Fan-to-Fan Ticket Exchange for Dummies

OceansJenny

40 minutes to go until more disappointment.

tdawe

OceansJenny said:

40 minutes to go until more disappointment.

100 minutes to go until the next song of the week window opens.

Jadler

tdawe said:

OceansJenny said:

40 minutes to go until more disappointment.

100 minutes to go until the next song of the week window opens.

Double the disappointment :-)

tusevun

BostonGaarden said:

Not true - I have 2 tickets for Nashville that I am selling - been checking all day to do so.  Still not able to sell - will check back when sell button goes live.

What section?

BennyLaRue

Saltzy23 said:

If you have extras you don't need and know this the only way to unload them why WOULDN'T you post them today?

Unless you're selling something behind the stage in QC, OTT, OKC or OAK, it will sell and sell quickly. There's really no urgency to post. The point is, maybe it won't happen for people today but they should keep checking.

BostonGaarden

My 2 in Nashville are in 306

Saltzy23

tdawe said:

Saltzy23 said:

If you have extras you don't need and know this the only way to unload them why WOULDN'T you post them today?

People are gonna want to be reimbursed ASAP for the tickets they don't need or want.

No doubt. What I've been trying to drive at all day is that there's a desperation gap between the buyers and the sellers that's going to cause some peoples' expectations to be shattered in the early goings on the exchange. For buyers here, ASAP means a matter of minutes or even seconds. For sellers, it's "I'll try to remember to do that before I go to bed, if not I'll take care of it in the morning." Buyers are going to be attacking this at 4 pm (or whenever) as if it's a regular TM on-sale (and I don't blame anyone for doing this; I'll be doing it too) and they're going to find nothing there, because even the most motivated of sellers is not operating on the same furious time scale.

How about this for a mutual agreed understanding on how we both feel this is gonna play out.

The line graph of available tickets on this exchange is a long 6 week long 'U'.

Slightly higher on either end, but never very high at any point.

If hunting today gives me a 5% better shot than a week from now, then I plan on trying to squeeze as much chance at getting in from that 5% extra as humanly possible.

I've found in my years that the +5% shots in life seem to reward the determined people at a rate that always seems higher than the 5%.

benjs

To be honest, I feel your best odds will probably be at times like 5am local time due to lesser competition for tickets at that hour, and the hope that between 1am-5am people would have listed tickets not yet snatched. Sure, fewer tickets will be listed during those hours, but you'd presumably have an outsized opportunity compared to normal human hours in that timezone. 

epbadger

Lerxst1992 said:

epbadger said:

Lerxst1992 said:

WW187806 said:

Thank you "Lerxst1992 " for reminding me that the Forum is not for the average fan, but for a bunch of stuck up know it alls who wait in line for and buy 15 posters, instead of just one (you know share) so that others could purchase one. Then Lerxst1992  will tell me theres no rules against it. Its called common decency sir. Theres no really for the last line in your correspondence "dayyum that was a toughy" screw you. who made you a god. yes you've posted thousands of times, but its probably all bullshit. you dont feel the songs. you just like to type of the fan board and think your special. you and all those like you with the smart remarks can go to hell! seriously go to f'in hell. 

You took a perceived swipe at fans wanting to be spoon fed and I said all they needed to do was put a simple message on the event page. My sarcasm was at the event page, not you. Sorry for not being clear about that.


"attention fans, beginning on Feb 18, when you view the EVENT PAGE, there will be a LINK to purchase face value exchange tickets as they become available”"

did you get posters yet???

The irony is I dont own one single concert poster.

Good luck everyone on the exchange!

Yes... was just making light of you being attacked by someone who doesn't like to be attacked. and all along said attackee was not being attacked at all.

Saltzy23

Also, I have changed my mind about TM sending out emails on how this will all work 180 degrees.

Please continue NOT sending out any emails on how this is gonna work or when it will go live to the masses Ticketmaster.

Please and thanks...

tdawe

Saltzy23 said:

tdawe said:

Saltzy23 said:

If you have extras you don't need and know this the only way to unload them why WOULDN'T you post them today?

People are gonna want to be reimbursed ASAP for the tickets they don't need or want.

No doubt. What I've been trying to drive at all day is that there's a desperation gap between the buyers and the sellers that's going to cause some peoples' expectations to be shattered in the early goings on the exchange. For buyers here, ASAP means a matter of minutes or even seconds. For sellers, it's "I'll try to remember to do that before I go to bed, if not I'll take care of it in the morning." Buyers are going to be attacking this at 4 pm (or whenever) as if it's a regular TM on-sale (and I don't blame anyone for doing this; I'll be doing it too) and they're going to find nothing there, because even the most motivated of sellers is not operating on the same furious time scale.

How about this for a mutual agreed understanding on how we both feel this is gonna play out.

The line graph of available tickets on this exchange is a long 6 week long 'U'.

Slightly higher on either end, but never very high at any point.

If hunting today gives me a 5% better shot than a week from now, then I plan on trying to squeeze as much chance at getting in from that 5% extra as humanly possible.

I've found in my years that the +5% shots in life seem to reward the determined people in life a a rate that always seems higher than the 5%.

I agree with all of that. I don't think any of what you said here should be controversial at all. But the key phrase there is "hunting today", not "hunting the moment the exchanges open". Where I think the disagreements lie is if you zoom in on your graph to the portions that run from 4:00-4:01, 4:00-4:05, 4:00-5:00, 4:00-12:00 and 4:00 pm 2/18 - 4:00 2/19. My contention is that in the first two, smallest windows, the number of available tickets will be at or near zero. That won't stop me from frantically refreshing, and it shouldn't stop anyone else - but I do think that people should manage their expectations. This is going to be, if not a marathon, at least a 10K. Definitely not a sprint.

ragejoe

what page exactly is this going to go live on at 4? The ticketmaster PJ homepage or the individual concert date page?

JimmyV

Good luck to all trying to score. Hope it opens at 4pm and there are soon tickets aplenty!

OceansJenny

Still no option to sell

tdawe

That's it; Dimi's lost all credibility. 

Roamarco711

JD29648

Denver Vitalogy Foundation tickets available.  Go get em!

OceansJenny

Roamarco711 said:

Did we break it?

Father Hubbard

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

incidental immortality

I’m sorry to ask this but is there a special site or do we just look at the show page on Ticketmaster?