Your PJ Buying Batting Average

walkunafraid

Most of us have bought -- or attempted to buy -- some pretty hard-to-get PJ stuff in the last few months/years.

I'm curious to know how we have fared in terms of the really hard-to-get things...by that, I mean PJ items that have sold out within seconds.

So, I invite you all to post your PJ buying batting average. That is, the stuff you've actually been successful buying DIVIDED by the total amount you have attempted to buy (you may repeat if items have been sold more than once, or in multiple places).

Again, only HARD TO FIND stuff here -- vinyls, posters, tickets, etc. that have sold out in seconds (or, maybe, minutes).

Here's mine:

Successful buying:
Boston Whale poster (10c)
Washington DC poster (10c)
Philly 03 Poster (10c)
EV Kenyon Hall Poster (10c)
EV LA1 Tickets (ticketmaster)
EV LA2 Tickets (10c)
PJ Santa Barbara 03 Tickets (10C)
Into the Wild vinyl (10c)
Into the Wild vinyl (Aural Exploits)

Not Successful:
Toronto dragons poster (10c)
LA2 2006 poster (10c) (this one still hurts!)
LA2 2006 poster (BK sale) (again!)
Hawaii poster (BK sale)
EV Kenyon Hall poster (BK sale)
EV LA1 tickets (10c)
10c Mystery Poster sale (the last one...2004??)
Los Angeles Fonda Theatre "secret" show 2006 ( )

So, altogether: 17 attempted, 9 successful, batting average = .529. Successful barely more than half the time.

I'll probably remember some other stuff that I bought or attempted to buy when others start posting, so this is subject to change...

4Powers20

I dont think I could remember them all but, the most important was VIC tickets, and I got those.

EquallyWorthless

the only thing i missed out on that i wanted was the Gorge 06 klausen poster but then I got a DC and traded it for a Gorge anyways.. does that count ???

Jeremys Spoken

10c membership

Batting 1.000

bootlegger10

Hits:
Kenyan Hall Poster
Vic Tickets!
Hawaii '06 Ames Posters
MSG II '08 TC Tix
Philly, DC '06 TC Tix
Atlantic City '06 Poster
Into the Wild Vinyl
Benaroya Vinyl
Toronto '06 Severed Hand Poster


Misses:
San Diego Vedder ticket (had it in the cart)
MSG I '08 TC Tix
Philly '06 Ames II Poster
LA2 Poster 2006.


Overall, I think I've done pretty well. Just getting Vic tickets is batting 1,000.

LukinFan

Successful buying:
Into the Wild vinyl (10c)
Vic Poster
Bonnaroo Tickets- Tier 2
WPB Tickets

Not Successful:
EV Kenyon Hall poster (10c)

Fatal

Success:

Ed Vancouver Night 1 tickets
Pearl Jam NYC 2008 Night 1 and Night 2 tickets
Into the Wild Vinyl

Fail:

Ed LA Night 1 & 2 tickets
Vic tickets
Toronto 06 poster

andrew the legend

I have my ticket stubs 2 picks Ed put directly in my hand. I have all the CDs of shows ive been to and all the studio releases. I have touring band DVD and live at the garden dvd. I also have a VHS of single video theory.
Thats would be it.

Ledbetterman10

I'm 16 for 16 (100%) getting concert tickets.

I'm 0 for 0 (0%) getting posters and other miscellaneous crap.

andrew the legend

Sure I do i dont understand the people who collect things.
I also dont get the people who write down the set lists as they go. In general I dont get you people. I bring a casual fans attitude to seeing them over 50 times with 20 plus front rows.
I am very happy with the new seating policy. I hope frat boys with their hats on backwards who love Jeremy get all the seats in rows 1 and 2.

I have gotten tickets to every show I ever wanted to attended so I guess I am batting 100%

SoMuchClearer

Some things off the top of my head...

Hits:
Letterman tix '02 (Save You)
Bridgeschool '03

Misses:
MSG poster '03
Borgata (both nights) - probably the worst of all

Ledbetterman10

andrew the legend wrote:

Sure I do i dont understand the people who collect things.
I also dont get the people who write down the set lists as they go. In general I dont get you people. I bring a casual fans attitude to seeing them over 50 times with 20 plus front rows.
I am very happy with the new seating policy. I hope frat boys with their hats on backwards who love Jeremy get all the seats in rows 1 and 2.

I have gotten tickets to every show I ever wanted to attended so I guess I am batting 100%

I agree with every word said here. every last word. I don't get the collecting either. I collect songs. I buy the albums. I get the DVDs. when there's new boots or when rare mp3s surface, I download them and burn it to disc. that's about all the collecting I do. that's not to say that I wouldn't buy a poster or t-shirt if I saw a cool one.

collecting vinyls isn't that bad. well, actually it depends. If you prefer the sound of the vinyl (or simply like to listen to the vinyls occasionally, as I do with my Zep), that's cool. but to buy them just to have them? just to better your collection? gimme a break. these people are like children collecting baseball cards. and posters? the poster craze is what I hate about the pearl jam fanbase the most. those people are fucking crazy. I can't believe they can get excited over posters. and again, it's like the vinyl thing, there's obviously nothing weird about putting a few PJ posters around the house......but when you're wasting hundreds of dollars on them and treasuring them like some artifact that Indiana Jones would search for, you need serious psychiatrist help.

TransplantedNewf

I've been pretty sucessful with buying. The only times i didn't score was The Vic show and Kenyon Hall poster.

HushBull

All of their studio releases
One Riot Act tour t-shirt
Gorge boxset
All dvd releases...

I guess I have a perfect average! hehe

Addicted

I have struck out 19 times trying to get somewhere in the front ten rows. maybe i will get lucky at WPB, Tampa, or South Carolina.

andrew the legend

I am not against the collectors they pay the bills. Like the people who buy lawn seats pay the bills. They are important.
I just dont get. I have been front row many times. After the shows I want to sit and relax because I am dead beat tired. Here come the tards running up asking to have a piece of trash or a water bottle. And they get it and it means something to them?
Ill never get it I have 3 picks all where given expressly to me. i am not diving for or fighting over a pick on the ground. In general the fans annoy me. Drink 10 beers and enjoy the show.
Respect the guy on the lawn who only owns ten and vs. He paid to sit on the lawn. In the parking lot before the show I want to be with that guy and not most of the "die hard" scary type of fans anyway.

florence151

Hits: So many great shows in so many fantastic places with some of the best people I have ever met.

My only miss is the poster from the Maui 98. It was only my second show and I thought I could get one after the show. Now they are too expensive for my rational self.

InMyTree4

Hits : 10C membership
Immagine in Cornice
Hartford 2008
Mansfield(I+II)


Misses: Camden 2
Sweet EV tank top

Given to...

MISSES:
10c tix for Denver 1 06
10c tix for Hawaii 06
10c tix for VIC 07
10c tix for EV LA1 08
10c tix for EV LA2 08
U2/PJ Klausen (artillery late show)
Purple VIC (artillery)
LA Towels (saw them, thought they would be around for a time
10c Hawaii Ames (coaching baseball that day)
No shows this June, No money or time (still a miss!)

HITS:
Ticketmaster Tix:
Hawaii, Denver, EV LA1
10c:
Into The Wild
Kenyon Hall
DC
Vic
Duesseldorf
Copenhagen
Klausen Night Sale:
Duesseldorf, VIC,Ottowa

Maybe batting around .500, but sometimes it feels closer to .001!

patrickredeyes

I used to strike out alot but then I went to the batting cages.

Indifference

Hits: Kenyon Hall, other posters I wanted, the VIC, EV shows, 10c shows

Misses: None.