get ready for the first 10c-ticket bitchfest of 2008

evenflowman · February 2008

lastexit78 wrote:

No doubt about it. TenClub members could have all received a presale password. Then most of us if not all of us could have gotten tickets. The shows would be Ten Club only and the energy would have been epic.

Instead maybe 200 tickets a show were released though a joke of a system and most people got nothing. Now on Friday we'll have to fight it out with scalpers and ticket brokers to get a seat. Then those scalpers and brokers will mark up their tickets 100 times over and these shows will be filled with a bunch of yuppies who aren't even real fans.

Amen

QuarterToTen · February 2008

chromiam wrote:

This could be the answer...

well maybe the dude with the business
knows a dude that can help then.

something has to change. its time.
well past time.

the natives are getting very, very restless.

prism · February 2008

QuarterToTen wrote:

there has simply got to be a better way to go about this.

the disappointment, anxiety and overall frustration that these
on-sales cause is getting old. i don't understand why the problem
hasn't been addressed.

any other system would be an improvement.

yeah the clusterfuck of frustration that goes along with trying to get tickets through 10 club is to be expected, however that doesn't make it any easier to deal with the disappointment of not getting tickets after trying for two hours.

okey.... i've met my quota for bitching for the week

chromiam · February 2008

QuarterToTen wrote:

well maybe the dude with the business
knows a dude that can help then.

something has to change. its time.
well past time.

the natives are getting very, very restless.

no they're not... they're planning fundraisers

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 2008

chromiam wrote:

no they're not... they're planning fundraisers

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...............

i needed a good laugh......

QuarterToTen · February 2008

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME i have tried to purchase tickets here....

it has been nothing but hours and hours of fucking aggravation....

you and me both. its beyond maddening. its just plain wrong.
and the hell of it is, we just can't seem to give up because we
just might miss that fluke chance 2 hours after the sale begins.

the only time i was successful was on a work computer for the VFC tour.
that's it....just once.

something is very wrong with this system.

lastexit78 · February 2008

Cosmo wrote:

...
But... 200 people got tickets. 200 Ten Club members. It is going to happen whenever 1,000 people are trying to get 200 tickets. Most are going to get shutout.
Remember... when the server is down... no one gets anything.
...
And I have cracked pre-sale passwords in the past... and I'm pretty much a novice. Imagine what resouses the scalpers (i.e. Hannah Montana) have at their disposal.

Pre-sale passwords can have major issues. But there has to be something better than this. People including me don't have time in their working day to sit around hitting refresh over and over like some kind of mental case. For a band the loves to talk about justice their own ticket system is completely discriminatory. If your not lucky enough to have a job that allows you net access your essentially screwed. At least have these pre-sales on the weekend so maybe a Fire Fighter or School Teacher gets a fair shot. Also if the tickets are sold out then just say sold out! That's my main beef with this system. We all know there are not enough tickets to go around in these tiny venues. If the tickets sell out in 30 seconds just tell us. Don't string us out with this "Out of Stock/ In Stock" garbage.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 2008

QuarterToTen wrote:

you and me both. its beyond maddening. its just plain wrong.
and the hell of it is, we just can't seem to give up because we
just might miss that fluke chance 2 hours after the sale begins.

the only time i was successful was on a work computer for the VFC tour.
that's it....just once.

something is very wrong with this system.

after talking this over with kathy....and actually having her say "i would love to see vedder solo"

then talking to chris and letting him know we might just be in california in april......

i was to say the least as little "dissapointed" that i didnt get tickets today...

but i should have known better....

and its getting real fucking old...real fucking quick......

but i still havent decided if i want to buy their $200 coloring book.....

Riverrunner · February 2008

lastexit78 wrote:

If the tickets sell out in 30 seconds just tell us. Don't string us out with this "Out of Stock/ In Stock" garbage.

YES! Why don't they just tell me.... "you are a loser and you didn't get tickets." Instead they string you along so you waste precious time hoping for a miracle.

I can imagine the powers that be sitting behind computer screens laughing at all of us hitting refresh - refresh - refresh- refresh- refresh - refresh- refresh.....

QuarterToTen · February 2008

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

after talking this over with kathy....and actually having her say "i would love to see vedder solo"

then talking to chris and letting him know we might just be in california in april......

i was to say the least as little "dissapointed" that i didnt get tickets today...

but i should have known better....

and its getting real fucking old...real fucking quick......

but i still havent decided if i want to buy their $200 coloring book.....

i wouldn't think you'd have a problem using ticketmaster.
it's what they do.

and like them or not, agree with all the added charges or not....
at least you know 99.9% of the time you are going to have your tickets
in less than two minutes. no hassle, no nail-biting, no anxiety.

click, click....done. and thats the way it should be.

its almost not worth the stress of even trying for 10C tickets
for small venues like this. i think it comes down to luck. or maybe
the way the wind is blowing.

disappointing?? i think half the poor folks on this board refreshing until they're half blind are going to need a sedative before this day is over.

seeing vedder solo is a unique experience. i hope it works out.

Cosmo · February 2008

lastexit78 wrote:

Pre-sale passwords can have major issues. But there has to be something better than this. People including me don't have time in their working day to sit around hitting refresh over and over like some kind of mental case. For a band the loves to talk about justice their own ticket system is completely discriminatory. If your not lucky enough to have a job that allows you net access your essentially screwed. At least have these pre-sales on the weekend so maybe a Fire Fighter or School Teacher gets a fair shot. Also if the tickets are sold out then just say sold out! That's my main beef with this system. We all know there are not enough tickets to go around in these tiny venues. If the tickets sell out in 30 seconds just tell us. Don't string us out with this "Out of Stock/ In Stock" garbage.

...
I understand your frustration. I was getting pretty flustered myself. But, having a background with large computing centers, I understand the constraints it places on a system. That's why I wasn't too worried when the system was 'Temporarily out Of Service'. That meant that if I wasn't getting in.. no one was getting in. I just kept querying the server until the boot process was completed and their application was back online (p.s. I hate java applications... they are a pain in the ass at work and they were a pain in the ass today).
I don't know what the solution is. And yes.. I do have a lot of downtime here... I actually called in sick today, expecting this process to take up much of my time.
...
As for pre-sale passwords. From what I have hear, professional scalpers offer guaranted tickets to members and upwards of 500 bucks for passwords. That is why it is tough to get tickets, even if you know the password. I'm guessing that there are more than one Fan Club members willing to take up on that offer... even if it means they are betraying the rest of us as well as the band's basic principles.
Sorry for your experience.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 2008

QuarterToTen wrote:

i wouldn't think you'd have a problem using ticketmaster.
it's what they do.

and like them or not, agree with all the added charges or not....
at least you know 99.9% of the time you are going to have your tickets
in less than two minutes. no hassle, no nail-biting, no anxiety.

click, click....done. and thats the way it should be.

its almost not worth the stress of even trying for 10C tickets
for small venues like this. i think it comes down to luck. or maybe
the way the wind is blowing.

disappointing?? i think half the poor folks on this board refreshing until they're half blind are going to need a sedative before this day is over.

seeing vedder solo is a unique experience. i hope it works out.

fuck it....

kathy and i will go vacation somewhere else....

QuarterToTen · February 2008

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

fuck it....

kathy and i will go vacation somewhere else....

cincy?

LUV2ROCK · February 2008

I'm just plain fed up with this system.
Can't anyone in the ten club PLEASE get a server that can handle the load's!
I had tickets for 3 show's in my cart 3 different times and what happens,crashes again and again and again.

You know they will not listen to what we have to say about this.
Things must change by the next full band onsale's begin.
Why can't we send in postcards again? Anything but this cluster$#@&
Tim,i know you are on here and will probably read this whole thread,so please do something about this.

I drive all day for work,so i had to take an hour and a half out of my day for nothing,and then drive another half hour back to where i left off where i was last at.All for nothing.
Ticket onsales alway's seem to be on a monday or friday.Do know how inconvenienced that makes alot of ten clubber's?
Why cant you put them onsale on a saturday or sunday.That way EVERYONE has a fair shot.I can't keep taking valuable day's off just to order tickets.
It's bad enough that i need to take lot's of day's off so i can see the band when i want to.

And last time band ticket's were onsale for lot's of show's (2006),
you only told us about a show here and a show there.
How about releasing the whole tour,or at least the 1st leg,like you guy's used to?

I know i sound like an ungrateful bastard,but i think we deserve to be treated with a better fan club than what we are receiving nowdays.
What the heck happened to the club tim?

PLEASE HELP US!!!

JOEJOEJOE · February 2008

Riverrunner wrote:

YES! Why don't they just tell me.... "you are a loser and you didn't get tickets." Instead they string you along so you waste precious time hoping for a miracle.

I can imagine the powers that be sitting behind computer screens laughing at all of us hitting refresh - refresh - refresh- refresh- refresh - refresh- refresh.....

The powers that be are probably laughing at the people who act as if they were forced at gun-point to keep hitting refresh!

Riverrunner · February 2008

JOEJOEJOE wrote:

The powers that be are probably laughing at the people who act as if they were forced at gun-point to keep hitting refresh!

Not gun point, but an over whelming compulsion.

gozzo5058 · February 2008

Garden Dogg wrote:

that's all.

you said it!

pj14 · February 2008

I AGREE WITH YOU. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEND IN OUR MONEY THROUGH THE MAIL.YOU WANNA KNOW WHY CAUSE THE COMPUTER CRASHES AND NO ONE GETS TICKETS. IVE HAD THE SamE PROBLEM FIRST ONE AT THE 1000 SHOW AT HOB THEN THE VIC. ITS NOT FAIR. TEN CLUB NEED A DIFFERENT SOLUTION. THEY NEED TO LET US DO THE TICKETS THROUGH THE MAIL LIKE BEFORE. ITS MUCH BETTER CAUSE THE INTERNET THING DOESNT WORK. IM SURE PEOPLE WILL AGREE WITH THIS AND I DIDNT EVEN TRY TO GET TICKETS TODAY BUT, I KNOW IT WAS PROABLY FUSTRATING.ten club please think of a better way to get tickets yeah just like love to rock said its going to be hell getting pj tickets for the next tour unless they dont do something (i definitly agree but, idoubt anything will change for the future)

3days · February 2008

Everybody, I understand the frustration. I tried for hours like oh, so many people to get Vic Theatre tickets to no avail. I even hit some weird glitch a few times that didn't recognize me as a 10 Club member, even though I was logged in. It was a disappointing day.

Please just be understanding that these events are very few, with very limited seating and an incredible demand. I know it sucks, but gear up for the ticketmaster sale, and who knows? You might have better luck then. Good luck to everybody.

SPEEDY MCCREADY · February 2008

i will give the 10club credit......because they deserve it....

at least this time around an icon actually appeared on my screen.....

not that it did me any fucking good.....

get ready for the first 10c-ticket bitchfest of 2008

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