TOTD Ticketmaster Tix... What a joke

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  • UseUrIllusions
    UseUrIllusions Posts: 547
    Bots got all the tickets unfortunately. Best bet is to try for one ticket and see what u get. Also tickets are not released at 10am on the dot. It's my experience that 5 - 10min after tickets begin appearing. I got 4th row floor seats for the Tragically Hip 20 min after the show was supposedly sold out.
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  • solace
    solace Posts: 118
    edited July 2016
    Zod said:

    DavidD said:

    dreamweaver said:

    Got shut out of the Tenclub lottery, so I just tried the Ticketmaster sale. What a joke that system is. Sold out in a matter of seconds, and Stubhub already has tickets starting at over $200. Tenclub should just take over all of the ticket sales!!

    Ticketmaster is stubhub.
    No they aren't. Ticketmaster started running their own scalping sceme right on their website (you can now view tickets for resale right on TM). Stubhub does nothing but facilitate transactions and charge 10% to the seller for doing so. Anyone can list on Stubhub from professional brokers, to a poor schmo trying to offload extra tickets, to a small time ticket reseller who does their own thing.
    correct.

    Stubhub is owned by eBay

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StubHub
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    Zod said:

    stickman said:

    How can MSG sell out in less than a minute ??

    New York has one of the biggest metro populations in the United States, so you've got 10's of thousands of fans, plus bots, scalpers and what not all trying to buy tickets at the same time. If everyone tries at exactly the same time only a certain percentage are going to pull up anything.
    You really think there are enough people interested in seeing Temple of the Dog so badly that they are on-line right at noon and buying all the tickets that MSG has?
  • dlymnfld
    dlymnfld CT Posts: 923
    bootlegger10 said:

    Zod said:

    stickman said:

    How can MSG sell out in less than a minute ??

    New York has one of the biggest metro populations in the United States, so you've got 10's of thousands of fans, plus bots, scalpers and what not all trying to buy tickets at the same time. If everyone tries at exactly the same time only a certain percentage are going to pull up anything.
    You really think there are enough people interested in seeing Temple of the Dog so badly that they are on-line right at noon and buying all the tickets that MSG has?
    I can name 10 people in one small town in CT that were trying. If you add up all the small towns in around NYC and multiply that by 10 you will get to 18,000 pretty quickly. Not to mention the ten of us were trying on multiple sources.
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  • given2fly23
    given2fly23 Evanston, IL Posts: 6,042
    Why can't these established bands make these shows "immediate entry" only!? I know NYC has a law against it, but bands need to speak up on this. Getting tickets to anything has become impossible.
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  • DavidD
    DavidD Posts: 2,566
    Zod said:

    DavidD said:

    dreamweaver said:

    Got shut out of the Tenclub lottery, so I just tried the Ticketmaster sale. What a joke that system is. Sold out in a matter of seconds, and Stubhub already has tickets starting at over $200. Tenclub should just take over all of the ticket sales!!

    Ticketmaster is stubhub.
    No they aren't. Ticketmaster started running their own scalping sceme right on their website (you can now view tickets for resale right on TM). Stubhub does nothing but facilitate transactions and charge 10% to the seller for doing so. Anyone can list on Stubhub from professional brokers, to a poor schmo trying to offload extra tickets, to a small time ticket reseller who does their own thing.
    You are right. I know they have there own stubhub style of site.
    solace said:

    Zod said:

    DavidD said:

    dreamweaver said:

    Got shut out of the Tenclub lottery, so I just tried the Ticketmaster sale. What a joke that system is. Sold out in a matter of seconds, and Stubhub already has tickets starting at over $200. Tenclub should just take over all of the ticket sales!!

    Ticketmaster is stubhub.
    No they aren't. Ticketmaster started running their own scalping sceme right on their website (you can now view tickets for resale right on TM). Stubhub does nothing but facilitate transactions and charge 10% to the seller for doing so. Anyone can list on Stubhub from professional brokers, to a poor schmo trying to offload extra tickets, to a small time ticket reseller who does their own thing.
    correct.

    Stubhub is owned by eBay

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StubHub
    Got mixed up with the two
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,263
    given2fly23 said:

    Why can't these established bands make these shows "immediate entry" only!? I know NYC has a law against it, but bands need to speak up on this. Getting tickets to anything has become impossible.

    They like instant sellouts. $$$
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,916
    bootlegger10 said:

    Zod said:

    stickman said:

    How can MSG sell out in less than a minute ??

    New York has one of the biggest metro populations in the United States, so you've got 10's of thousands of fans, plus bots, scalpers and what not all trying to buy tickets at the same time. If everyone tries at exactly the same time only a certain percentage are going to pull up anything.
    You really think there are enough people interested in seeing Temple of the Dog so badly that they are on-line right at noon and buying all the tickets that MSG has?
    yes. New York has 20 million in it's Metro area and this doesn't include all the other big cities that are less than a day's drive away. You only need a fraction of a fraction of a percent of those people wanting to go and it's not enough tickets.

    I'd hate to live in a big market like that. Makes getting tickets next to impossible.
  • rhpot1991
    rhpot1991 Posts: 151
    It is time for a Louis C.K. no re-selling policy.
  • courtmcc
    courtmcc South Jersey Posts: 1,143
    Nothing at all!
  • chrisrap1
    chrisrap1 Posts: 45
    BITCHING AND RANTING WILL DO NOTHING.......stop buying just one damn show people take a unitied stand and don't buy FROM THE SECONARDY MARKET......hell they have all these campaigns play this play that, play here etc......what about the how the Breath MSG campaign was done

    One damn show people
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,916
    Zod said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    Zod said:

    stickman said:

    How can MSG sell out in less than a minute ??

    New York has one of the biggest metro populations in the United States, so you've got 10's of thousands of fans, plus bots, scalpers and what not all trying to buy tickets at the same time. If everyone tries at exactly the same time only a certain percentage are going to pull up anything.
    You really think there are enough people interested in seeing Temple of the Dog so badly that they are on-line right at noon and buying all the tickets that MSG has?
    yes. New York has 20 million in it's Metro area and this doesn't include all the other big cities that are less than a day's drive away. You only need a fraction of a fraction of a percent of those people wanting to go and it's not enough tickets.

    I'd hate to live in a big market like that. Makes getting tickets next to impossible.
    edit: That's when you need Stadium shows... lol. It's the same reason PJ can do stadium shows in Boston and Chicago. They're bigass cities with bigass populations. Sucks to buy tickets for arena shows in a metropolis. I'm not sure whats worse. Arena tickets in a metropolis, or theatre tickets for a city.
  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    edited July 2016
    Brony said:

    I really have had no luck recently, but..

    I'm down at a beach house for the week, so went up to the Boardwalk which has wifi...with my iPad and iPhone. At 12:00 the iPad had me wait in the typical "searching for tickets" for a good 5 mins, while safari on iPhone said "unable to process request". Then, I figured let me install the TM app on my phone while I was still in limbo on iPad. so I downloaded it, signed in, and scored 3 tickets in 200s. Had to have been 12:10 by the time all of that went down.

    Congratulations!!
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  • marcos
    marcos Posts: 2,112
    I'm voting for Trump if I don't get a ticket to Seattle since I missed out on Philly!
  • pjalive21
    pjalive21 St. Louis, MO Posts: 2,818
    take a look at the board...people who bought TOTD tickets who had no intentions of going only to flip them for Fenway or Wrigley...which btw how can you even think that trade is even?
  • pjman75
    pjman75 Indiana Posts: 850
    had 2 for philly night 2 but couldn't pull the trigger, adulting sucks
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  • AngryGreg
    AngryGreg Posts: 71
    Zod said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    Zod said:

    stickman said:

    How can MSG sell out in less than a minute ??

    New York has one of the biggest metro populations in the United States, so you've got 10's of thousands of fans, plus bots, scalpers and what not all trying to buy tickets at the same time. If everyone tries at exactly the same time only a certain percentage are going to pull up anything.
    You really think there are enough people interested in seeing Temple of the Dog so badly that they are on-line right at noon and buying all the tickets that MSG has?
    yes. New York has 20 million in it's Metro area and this doesn't include all the other big cities that are less than a day's drive away. You only need a fraction of a fraction of a percent of those people wanting to go and it's not enough tickets.

    I'd hate to live in a big market like that. Makes getting tickets next to impossible.
    Living in a big market might make it hard to get tickets, but if you lived in a small market, the shows wouldn't ever really come around. That's what I tell myself when I get shut out of shows in LA. I shouldn't complain much when the shows just aren't in other areas at all.
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,777
    edited July 2016
    blindmule said:

    I have never experienced anything like that before - in all of the times I have bought tickets for shows... The very second it went on sale it seemed sold out.

    Really? This has been my experience for every single high demand show that I've tried for in the past 3 years. This is the norm now, not the exception. That said, I have still managed to get tix for every last one of them via TM. Just keep trying and buy a single. So far I've never been shut out from a show doing it that way.
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  • Daron Oshay
    Daron Oshay Middletown, NJ Posts: 2,593
    The way this entire sale with multiple pre sales was weird. Just felt there was a lot of chaos.

    Of course I forgot to enter the 10C lottery so that's my fault. Had a family issue going on.

    Was able to get a single about 15mjns in behind the stage
  • EdsonNascimento
    EdsonNascimento Posts: 5,531
    Daron Oshay said:

    The way this entire sale with multiple pre sales was weird. Just felt there was a lot of chaos.

    Of course I forgot to enter the 10C lottery so that's my fault. Had a family issue going on.

    Was able to get a single about 15mjns in behind the stage

    Every show has multiple pre-sales. AmEx, Citi, LiveNation App, Band Pre-sale, so on and so forth. fortunately, these only had fan club and not the others (though I honestly benefit from the others, but point is - there really shouldn't be too much bitching on these, as at least we had a chance).
    Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.

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