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Vedderman23Vedderman23 Posts: 856
edited April 2009 in The Porch
Don't get too excited people, just gotta hope you get drawn.

Good idea for the solo shows, just hope it isn't that way for the PJ shows.
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    loki34loki34 Posts: 111
    Can anybody pick a roll over show? It only let me hold 1 date.
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    A satellite forever orbitingA satellite forever orbiting Posts: 1,888
    loki34 wrote:
    Can anybody pick a roll over show? It only let me hold 1 date.

    same here!
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    BH208008BH208008 Posts: 6
    loki34 wrote:
    Can anybody pick a roll over show? It only let me hold 1 date.

    I couldn't actually get it to "hold" a rollover date- How'd you do it?
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    rival.rival. Chicago Posts: 7,776
    so if you don't get selected, will you still have the opportunity to buy through ticketmaster?

    or is this just a 10C thing???
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    CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,219
    I think it is GREAT.
    I like the one pair per one show policy. You can get tickets to other shows via TicketMonster... but, my friends with higher numbers who live in Honolulu, Maui and albany should get the best seats in the house... no matter what. based upon they live in those places.
    Same goes for the people who live in Philly, Atlanta, Baltimore, etc... I would much rather have them in the best seats than people with lower seniority numbers coming in from places outside those hometowns getting all of the same good seats.
    Call it ' Sharing The Wealth' or whatever... i feel it is best for the locals to get the best seats because it may be the only ones they'll get.
    ...
    I hope this carries over to the full Band Tour, too.
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    hinxhinx Posts: 414
    This is seriously the weirdest process ever. I don't like it and I really hope they don't do the full tour this way.
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    HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    hinx wrote:
    This is seriously the weirdest process ever. I don't like it and I really hope they don't do the full tour this way.

    +1
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    HermanBloomHermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    hinx wrote:
    This is seriously the weirdest process ever. I don't like it and I really hope they don't do the full tour this way.
    Completely agree
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    TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,359
    BH208008 wrote:
    loki34 wrote:
    Can anybody pick a roll over show? It only let me hold 1 date.

    I couldn't actually get it to "hold" a rollover date- How'd you do it?

    Shows denoted by a single * are rollover shows. If you win the first date and a second opens up, you will get tickets for the second show if you want them.


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    Jun 9* Albany, NY Palace Theatre
    Jun 11 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theatre
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    Jun 24* Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Performing Arts Ctr
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    Jul 1** Honolulu, HI Hawaii Theatre Ctr
    Jul 2** Honolulu, HI Hawaii Theatre Ctr
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    InMyTree4InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    since the pre-sale goes until april 10 does that mean that you can buy until then, then they will do a drawing for the tickets?
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    rsimms3rsimms3 Posts: 13
    This is rather ridiciulous. No email to members? Why do I pay for a membership to have stuff like this come up unannounced? The FTM announcement has been up for....how long? I like the 1 show per person process, but to not make 10c members aware of an upcoming sale specifically? Garbage.
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    OneTooFreeOneTooFree Posts: 265
    hinx wrote:
    This is seriously the weirdest process ever. I don't like it and I really hope they don't do the full tour this way.

    basically what this is is a lottery. you're putting in a request for the shows you want & hoping the request gets filled

    is it ideal? no, but with Ticketmaster in place, bands like PJ are lucky to do a set up like this for their concerts
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    OneTooFreeOneTooFree Posts: 265
    InMyTree4 wrote:
    since the pre-sale goes until april 10 does that mean that you can buy until then, then they will do a drawing for the tickets?

    exactly. you can put in a request anytime between now & the 10th and you'll have the same chance to score tickets
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    RiotAct10RiotAct10 Ohio Posts: 1,613
    1.) I like the policy
    2.) There may be an email coming to all members. These shows will be posted for the next couple days according to the website.
    3.) I like this policy because, even though I just happened to be on the site when the posted the tickets to the goods section, I was not rewarded for just happening to be here. Instead everyone gets a chance. In the past, when it was either randomly posted, or you had to be on right at 10AM or something, and hopefully you would get them, it put a lot of people (like those who have jobs where they can't sit at a computer all day) at a real disadvantage. This way we all get a shot.

    I have yet to decide though if I will go. I would love to get the chance to see Ed play a solo show... but is it worth the $162 tickets, driving 6 hours to Nashville, paying for a hotel, etc? I will think about it for a day or so I guess.
    words seem so out of place.

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    CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,219
    FuzzyDunlop wrote:
    hinx wrote:
    This is seriously the weirdest process ever. I don't like it and I really hope they don't do the full tour this way.

    basically what this is is a lottery. you're putting in a request for the shows you want & hoping the request gets filled

    is it ideal? no, but with Ticketmaster in place, bands like PJ are lucky to do a set up like this for their concerts
    ...
    That's what I feel. TicketMonster will scalp the best seats via their 'TicketsNow' scalping site.
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    pjpitt89pjpitt89 Posts: 1,821
    i kinda like it. i mean yeah ill be bummed if i dont get selected, but at least ill still have a (small) shot at TM tickets. I like the fact that the site crashing and people getting screwed because of computer problems is taken out of it. plus the one show per member is a nice idea to share the love.
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    OneTooFreeOneTooFree Posts: 265
    completely agree, RiotAct10

    i go through a similar process w/ Phish so this is nothing new to me, but the fact that PJ only opens this up to the 10Club makes it a much better situation, IMO
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    SC187848SC187848 Posts: 60
    It does not matter that there was no "real email warning" about this. Since the "presale" lasts till April 10th. Face it, it will be a mostly random process of who is picked to actually get the tickets, the fact that someone got through before you won't matter since it will be a random selection.

    This process makes sense for the solo shows, it forces people to only try and buy tickets for their hometown, making the odds of getting tickets for hometowners much greater.

    The thing I wish they did was add the ability to say "I can do night 1 or night 2" As an example i live in baltimore and don't care if i get night 1 or night 2 as long as I get tickets. So that would have been a nice feature.

    So lets everyone be happy he is even doing a small tour. We'll be getting the full on PJ tour soon enough.
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    BeerBaronBeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,089
    Vedderman23 wrote:
    Don't get too excited people, just gotta hope you get drawn.

    Good idea for the solo shows, just hope it isn't that way for the PJ shows.
    Agreed. Especially the second sentence.
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    Father HubbardFather Hubbard Chicago Posts: 1,558
    interesting. i can see the hometown benefit. i hope if you are randomly selected to get tix for the first night that your chances of getting the second night arent reduced.
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    chimpatchimpat Posts: 590
    FuzzyDunlop wrote:
    completely agree, RiotAct10

    i go through a similar process w/ Phish so this is nothing new to me, but the fact that PJ only opens this up to the 10Club makes it a much better situation, IMO

    I'm with you guys, this process is used by many bands for tickets. I think the Tenclub members just aren't used to it but if they've been members of other band's fanclubs then they'd see this process is pretty common. Hey, at least the site isn't crashing.
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    samnationsamnation Los Angeles, CA Posts: 277
    I believe this will be a much better way to sell the tickets. How many times has there been a ticket sale and there is a mad panic at the time of the sale followed by crashes, disappointment, yelling, frustration, etc. etc.? At least with this sale you don't need to freak out and have 4 browsers open all that nonsense. You just put your name in and hope for the best, pretty simple. It's not a guaranteed ticket but face it, neither were the regular presales when they would sell out in 2 seconds. I'd much rather do it this way with a LOT less stress.
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    Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    OMG I just saw that EV is coming to Memphis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did both dates, but when will know if we got them? When I bought the first dat3 6/20 it didnt give me an option to choose another date, so I bought the 2nd show also, did I do it right? I live here! I hope I get tickets!!!!!!!!!!!! He has not been here in 9 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This made my fucking day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I logged on I saw EV Tour and I thought to myself "Im not even going to click on it because he's not coming here" but I said fuck it and when I saw Memphis I screamed and my wife thought EV was dead. I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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    CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,219
    Father Hubbard wrote:
    interesting. i can see the hometown benefit. i hope if you are randomly selected to get tix for the first night that your chances of getting the second night arent reduced.
    ...
    That's how I feel. If they are playing in YOUR hometown... YOU should have a better seat than me, flying in from California with a lower number. i can stiil choose to fly in, but, i should not be granted a better seat in your hometown. I can get a better seat in MY hometown.
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    dlymnflddlymnfld CT Posts: 917
    I recieved an email at 1:22 p.m EST. What time were they in the goods sections.
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    surforiasurforia SoCal Posts: 346
    We'll have to see how it works out... I've been in the fanclub for 14 years, my number is 106XXX, and I live in Philly... I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be super-pissed if I got shut out of the Friday show at the Tower...
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    LiteTheMatchLiteTheMatch Posts: 1,179
    I wonder if they'll keep our $162 even if we aren't chosen to buy tickets.
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    ValleyGalValleyGal Posts: 122
    samnation wrote:
    I believe this will be a much better way to sell the tickets. How many times has there been a ticket sale and there is a mad panic at the time of the sale followed by crashes, disappointment, yelling, frustration, etc. etc.? At least with this sale you don't need to freak out and have 4 browsers open all that nonsense. You just put your name in and hope for the best, pretty simple. It's not a guaranteed ticket but face it, neither were the regular presales when they would sell out in 2 seconds. I'd much rather do it this way with a LOT less stress.

    I'm with ya on this . . . everyone gets the same opportunity to get tickets, there's no crashing the site, and everyone's stress levels are returned to normal. It's kinda nice that we can only get tickets for one show because that opens up the door for way more of us to get to go. I was lucky enough to get tickets to Vancouver night 2 in 2008 through TM . . . but that was the most frustrating situation I have ever been through and I would much rather try to get tickets this way :D
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    polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Cosmo wrote:
    I think it is GREAT.
    I like the one pair per one show policy. You can get tickets to other shows via TicketMonster... but, my friends with higher numbers who live in Honolulu, Maui and albany should get the best seats in the house... no matter what. based upon they live in those places.
    Same goes for the people who live in Philly, Atlanta, Baltimore, etc... I would much rather have them in the best seats than people with lower seniority numbers coming in from places outside those hometowns getting all of the same good seats.
    Call it ' Sharing The Wealth' or whatever... i feel it is best for the locals to get the best seats because it may be the only ones they'll get.
    ...
    I hope this carries over to the full Band Tour, too.

    yeah ... as a guy with a fairly low number 106xxx - i'm all for the lottery on seats ... although i'm used to being in the front 6 rows - i'm just happy to have a decent seat anywhere!
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    CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,219
    surforia wrote:
    We'll have to see how it works out... I've been in the fanclub for 14 years, my number is 106XXX, and I live in Philly... I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be super-pissed if I got shut out of the Friday show at the Tower...
    ...
    I hope you get them... and i hope you are in the front row.
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