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The band Coldplay is going to be in Seattle next year so I decided I would buy tickets for the lady and myself. $221 before fees. I am not seeing Coldplay now. I thought they would be a group to make tickets reachable for their fans.
This is why Pearl Jam is the shit and you can be on the rail for under $100. Love Pearl Jam. I can't afford any other concert
This is why Pearl Jam is the shit and you can be on the rail for under $100. Love Pearl Jam. I can't afford any other concert
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Even temple of the dog tickets for Seattle are insanely high. They should just make it so you have to show ID to enter. All the tickets would have been sold to true fans for a fair price of that were the case
Look at LA tickets for TOTD. You can get tickets on StubHub for about half price in certain sections. There are multiple threads/posts on the board of people offering LA tix and they're dipping below what they paid for them because they can't get rid of them. Shouldn't it be the same as Seattle? Same band and show. No, because you have a drastic difference in both venue capacity and demand due to Seattle being a hometown show.
In your example of the Coldplay VIP tickets being priced $500-$700 for the rows closest to the stage, that's due to demand. Everybody wants to be close to the stage so they scale up the price until they kill off excess demand and only the people willing to spend that much get the tickets. If they sold the tickets up close for cheap, you'd have hundreds of people that want them per every ticket available. They're pricing them so that there isn't excess demand at those prices.
Guns N' Roses tried that with their tour and when the demand wasn't there, they had to slash prices in a lot of markets.
Speaking of Coldplay, I bought tickets 10 years ago through a Ticketmaster auction. The proceeds went to charity, but they did it directly through Ticketmaster for the best seats in the house. I really wanted to take a girl I was seeing at the time who loves Coldplay, so I bid $200+ for good seats up close. It was worth it to me and I got them because at that amount, it wasn't worth it to the other bidders.
I love that PJ keeps their tickets prices lower/fair and I hope they always do, but you have situations where that creates a lot of excess demand (GA Pit, bigger markets like NYC, novelty of ballpark shows). Even within the same venue, you get differing demand since tickets in the upper level or behind the stage in an arena are priced the same as pit tickets that can get you on the rail. They may be the same price, but they're definitely not the same value.
Think about this. Imagine you pay nearly $500 for a pair Coldplay tickets...and mind you...even some of the UPPER BOWL tickets are at this price level (!!!). Imagine that they have a shitty/mediocre show. It happens. That person is NEVER going to another Coldplay show.
I've been to 30+ PJ shows...and, while it's not the norm, a handful of them have been rather "meh". Again...this happens. But if I only spent $80-$100 for a ticket...I'm willing to give it another go, FOR SURE. My point is...a band like Coldplay charging these prices is an unsustainable business model, plain and simple. Maybe they truly don't plan on continuing as a band after this tour and just decided "fuck it. let's cash in"...but even so...yeesh.
http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/Charts2016/2016MidYearTop100WorldwideTours.pdf
I heard Coldplay was playing BC place in Vancouver and I was surprised. I didn't realize they were that popular. I even saw U2 not sell out BC Place once (back in '97). I guess you don't need to sell it out though. There must be some capacity between an arena and a stadium show where you break even, and then go ahead. Way harder to scalp tickets for stadium shows because of the ticket supply.
Is it only the front rows for coldplay that are that expensive?
ZERO chance this sells out. They may hold back tickets to create the illusion of a sellout....and then release a crap-ton of tickets in the few weeks leading up to the show...but there will be a cornucopia of empty seats.
Last week, I ordered Beach Boys tickets for my wife and they were $90 each.
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1995- New Orleans, LA : New Orleans, LA
1996- Charleston, SC
1998- Atlanta, GA: Birmingham, AL: Greenville, SC: Knoxville, TN
2000- Atlanta, GA: New Orleans, LA: Memphis, TN: Nashville, TN
2003- Raleigh, NC: Charlotte, NC: Atlanta, GA
2004- Asheville, NC (hometown show)
2006- Cincinnati, OH
2008- Columbia, SC
2009- Chicago, IL x 2 / Ed Vedder- Atlanta, GA x 2
2010- Bristow, VA
2011- Alpine Valley, WI (PJ20) x 2 / Ed Vedder- Chicago, IL
2012- Atlanta, GA
2013- Charlotte, NC
2014- Cincinnati, OH
2015- New York, NY
2016- Greenville, SC: Hampton, VA:: Columbia, SC: Raleigh, NC : Lexington, KY: Philly, PA 2: (Wrigley) Chicago, IL x 2 (holy shit): Temple of the Dog- Philly, PA
2017- ED VED- Louisville, KY
2018- Chicago, IL x2, Boston, MA x2
2020- Nashville, TN
2022- Smashville
2023- Austin, TX x2
2024- Baltimore