10C seat locations, call me crazy but......

Foriginal Sin

elvistheking44 said:

Norman said:

Take solace knowing your tickets will be better than those who know where they’re sitting.

Not always. My Ticketmaster/tickets.com seats have been better than my 10 club seats and others many times.  They TRY to get the best seats, they get some but never all.

Gotten amazing seats via Ticketmaster the day before or of the “sold out” show

JH6056

Foriginal Sin said:

elvistheking44 said:

Norman said:

Take solace knowing your tickets will be better than those who know where they’re sitting.

Not always. My Ticketmaster/tickets.com seats have been better than my 10 club seats and others many times.  They TRY to get the best seats, they get some but never all.

Gotten amazing seats via Ticketmaster the day before or of the “sold out” show

True, so have I.  But unless you are really wealthy and can travel last minute or risk booking travel ahead and risk NOT getting great seats/any seats the day before/day of, you have to either be local or willing to miss out altogether if you can gamble on waiting until the last day to see what happens.

For those of us who need to fly and/or stay in hotels to go to these shows, that is just not a worthwhile gamble.  Also, not all of us have the luxury of checking over and over the day before or day of show - some of us have jobs where you can't be online like that and just checking ticketmaster for tix.  One job I had you couldn't even get on ticket sales sites, they'd blocked them all.  You'd have to be on your phone, which again not all of us can do all day at work.

Zod

ComeToTX said:

Bentleyspop said:

They have never given out ticket locations in advance of picking them up at the box office. NEVER
This year will be the first time in 24+ years of being a member that I will know my seat locations before I leave my house.
It's part of the whole allure of being a 10club member

enjoy the shows

They mailed them out in 1998. 

So so many new buyers this tour for sure. 

They did, but you did't get them in the mail until well after the regular sale.  It created a small level of paranoia because you didn't know 100% for sure if even got tix before the public onsale happened.

JM55546

Foriginal Sin said:

elvistheking44 said:

Norman said:

Take solace knowing your tickets will be better than those who know where they’re sitting.

Not always. My Ticketmaster/tickets.com seats have been better than my 10 club seats and others many times.  They TRY to get the best seats, they get some but never all.

Gotten amazing seats via Ticketmaster the day before or of the “sold out” show

I did this for the Boston 2000 shows, which sadly was 18 years ago. Day of the show, went on TM at about 7:30 in the morning and they had 3rd row, which was actually the 1st row because of where they were located. Seems these days they've tightened up that a bit and make sure those don't go out to the general public. 

JP218404

Always tickets day of show for any show. Band, promoter, record label unused ticket as well as when the stage goes up and there is extra room
on the side of stage. 

Foriginal Sin

JH6056 said:

Foriginal Sin said:

elvistheking44 said:

Norman said:

Take solace knowing your tickets will be better than those who know where they’re sitting.

Not always. My Ticketmaster/tickets.com seats have been better than my 10 club seats and others many times.  They TRY to get the best seats, they get some but never all.

Gotten amazing seats via Ticketmaster the day before or of the “sold out” show

True, so have I.  But unless you are really wealthy and can travel last minute or risk booking travel ahead and risk NOT getting great seats/any seats the day before/day of, you have to either be local or willing to miss out altogether if you can gamble on waiting until the last day to see what happens.

For those of us who need to fly and/or stay in hotels to go to these shows, that is just not a worthwhile gamble.  Also, not all of us have the luxury of checking over and over the day before or day of show - some of us have jobs where you can't be online like that and just checking ticketmaster for tix.  One job I had you couldn't even get on ticket sales sites, they'd blocked them all.  You'd have to be on your phone, which again not all of us can do all day at work.

I was just saying that you can get tickets to sold out shows via Ticketmaster the day of or night before. My post has nothing to do with travel. This is anywhere

JH6056

Foriginal Sin said:

JH6056 said:

Foriginal Sin said:

elvistheking44 said:

Norman said:

Take solace knowing your tickets will be better than those who know where they’re sitting.

Not always. My Ticketmaster/tickets.com seats have been better than my 10 club seats and others many times.  They TRY to get the best seats, they get some but never all.

Gotten amazing seats via Ticketmaster the day before or of the “sold out” show

True, so have I.  But unless you are really wealthy and can travel last minute or risk booking travel ahead and risk NOT getting great seats/any seats the day before/day of, you have to either be local or willing to miss out altogether if you can gamble on waiting until the last day to see what happens.

For those of us who need to fly and/or stay in hotels to go to these shows, that is just not a worthwhile gamble.  Also, not all of us have the luxury of checking over and over the day before or day of show - some of us have jobs where you can't be online like that and just checking ticketmaster for tix.  One job I had you couldn't even get on ticket sales sites, they'd blocked them all.  You'd have to be on your phone, which again not all of us can do all day at work.

I was just saying that you can get tickets to sold out shows via Ticketmaster the day of or night before. My post has nothing to do with travel. This is anywhere

Yup, I understood that.  I was just throwing in the added point that for shows like these PJ shows, that so many people will be traveling to attend, the whole "just wait until the day before/day of" is very very risky.  And if you're sure you want to go, not something you can do cheaply if you really wait until the last minute to book travel and hotels.

But yes, it works just about anywhere, although there ARE shows that hardly any tix open up for, so it's definitely not a guaranteed strategy.  But it does work a lot of the time.

mcgruff10

JP218404 said:

Always tickets day of show for any show. Band, promoter, record label unused ticket as well as when the stage goes up and there is extra room
on the side of stage. 

except for borgata 2005!  I checked for tickets at least 1000 times and nada!!!

JP218404

mcgruff10 said:

JP218404 said:

Always tickets day of show for any show. Band, promoter, record label unused ticket as well as when the stage goes up and there is extra room
on the side of stage. 

except for borgata 2005!  I checked for tickets at least 1000 times and nada!!!

Those were a different animal.  Those shows got me back in fullboat 

Sarava

One of the neat things about how they seat us is seeing the same people at different shows. My wife and I sat next to the same couple at both the Lexington show and then Wrigley 1 later that year. Obviously our fan club numbers must be right next to each other. Pretty fun.

Mr Benjamin

I think it's crazy that people got 10C tickets but then felt the need to get TM seats too incase they were better....

Kristiewithak

I think and maybe I am wrong...that maybe reading some of the posts about seats being way far back for high in numbers have some people scared. I personally have never been to a seated concert. I have always been in the standing areas..i love the vibe the interaction and being able to actually see the band up close.  I won reserved for the only show i can attend and I'm trying to go with just being happy to be in the building. It will be a totally new experience for me all the way around. So I'm a little nervous but trusting what GOOD things I've read from other 10 club fans. Still looking myself for 2 more as my older kids now want to go and could only get 2 thru the club 

Mac57

Except for MSG 2, 2010 Donkey Kong. At least 300 people waiting for released.

ZeldaZonk

Mr Benjamin said:

I think it's crazy that people got 10C tickets but then felt the need to get TM seats too incase they were better....

Me, too. I've seen quite a bit of that going on this week. The greed is rampant. 

ski-bum

Poncier said:

ski-bum said:

Poncier said:

They are a small operation, have to take like 10,000 orders per show and distribute them in order of seniority, its a different operation than Ticketmaster or Tickets.com.

Basically for the lottery they know how many tickets they have available and allocate those by drawing.

It then takes them some time to attribute the individual tickets to individual members. This year they say we should know in July. Usually you don't know till you pick up your tix at will call day of show, so there's an improvement.

I bet it's not even 1000 per show.

I will gladly take that bet.

In the past its been about 10% which would be between 3500-400 for one of these stadium shows, but this year they got a much higher allotment.

Where did you hear 10%?
I would have thought that 10C would have a ton of seats also, but maybe not.
According to my "Boston Shows Membership Numbers" post, there are only 180 pair of tickets for the first show.
I'm sure a ton of people don't post on the boards (which I also included Facebook) but that like ten times the amount in my post.
It very well be way more than 1000 but it seems like it's not even close to 3500.

Poncier

ski-bum said:

Poncier said:

ski-bum said:

Poncier said:

They are a small operation, have to take like 10,000 orders per show and distribute them in order of seniority, its a different operation than Ticketmaster or Tickets.com.

Basically for the lottery they know how many tickets they have available and allocate those by drawing.

It then takes them some time to attribute the individual tickets to individual members. This year they say we should know in July. Usually you don't know till you pick up your tix at will call day of show, so there's an improvement.

I bet it's not even 1000 per show.

I will gladly take that bet.

In the past its been about 10% which would be between 3500-400 for one of these stadium shows, but this year they got a much higher allotment.

Where did you hear 10%?
I would have thought that 10C would have a ton of seats also, but maybe not.
According to my "Boston Shows Membership Numbers" post, there are only 180 pair of tickets for the first show.
I'm sure a ton of people don't post on the boards (which I also included Facebook) but that like ten times the amount in my post.
It very well be way more than 1000 but it seems like it's not even close to 3500.

Its a well known fact that Live Nation/Ticketmaster normally allots 10% of tix to fan clubs.

There have been instances where 10 club got more back in the day (I think it was MSG 2 2003 if I recall where there were like 8,000 fan club members in attendance.}

So for these stadium shows the last few years they would have had roughly 4,000 tix if that rule applied. Fenway and Wrigley are both on Tickets.com so 10club may have gotten more in 2013 and 2016, we don't know. I can tell you when I picked up my tix for Fenway in 2016, there were way more than 1,000 envelopes to be distributed. They had the 10c ticket distribution set up outside on tables behind Fenway, and if you read the thread you keep linking in the other thread showing folks 2016 seat locations you'll see me post about the amount of envelopes they had.

So for argument's sake lets say they had 4,000 seats for each Fenway show in 2016.

Lottery odds finished at 44% and 47% for those shows, and that was after an arena tour that hit Philly, NYC and other areas in travelling distance to Boston that have no shows this year.

This year when Fenway are the only shows that are in the eastern time zone, the lottery finished at 77% and 99%. Do you really think that equals less than 1,000 orders?

Especially when 10c stated they got "More tickets for fan club members than ever before"?

Basing your math on who posts in that thread is silly. You see what the list of numbers for 2016 was right...30 posts with numbers and seat locations. Yet a huge disparity in seating locations. You think the 30 is an accurate gauge of how many folks got 10c tix?

buck502000

I waited for the verified sale, my 10c tickets were usually in the 100 section at Wrigley- I was pushed into the 200’s with the tm sale.  But I got 4 tickets together