The Official 2025 Tour Rumor Thread

dmbolp · February 11

Stubhub stopped paying out Sellers before the event several years ago, I think it was mainly due to the 2020 Masters being cancelled due to COVID. Sellers had been paid out, event cancelled, and then Stubhub couldn't claw back $$ from lots of Sellers who ghosted.

TM doesn't have that same risk with their own resell, but I bet their move to this is also to match their competition, in addition to the additional $ float they get mentioned above.

ally12 · February 11

i sold my Pitt tickets last week, most likely won’t see the funds until June.

Douglas12373 · February 11

Definitely didn't get paid for my extra Baltimore last year until after the show. I thought that was always the policy?

CantKeepmedown · February 11

No I sold Fenway tickets in September and got the money like 3 weeks before the show (a week or so after they sold).

tylermoore · February 11

Douglas12373 said:

Definitely didn't get paid for my extra Baltimore last year until after the show. I thought that was always the policy?

Used to be a week at the most. That was only for PJ F2F tho.

All other concerts they waited until after the event. Honestly it probably was PJs influence to have payment be instant. And just like everything else with the ticketing process over the past few years, they gave way for Ticketmaster to take more and more control.

RatherStarved · February 11

Thankfully these shows aren’t too far into the future so the pain of waiting for payment, while real, isn’t that long lasting.

aisleseats · February 11

dmbolp said:

Stubhub stopped paying out Sellers before the event several years ago, I think it was mainly due to the 2020 Masters being cancelled due to COVID. Sellers had been paid out, event cancelled, and then Stubhub couldn't claw back $$ from lots of Sellers who ghosted.

TM doesn't have that same risk with their own resell, but I bet their move to this is also to match their competition, in addition to the additional $ float they get mentioned above.

SH and TM both started paying after the event when covid hit. But TM went back to paying after the sale towards the end of 2022. Now they've reversed course once again.

OceanSoul71 · February 11

aisleseats said:

dmbolp said:

Stubhub stopped paying out Sellers before the event several years ago, I think it was mainly due to the 2020 Masters being cancelled due to COVID. Sellers had been paid out, event cancelled, and then Stubhub couldn't claw back $$ from lots of Sellers who ghosted.

TM doesn't have that same risk with their own resell, but I bet their move to this is also to match their competition, in addition to the additional $ float they get mentioned above.

SH and TM both started paying after the event when covid hit. But TM went back to paying after the sale towards the end of 2022. Now they've reversed course once again.

I sold 3 tix for this spring tour via F2F and have been paid for 2 of them so far .. the 3rd payment is lingering somewhere...

PrezIntense · February 11

OceanSoul71 said:

aisleseats said:

dmbolp said:

Stubhub stopped paying out Sellers before the event several years ago, I think it was mainly due to the 2020 Masters being cancelled due to COVID. Sellers had been paid out, event cancelled, and then Stubhub couldn't claw back $$ from lots of Sellers who ghosted.

TM doesn't have that same risk with their own resell, but I bet their move to this is also to match their competition, in addition to the additional $ float they get mentioned above.

SH and TM both started paying after the event when covid hit. But TM went back to paying after the sale towards the end of 2022. Now they've reversed course once again.

I sold 3 tix for this spring tour via F2F and have been paid for 2 of them so far .. the 3rd payment is lingering somewhere...

was the third sold after jan 8?

KJ228171 · February 11

RatherStarved said:

darwinstheory said:

Well shit. Sounds like their way to prevent us from upgrading/reselling our way up front unless we have the extra capital to let sit for months. Score 1 more for the bots/TM.

I agree it could have this effect, but I don’t think that’s why they’re doing it. It is probably a cash grab to get the interest on both the original purchase and the fan to fan purchase. The average fan already cannot upgrade due to bots and TM cancelling accounts of people who refresh recurrently.

Yeah it’s being done across the board and not targeted to a specific artist. Theoretically it might slow down causal scalping from people looking to make a quick buck or from smaller outfits that don’t have the capital. It won’t do much against institutional scalping. But it’s mainly for the interest float.

ally12 · February 12

Backstreet boys announced a July 2025 Vegas sphere residency. Pearl jam is probably going to jump on the bandwagon soon.

Damn those BSB visuals will be amazing though, they are recreating their millennium era😁

PrezIntense · February 12

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Shaindli1 · February 12

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

ally12 · February 12

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Still considered 90’s lol🥰

ally12 · February 12

PrezIntense said:

Well done.. haha

Douglas12373 · February 12

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Glass houses, y'all

Shaindli1 · February 12

Douglas12373 said:

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Glass houses, y'all

Ah, but PJ are timeless! 😉

pjl44 · February 12

Douglas12373 said:

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Glass houses, y'all

Ha I was thinking this too

BF25394 · February 12

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Believe it or not, Backstreet Boys had a number one album more recently than Pearl Jam (in 2019, versus 2013 for PJ).

ally12 · February 12

DNA album! It was such a good concert too!

Shaindli1 · February 12

As my friend just texted: PJ = good 90s
Backstreet boys = bad 90s.

Jim Tressel · February 12

Argue about who is more 90's but no argument that joke is cringe.

KJ228171 · February 12

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Nostalgia mining is a printing press.

tylermoore · February 12

Douglas12373 said:

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Glass houses, y'all

Exactly 😬 we are on a PJ forum…

Also the sphere has booked U2, Grateful Dead and the Eagles. Not exactly modern bands.

danofun · February 12

tylermoore said:

Douglas12373 said:

Shaindli1 said:

Backstreet Boys? What decade is this?

Glass houses, y'all

Exactly 😬 we are on a PJ forum…
Also the sphere has booked U2, Grateful Dead and the Eagles. Not exactly modern bands.

All aging fanbases, presumably with more disposable income than young fans of modern bands..

BF25394 · February 13

Shaindli1 said:

As my friend just texted: PJ = good 90s
Backstreet boys = bad 90s.

They're just different. I love Pearl Jam as much as anyone, but there's no denying that "Larger than Life" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" are great pop songs.

PrezIntense · February 13

BF25394 said:

Shaindli1 said:

As my friend just texted: PJ = good 90s
Backstreet boys = bad 90s.

They're just different. I love Pearl Jam as much as anyone, but there's no denying that "Larger than Life" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" are great pop songs.

Some people just need to make art into sports and I'll never understand why. Like what you like but the whole "the music YOU like sucks" thing is...well I don't know what it is but it's not for me.

One of the coolest things about growing up in the 90s was how diverse the popular music was...you'd have a sequence on MTV where it was like Alice In Chains -> PM Dawn -> Kris Kross -> Garth Brooks -> Color Me Badd. It was fucking WILD. And while the boy band pop thing never resonated with me, the Backstreet Boys brought joy to millions of fans over the years and there's something beautiful about people connecting to music - even if it's not the same music that elicits that reaction from me.

MJ178168 · February 13

PrezIntense said:

BF25394 said:

Shaindli1 said:

As my friend just texted: PJ = good 90s
Backstreet boys = bad 90s.

They're just different. I love Pearl Jam as much as anyone, but there's no denying that "Larger than Life" and "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" are great pop songs.

Some people just need to make art into sports and I'll never understand why. Like what you like but the whole "the music YOU like sucks" thing is...well I don't know what it is but it's not for me.

One of the coolest things about growing up in the 90s was how diverse the popular music was...you'd have a sequence on MTV where it was like Alice In Chains -> PM Dawn -> Kris Kross -> Garth Brooks -> Color Me Badd. It was fucking WILD. And while the boy band pop thing never resonated with me, the Backstreet Boys brought joy to millions of fans over the years and there's something beautiful about people connecting to music - even if it's not the same music that elicits that reaction from me.

Growing up in the 90s, I definitely had that gatekeeper of quality music aditude, but at this point I've realized to each their own. Who am I to crap on something that makes someone else happy. I mean with everything that is going on in the world, if you have something that makes you happy then that is all good with me.

Get_Right · February 13

I loved UB40, Duran Duran and Howard Jones in the 90s. I do not trash other bands that people like. But, I do not get the love for Metallica.

ally12 · February 13

yeah.. for me in 1996-1997 I wasn’t listening to no code. I am a big pearl jam/Jeff Ament fan and they have been on heavy rotation for many years .

However, the nostalgic memories of BSB are pretty awesome too

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