Fan-to-Fan Ticket Exchange for Dummies

joseph33

NewfieintheUSA said:

When is the last time someone saw tickets for STL show up?

They come up in pairs from time to time. I've seen mostly section 200's and behind the stage.

jstaley1534

I'm gonna score some for baltimore. It's my birhtday weekend, and no better birthday than seeing pearl jam live. So if you guys can just ignore the next tickets that become available, that'd be awesome. good luck to everyone!

wall232

Cheo Ramirez said:

wall232 said:

Finally just got two for Baltimore!!!  

How, right know?

Yeah, just a few minutes ago. 

MakeUSmile

wall232 said:

Finally just got two for Baltimore!!!  

The 218 pair? Glad to finally see one of us score a Baltimore pair! Congrats!

OceansJenny

wall232 said:

Finally just got two for Baltimore!!!  

Finally some success here!

wall232

MakeUSmile said:

wall232 said:

Finally just got two for Baltimore!!!  

The 218 pair? Glad to finally see one of us score a Baltimore pair! Congrats!

Yes, 218. 

It was tough seeing a few drops, almost getting them to only be denied and then not see anyone on here post they got them.  I was wondering if it was all bots but guess there is a chance for us. 

nicknyr15

I know people who went 2-2, 4-4 ,3-4 etc get angry and jump on other members when they complain about this latest ticket process, but honestly this sucks. I commend PJ so much for what they’re doing. I really do. But this has shown me something I’d never expect to say. I want stubhub and the secondary market. I’m sure people here who struck out on the lottery, verified fan, gtf forum and now this would gladly pay just for peace of mind and more importantly, your time. Reading this forum and seeing how people were trying all night makes me feel bad. This is no way to try to see your favorite band. It’s still early, and hopefully everyone here eventually scores, but at what cost? 

JimmyV

Carpe Diem, people! Today is your day.

jstaley1534

Man, just missed 216! darn. 

OceansJenny

Alright who just got the last Balt pair?

nalyd61

I think the system is working. Remain patient.  You will get in to most shows. I don’t understand the bots. Why bother? They can’t make a profit, right?
perhaps we are the bots. Lol
good luck everyone

PJ N DC

They way tickets are dropping and to see GA and lower level.....seems very fishy. Anyone else think tickets were held back?

D-Rod

D-Rod said:

foodboy said:

drod you have to click on the canadian button in one of the steps of delivery. a lot of people miss that so it asks for a us zip code.  

I figured it out.  Was using the App.  Once I went through the web site I was able to change  to a postal code and to Canadian banking.   Thanks for the help foodboy 

And sold 

JimmyV

PJ N DC said:

They way tickets are dropping and to see GA and lower level.....seems very fishy. Anyone else think tickets were held back?

People are unloading extras or trying to get their money back. Nothing suspicious about that.

mpedone

cmalisze said:

Here is a feasible idea. This would absolutely eliminate bots and scalpers. If you won or bought tickets to any show you cannot transfer and there is no bot heavy F2F marketplace. Instead create a button indicating your desire to resell for face value. By clicking this button there is a deadline say 2 weeks before the show to choose to sell. After that time then there is no availability to do anything else with the tickets. Then have 10c members resubmit interest in various shows. Then do a random redraw for the tickets the original purchasers wish to sell. Guaranteed those go to 10c members at face value and allows people to sell them when they do not want to keep them. I know timing may be hard with 2 weeks out and things may happen within those two weeks causing someone to need to sell but that amount of people will be less than the amount of frustrated people wasting time on F2F. 

This is a decent idea, except that there's no reason for TM to do this (and certainly not to limit it to 10C members). If you're talking about JUST 10C tickets, and this is done through 10C, then... Maybe? I'm not sure 10C has the infrastructure to do this.

I think the F2F idea is fine. I think the real problem is that many of us (myself included) were thinking of this too much like when tickets go on sale, or even like StubHub or eBay, but we were pretty far off about that. As the F2F drew nearer, people on here were asking, "Is anyone going to be selling anything?" as they realized that the purpose of the lottery and the "Verified Fan" pre-sale and the non-transferability was to "get tickets into the hands of actual fans". If that process worked as well as some of us think, who would be selling off tickets? A handful of people - a vastly smaller number than those looking. If even 1% of people at a given show decided to sell, that's less than 100 pairs of tickets available. They won't all be listed at the same time, either, so it's a crap shoot that a) tickets will be available at any given time, and b) that you're not one of thousands trying to get that one pair of tickets.

One thing that I think might have helped is that instead of waiting until February 18th to allow sellers to list their tickets, let sellers list their tickets a week early, so that when the F2F goes live, there's more than just a couple of sets available. On the flip side, though, this assumes that everyone who bought tickets knows right now that they're not going (or can't use the tickets), which might not be the case.

On the bright side, if you are using F2F to try to find tickets to a hometown show, it might be more likely that you can wait until much closer to the show date than those that have to travel. For example, if they were playing Boston on this tour, I know that SP1984 and I would be trying F2F right up until the show, because we can drive into Boston fairly easily. For Baltimore, though, we're going to have to make a decision soon, as it involves flights and a hotel room.

I really think the biggest problem with this sale is TicketMaster's janky-ass website. I do not understand why they keep showing tickets that someone else has in their cart. I really do not get how I can have tickets in my cart, but as I try to pay, it tells me someone already bought them. At one point, SP1984 and I had the same tickets in our carts! They've been selling tickets online for 20+ years, and they haven't figured out how to avoid this?? And then there's the "Oops, something went wrong (but we're not going to tell you what, or how you can fix it, or what you should do next)" error. That was fun. Unfortunately, they're not going anywhere anytime soon, so this is just screaming into the void.

saurighi

jstaley1534 said:

Man, just missed 216! darn. 

These were the only tickets I managed to see since yesterday,

And I missed my chance to stupidly waisting time to change it to 1 ticket...

Next pair I'll buy both and then drop one.

At least I am learning from my mistakes ;-)

jstaley1534

saurighi said:

jstaley1534 said:

Man, just missed 216! darn. 

These were the only tickets I managed to see since yesterday,

And I missed my chance to stupidly waisting time to change it to 1 ticket...

Next pair I'll buy both and then drop one.

At least I am learning from my mistakes ;-)

i've seen 216 and 218 in the past hour. Keep trucking. And hopefully we both come back with tickets. And if you get another, I'll definitely buy LOL.

jstaley1534

missed standing room

tdawe

Woah

Cheo Ramirez

Fuck yo GA balt