Verified Fan Presale Strategery Thread

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  • Jed
    Jed New York City Posts: 1,207
    I bought two tickets for Ottowa. It's only 7 hours from NYC... worth it!
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  • chukdotcom
    chukdotcom Posts: 757
    incidental immortality said:
    Can anyone give me their thoughts on how this went for me?  I was in the waiting room for Baltimore right when it opened.  When the sale started I had roughly 3800 people in front of me.  I finally broke through around 10:25 and saw 5-6 pairs in the upper rows of the 300 sections.  Every once in a while a good pair would pop up but when I chose them they were already spoken for.  Is all of this pretty normal?

    I don't see many shows and I usually get my seats through the Ten Club.  I'm not complaining, just looking to learn from my mistakes.

    Yes, unfortunately that is pretty normal.  Not good, but normal.
  • sarnocm
    sarnocm York, ME Posts: 81
    For QC I had 1300 in front of me and still got 2 middle side section, lower ring.  I have to imagine that's better than some of the 10c reserved seats.

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  • gatorjam
    gatorjam West Palm Beach, Florida Posts: 197
    I got into St. Louis, was thinking of going to that show or Denver.  I got Denver 10c tickets, when I finally got into the ticketmaster sale for St.  Louis it was nothing but nosebleeds!!!  Screw that!!
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  • ddeschler
    ddeschler Posts: 688
    Got Sec 114 Row P for Nashville.  Not too shabby!  Helped that I only needed 1 ticket.
    I've seen quite a few Pearl Jam shows.
  • mattsavard
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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,024
    Its pretty crazy there are no pearl jam tickets on stubhub, etc. other than MSG.  I definitely feel like this is a good thing.  It's become tough as a fan to see multiple shows this tour - which I hope will ease up with more plentiful dates in the fall - but better they go to other fans for face than scalped by ticket brokers. 
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  • Greatplainsman...
    Greatplainsman... Posts: 842
    Refresh. Don’t wait in que for more than 30 seconds is what i did
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  • halshakarchi
    halshakarchi Posts: 176
    on2legs said:
    Its pretty crazy there are no pearl jam tickets on stubhub, etc. other than MSG.  I definitely feel like this is a good thing.  It's become tough as a fan to see multiple shows this tour - which I hope will ease up with more plentiful dates in the fall - but better they go to other fans for face than scalped by ticket brokers. 
    Do you think it stings less knowing you didn’t get a ticket due to the lottery or verified fan presale not granting you access vs fighting an uphill battle against the scalper bots?
  • demonscars
    demonscars Posts: 92
    Look at all these wonderful “Verified Fans” just re-selling at massive profit. All the behind stage was VF. Also Pearl Jam is on the front page of Stubhub. 

  • SS49057
    SS49057 Posts: 79
    ddeschler said:
    Got Sec 114 Row P for Nashville.  Not too shabby!  Helped that I only needed 1 ticket.
    I got Sec 107 Row P for Nashville (single seat), directly across from you. When I finally got in it looked to me like there were only 3 or 4 scattered singles in both of those sections.
  • MR242791
    MR242791 Brooklyn NY Posts: 669
    I've been sitting tight waiting to secure my tickets for like 15 minutes.  anyone else having this issue?
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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,024
    halshakarchi said:
    on2legs said:
    Its pretty crazy there are no pearl jam tickets on stubhub, etc. other than MSG.  I definitely feel like this is a good thing.  It's become tough as a fan to see multiple shows this tour - which I hope will ease up with more plentiful dates in the fall - but better they go to other fans for face than scalped by ticket brokers. 
    Do you think it stings less knowing you didn’t get a ticket due to the lottery or verified fan presale not granting you access vs fighting an uphill battle against the scalper bots?

    I think it stings either way.  But if I'm missing out I'd prefer it to be because another fan got the ticket for face rather than a scalper making 10x the face value.
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  • BV84003
    BV84003 Holt, MI Posts: 478
    demonscars said:
    Look at all these wonderful “Verified Fans” just re-selling at massive profit. All the behind stage was VF. Also Pearl Jam is on the front page of Stubhub. 

    You can thank NY scalper friendly laws for that. Not necessarily a TM fault. Yes, it's a "verified fan" but how on earth can they actually limit it to people who won't resell. That's impossible.
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  • incidental immortality
    incidental immortality CT Posts: 444
    BennyLaRue said:
    incidental immortality said:
    JimmyV said:
    Man...that Quebec availability is heartbreaking. Should've been Montreal. 

    Or Augusta, ME...
    Or literally anywhere in the northeast.
    Quebec City IS northeast. Closer than Baltimore for a lot of the NE people. So are Ottawa and Hamilton.
    OK.  I'll change my statement.  Four shows in eastern Canada versus two shows in the northeast United States may not have maximized the demand.
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  • halshakarchi
    halshakarchi Posts: 176
    on2legs said:
    halshakarchi said:
    on2legs said:
    Its pretty crazy there are no pearl jam tickets on stubhub, etc. other than MSG.  I definitely feel like this is a good thing.  It's become tough as a fan to see multiple shows this tour - which I hope will ease up with more plentiful dates in the fall - but better they go to other fans for face than scalped by ticket brokers. 
    Do you think it stings less knowing you didn’t get a ticket due to the lottery or verified fan presale not granting you access vs fighting an uphill battle against the scalper bots?

    I think it stings either way.  But if I'm missing out I'd prefer it to be because another fan got the ticket for face rather than a scalper making 10x the face value.
    Yeah it stings either way but it definitely is lessened knowing, as you said, that it went to someone who wants to go instead of making a buck
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    MR242791 said:
    I've been sitting tight waiting to secure my tickets for like 15 minutes.  anyone else having this issue?
    Yeah for about an hour now
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  • BennyLaRue
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    jamesbrown1832 said:
    PLENTY still available for QC...

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  • RF283499
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    Jed said:
    I bought two tickets for Ottowa. It's only 7 hours from NYC... worth it!
    About the same as driving to Buffalo from NYC. 
  • mpedone
    mpedone 540xxx - Manchester, NH Posts: 1,961
    on2legs said:
    Its pretty crazy there are no pearl jam tickets on stubhub, etc. other than MSG.  I definitely feel like this is a good thing.  It's become tough as a fan to see multiple shows this tour - which I hope will ease up with more plentiful dates in the fall - but better they go to other fans for face than scalped by ticket brokers. 

    There were Baltimore tickets on StubHub this morning. Toronto, too, I think.
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