Fan-to-Fan Ticket Exchange for Dummies

SHZA

tdawe said:

pjl44 said:

BennyLaRue said:

KevinCooper said:

BennyLaRue said:

Unless there are a bunch of people refreshing so they can sell, the people wanting to buy are wasting their time. There will be no tickets available yet when this goes live.

post to sell _  tickets posted_  buyer refreshes_  acquires tickets....

People aren't dying to sell as soon as possible is my point.

I don't agree with this. I think a lot of people have extra pairs from various situations. Ticket buddies both hit, didn't know 10C seat location so also bought in VF, etc. People who know they have extras to ditch. If I were them, especially if the seats aren't great, I'd want them up there pronto hoping they get snapped up in the frenzy. 

I think that for the vast majority of tickets out there, you'll have no problem selling them on the exchange no matter where the seats are or when you post them. But that's really neither here nor there, because what's important here is how many people would be out there who believe that they need to post their tickets the absolute moment the exchange opens. I'm not doubting that there might be some people out there who are anxiously refreshing their TM account page waiting for the "SELL" button to light up, but my guess is that they are pretty few in number. 

"I think this," "I think that," "I disagree with this ..." It's all rank speculation at this point. 

mcgruff10

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

PJNB

mcgruff10 said:

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

A gentleman and a scholar! 

kid canada

mcgruff10 said:

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

Wonderful. I will do the same for Nashville.

NewfieintheUSA

kid canada said:

mcgruff10 said:

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

Wonderful. I will do the same for Nashville.

I'll take STL duty

SHZA

Father Hubbard said:

Looks like a link to sell on the main St. Louis page, but not Baltimore (on upper right)
https://www1.ticketmaster.com/pearl-jam-st-louis-missouri-04-04-2020/event/06005795AE6F4072

When you click through to the "My Events" it doesn't actually let you list them. 

Jadler

The real question is how am I going to call Sirius over and over again while refreshing the TM App every 2 seconds all at the same time? What a rush that’s going to be. 

Saltzy23

This is goddamn pathetic.

Honestly, if this was for anything else on Planet Earth I would have just said fuck it already.

They have had a MONTH to get this sorted out.  I don't care that there won't be an avalanche of tickets available.  I don't care that it's gonna be a long shot to be the 1st person to snag a ticket before someone else does.

A MONTH ago they announced this was gonna be up and running today.  It is LITERALLY the only way to buy tickets, all because this is how they all decided this was gonna go.

It is goddamn ridiculous that we are sitting here @ 4:30PM on the day this was supposed to go live and no one has a fucking clue what the deal is.

Get it figured the fuck out already.

jmug23

SHZA said:

Father Hubbard said:

Looks like a link to sell on the main St. Louis page, but not Baltimore (on upper right)
https://www1.ticketmaster.com/pearl-jam-st-louis-missouri-04-04-2020/event/06005795AE6F4072

When you click through to the "My Events" it doesn't actually let you list them. 

are you selling for STL?

Nymets30

I’m going to rest my eyes. Let me know when everybody is done.  I’ll take the 200 section for MSG the rest of you can have floor seats since I’m feeling generous today. 

Weston1283

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed with the number of tickets listed

Everyone who has MSG, STL and Baltimore tickets got them from their first priority 

Very few People are going to be selling.  It’s not gonna be some magical thing where there’s tickets popping up left and right.

Someone actually has to have a ticket they want to sell, which is what some people are forgetting.  

NewfieintheUSA

SHZA said:

Father Hubbard said:

Looks like a link to sell on the main St. Louis page, but not Baltimore (on upper right)
https://www1.ticketmaster.com/pearl-jam-st-louis-missouri-04-04-2020/event/06005795AE6F4072

When you click through to the "My Events" it doesn't actually let you list them. 

but you can get parking! 

euchrid

kid canada said:

mcgruff10 said:

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

Wonderful. I will do the same for Nashville.

See a few people mentioning they have Nashville for sale...so good luck!

kid canada

Weston1283 said:

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed with the number of tickets listed

Everyone who has MSG, STL and Baltimore tickets got them from their first priority 

Very few People are going to be selling.  It’s not gonna be some magical thing where there’s tickets popping up left and right.

Someone actually has to have a ticket they want to sell, which is what some people are forgetting.  

There are definitely people who got 10C tickets for a show and then got TM tickets for the same show and will now be selling some of them.

RF123172

Why does everyone keep mentioning MSG? I thought MSG was not part of this because you can transfer tickets in New York.  Does anyone know for sure?

Tenaka

Saltzy23 said:

This is goddamn pathetic.

Honestly, if this was for anything else on Planet Earth I would have just said fuck it already.

They have had a MONTH to get this sorted out.  I don't care that there won't be an avalanche of tickets available.  I don't care that it's gonna be a long shot to be the 1st person to snag a ticket before someone else does.

A MONTH ago they announced this was gonna be up and running today.  It is LITERALLY the only way to buy tickets, all because this is how they all decided this was gonna go.

It is goddamn ridiculous that we are sitting here @ 4:30PM on the day this was supposed to go live and no one has a fucking clue what the deal is.

Get it figured the fuck out already.

lol While I agree they need to get their shit together, it's just not that easy to add a feature like this. I'm an web developer (DevOps Engineer to be specific) and a month is not a long time. I'm hoping they've been working on it for at least 6 months. Who knows when the Fan-to-Fan exchange concept was brought up in discussions.

Weston1283

kid canada said:

Weston1283 said:

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed with the number of tickets listed

Everyone who has MSG, STL and Baltimore tickets got them from their first priority 

Very few People are going to be selling.  It’s not gonna be some magical thing where there’s tickets popping up left and right.

Someone actually has to have a ticket they want to sell, which is what some people are forgetting.  

There are definitely people who got 10C tickets for a show and then got TM tickets for the same show and will now be selling some of them.

Yes, but that number will be significantly lower than the hundreds of people refreshing the page 24/7 hoping to get lucky

branscop

RF123172 said:

Why does everyone keep mentioning MSG? I thought MSG was not part of this because you can transfer tickets in New York.  Does anyone know for sure?

I’m thinking if people want to sell MSG for face they can use the fan exchange. If they want to sell them on stubhub they could choose to do that. 

mcgruff10

PJNB said:

mcgruff10 said:

Guys you have to have some patience. Stay off the ticketmaster website for the next 24 hours so they can do their thing.  i'll volunteer myself to monitor the website (especially msg) and will report back to you once tickets are up.  

A gentleman and a scholar! 

Anything for the jamily

Flamery

Tenaka said:

Saltzy23 said:

This is goddamn pathetic.

Honestly, if this was for anything else on Planet Earth I would have just said fuck it already.

They have had a MONTH to get this sorted out.  I don't care that there won't be an avalanche of tickets available.  I don't care that it's gonna be a long shot to be the 1st person to snag a ticket before someone else does.

A MONTH ago they announced this was gonna be up and running today.  It is LITERALLY the only way to buy tickets, all because this is how they all decided this was gonna go.

It is goddamn ridiculous that we are sitting here @ 4:30PM on the day this was supposed to go live and no one has a fucking clue what the deal is.

Get it figured the fuck out already.

lol While I agree they need to get their shit together, it's just not that easy to add a feature like this. I'm an web developer (DevOps Engineer to be specific) and a month is not a long time. I'm hoping they've been working on it for at least 6 months. Who knows when the Fan-to-Fan exchange concept was brought up in discussions.

I mean, it seems like an extension of their fan to fan sports marketplace. I don’t think a company like tm deserves the benefit of the doubt, especially when their entire business is focused around selling tickets. Should be the thing they’re good at?

OceansJenny

Saltzy, man cut your losses and just eat the non refundable hotel room. Go have a fun weekend in Baltimore. Maybe you can get a ticket day of. It’s not worth all this anger.

Saltzy23

Weston1283 said:

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed with the number of tickets listed

Everyone who has MSG, STL and Baltimore tickets got them from their first priority 

Very few People are going to be selling.  It’s not gonna be some magical thing where there’s tickets popping up left and right.

Someone actually has to have a ticket they want to sell, which is what some people are forgetting.  

There are numerous people in the FB Baltimore group saying that they wanna post their tickets, but cannot yet.

This is fuuuuuuucked.

gotthebottle

Who says they don't have it all set up and working? Why does TM have to roll it out at a certain time to make a few PJ fans stop freaking out? No on NEEDS to sell their tickets right this second....

michlynda

My neck and shoulder are killing me

Saltzy23

Tenaka said:

Saltzy23 said:

This is goddamn pathetic.

Honestly, if this was for anything else on Planet Earth I would have just said fuck it already.

They have had a MONTH to get this sorted out.  I don't care that there won't be an avalanche of tickets available.  I don't care that it's gonna be a long shot to be the 1st person to snag a ticket before someone else does.

A MONTH ago they announced this was gonna be up and running today.  It is LITERALLY the only way to buy tickets, all because this is how they all decided this was gonna go.

It is goddamn ridiculous that we are sitting here @ 4:30PM on the day this was supposed to go live and no one has a fucking clue what the deal is.

Get it figured the fuck out already.

lol While I agree they need to get their shit together, it's just not that easy to add a feature like this. I'm an web developer (DevOps Engineer to be specific) and a month is not a long time. I'm hoping they've been working on it for at least 6 months. Who knows when the Fan-to-Fan exchange concept was brought up in discussions.

Hey....then maybe not have this be the only way for people to sell their tickets.

CantKeepmedown

Also, isn't TM headquarters on the west coast?  It's only 1:30 out there.  It's quite possible this isn't up and running until tonight (EST).  

SHZA

jmug23 said:

SHZA said:

Father Hubbard said:

Looks like a link to sell on the main St. Louis page, but not Baltimore (on upper right)
https://www1.ticketmaster.com/pearl-jam-st-louis-missouri-04-04-2020/event/06005795AE6F4072

When you click through to the "My Events" it doesn't actually let you list them. 

are you selling for STL?

Just testing for now, but I will if I find something better

Tenaka

gotthebottle said:

Who says they don't have it all set up and working? Why does TM have to roll it out at a certain time to make a few PJ fans stop freaking out? No on NEEDS to sell their tickets right this second....

I've been sitting here at work all day refreshing the page like most people here.

But from an IT standpoint, I have to assume they are just finalizing some things (server stuff). They have millions of hits per day, and with all the excitement over Fan-to-Fan exchange, they are getting more hits then usual and there will be even more when the feature is enabled. Not to mention the amount of server load posting the tickets up for sale, and people buying them.

Sorry to totally nerd out in this post, I was going to avoid it but I'm hoping this gives people some perspective.

epbadger

Hate to say this but I want scalping back

RF123172

This is not a new concept for TM to develop.  They have had fan to fan sales for years.  The only difference on this is they sell for ticket price with no profit.  It is a modification.