Ticket prices

Kcblackwell01

iOnlyownMymind said:

How do these compare to the Europe prices?

I paid $225 for London 1 reserved.

sunvalleylaw

riley540 said:

sunvalleylaw said:

As I said, I don't have a problem with higher prices, especially to help support a good cause.  But both PJ tix, and apparently Foo tix, have gone up amazingly in a short amount of time.  Not sure the Foo Fighters are helping out the homeless, but I don't know.

Foo aren’t selling out their shows. There was lots of open seats up high in Spokane 

Yeah, that is why I am surprised their ticket prices are so much higher than what I paid in the Gorge, and in Nampa, Idaho, only in December  OF The two concerts, I would pick PJ first, of course.

Sarava

Some of you guys are comparing apples to oranges, giving examples of ticket prices for smaller venues. Here is my Foo Fighters at Wrigley costs:

Foo Fighters Sunday, 7/29/18 at 7:00PM CDT

P1 Field Standing General Admission

Aisle Price Fee Total Type FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale Field GA Standing Room Only FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale

Field GA Standing Room Only

Subtotal : $234.00 
Handling : $7.50 
Total : $241.50 
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So GA on the field for Wrigley...Foo Fighters is $3.50 cheaper for the pair. So $1.75 cheaper pert ticket. I don't know what reserved seats were for FF. Obviously for PJ it's the same everywhere for fan club members.

dignin

riley540 said:

bootlegger10 said:

Young people should go see young people bands for the cheap concerts.  Old people with money see Pearl Jam.

22 here. Really not hard to scrape together $250. Haha! 

Wife and 2 young kids here. These prices make it a lot harder to explain the cost to my wife, we had a conversation about it already today. It also makes it harder for me to find a friend willing to shell out that kind of cash to go and travel to the show with me.

Pearl Jam can charge whatever they want for their tickets, I don't have a problem with that. But this is squeezing out some fans who just can't afford those tickets.

I'm okay if I don't go, (still pondering if I will) because I've been lucky enough to see PJ a bunch over the years. And during that time they have always had good ticket prices, usually below market value. One of the reasons they are one of my favourite bands. So if I don't go it's no big deal.

The music business has obviously changed, and if bands want to make up for the big money they don't make off selling records, this is what they do.

sunvalleylaw

Sarava said:

Some of you guys are comparing apples to oranges, giving examples of ticket prices for smaller venues. Here is my Foo Fighters at Wrigley costs:

Foo Fighters Sunday, 7/29/18 at 7:00PM CDT

P1 Field Standing General Admission

Aisle Price Fee Total Type FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale Field GA Standing Room Only FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale

Field GA Standing Room Only

Subtotal : $234.00 
Handling : $7.50 
Total : $241.50 
--------

So GA on the field for Wrigley...Foo Fighters is $3.50 cheaper for the pair. So $1.75 cheaper pert ticket. I don't know what reserved seats were for FF. Obviously for PJ it's the same everywhere for fan club members.

Huh.  Ok.  Never knew that.  I would rather see a group in a smaller venue.  Surprised stadium seats cost more.  But the Gorge seats for the Foos, arguably a "stadium" cut into the hill, were similarly cheap.  Anyhow, I am excited to go to Missoula and hope I get my first pick!  or at least my second.  Will be worth it either way.

Sarava

sunvalleylaw said:

Sarava said:

Some of you guys are comparing apples to oranges, giving examples of ticket prices for smaller venues. Here is my Foo Fighters at Wrigley costs:

Foo Fighters Sunday, 7/29/18 at 7:00PM CDT

P1 Field Standing General Admission

Aisle Price Fee Total Type FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale Field GA Standing Room Only FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale

Field GA Standing Room Only

Subtotal : $234.00 
Handling : $7.50 
Total : $241.50 
--------

So GA on the field for Wrigley...Foo Fighters is $3.50 cheaper for the pair. So $1.75 cheaper pert ticket. I don't know what reserved seats were for FF. Obviously for PJ it's the same everywhere for fan club members.

Huh.  Ok.  Never knew that.  I would rather see a group in a smaller venue.  Surprised stadium seats cost more.  But the Gorge seats for the Foos, arguably a "stadium" cut into the hill, were similarly cheap.  Anyhow, I am excited to go to Missoula and hope I get my first pick!  or at least my second.  Will be worth it either way.

Yeah I'm surprised of the price difference as well. The smaller venues are generally more enjoyable shows.

prism

quasi said:

whoanelly15 said:

Maybe this has been said already somewhere in the last 6 pages and if so, I apologize. 

But forget the jump from 1994 to now... $188 for a Wrigley pair in 2016 to $245 in 2018? I realize the demand is huge and that the bottom line won't be bothered by this, but that's the difference between me being at one or both shows. I won't even enter the lottery for both now. In 2016, I entered and was hoping to win both. If I entered both for 2018, I'd be hoping to only win one show, and that's not right. $376 for 2 shows in 2016... $490 in 2018? 

As an aside, it also significantly increases the chances of me getting shut out, which sucks. 

I agree, the jump between even 2013 and 2018 was enough for me to just enter the lottery for one show. $312 for 2 shows in 2013 versus $518 for 2 shows in 2018 is a 66% increase! At most, inflation is about 2% per year.

Yep. I was planning on going to both Seattle shows too. Now I'm undecided which show to put in for.  Considering 2013 prices I  put over 30% in additional funds aside knowing these shows would cost more....I just didn't imagine the increase would be over $200.   

RYME

Trump's tax cuts are working, People are getting raises everywhere nowadays.  PJ gets a raise too.

RP112579

Sarava said:

Some of you guys are comparing apples to oranges, giving examples of ticket prices for smaller venues. Here is my Foo Fighters at Wrigley costs:

Foo Fighters Sunday, 7/29/18 at 7:00PM CDT

P1 Field Standing General Admission

Aisle Price Fee Total Type FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale Field GA Standing Room Only FLDGA5 General Admission $99.00 $18.00 $117.00 Capital One Presale

Field GA Standing Room Only

Subtotal : $234.00 
Handling : $7.50 
Total : $241.50 
--------

So GA on the field for Wrigley...Foo Fighters is $3.50 cheaper for the pair. So $1.75 cheaper pert ticket. I don't know what reserved seats were for FF. Obviously for PJ it's the same everywhere for fan club members.

My reserved seats for Foo Fighters at Wrigley were I think $195 for a pair. But if I remember right, there were different reserved price options and this was the cheaper option.

DB15740

The price hike sucks, but I’m all in to see my, and maybe your favorite band.  As previously stated, the music industry has changed, they’re not supporting a new album as far as we know, so no income is being generated from new album sales which could be one factor here, but they’ve also stated they’ve held more tickets for their fans (for us here - 10c), in hopes they can accommodate possibly all of the demand, so I’d assume there’s got to be some kind of cost to allocating more tickets for us???

Anyway, good luck to all of you with your lotto picks, I hope we all get to go to the show(s) we want to this year.  I’m stoked to see them again.

Cheers!!!
-DB

tbergs

I don't get how anyone can complain about their ticket prices when compared to every other band at their level. My wife and I received tickets for the main floor at a Maroon 5 show later this year and face value is $150.00 before the ticketbastard fee. I can't believe people will pay that for a 90 minute concert of slightly above average talent. Yes, PJ's ticket prices have gone up, but they're still way below every other major act out there. I think they definitely take that into consideration and stay below the price gouging amount of their peers.

At this rate, I think we all probably still owe them for the value we've been getting out of their extra hour of playing every concert for the past 2 decades. They've earned this by a mile and it's still not expensive based on market value.

tbergs

RYME said:

Trump's tax cuts are working, People are getting raises everywhere nowadays.  PJ gets a raise too.

I hope this is tongue in cheek....

ehbacon

bootlegger10 said:

Young people should go see young people bands for the cheap concerts.  Old people with money see Pearl Jam.

bootlegger10 said:

Young people should go see young people bands for the cheap concerts.  Old people with money see Pearl Jam.

I'm a newly turned 18 year old freshman in college. Today as i put in for the Wrigley shows, I had just over $500 in my bank account. I'm going to get paid like $400 in a week, but this is still a huge hit. My dad's going to buy one of the tickets, but the other night I'm going alone and won't be able to sell until the night of. That means for the next 7 months, I'm going to have $122.50 less in my bank account than I should. I might find a time in the next 7 months where that  $122.50 would be very useful. 

Anyway; just because you've been alive and have gotten the chance to be a fan longer doesn't mean that you should get priority over younger fans. I'm worth just as much as a fan as anybody.

riley540

ehbacon said:

bootlegger10 said:

Young people should go see young people bands for the cheap concerts.  Old people with money see Pearl Jam.

bootlegger10 said:

Young people should go see young people bands for the cheap concerts.  Old people with money see Pearl Jam.

I'm a newly turned 18 year old freshman in college. Today as i put in for the Wrigley shows, I had just over $500 in my bank account. I'm going to get paid like $400 in a week, but this is still a huge hit. My dad's going to buy one of the tickets, but the other night I'm going alone and won't be able to sell until the night of. That means for the next 7 months, I'm going to have $122.50 less in my bank account than I should. I might find a time in the next 7 months where that  $122.50 would be very useful. 

Anyway; just because you've been alive and have gotten the chance to be a fan longer doesn't mean that you should get priority over younger fans. I'm worth just as much as a fan as anybody.

That’s why GA is the shit! Doesn’t matter how old you are, you can be in the front if you’re lucky enough and willing to sleep on the street! 

PJWGIII

When people bring up this stuff it makes me laugh. Yes it's ironic, but can we please move past that? That was a whole world ago as far as the concert business is concerned. The band will still keep the main ideas from that movement in their hearts and won't shy away from it. They will avoid tagging on the extra fees (they were way ahead of the curve too, later on, action was taken by others with more results).

Ticketmaster is just (unfortunately) the best system to leave the dirty scalper hands off of tix and until there is a better solution, we'll have to go with it.

Is it expensive? Absolutely. Should it be cheaper? I think so, especially when it is already so hard to get the opportunity to buy them anyway.
 I just don't think using the whole Ticketmaster thing is a good argument to back that statement though. Different time.

#420Dabz

Good luck to everyone participating in the Lottery and TM Presale. Im praying for tickets to both shows. Don't matter if its from the lotto, presale, or general i just need to try and get a total of 4 tickets to each show. Like Eddie Vedder said at Wrigley 2016 Night 2. "With Patience, Dedication and Determination"  stay positive ten club fam 

hihobibo

iOnlyownMymind said:

Well when you see the amount of money people drop on merch, no wonder they figure they can jack ticket prices.  I'll be limiting my merch spending which will probably all cost more too.

Folks on here complaining about ticket prices but also willing to drop lots of money on an empty box....

NewJPage

hihobibo said:

iOnlyownMymind said:

Well when you see the amount of money people drop on merch, no wonder they figure they can jack ticket prices.  I'll be limiting my merch spending which will probably all cost more too.

Folks on here complaining about ticket prices but also willing to drop lots of money on an empty box....

I doubt those are the same people

buck502000

helplessdancer

seattle shows are a charity event which shuts down the secondary market on stub hub. bravo PJ bravo
8 pages later and i hope someone here has mentioned the fact that this great band STILL do not tier the prices for tickets. yes they have in the past maybe for some outdoor amphitheaters(lawn tickets) but all arena shows in north america generally have 1 price. 
10c gets a lot of the great seats and there is no doubt about that, right?
how many GA tickets go on sale to the public? NONE.
how many GA tickets will go to the secondary market and get sold above face? almost none.
if PJ tiered their tickets prices the 10c lottery ticket winners would be paying a lot more for the GA's BUT because they don't tier prices it means the upfront seats(GA&reserved) are actually worth more than face value as the person in the last row in the upper level is paying the same price as a GA ticket
i have zero complaints. NONE.