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Handicapped Fanclub seats?
vedderfreak12
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I've got a friend in a wheelchair who is dying to see Pearl Jam, and I'm a fanclub member. Does anyone know if I can use my membership for good/better than normal handicapped seats, or am I better off just dealing with the venue and buying tickets outside of TenClub?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Later,
Bryce
4/20/1921, 12/25/2048, 1/1/2000, 9/10/1977.... does it really matter?
Bryce
4/20/1921, 12/25/2048, 1/1/2000, 9/10/1977.... does it really matter?
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I met a guy named Joe at Bonnaroo who was in a wheelchair and he used his 10c seats for shows. He said they usually put him in the middle of the isle so he could see and sometimes let him set up even closer to the stage than his seats were. Hope that helps a bit...
prior to purchasing tickets to a show last summer, i called the local number to speak with someone at the ten club. i explained my situation: after many years, i was taking my dad to his first pearl jam show so he could see what all the fuss was about. (he has been very patient with my "obsession"). he had had knee replacement surgery recently and was unable to stand for long periods of time. i knew my 10c number was such that i would end up on the floor but many rows back. i asked if there was anything they could do to get me a pair of tickets that would allow him to see from a seated position, or if i should just deal directly with ticketmaster/venue. they said they would take care of me.
i got to the venue and picked up my tickets. on the envelope was the word "aisle". nothing else, just aisle. well, we ended up about 18 rows back with seats on the OUTSIDE aisle. he couldnt see anything when seated. i was furious. they could have bumped me back to the seats of people with a higher number than me and put us at the front of one of the side sections. but they didnt.
i would contact the venue to get actual disability seating.
That said, most handicap areas are actually really nice spots to see a show.
Nothing against the 10c, but they probably get dozens of these calls per show and hundreds over the span of a tour. They probably did do their best to do what was right, but they probably didn't know the venue that well...
Anyways, like I said before...contacting the venue is going to be the best bet.
Good luck.
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really? you think DOZENS for every show? I doubt it. i was more than willing to go through the venue for my tickets but the 10club assured me that they would take care of me. they did not.
i imagine that is established by the venue.
CHILLIN LIKE BOB DYLAN!!!
Speaking from experience………
I’ve learned from my past it’s best just to buy regular seats and let the venue place you in disabled seating when you get there. get there early before the music starts playing, that way you can negotiate if you don't like where your seats are.
remember some disabled seating sucks! some venues design them poorly and when people stand up you can't see the stage at all because you're sitting. when i come across a venue like that, i just wantta slap somebody.
You have to wait to order disabled seating on ticketmaster, which is unfair in my opinion. I want tickets and I want them now! Or ticketmaster will give you another number to call (after you’re on hold forever) to order disabled seating. You can’t order disabled seating online either. Which protects against fakers, but makes it a pain in the ass for the actual disabled customer.
The two times I have chose not to hassle 10c with requesting disabled seats, and everything has turned out alright.
Now, if the system worked smoothly I wouldn’t have ‘take’ an abled-bodied seat. But until there’s no hassle for me I will continue to buy regular seating.
regardless of how many requests they received, they shouldn't have said they would take care of her if they had no intention of doing so. and wtf does not knowing the venue have to do with putting someone that far back on the floor if he can't stand up. EVERYONE that goes to concerts knows that you cant see shit from a seated position on the floor.
why are people so quick to defend the 10c when it's so obvious that they mess up? for years, i've wondered about this.
bingo.
Fakers would surely take advantage, but karma comes into play.
After looking at the profile you have here I noticed ticket stubs from an ampitheatre. In my honest opinion most of them are set up the same, so how would you rate your seats?
Bryce
4/20/1921, 12/25/2048, 1/1/2000, 9/10/1977.... does it really matter?
SMILE Eddie Vedder Cleveland 06.....
As far as pregnancy goes, I honestly have mixed feelings. I mean, it's not fair to exclude anyone from a show, but if it's something that will be dangerous enough to put your fetus at risk, then maybe give things a lot of thought. Taking space away from those who have true disabilities simply because you're with child...I just don't see that being cool at all. It's not the same as the parking spaces that they now reserve for those with child. Those venues secure such a small spot for those who need it.
I dunno.
Edit: Not to mention, if a pregnant woman saw someone in an actual wheelchair being denied access, and didn't immediately volunteer to go somewhere else, then I can only imagine how awful the child will turn out having a mother like that!
i agree 1000%!
+1 - I cannot figure out how to view people's profiles or blogs either ...
When I picked up my 10c tickets for Hartford and Mansfield, I was surprised and grateful to find both shows were in the handicapped seating. So in my case, the 10c came through on both shows. Just ask and see what happens.
nice for you--they wouldn't/couldn't take care of me like that, but they've never liked me.
Not all message board members have it, but look below their username. The guy I was responding to has a "3W" next to the "PM" for Private Message. What does 3W mean?.... your guess is as good as mine.
Bryce
4/20/1921, 12/25/2048, 1/1/2000, 9/10/1977.... does it really matter?
That amphitheater has sad disabled seating. The floor isn’t elevated enough in the disabled seating area, so you can’t see what’s going on onstage.
I won the 10c lottery that year. See siggy hehehe. So I was front row. No big heads to block my view!
Speaking of my siggy, I put my profile url there so that’s how vedderfreak saw. Every member has one, thou I think 10c is working on them now so you can’t edit them. Hope they fix it soon!
Ahhh! Bionicamy, you too know what it’s like!
Yeah people don’t kid yourselves there’s tons of ‘fakers’ out there.
They’re all going to hell! Hehehehe. Or their first born will be disabled. I’m a firm believer of Karma.
I mean if there were no ‘fakers’ it would be easy for me to buy disabled seating online. That right there tells you people have abused it.
If you have a temporary injury or whatever, I’m ok with you sitting in disabled seating. But sometimes there’s really no way to tell if somebody’s faking or not.
I often try to just get a regular seating issued, and take my cane or walker with me because 10c members are usually SO COOL WITH EACH OTHER AT SHOWS,,,,,,,,but that plan fell to the wayside in Hartford when the 10c ticket cluster f**k took place. Just being disabled in itself is very difficult,,,,,,but being a live music lover, makes life very difficult,,,,,,,,from a wheelchair most of us spend the show looking at Asses and Elbows! There is no real good way to see a show from a disabled person's view.
The worst part about all of it (the MSG tickets and the Hartford show,,,,,,,,was even after many, many emails and actual LETTERS to the 10C, no apologies, no reasons, no refund, no NOTHING, not even a years membership offered! NOTHING,,,,,,,,,,,now that felt more of a slap in the face than the seating and ticket mess up, from the folks at the 10C.
Point being point here, if you're a disabled person you pretty much have to just deal with whatever you get, because they are not taking your condition into consideration. We always just try and say "hey, at least we are here,,,,,,(even if Pearl Jam looks like a Flea Circus from where we sit)"
i've often thought if i was a man i'd most likly be an ass man with all i'm seeing aready.
there's an inside venue near me i love. wheelchairs sit on the second floor looking down at stage. i freakin love that venue!
i get what you're saying i really do, but i just wanta say lotsa times when i speak out or raise hell it does make a difference. so please don't stop trying.
So couldn't get them through the club, and when trying the normal way, the handicapped seats that aren't in nosebleed country are gone before you can even try. TM notoriously sells these seats to able bodied people. Happened at Eddie's solo tour. I got my ticket at the box office, and had lost it upon going in. No biggie, I was sat in the wheelchair section. But then some folks showed up-able bodied that is- with print outs from TM with wheelchair seats. I got thrown out of the venue, and they got sat in fold up chairs in that section! I cried!
Eddie's lovely tour manager and the man himself saved the day, but that's another story : )
I've never seen Pearl Jam, yet. I hope I can get a ticket to one of the SoCal shows, still. But what would really be awesome is to be able to be up close. Just once. I don't care about safety LOL. I want the experience! (And not to have to look at other people's asses the whole show...)
hey i'm disabled and have sat front row. it's do-able.
Wow, front row. I don't even have tickets, yet. I'd better get on the ball and get something somehow. Dreaming of seeing a show from the pit. Is that where you were?
OMG... I know. C3 didn't do a good job either managing those people.... I worked hard on that for 2008, kicking people out of my designated area.
I feel for the people need access to ADA seats (I hate the word "Handicapped")... I have seen it abused so badly, that it really pisses me off that the venue or place is not doing its job to ensure that a person really needs it.
But on the flip side, it wouldn't be fair to ask that person to go to extremes proving that while the "so-called regular" people don't have to when they purchase for regular tickets... but unfortunately to protect ourselves, we should consider going extra so it does not happen to other people who really need them. I do that anyway.
I did that for Lolla 08, but I don't know if it got any better for Lolla 09....I'd be pissed if it didn't because of all my hard work "poof" just for one year - 2008. That wasn't my goal - but to keep it going from there.
ADA was designed for people like blondie and me so we didn't have to "hassle" (I quote because like she said, it's still a hassle) but more really for equal access. It takes me months (if permitted) to prepare the venue and an agency, and all that. A month isn't enough, unfortunately - unless they were the same people all the time.
I'm sorry it didn't work out with 10c....but they can only have what they are given from the venue and by that, it's allocated based on seniority.
ADA seats go out very fast, it's not funny. People think of whatever medical issue they have and use that... sigh.
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