Seat Confirmations - Week of Jan. 27

MakeUSmile

Scored MSG & Balt as my 8 &9 pick! #blessed
Didn’t get GA and I put Best available? #gutted
#blessed&gutted

josevolution

bootlegger10 said:

mcgruff10 said:

bootlegger10 said:

So stoked to see what tickets I got.   Will see if I got GA for Oakland 2.  Also getting a new couch on Tuesday.  Doesn't get Eddie Vedder than this!

Are you excited for your first Pearl Jam show? I would definitely bring tissues because you are definitely going to cry.   Welcome to the jamily!!!!

Long time fan, first time show attendee.  Does anyone know if I'll have a good chance at a tambourine?  

Yes bring your kid get into GA with him wave at ED during encore! Good to go 

PJPAT

Front row.  Woohoo!!!

jk

mattsavard

bbiggs said:

It will be epic if they don't release seat locations until Friday.  Still the week of the 27th so they'd be fulfilling their commitment. 

Some people just want to watch the world burn.... 

(I'm rooting for this too) 

mace1229

I went fishing this weekend. I don’t think those fish won any tickets either, they’re all feeling pretty gutted right. now.

rvapete

ISO......Taking my mom to her first PJ concert. She had a 10C # in 100s back in 1990 but let her membership lapse.  We are traveling from Oklahoma City to NYC just for the MSG show.  Mom fell for dad during his spell with cannibalism so fingers crossed they play Dirty Frank just for her!!! Flights and hotels are booked now we just need tickets. Looking for 2 GA and Book of Mormon tickets to make our Broadway matinee/Evening with Pearl Jam experience in the Big Apple complete! 

mcgruff10

Hey guys, flying in from Uzbekistan.  Hotel and airfare booked but sadly no ticket yet to msg.  Help me make my wish come true.  I just want to see pj once from the pit in the big apple.   Please guys, I only need one GA ticket.  I am going to 11 shows in the spring but struck out on msg.  please, I'll do anything.  Thanks from a long time fan.

OceansJenny

This thread is gold :rofl:

mattsavard

Confirmed Back Row 300 level. Best sound in the house! 

SomethingCreative

mattsavard said:

Confirmed Back Row 300 level. Best sound in the house! 

Agreed, you basically get to hear the show twice from back there

jamofpearls

Sitting on Mars with some naked blue guy, email's running a little behind. 
If I start traveling now, will I make the tour on time?

JimmyV

jamofpearls said:

Sitting on Mars with some naked blue guy, email's running a little behind. 
If I start traveling now, will I make the tour on time?

Manhattan will get you to Manhattan on time. In fact...you are there right now. 

andyfarrimond

Scored front row tix for Balt and MSG, but I'm going to be in hospital for a colon removal surgery (colectomy).  #Doublegutted

Bentleyspop

andyfarrimond said:

Scored front row tix for Balt and MSG, but I'm going to be in hospital for a colon removal surgery (colectomy).  #Doublegutted

#NoGutsNoGutted

tdawe

It's going to be a long week so I was thinking I'd pre-answer several of the common complaints that we'll be seeing pop up (each with its own dedicated thread I'm sure). We can just bookmark this and refer back to it rather than typing these things out dozens of times.

1. Other people have started getting their notifications and I haven't yet. Take it easy. Make a cup of tea, read a book, take a walk. The shows are two months away; you'll be okay.

2. I got shut out of my GA-only request and I see people who requested Best Available getting pit tickets. This has been addressed several times over the last two weeks. It was a lottery, and picking "GA Only" did not provide you with better chances than "Best Available" - in fact it was much worse, as both options gave you identical chances to get drawn for the pit, with GA-only not having the fallback of potentially getting seats.

3. I got reserved seats and people with lower numbers got GA. Based on our common understanding* of how the lottery worked, seniority did not affect whether you got tickets at all, or whether you got GA or reserved, but only the location of the reserved seats once they had been fully drawn.

4. My seats are worse than they were for previous tours. This one was addressed directly in the initial communications from the club. It is apparent that the Ten Club was able to get far more tickets for the lottery on this tour than on previous ones, and the crucial thing to understand is that that means there are more winners with a lower number than you. 

5. Someone with a higher number than me got better seats than I did for a different show. Some of these shows had higher demand in the lottery than others. It is very likely that there are fewer member tickets being awarded for, say, OKC than for MSG, and so it stands to reason that the worst fan club seats in OKC will be better than the worst ones in the Garden. If you have a problem with this, try putting in for the lower-demand shows in the future and (as this 506xxx member can tell you from experience) you will enjoy better seats.

6. Someone with a higher number than me got better seats than I did for the same show. No they didn't. Unless and until we start confirming that this is happening a lot, you should assume that one or both of you is wrong.

7. Better seats than mine are showing up on the resale market. There can be several reasons for this, including but not limited to (a) the scalper has a Ten Club account and entered the lottery for the purpose of reselling, (b) the scalper doesn't have the tickets yet and is speculating and (c) there were actually some seats available in the VF and general sales that were better than some of the 10C tickets. None of this means that TM or the club messed up or that you have been treated unfairly.

8. I only got one ticket when I thought I was getting two. You fucked up your entry. (We haven't heard this one yet I don't think, but I'm calling it now - there will be people who selected "1" [as in, "I know Ten Club tickets are sold in pairs, so I'll take one pair please"] for the number of tickets in their original entry, and who will only find out that they got a single when the seat location rolls in).

9. Miscellaneous complaints I haven't thought of. Be happy you're in the building.

tdawe

* This is a separate point that occurred to me while thinking about the previous post, but it’s possible that we have all be laboring under a misunderstanding about how GA/BA/RES worked in the lottery. Apologies if this has already been hashed out elsewhere and I just missed it and/or am slow on the uptake.

My understanding, which seems to be shared by most around here, is that for any given show/priority they were working in, they would draw an entry and assign it to GA (if the entry was GA or BA and GA was available) or to reserved (if the entry was RES, or if it was BA and GA was not available). But it strikes me now that they didn’t have to do it that way; they could have absolutely done it in a way that awarded GA tickets to BA entries based on seniority. There’s nothing to indicate they didn’t do it this way, and in fact it would help explain one of the big unsolved mysteries around the lottery (why weren’t we told whether we were GA or reserved last weekend?).

What if they just drew entries without allocating them to GA or reserved, until one of the following things happened: (1) they drew a total amount of entries that matched the total tickets they had available, in which case they’d stop drawing entirely, (2) they drew a number of GA-only entries that matched the total number of GA tickets available, in which case they would eliminate any remaining GA-only entries from the pool or (3) they drew a number of RES-only entries that matched the total number of seats available, in which case they would eliminate any remaining RES only entries from the pool?

As long as the GA-only entries drawn didn’t exceed the number of GA tickets, there was no need for them to actually determine at the time of the lottery which entries were going where (same thing for RES but let’s disregard that remote possibility for the moment). Then once it was time to allocate tickets by seniority, they could put all the GA winners into GA and treat the remaining GA tickets as the “best available” when they’re going through and assigning tickets to the BA/reserved winners. Again, that would explain why they didn’t let us know which type of ticket we had in the initial notification.

I have no real reason to think this is the case (and I’d selfishly like to think it’s not; I hope I had at least some chance at getting GA tickets for the Garden), and if you’re reading this after the notifications have gone out and your complaint falls into bucket #3 above, you should disregard all of this and assume that we were all right in the first place and the GA spots were lotteried off. But like I said, unless I’m missing something (very possible) there’s no reason they couldn’t have done it this way, and we’d have to adopt this lesson into our learnings for future lotteries.

jamofpearls

JimmyV said:

jamofpearls said:

Sitting on Mars with some naked blue guy, email's running a little behind. 
If I start traveling now, will I make the tour on time?

Manhattan will get you to Manhattan on time. In fact...you are there right now. 

*standing applause gif*

bootlegger10

I think the reason we didn't get to know what tickets we had was due to the lottery and seniority.  Because the lottery does not factor in seniority, they are selling tickets as names are picked and they can't assign seats at that time because the system does not know what the final seniority of the reserved fans will be until the end.  Goal #1 was getting the lottery done I bet, and then they could take a breather and focus on allocating the tickets after the public sale was complete.

RoleModelsinBlood31

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TA243471

I'm starting to get a little pissed off.  First its with the tickets, but now this?  I've been a long time 10 club member, and I can still remember when a good 10 club number gave you the right to be gutted before so many of these newbees.  What is this world coming too.  Can't we at least pick a specific 10 club number, and lock out some of the riff-raff from this.  I may have to rethink my yearly membership.