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Thoughts on London GA ballot
A lot of us are understandably annoyed and deflated about the way the ballot's being done this time but I was thinking about this earlier.
For London gigs in the past, when we could see the odds, you always had a 99% chance (i.e. in reality 100% chance) of getting GA in the ballot. There just isn't the demand here that there is in the US. At these prices and in a larger venue there is likely to be even more supply relative to demand. I reckon if you put your name down for "GA or seating", you'll get GA.
I also think that £160 MUST be the most expensive ticket price in the venue - nobody other than a die hard fan is paying over £100 for a ticket to see Pearl Jam in 2024. So if you do happen to get dropped to seating, surely they'll be half decent seats (well, as decent as you can get in a stadium). The ballot system is clearly tied into the 10C system - for example they use your 10C login and will allocate seats based on membership number. I would like to think even with Ticketmaster involved, Pearl Jam/10C aren't going to shaft us by giving us the worst seats in the place for more than the public sale price.
I'm still buzzing to see them in London and Manchester in spite of the shock at the price, so just trying to spread a bit of positivity.
Now if I'm proven wrong and 10C gives me a shite seat up at the back of the top tier for £160, so I end up buying GA for like £80 in the public sale as well, I will be absolutely raging
For London gigs in the past, when we could see the odds, you always had a 99% chance (i.e. in reality 100% chance) of getting GA in the ballot. There just isn't the demand here that there is in the US. At these prices and in a larger venue there is likely to be even more supply relative to demand. I reckon if you put your name down for "GA or seating", you'll get GA.
I also think that £160 MUST be the most expensive ticket price in the venue - nobody other than a die hard fan is paying over £100 for a ticket to see Pearl Jam in 2024. So if you do happen to get dropped to seating, surely they'll be half decent seats (well, as decent as you can get in a stadium). The ballot system is clearly tied into the 10C system - for example they use your 10C login and will allocate seats based on membership number. I would like to think even with Ticketmaster involved, Pearl Jam/10C aren't going to shaft us by giving us the worst seats in the place for more than the public sale price.
I'm still buzzing to see them in London and Manchester in spite of the shock at the price, so just trying to spread a bit of positivity.
Now if I'm proven wrong and 10C gives me a shite seat up at the back of the top tier for £160, so I end up buying GA for like £80 in the public sale as well, I will be absolutely raging
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Of course we could hear upfront how many purple tickets there are and how many are allocated to 10Club members - but we wont.
I'm sitting this one out - am too long in the tooth to be fleeced £160 for a seating ticket and £9 pints all to watch PJ on a big screen as they look like ants on a stage far far away.
Support your local small venue and up and coming bands.
Do we know if 10C tix still get early access or golden circle?
I'm still excited to follow setlists and see the poster reveal.
Maybe I just had my fun already.
Hey kid get off my lawn!
I'd be interested in knowing how many Golden Circle tickets are held back for general sale and PJ Premium.
Interesting that the Ten Club lottery has no option to select rear standing for London. These will be plentiful and easy to obtain.
the tickets are indeed expensive for all concerts i applied (london,berlin and barcelona, we are talking about 1700 EUR in total for tickets) but its probably the last time i will do something with this magnitude (5 shows) so we decided to go with it.
That being said and looking at the chart pictures for london (as well as the other 2 and these 2 have all the space available for 10c) and since one person can only get 2 tickets i would say we have pretty good chances for at least being somewhere in there(at this point i just want to be selected to be honest since verified and general sale will be a nightmare) but i really miss the odds feature , we are freaking out at the chance of not winning and we would be devastated if we didnt win 10c tickets.
we are kinda anxious for the weekend to finally know if we will win
HOWEVER, you're right, if people's worst fears come true, and we get a crap seat in row ZZZ for full price, nobody is going to buy that from you.
So if you are coming from another country it’s another risk you need to consider regarding possibly unwanted seat locations.
GA Front = Golden Circle
Read Standing = GA Standing
Although....dont think there's much in it looking at the seating plan
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