Ten Club benefit?

mattcoz

BF25394 said:

SHZA said:

$35/year = 10 cents/day.

And with 366 days in 2024, it's even more of a bargain this year! For this reason, I only join the Ten Club once every four years. It's just not a good deal in non-leap years...

Just make sure not to join in 2100 when it is in fact NOT a leap year.

BF25394

mattcoz said:

BF25394 said:

SHZA said:

$35/year = 10 cents/day.

And with 366 days in 2024, it's even more of a bargain this year! For this reason, I only join the Ten Club once every four years. It's just not a good deal in non-leap years...

Just make sure not to join in 2100 when it is in fact NOT a leap year.

Oh, I'm on top of it. That tour will be amazing. The band will be holograms. I'll be a head floating in a jar...

mace1229

BF25394 said:

SHZA said:

$35/year = 10 cents/day.

And with 366 days in 2024, it's even more of a bargain this year! For this reason, I only join the Ten Club once every four years. It's just not a good deal in non-leap years...

What are your plans for the year 2100 when we skip a leap year? Break your every 4 year trend?
**Dang it, someone beat me to the joke....

mookieblalock

The benefit of membership is being allowed access to the boards to read all of the complaining. Countless hours of entertainment.

BF25394

mace1229 said:

BF25394 said:

SHZA said:

$35/year = 10 cents/day.

And with 366 days in 2024, it's even more of a bargain this year! For this reason, I only join the Ten Club once every four years. It's just not a good deal in non-leap years...

What are your plans for the year 2100 when we skip a leap year? Break your every 4 year trend?
**Dang it, someone beat me to the joke....

I don't really want to live to be 125, but it might be worth it just to see how people freak out about the fact that there is no leap day that year. I can just imagine it: "longtime humans have an expectation that there will be an extra day in February every four years regardless of the fact that there has never been a leap day in a year divisible by 100 but not divisible by 400, and if Big Calendar doesn't fix this for 2200, I will not renew my membership in the solar calendar and will go over to a lunar calendar." (And then they find out about leap months in lunar calendars and their heads explode.)

PureandEasy

BF25394 said:

I think too many people are looking at this through an outcome-determinative lens. In 2020, I got mostly skunked in the lottery. In 2024, everything came up Milhouse. In both instances, my reaction has been the same, gratitude for the opportunity to get good seats at face value before the rest of the general public, and not because I have the right credit card but because I have been a dues-paying member of the fan club for many years. I sympathize with people who are disappointed at not getting the shows they wanted, because I've been there. But I don't sympathize with the people who think that not getting the shows they wanted makes the whole enterprise worthless, because I would never see it that way. And I definitely don't sympathize with people who just seem to be willfully refusing to grasp certain things about the lottery (i.e., no guaranteed tickets for anyone, including senior members) or selectively misremembering the results of prior lotteries (the whole reason #gutted is a thing is because prior lotteries were full of people getting shut out of the shows they wanted the most, and the threads from those lotteries are here on the message board for people to refresh their recollection if they so desire).

Right???  Pay attention to the details folks, there are NO guarantees in a lottery-based system.  I was shut out for all shows I requested this time around.  Yet I have been very successful on prior tours.  Not jumping ship.  

BSully

GW2553 said:

JimmyV said:

It's $35 a year in the U.S. I can't get pizzas delivered for less than that. The membership fee is of no consequence, and I am far from rich. 

Yeah, it's money well spent IMO. I agree, every time I go out to dinner, it costs more than that.

bob loblaw

I doubt I’ll renew when the time comes. I’ve only gone to Vancouver shows and have kept the membership for ticket access for when they come but the upcoming shows are the first in Van in 10 years. I got confirmed P1 for both shows but haven’t heard where the seats are the night before the general public sale. At this point I feel I would have been better off to try my luck on TM and been able to choose my seats plus been able to go as a family of three.

Spiritual_Chaos

SHZA said:

$35/year = 10 cents/day.

I feel like some who say they are dropping it are doing it on principle although others refer to not wanting to waste the money 

I'm pretty sure you are skipping out on a lot of things that would cost you only 10 cents a day

Spiritual_Chaos

Stop seeing it as a fanclub. It's not a club (anymore).

Your are paying for access to a storefront, and a message board (that used to be free for everyone).

Eraserhead

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Stop seeing it as a fanclub. It's not a club (anymore).

Your are paying for access to a storefront, and a message board (that used to be free for everyone).

What? You have to be a TC member to post here?! wow, when did that happen?

merlin401

I wonder if your odds go up for MSG if that’s all you attempt at.  I’m 400xxx and seem to get one (or rarely both) MSG shows each tour but that’s usually all I try for.  If I ever fail I’ll just try for F2F or stubhub tickets to a Philly show or miss a tour, not a big deal

mattcoz

Eraserhead said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Stop seeing it as a fanclub. It's not a club (anymore).

Your are paying for access to a storefront, and a message board (that used to be free for everyone).

What? You have to be a TC member to post here?! wow, when did that happen?

It's been 10C only for as long as I can remember.

smile6680

Eraserhead said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Stop seeing it as a fanclub. It's not a club (anymore).

Your are paying for access to a storefront, and a message board (that used to be free for everyone).

What? You have to be a TC member to post here?! wow, when did that happen?

I also didn't realize you had to be a member to post on here until relatively recently. 

Jason727

I just joined 10C this past October on a whim. I got a pair of Fenway1 tickets but as I fully expected the seats are not that great with a member number of 575xxx. The only other time I've seen PJ is in 2013 in Worcester and I got better seats just going on TM the day of the sale. However, those were the days before dynamic/premium pricing. While I know with my high membership number I'll likely never get amazing seats through 10C, I still see the benefit of it. Assuming I'm able to get tickets in the lottery it at least gets me in the building and I can still try my luck with F2F to upgrade my seats. 

As someone else stated, the more long time members that quit or follow through on their threat to, the more beneficial it is to someone like me...

All joking aside, I can see how someone who's been in the club for 25+ years would be upset. I would be too. However, if they only gave tickets (and not just seats) via seniority, they wouldn't be doing a great job of getting new fans.

drakeheuer14

Jason727 said:

I just joined 10C this past October on a whim. I got a pair of Fenway1 tickets but as I fully expected the seats are not that great with a member number of 575xxx. The only other time I've seen PJ is in 2013 in Worcester and I got better seats just going on TM the day of the sale. However, those were the days before dynamic/premium pricing. While I know with my high membership number I'll likely never get amazing seats through 10C, I still see the benefit of it. Assuming I'm able to get tickets in the lottery it at least gets me in the building and I can still try my luck with F2F to upgrade my seats. 

As someone else stated, the more long time members that quit or follow through on their threat to, the more beneficial it is to someone like me...

All joking aside, I can see how someone who's been in the club for 25+ years would be upset. I would be too. However, if they only gave tickets (and not just seats) via seniority, they wouldn't be doing a great job of getting new fans.

Have you been paying and not knowing? Pretty sure I have seen recent sign ups are in the 700xxx now. 

Jason727

drakeheuer14 said:

Have you been paying and not knowing? Pretty sure I have seen recent sign ups are in the 700xxx now. 

Oops, I think I swapped the 5 and 7 by mistake - my number is 755xxx or something in that range...

AF258596

I really value 10cradio, 24 hours a day of selection of Pearl Jam music that I listen to while I work, at home... that's just why I pay for membership, aren't you fans of 10cradio?

TheBeardedFellow

I feel like the opportunity to buy member-only items in the shop, like a Vault, is the Club's biggest benefit these days. Especially with fewer shows per tour and the band not travelling outside their favorite 5 or 6 cities