NYC shows.... NY residents should be FIRST

BinFrog

JulesTheMan wrote:

Why should a New Yorker fight for nosebleeds when people from Europe come away with prime seating for both shows? This is my hometown. How would you guys feel if your hometown show was sold out because it was full of tourists? You would be a lot less pleased with your 300 level seats wouldn't you? This is why the Letterman thing was for New Yorkers only. I'm not saying give us everything. But give us our own priority presale of maybe half of the presale tickets.

Let the tourists go through Ticketmaster. I'm a fan club member and this is my hometown show... which will have its fan club section filled with people from somewhere else. That's not a NYC show. It's an Atlantic Ocean show.

I've been on the lawn for PJ shows, and I've been way up close. Just enjoy the concert. It's kind of fun being in bad seats every once in a while...it's a much different experience. Just get 2 tickets on the on-sale date and don't sweat it. I hear what you are saying, but I am in the Boston area and the same thing has happened to me. I have a really good number but had awful fanclub seats from Mansfield #1, 03. The music is the music...we all know what the band looks like.

mauichick

I'm with you Jules
I have the same work issue about other dates and the fact that i'm traveling when they're in South Fla (aka NYC South)

Fans around here are pretty great, i sold extra 10c tix for face last tour and bought them as well
but this will be 1st NY show i'm not able to go on my own tix and i feel i have every right to be upset about it

Good luck and keep the faith when y're done being pissed

oxypoet

JulesTheMan wrote:

Thanks, but it's just not fair that I do not get fan club seats in my own hometown. Pairing up with a friend who did get his seats isn't an option, because he has to take his wife. Hell I already had my ticket partners lined up. They're going to be just as upset as me that we're going to be in the nosebleeds. Makes me not want to go to be honest. But thanks for the sympathy. It really was just an angry vent. I'm very disappointed to see people from London touting that they got tickets for both shows to a venue I grew up going to, and is 26 blocks from where I work. Just ain't right ya know.

Agreed, and I work ACROSS THE STREET from MSG and it's going to rip my heart out to miss the show. I know, I know, "Buy from Ticketbastard". Fortunately, I got shows for the second show, or I would have been up in a bell tower somewhere throwing water balloons (sorry, don't own a rifle).

You can't please anyone, I understand, but it just plain sucks that we can't get tickets to a show in our own home town. And to all the lucky folks that got tickets to both shows, and you live outside of the Tri-State area, I appreciate the advice. I'll buy regular tickets in the upper deck somewhere, and then you can trade your seats on the floor to me, since those seats will be just as good. Thanks!

BinFrog

oxypoet wrote:

And to all the lucky folks that got tickets to both shows, and you live outside of the Tri-State area, I appreciate the advice. I'll buy regular tickets in the upper deck somewhere, and then you can trade your seats on the floor to me, since those seats will be just as good. Thanks!

That's the spirit!





(You're missing the point)

smokenatree

LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:

haha

I was complaining about the same thing

I agree it is ridiculous that I cannot get a ticket in my own town because some idiots from London and from all over the united states think its cool to come to manhattan and see pearl jam. There is nothing cool about manhattan. I would like to see how others would take it if they were shut out of a venue near their home. This is awful. Now I will have to go to virginia beach and columbia sc to see a band I could have saw with a 30 minute commute at msg. Unf---ing believeable.

JulesTheMan

BinFrog wrote:

That's the spirit!

(You're missing the point)

Why is it selfish to ask that you get priority on something in your own hometown? I would love for the whole world to watch the show and enjoy the Garden... I just feel that my taxpaying money has earned me the right to have better seats than you. If there were 2 presales, that would be fair. First one for residents, second one for everyone, then the general onsale via Ticketmaster.

If you recall, the Letterman show 2 yrs ago was NY resident only, because otherwise the entire planet would be after it... so the concept is not without precedent.

JOEJOEJOE

JulesTheMan wrote:

Why is it selfish to ask that you get priority on something in your own hometown? I would love for the whole world to watch the show and enjoy the Garden... I just feel that my taxpaying money has earned me the right to have better seats than you. If there were 2 presales, that would be fair. First one for residents, second one for everyone, then the general onsale via Ticketmaster.

If you recall, the Letterman show 2 yrs ago was NY resident only, because otherwise the entire planet would be after it... so the concept is not without precedent.

The Letterman show was free, so EVERYONE would have applied for tickets, no matter where they lived.

BinFrog

JulesTheMan wrote:

Why is it selfish to ask that you get priority on something in your own hometown? I would love for the whole world to watch the show and enjoy the Garden... I just feel that my taxpaying money has earned me the right to have better seats than you. If there were 2 presales, that would be fair. First one for residents, second one for everyone, then the general onsale via Ticketmaster.

If you recall, the Letterman show 2 yrs ago was NY resident only, because otherwise the entire planet would be after it... so the concept is not without precedent.

How many seats was the Letterman gig? A couple hundred?

MSG is 20,000+.

I'll say it again: you will get tickets if you want to. You may not see every wrinkle on the guys' faces, but trust me you will have a good time.

Besides, are you going just to be seen in the good seats, or is the music the most important part? Think about it.

JulesTheMan

BinFrog wrote:

How many seats was the Letterman gig? A couple hundred?

MSG is 20,000+.

I'll say it again: you will get tickets if you want to. You may not see every wrinkle on the guys' faces, but trust me you will have a good time.

Besides, are you going just to be seen in the good seats, or is the music the most important part? Think about it.

If you feel that way, stop posting on the forums asking to buy someone's ticket pair for you and your girlfriend. You and her should go to the regular on sale. You are a hypocrite. I'm not asking for anyone else's tickets. Just priority over tourists. And to the guy above... Letterman would have attracted anyone who COULD be in NYC at the time, and that is no different than what is happening now. If you're going to fly to NYC to see a show, the ticket price is the least of your costs.

BinFrog

JulesTheMan wrote:

If you feel that way, stop posting on the forums asking to buy someone's ticket pair for you and your girlfriend. You and her should go to the regular on sale. You are a hypocrite. I'm not asking for anyone else's tickets. Just priority over tourists. And to the guy above... Letterman would have attracted anyone who COULD be in NYC at the time, and that is no different than what is happening now. If you're going to fly to NYC to see a show, the ticket price is the least of your costs.

I am about the farthest thing from a hypocrite. If someone responds to my post and has 2 tickets I'll be psyched. I'm not saying I don't want good seats, what I am saying is that if I have to resort to TM tickets I will live. I am not begging for someone's tickets. I just know that 10C'ers sometimes coordinate getting tickets with other fans and sometimes they realize they have an extra pair when the dust settles. Nowehere in my post did I say I would be devastated if no-one was able to help me out. Trust me, I was a little bummed when I got shut out of night 1, but I will get tickets somehow and I will have a great time.

Proteus

I got locked out too.

Then my thread for ranting about it got locked too.

If I get a pair to this show after all, after all the infuriating and humiliating jazz that happened today, I will sell it to some dummy from out of town for 1000 dollars, and then advise them to find a nice, affordable hotel near Yankee stadium.

Until then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_ex3VGHIM

LeilaMoonTurtle

oo with the $1000 u can go to the 2nd leg shows

Proteus wrote:

I got locked out too.

Then my thread for ranting about it got locked too.

If I get a pair to this show after all, after all the infuriating and humiliating jazz that happened today, I will sell it to some dummy from out of town for 1000 dollars, and then advise them to find a nice, affordable hotel near Yankee stadium.

Until then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_ex3VGHIM

GONEGONE

Reading these posts makes me sick. We are so lucky to have the option to drive to D.C., Virginia, or Florida for that matter. We are also so very lucky that PJ realizes how many great fans(excluding the ones bitching out there) they have on the east coast. Thanks to PJ for coming back east! Buy general public tix and chill out. Maybe you'll get great seats for Hartford? But I know you still wouldn't be happy with that. And please stop ripping on Europeans. They have nothing to do with this. Props to them. I wouldn't fly all the way to Europe just to see a show unless I had planned it for years, and that is nearly impossible to plan. Get a Life.

NYbenben

If today was the general onsale and no one was able to get pre-sale tickets, we wouldnt even have these silly discussions of who is buying tickets from where. Bottom line is, we ALL want tickets... we dont always get what we want... too fuckin bad. Try other avenues... Ticketmaster onsale...Stubhub... if you have the means, there is a way to get tickets.

stop the damn bitching once and for all...

and NO... I didnt get tickets for either MSG show myself either...

solat1973

JulesTheMan wrote:

If you feel that way, stop posting on the forums asking to buy someone's ticket pair for you and your girlfriend. You and her should go to the regular on sale. You are a hypocrite. I'm not asking for anyone else's tickets. Just priority over tourists. And to the guy above... Letterman would have attracted anyone who COULD be in NYC at the time, and that is no different than what is happening now. If you're going to fly to NYC to see a show, the ticket price is the least of your costs.

I don't really think ur a real fan ur just a little kid who has never been to a show before what are u like 15 years old.. just buy them from tickbastard

jrd

JulesTheMan wrote:

I figured there would be flames from my posting. Problem is that I just can't make other shows. The summer is extremely busy for me at work and I was looking forward to my two hometown shows, because most likely I can't make any others. I have to take time off work to go to Hartford if I go. Again, to those angry and calling us names... I have no problem with out of towners, I myself am the son of an immigrant... so don't wave that flag. I just am pissed off at seeing people around the world bragging about their Tenclub tickets for both shows while a native New Yorker gets stuck with the regular on sale. There is nothing xenophobic about it. Anyone here who lives near a very popular venue knows how upsetting it is to get no fan club seating in their own hometown. It almost defeats the purpose of being in the fan club. Almost. I would still get great seats elsewhere but it sucks that I can't get Fan Club seating in my hometown. Re-read... Fan Club seating in my own hometown. Re-read it again. That's it. Of course most people disagree... because most people here don't have this problem.

whoah there!

i haven't seen people "bragging about their Tenclub tickets", just posting on the usual "who's going to concert X" threads to try and arrange meet-ups etc.

you're in the fan club, like many other people, to give you the chance to get tickets to any concert, not to get guaranteed tickets to shows in your home town/state/country.

that's the way it works, like it or not it's going to be the same in a limited number of venues around the world.

scottnar

I gotta disagree with all disgruntled new yorkers. NYC is the capital of the world, you gotta expect that people from all over will come to your city. Every show i go to is a minimum travel time of 3 hours from rochester ny. You'll get tickets don't sweat it

JulesTheMan

BinFrog wrote:

I am about the farthest thing from a hypocrite. If someone responds to my post and has 2 tickets I'll be psyched. I'm not saying I don't want good seats, what I am saying is that if I have to resort to TM tickets I will live. I am not begging for someone's tickets. I just know that 10C'ers sometimes coordinate getting tickets with other fans and sometimes they realize they have an extra pair when the dust settles. Nowehere in my post did I say I would be devastated if no-one was able to help me out. Trust me, I was a little bummed when I got shut out of night 1, but I will get tickets somehow and I will have a great time.

You've been saying to wait for the general onsale... yet here you are trying to buy someone's ticket pair in this topic: http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=278505

If you believe it so, then why not wait for the onsale for you and your girlfriend? Why would a fan sell BOTH his tickets for a show to you?

And to the naysayers above. I'm not ripping on Europeans, or Australians or whomever. I like that these people come to NYC and enjoy. I just do not like that I did not get FAN tickets in my own HOMETOWN because they ate them all up.

Allow me to explain it in your terms.... if they played in your trailer park and you couldn't get tickets because all of the other trailer parks in the county took them, wouldn't you be mad?

nykoelle

The garden is huge, you'll be fine with general tickets. Won't be up so close, but you just need to hear

Sorry for your poor luck, I understand completely.

jrd

can someone just set up one of those poll threads where we can all fill in an 'i got MSG tickets and i'm from XXXX' vote and we'll see how many NY/NJ/East Coast vs Cheese-Eating-Surrender-Monkies got tickets and just stop this whining once and for all!

most of the MSG threads seem to be filled with NY/NJ people with or without tickets, plus a handful of others who've travelled all over the place to see the band, and a few others (ahem!) who've never seen the band anywhere but their own country.

i was thrilled to get MSG tickets and looking forward to going to see the band in their own country but... :(