing most people here have not been to many concerts. I have been to over 400 or 500 shows, I bet most of you people on here have not, ticketmaster gets worse and worse each year with what they release and you never know with these idiots
someone I got sd instead of la on the sale today when both were in my cart at same time and I try la first and it confirm I thought but then booted them out I guess and gave me sd for some reason
and the other thing with ticketmaster is that you never know with them, in Newark 2010 it kept coming shit seats for the first 30mins so I finaly pick a few so so singles, then like an hour and half later the best ticket I found is available, wtf . then today it the opposite. you never know with ticketmaster. it almost better to play college stadiums that don't use ticketmaster at least there still a handful of those.
the Spokane website worked better than any of the others I hear?
350 +++++ and counting. Your best set is to try and get tickets from a point of sale Ticketmaster outlet. Not the internet. Besides you have your tickets already.
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ticketmaster asked a question about a president multiple choice who is barried in grants tomb? not everyone buying tickets is American, that is a racist question[/b, why didn't they ask a question about argentina or something, then people would bitch about it too, that can be looked at as racist, why are you asking political questions that have nothing to do with a ticket sale?
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it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
im guessing most people here have not been to many concerts. I have been to over 400 or 500 shows, I bet most of you people on here have not, ticketmaster gets worse and worse each year with what they release and you never know with these idiots
Dude,
You would be surprised at the number of shows people have seen. This is a concert going community many of whom are in their 40s (and 50s).
In the olden times we would wait in line, in the rain or freezing cold, the night or even the day before tickets went on sale. And you always ended up sitting at the show with the people who were around you when you waited in line. Ahhh, kids of the 70's.
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where do all the good tickets go this is bullshit it gets worse every year imo and I been to over 400 concerts or more not all pj but the ticket situation is getting ridiculous with the more technology, half these fuckin tickets wind up on stubhub, who the fuck has the hacking codes to get all the good seats?
I got la floor from ticketmaster for night 1 lucky first 1 I picke,d but night 2 was bullshit bulled I thought a good single till I see now it says upper concourse so it must be a shit seat . san diego I cant even find a decent single, it like it sold out all the good seats for san diego in less than a minute :shock:
So you got a floor ticket to la, and another ticket to la 2, at face value.. And yet your throwing a fit?
Jesus.. Learn to be greatful and just be glad pearl jam is still playing and that your in the door for face value.
I knew I should have avoided the forum today
you a naïve idiot if you believe that, I was on the sites for the tickets within 20 seconds of them going on sale, how can all the good seats be gone within 20 seconds ? then you go to stubhub a few hours later and there is 100s of tickets for double or triple the price in the exact sections that were never available, its a monpoloy game they play, ticketmaster gets $ on side from stubhub I believe too, it too shady how it done
The good tickets weren't gone in 20 seconds... they just worded it badly, it should have read "High Demand, we are kicking you out due to congestion... please try again".
I got the same "High demand" messages for each of the 3 venues I scored tickets for, and I eventually got in.
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im guessing most people here have not been to many concerts. I have been to over 400 or 500 shows, I bet most of you people on here have not, ticketmaster gets worse and worse each year with what they release and you never know with these idiots
Dude,
You would be surprised at the number of shows people have seen. This is a concert going community many of whom are in their 40s (and 50s).
In the olden times we would wait in line, in the rain or freezing cold, the night or even the day before tickets went on sale. And you always ended up sitting at the show with the people who were around you when you waited in line. Ahhh, kids of the 70's.
THE FACT IS TICKETMASTER IS A JOKE, FOR YOU GUYS BASHING ME YOUR ALL FUCKIN IDIOTS AND I WANT TO KICK THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. TICKETMASTER IS SOME FUCKIN BULLSHIT, THEY SAY PUT THE ANSWER IN THE BOX OR TYPE A WORD SOMETIMES YOU CANT READ IN THE BOX, BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PREVENT BOTS, YET 1000S OF BOTS ACCESS THERE SITE THAT HOW ALL THE TICKETS GET GOBBLED UP SO FAST
IT NOT FANS GETTING ALL THE TICKETS ARE YOU FUCKIN STUPID. A GOOD COUPLE THOUSAND TICKETS A SHOW QUITE POSSIBLE EACH GO ONSALE ON EBAY AND STUBHUB, THERE IS BOT PROGREAMS THAT SCALPERS USE, TO GET LIKE 6 TICKETS LIMIT AT ONCE , OR WHATEVER THE LIMIT IS THE BEST, THEN THEY CAN REENTER THE SYSTEM AGAIN QUICK, I have a friend does computer he doesn't hack but says the scalpers hack the system with bots, ticketmaster is too stupid or cant stop it. it getting worse with the more computers
it better before when people line up in line waiting to get tickets that is more fair
Lol!!!!!
You realize people are laughing at you. Right? While you were throwing a fit here someone else offered up the tickets you needed in another thread. And they were taken by a nice fan. That could have been you. Lesson learned? Probably not.
Maybe you'll understand this
IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU GOT SCREWRD BECAUSE YOU TRIED TO CHEAT THE SYSYEM. ITS YOUR FAULT YOU BOUGHT THE WRONG TICKETS.
I knew there would be bitching today but this is just toddler gibberish.
Some posts leave me astonished at the lack of understanding of how a system works, so let me explain it for the OP:
Some people go to concerts for pleasure. Some go for their business (scalping). Ticketmaster does what it can to deter the scalpers by making increasingly challenging security 'checkpoints', and invest good chunks of money into those ventures - but so do scalpers.
Scalpers exist because fans are willing to pay premiums for tickets, regardless of their original selling price, and scalpers exploit this. In other words, the people who support this industry are the people who are so damned concerned about seeing a concert that they are willing to buy from scumbags at inflated prices.
So long as people leave themselves unconcerned regarding the price of a concert and happily buy from sleaze bags, these captures will get more difficult.
Oh, one more thing. Remember when first you said 'fuck ticketmaster' for their captcha program? Then you said 'fuck ticketmaster' for allowing phones to be used, which bypass the captcha? WERE YOU EVEN THINKING WHEN YOU WROTE THESE THINGS IN BIG, DUMB, CAPITAL LETTERS, NOT REALIZING ONE PROBLEM YOU HAVE IS THE SOLUTION TO ANOTHER?
Everyone in this room is now stupider. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
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Takes a sick mofo to even have a thought like that cross their mind...
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It was ridiculous! I never have been asked so many stupid questions and I couldn't even read half of them! I would have gotten way better seats if they didn't do that and waste my time!
Is the fortune that you need
what ticketmaster does that should be illegal, is they allow 1 account to log in to multi internet connections, so 1 account can be on 10 connections for example that is not fair. it should be 1 internet connection an account or else it gets cancelled, wouldn't stop scalping but might make it a little harder, the scalpers would have to use many email addresses and accounts then
ticketmaster asked a question about a president multiple choice who is barried in grants tomb? not everyone buying tickets is American, that is a racist question, why didn't they ask a question about argentina or something, then people would bitch about it too, that can be looked at as racist, why are you asking political questions that have nothing to do with a ticket sale?
Let's say every single ticket for the Key Arena show was available to the buying public. Nothing put aside for 10C, the band, the crew, arena employees, etc. 20,000 tickets give or take.
Ticketmaster.com can process roughly 1000 orders per minute. I read this in a Wired or Gizmodo article before. Each person can buy four tickets. Therefore in one minute 4000 tickets gone. Five minutes - 20,000 tickets gone.
And realize that it's not just Seattle people putting in for this show. If this board is somewhat representative - many people all over the country are vying for this show. Some people around the world. Everyone has an equal, but poor chance at the tickets. What are we saying - 100,000 trying for a show? Let's be conservative - 50,000. That's 30,000 people getting shut out. That's a hell of a lot of people complaining about no tickets and feeling they were wronged somehow. If 10% of the buyers bought solely to resell on Stubhub, then pretty soon, you'll see 2000 tickets for the show available for inflated prices. Again, that's 30,000 people who are going to feel they got screwed.
And that is if every ticket was available and with an admittedly made up # of 50,000 people looking for tickets. Honestly, I think more people did. They were fewer tickets available and the reason for that is not entirely all bullshit. My guess is probably 10,000 tickets were available today?
Does TM put aside some tickets for their own resale? I don't know, maybe, probably. And that's wrong, but that number is going to be negligible when your demand is as a high as for a band that is as big as Pearl Jam.
Look, it's frustrating and I remember being broken-hearted at 15 years old when I was next in line and the seller came out and told us no more Grateful Dead tickets. And yes, some of the ways people get tickets to resell sucks, but to put it out there that the buying public is systematically being screwed - sorry I just don't see it.
Thanks for reading this. I'll sit back and watch people tear apart my argument now
just saying, that shit melted someones private parts
The scalpers will always be a step ahead of the regular folks that just want to go. It has always been that way. Back to the day ticket sellers were regional.
This thread is fantastic.
Also, TM sucks but I don't want to sue them. Capitalism is great.
Lol!!!!!
You realize people are laughing at you. Right? While you were throwing a fit here someone else offered up the tickets you needed in another thread. And they were taken by a nice fan. That could have been you. Lesson learned? Probably not.
Maybe you'll understand this
IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU GOT SCREWRD BECAUSE YOU TRIED TO CHEAT THE SYSYEM. ITS YOUR FAULT YOU BOUGHT THE WRONG TICKETS.
I knew there would be bitching today but this is just toddler gibberish.
You also have to keep in mind contracts that are in place at many venues. Premium seats, usually the best ones, are often sold as NHL, NBA, and special events. For instance look at Dallas, you can buy access to the premium seats at center court/ center ice and have the first right of refusal for concert tickets.
Also, TM sucks but I don't want to sue them. Capitalism is great.[/quote]
Exactly. And I would guess that those people - a premium seat holder for the Mavericks who may not like Pearl Jam or Beyonce, or Bieber, or whoever, but he gets access to a prime seat early, buys it, and puts it straight on Stubhub because he knows he'll turn a profit. The hell with that guy from our perspective, but that's what he paid for when he bought those season tickets. It's just a really bitter pill to swallow for fans of the music.
2. There is nothing stopping someone from creating 100 accounts and being on 100 computers. So stop with the one account can log on multiple times. If anything, TM will probably prevent someone from locking two sets of tickets at the same time which is good for everyone.
3. When I was a kid we had to line-up in person outside the venue (which a lot of people did this time around). The venue would hold a lottery to determine your place in line. Five minutes before the lottery began, a van would pull up and about 10 homeless people would get out and line up for the ticket broker.
4. It was hard to get a good ticket to any show because 10c secured the good tickets for the fan club.
5. You could have used the phone app and not be asked any questions at all.
From what I can see, most of the people that I know that were trying for tickets got tickets.
Most of the people that got shut out of Wrigley got into Wrigley by being nice and going to the venue early the day of (Wrigley sold some tickets the day of) or went to the Wishlist party.
03 - Tampa
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12 - DeLuna Fest, EV Orlando 1 & 2, EV Ft Lauderdale 1 & 2
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Is this the drunk guy fucks a good time for everyone around him at a Pearl Jam show ?
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Agreed! Some of the most entertaining shit I've read in a long time.
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350 +++++ and counting. Your best set is to try and get tickets from a point of sale Ticketmaster outlet. Not the internet. Besides you have your tickets already.
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10-31-09 Philadelphia
5-09-10 Cleveland
5-10-10 Buffalo
6-26-11 E.V. Detroit
10-11-13 Pittsburgh
10-12-13 Buffalo
10-29-13 Charlottesville
4-18-16 Hampton
8-22-16 Chicago
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You would be surprised at the number of shows people have seen. This is a concert going community many of whom are in their 40s (and 50s).
In the olden times we would wait in line, in the rain or freezing cold, the night or even the day before tickets went on sale. And you always ended up sitting at the show with the people who were around you when you waited in line. Ahhh, kids of the 70's.
4-2-92
7-29-92
5-4-95 Hovercraft / Cleveland
8-26-98
4-25-03
5-20-06
8-21-08 E.V. Chicago
10-31-09 Philadelphia
5-09-10 Cleveland
5-10-10 Buffalo
6-26-11 E.V. Detroit
10-11-13 Pittsburgh
10-12-13 Buffalo
10-29-13 Charlottesville
4-18-16 Hampton
8-22-16 Chicago
Get this...
And...
There are still tickets left for these shows. I just checked for 2 tickets for LA both nights and you can still get tickets.
Why you don't bitch now?
03 - Tampa
08 - Tampa
12 - DeLuna Fest, EV Orlando 1 & 2, EV Ft Lauderdale 1 & 2
13 - Wrigley!!! ,Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford, OKC, Seattle
14 - Leeds, Milton Keynes, St Louis
16 - Ft Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, Wrigley 1 & 2
The good tickets weren't gone in 20 seconds... they just worded it badly, it should have read "High Demand, we are kicking you out due to congestion... please try again".
I got the same "High demand" messages for each of the 3 venues I scored tickets for, and I eventually got in.
Worcester, Hartford and Seattle.
East Troy 9/3/11
East Troy 9/4/11
Amsterdam 6/26/12
Amsterdam 6/27/12
Wrigley Field 7/19-20/13
Worcester, MA 10/15/13
Worcester, MA 10/16/13
Hartford, CT 10/25/13
Seattle, WA 12/06/13
Denver, CO 10/22/14
Fenway 2016 #1
Fenway 2016 #2
Fenway 2018 #1
Fenway 2018 #2
hello fifth row
ahh the old days
You hit the nail right on its big ole head!!
Thanks for making my Sunday morning one of the funniest ever.
Some people go to concerts for pleasure. Some go for their business (scalping). Ticketmaster does what it can to deter the scalpers by making increasingly challenging security 'checkpoints', and invest good chunks of money into those ventures - but so do scalpers.
Scalpers exist because fans are willing to pay premiums for tickets, regardless of their original selling price, and scalpers exploit this. In other words, the people who support this industry are the people who are so damned concerned about seeing a concert that they are willing to buy from scumbags at inflated prices.
So long as people leave themselves unconcerned regarding the price of a concert and happily buy from sleaze bags, these captures will get more difficult.
Oh, one more thing. Remember when first you said 'fuck ticketmaster' for their captcha program? Then you said 'fuck ticketmaster' for allowing phones to be used, which bypass the captcha? WERE YOU EVEN THINKING WHEN YOU WROTE THESE THINGS IN BIG, DUMB, CAPITAL LETTERS, NOT REALIZING ONE PROBLEM YOU HAVE IS THE SOLUTION TO ANOTHER?
Everyone in this room is now stupider. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1