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given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.
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ally12 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.0
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EH14457 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.Post edited by given2flym on0
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given2flym said:EH14457 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.
10/7/96 (FL), 9/22/98 (FL), 9/23/98 (FL), 8/9/00 (FL), 8/10/00 (FL), 8/12/00 (FL), 4/11/03 (FL), 4/12/03 (FL), 4/13/03 (FL), 7/8/03 (NY), 7/9/03 (NY), 7/12/03 (PA), 7/14/03 (NJ), 10/8/04 (FL), 8/5/07 (IL), 11/27/12 (FL), 12/6/13 (WA), 4/8/16 (FL), 4/9/16 (FL), 4/11/16 (FL), 8/5/16 (MA), 8/22/16 (IL), 8/8/18 (WA), 8/10/18 (WA), 9/25/21 (CA), 9/26/21 (CA), 5/3/22 (CA), 5/12/22 (CA), 5/13/22 (CA), 9/18/23 (TX), 9/19/23 (TX), 10/23/23 (WA), 10/24/23 (WA), 5/28/24 (WA), 5/30/24 (WA), 4/24/25 (FL), 4/26/25 (FL), 4/29/25 (GA), 5/1/25 (GA)
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EH14457 said:given2flym said:EH14457 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.Seller never received a “listed” or “sold” email but in the account it says they have a “pending offer”Post edited by given2flym on0
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given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.
Still if anyone wants to roll the dice I’m continually looking for Raleigh N1. Again I’m sure something will materialize in the last couple of weeks before the shows but the OCD keeps me looking.0 -
KJ228171 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.
Still if anyone wants to roll the dice I’m continually looking for Raleigh N1. Again I’m sure something will materialize in the last couple of weeks before the shows but the OCD keeps me looking.0 -
KJ228171 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.
Still if anyone wants to roll the dice I’m continually looking for Raleigh N1. Again I’m sure something will materialize in the last couple of weeks before the shows but the OCD keeps me looking.0 -
I've had 2 successful pm direct links for buying and 1out of 2 successfull for selling privately with link
I also had a success buying with a link posted on facebook that I must have just caught random by some miracle0 -
given2flym said:EH14457 said:given2flym said:EH14457 said:given2flym said:Had a pair of Pitt 2 lined up with a directly shared link. Got the link immediately and refreshed constantly. Seemed to be taking longer than usual. Never got to the carting/check out phase. Just changed to “these are no longer available”. My friend and I both were trying and neither saw the buy screen. We’ve had successful links before. So this is new.Seller never received a “listed” or “sold” email but in the account it says they have a “pending offer”0
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ISO a single for 5/6 Nashville0
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This is gonna sound a little conspiracy-theory but personally for me this is just more evidence that yes there are bots running and they are using an API to purchase them.
The TM Partner API has an endpoint that allows you to reserve tickets, and a separate endpoint that allows you to commit the cart, or complete the purchase. I went down a rabbit hole on ticket scalping earlier this year when it first became apparent that f2f was ruined by these things. There are a few different news outlets that have done reports on this topic because of how much notoriety TM/scalpers got when Taylor Swift tickets went on sale. A lot of times, there are just savvy programmers who are buying tickets in bulk and selling them to the online brokers. One of the videos showed screenshots of custom software that one such programmer wrote, where it has the capability of reserving tickets so that a person (or an algorithm) can decide if they’re worth the investment to buy. So it essentially queues them up in a list and you can pick and choose which ones to complete the purchase on.
The person who listed those Pitt tickets sent a screenshot of how their account said they had a “Pending offer” for about 10 minutes before they got the sold email and “Pending offer” changed to “sold”. Maybe pending offer is what it says when the cart is reserved but hasn’t been submitted yet. I would love to know if another seller who sends a link that an actual fan buys through the website also says pending offer for a period of time, or if it just goes straight to sold.
Now, the situation with links being subject to this is contingent on it “glitching out” and the tickets being slow to load, or show up, or whatever the reason is that the link didn’t give the usual advantage. Which we know can happen, and I guess it’s just bad luck when it does whether that’s 10% of the time, or 30%, or who knows.
I wouldn’t be surprised if VividSeats, or Stubhub, TickPick etc, aren’t official partners of TM to use the API. Maybe they are, TM has zero incentive to say. But they’ve got over 90 companies who are according to their website. All it takes is one person who works in IT for one of those places to use their sanctioned API key, or sell the use of it, to scalp tickets. Or, it’s not rocket science to hack an API, it’s how these sites are able to send links to tickets in a browser.
So going forward I definitely have more empathy for people who say their link didn't pan out.
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Nashville 2. Sec 120, row N. Go get them…
https://my.ticketmaster.com/ds/vQ17f4jyvC/event/1B006184A3813F1D
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Chrrie said:
This is gonna sound a little conspiracy-theory but personally for me this is just more evidence that yes there are bots running and they are using an API to purchase them.
The TM Partner API has an endpoint that allows you to reserve tickets, and a separate endpoint that allows you to commit the cart, or complete the purchase. I went down a rabbit hole on ticket scalping earlier this year when it first became apparent that f2f was ruined by these things. There are a few different news outlets that have done reports on this topic because of how much notoriety TM/scalpers got when Taylor Swift tickets went on sale. A lot of times, there are just savvy programmers who are buying tickets in bulk and selling them to the online brokers. One of the videos showed screenshots of custom software that one such programmer wrote, where it has the capability of reserving tickets so that a person (or an algorithm) can decide if they’re worth the investment to buy. So it essentially queues them up in a list and you can pick and choose which ones to complete the purchase on.
The person who listed those Pitt tickets sent a screenshot of how their account said they had a “Pending offer” for about 10 minutes before they got the sold email and “Pending offer” changed to “sold”. Maybe pending offer is what it says when the cart is reserved but hasn’t been submitted yet. I would love to know if another seller who sends a link that an actual fan buys through the website also says pending offer for a period of time, or if it just goes straight to sold.
Now, the situation with links being subject to this is contingent on it “glitching out” and the tickets being slow to load, or show up, or whatever the reason is that the link didn’t give the usual advantage. Which we know can happen, and I guess it’s just bad luck when it does whether that’s 10% of the time, or 30%, or who knows.
I wouldn’t be surprised if VividSeats, or Stubhub, TickPick etc, aren’t official partners of TM to use the API. Maybe they are, TM has zero incentive to say. But they’ve got over 90 companies who are according to their website. All it takes is one person who works in IT for one of those places to use their sanctioned API key, or sell the use of it, to scalp tickets. Or, it’s not rocket science to hack an API, it’s how these sites are able to send links to tickets in a browser.
So going forward I definitely have more empathy for people who say their link didn't pan out.
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Is there any chance that TM "buys" F2F tickets its algorithms predict can be flipped later at a mark-up (as PJ Premium) and so some of these listings don't actually go F2F "live" at the original face value?0
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jagerweis said:Nashville 2. Sec 120, row N. Go get them…
https://my.ticketmaster.com/ds/vQ17f4jyvC/event/1B006184A3813F1D2014: St. Louis
2024: Wrigley II, Fenway II
2025: Hollywood II, Nashville I & II, Pittsburgh I & II0 -
edocon said:Is there any chance that TM "buys" F2F tickets its algorithms predict can be flipped later at a mark-up (as PJ Premium) and so some of these listings don't actually go F2F "live" at the original face value?0
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Chrrie said:
This is gonna sound a little conspiracy-theory but personally for me this is just more evidence that yes there are bots running and they are using an API to purchase them.
The TM Partner API has an endpoint that allows you to reserve tickets, and a separate endpoint that allows you to commit the cart, or complete the purchase. I went down a rabbit hole on ticket scalping earlier this year when it first became apparent that f2f was ruined by these things. There are a few different news outlets that have done reports on this topic because of how much notoriety TM/scalpers got when Taylor Swift tickets went on sale. A lot of times, there are just savvy programmers who are buying tickets in bulk and selling them to the online brokers. One of the videos showed screenshots of custom software that one such programmer wrote, where it has the capability of reserving tickets so that a person (or an algorithm) can decide if they’re worth the investment to buy. So it essentially queues them up in a list and you can pick and choose which ones to complete the purchase on.
The person who listed those Pitt tickets sent a screenshot of how their account said they had a “Pending offer” for about 10 minutes before they got the sold email and “Pending offer” changed to “sold”. Maybe pending offer is what it says when the cart is reserved but hasn’t been submitted yet. I would love to know if another seller who sends a link that an actual fan buys through the website also says pending offer for a period of time, or if it just goes straight to sold.
Now, the situation with links being subject to this is contingent on it “glitching out” and the tickets being slow to load, or show up, or whatever the reason is that the link didn’t give the usual advantage. Which we know can happen, and I guess it’s just bad luck when it does whether that’s 10% of the time, or 30%, or who knows.
I wouldn’t be surprised if VividSeats, or Stubhub, TickPick etc, aren’t official partners of TM to use the API. Maybe they are, TM has zero incentive to say. But they’ve got over 90 companies who are according to their website. All it takes is one person who works in IT for one of those places to use their sanctioned API key, or sell the use of it, to scalp tickets. Or, it’s not rocket science to hack an API, it’s how these sites are able to send links to tickets in a browser.
So going forward I definitely have more empathy for people who say their link didn't pan out.
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jagerweis said:Nashville 2. Sec 120, row N. Go get them…
https://my.ticketmaster.com/ds/vQ17f4jyvC/event/1B006184A3813F1D0 -
Chrrie said:jagerweis said:Nashville 2. Sec 120, row N. Go get them…
https://my.ticketmaster.com/ds/vQ17f4jyvC/event/1B006184A3813F1D2014: St. Louis
2024: Wrigley II, Fenway II
2025: Hollywood II, Nashville I & II, Pittsburgh I & II0
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