Listen....it LOOKS like it worked

in The Porch
Fellow 10Cs
while I share the anxiety, disappointment, frustration we all have gone through this last week or so regarding leg 1 of this tour: 10C request, verified fan sucking, public on sale with the goddamn blue man walking, or staying put, “2000+ in front of you”, and all the crap, I didn’t see anyone post something very interesting I noticed tonight:
As of this post, about 10 hours after the public on sale, ONLY New York and Denver are showing tickets on StubHub.
Specifically, MSG only has 34 GA tickets posted, Denver only 4 tickets in GA
While there are over 300 total tickets for MSG listed (for now) that many or most of you deserve over the fucking dirtbags that steal and resell our much sought after tickets, can’t this be looked at as an actual overall victory?
while I share the anxiety, disappointment, frustration we all have gone through this last week or so regarding leg 1 of this tour: 10C request, verified fan sucking, public on sale with the goddamn blue man walking, or staying put, “2000+ in front of you”, and all the crap, I didn’t see anyone post something very interesting I noticed tonight:
As of this post, about 10 hours after the public on sale, ONLY New York and Denver are showing tickets on StubHub.
Specifically, MSG only has 34 GA tickets posted, Denver only 4 tickets in GA
While there are over 300 total tickets for MSG listed (for now) that many or most of you deserve over the fucking dirtbags that steal and resell our much sought after tickets, can’t this be looked at as an actual overall victory?
339 total MSG tickets posted is a small number compared to the whole arena.
Zero postings for Baltimore
Zero postings for STL
Zero postings for Nashville (which I personally was shut out of in 10C, verified fan, and public sale)
Zero postings for OKC, Oakland
Anyway, while the resell market is not limited to StubHub, my point is, doesn’t this appear, at least at a first glance, this process worked for us all?
Zero postings for Baltimore
Zero postings for STL
Zero postings for Nashville (which I personally was shut out of in 10C, verified fan, and public sale)
Zero postings for OKC, Oakland
Anyway, while the resell market is not limited to StubHub, my point is, doesn’t this appear, at least at a first glance, this process worked for us all?
The majority of the tickets “look” to be in the hands of the Faithfull, and that, to me anyway, shows that this whole thing might just have worked the way it’s was intended.
I have to obviously note to myself that in a week, this post may backfire on me, but I fucking hate scalpers, I hate TM even more for “feeing” the shit out of reasonable concert tickets, and just overall being dicks, but I cannot help but feel like the band and this process did in fact work more for us than against us.
Am I missing something at this time and ranted for no reason?
Am I missing something at this time and ranted for no reason?
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People in the NE are salty but that's demand, not the process.
Also... if we get a proper tour with the standard 2 night stands in NY, Philly, and Boston in the fall there should be a lot less people shut out.
Overall I guess I am OK with how they handled this, but there are some tweaks that definitely need to be made to smooth it over.
The yin to this whole yang is that there are going to be people like me that make crazy early planning decisions to try and beat the masses like buy non-refundable hotel rooms and train tickets to Baltimore that would never have even imagined there would literally be no way in if they didn't pull it off during the 1st 3 sales of this thing. Not expensive or a pain in the ass. Actually, literally basically impossible. It didn't even enter my brain as being in the realm of possibility.
I still have faith I will figure it out, but it is going to be a tremendous pain in the ass and probably wind up costing me the ability to go to either show with anyone I know as my best best at this point is to just to trade my MSG +1 for someone down there's +1 to the Baltimore show.
It is what it is, but it kinda blows.
Less than 2% of MSG tickets are on StubHub. The fans won. There is no debate or argument to be made against that. Numbers don't lie. Just because YOU didn't win, doesn't mean the new system is flawed.
MOST people who requested tickets in the lotto got them. Just like they said. They (reportedly) doubled the amount of tickets for 10C. That's incredible. This is above and beyond any other fan club I know of.
The fan-to-fan exchange for the other shows deterred scalpers because there is no money to be made.
Ticket prices are marginally more than for the 2016 tour and in line (or less) than other major "legacy" touring bands.
The majority of complaints I've read on this board the past few weeks come from people who are uninformed, assume they know better, or are just entitled and self-centered beyond anything I've ever seen.
Had this been a traditional tour with 2 night in NY, 2 in Philly, Boston, etc., the praise on this forum would be near universal. The problem isn't the system, it's the lack of shows they chose to do on this first leg that led to demand far outweighing supply in VERY FEW cities.
2006: Camden 1
2008: Washington DC
2009: Philly 1, Philly 2, Philly 3, Philly 4
2013: Philly 1, Philly 2, Baltimore
2016: Philly 1, Philly 2,
2017: Temple of The Dog Philly 2
Sammi: Wanna just break up?
I am also surprised if tickets on the public sale are non-transferable. Didn’t think that was the case outside 10c tickets.
We last saw PJ in Boston 2010 before we had kids, so we were really excited to see them live again considering when my daughter was a baby, "Black" was the only thing that could make her stop crying for her first 6mo of life!
I am hoping they come back around again on this tour.