Is hartford sold out already!?!?!

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  • ctvedhead
    ctvedhead Posts: 58
    SwBkRn44 wrote:
    Ok, trying to be positive here. Let's say you got lawn seats, what's the best way to make it a good night?

    How early can you get in? More importantly? How early should you get in?

    Show starts at 8pm, figure some super loyal folks will be in immediately so they'll be at the front of the lawn, how soon should you get in to avoid the massive crowds though and being all the way back?

    How much do beers cost once inside :-)
    I'll tell you a quick story about this venue. A friend and I went to see a show here last year, I think the Allmans. Two of us had lawn seats and there were four or five who did not. In this venue, you can enter the seats from the base of the lawn, separated only by a railing and some yellow shirts. Most of the security here is part time folks who really are pretty nice people. My friend stood near by one of the security guards, right at the railing/entrance to the seats from the lawn. I walked up to the same guard, pretended to be extremely drunk and made him visually direct me to the mens room, as I put my arm around him again acting drunk, my friend slipped in. I thanked him graciously and went on my merry way. He never knew what happened.

    Repeat this with various distractions throughout the course night, and all my buddies were in the seats by the end of the first set.
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  • zeroenvy
    zeroenvy Posts: 40
    Yeah, I got a message from my buddy at 10:12 AM saying all he could get was lawn at 10:00 AM. He was buying 5 tickets, but at the same time i was browsing at home for 1 and 2 tickets and could still only get lawn..

    Oh well, this is my first pearl jam show at 20 years old.. nothing can bring me down.
    6/27/08!
  • Evolver
    Evolver Posts: 525
    drsluggo wrote:
    to be fair hartford was up for hours on the TC site... now for MSG and MAYBE boston... that would be cool, but I dont think even the TC could sell out MSG (not even close probably).

    Not sure what you're trying to point out with that, in terms of Hartford?...
  • Evolver
    Evolver Posts: 525
    Damn, a pair of 2nd row tickets are on sale on eBay, just threw in a 500 bid and was outbid immediately (shocker).

    Time to figure out what bank or convenience store I'm going to hold up, or what old lady I'm going to mug to come up with a couple grand for these tix....


    ...no, seriously, I have to figure out who I'm gonna rob.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,738
    couple things

    1. TM did not release all the tickets; keep trying there will be "drops" as the date gets closer
    2. over the years, both the quality and quantity of tickets available at a public TM onsale has decreased significantly. wouldnt surprise me if less than 20% of the venues are actually available to the public
    3. If you thought this was bad, wait until the MSG sale, there will be no tix available at 10:00:30.
    4. Yes the sclapers are a problem, but there is a much bigger institutional problem at TM. They begrudingly give the fan clubs seats, but keep the remaining seats for themselves (promotional holds service providers vips etc). The public gets crappy seats which sell out in minutes becuase they panic that they wont get tix.
  • Evolver
    Evolver Posts: 525
    drsluggo wrote:
    to be fair hartford was up for hours on the TC site... now for MSG and MAYBE boston... that would be cool, but I dont think even the TC could sell out MSG (not even close probably).

    Oh I see, I'm guessing you are saying that Ticketmaster alotted (and I fully agree with you) way too many 10C seats for this show. Not sure why they agreed to that, but whatever. Thanks Ticketmaster!
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,577
    ctvedhead wrote:
    There are only 7000 seats in the lawn here. I have heard the promoter on the radio say that for fan clubs, the band generally gets every other row so there are only half as many or less tickets for sale. I think that was DMB, but it may serve as some reference point. I suspect PJ has even more of the house than most fan clubs.
    There's something to that for sure. In 2006, the front was a combo of 10 club and season tix holders.
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  • CTMAN07
    CTMAN07 Posts: 12
    ctvedhead wrote:
    There are only 7000 seats in the lawn here. I have heard the promoter on the radio say that for fan clubs, the band generally gets every other row so there are only half as many or less tickets for sale. I think that was DMB, but it may serve as some reference point. I suspect PJ has even more of the house than most fan clubs.

    Ticketmaster can pull several thousand tickets at any given time. The math equals instant sell out.


    Tickets are still available for the lawn. Hartford.com (http://www.hartford.com/play/arts_entertainment_venues.php) 1/2 way down the page "New England Dodge Music Center" the site says the theater holds 25,000 including 7,000 reserved seats. This means 18,000 Lawn. Ya'll should have gotten 10c seats!!! Regardless of where you sit a PJ show is a PJ show...INCREDIBLE!!! Everyone going should feel fortunate. Although i'm happy to have seats and not lawn tix!!!
    10/2/96, 9/13/98, 8/29/00, 7/11/03, 9/28/04, 5/4/06 Ed Sullivan Theater, 5/13/06, 6/27/08
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    CTMAN07 wrote:
    Tickets are still available for the lawn. Hartford.com (http://www.hartford.com/play/arts_entertainment_venues.php) 1/2 way down the page "New England Dodge Music Center" the site says the theater holds 25,000 including 7,000 reserved seats. This means 18,000 Lawn. Ya'll should have gotten 10c seats!!! Regardless of where you sit a PJ show is a PJ show...INCREDIBLE!!! Everyone going should feel fortunate. Although i'm happy to have seats and not lawn tix!!!

    I ALWAYS make sure I get 10c seats for PJ shows with a lawn...
  • NeilJam
    NeilJam Posts: 1,191
    Evolver wrote:
    Quite honestly (and don't take this the wrong way, I mean NO offense to 10C), the band ought to just go on a 10C-only tour, and not make any other tickets available to anyone else. At least that way the rest of us won't get disappointed because we're shut out of decent seats. That's probably the only fair way of doing this and keeping more people happy and less people disappointed.


    Then they would have to find a venue in each city that does not have some exclusive contract with Ticketmaster, Livenation, or some other ticket seller. The venues that they find would probably be small places (live the Vic) for which a 10C sale would sell out in a minute. You would still have people complaining that they didn't get tickets.
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Evolver wrote:
    Yeah, no shit man. I just had the same issue. Actually the only tix they seem to have available are lawn, and theres no way in hell I'll ever do lawn.

    Then I thought, maybe they just haven't released the rest of the pavilion seats, but after looking on StubHub and a few others, they have several tickets for pavilion seats! Looks like no Pearl Jam for me on this tour. Very pissed.
    you live locally?
    then just get there..there is ALWAYS extras to be had, even 10c ones (well, ok not at the Vic, but that's another scale entirely).
  • rearviewmiror
    rearviewmiror Posts: 894
    What's wrong with the lawn? I saw PJ from the lawn in 2000 in DC/Maryland. Was actually one of my favorite shows.
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  • jxchamb
    jxchamb Posts: 55
    No tickets for me; For various reasons I stopped going to concerts a couple years ago so I let my membership 10C membership expire. Now after this debacle I'm really kicking myself. I assumed I'd still be able to get seats in the back of the pavillion at 10:00.30 a.m. but nope just stupid lame lawn seats which I'm sure my girlfriend will insist on me buying.

    At least I've got awesome seats for Springsteen in Foxboro.
  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I "saw" them in 96 and 98 from the lawn and still had a blast in the crowd. Last time I got 10c seats in the pavilion and enjoyed the show.
    If I couldn't get 10c, I most certainly would get lawn seats.....hell, I would sit in the lighting rig if I had to
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • jxchamb
    jxchamb Posts: 55
    O.k. so at 10:01 all I can get is lawn for Hartford. But 5 minutes ago I was able to score two SEATS for Mansfield on the 28th. Cool.
  • bovy_j
    bovy_j Posts: 1,008
    jxchamb wrote:
    O.k. so at 10:01 all I can get is lawn for Hartford. But 5 minutes ago I was able to score two SEATS for Mansfield on the 28th. Cool.

    Yeah! I got me some regular seats for both Mansfield shows...but I had to get the lawn for Hartford. Ah well!
  • whitepants
    whitepants Posts: 729
    This crap ain't right. We totally need a spy at ticketbastard to give us the 411 on what ticketbastard is such an asshole to its customers. And btw, there is NOTHING "convenient" about a $16 charge to buy tickets from ticketbastardmonopoly.

    I'm pissed off for you guys and going to hartford to see PJ was not on my radar of possibilities.
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  • pjpitt89
    pjpitt89 Posts: 1,885
    Evolver wrote:
    Damn, a pair of 2nd row tickets are on sale on eBay, just threw in a 500 bid and was outbid immediately (shocker).

    Time to figure out what bank or convenience store I'm going to hold up, or what old lady I'm going to mug to come up with a couple grand for these tix....


    ...no, seriously, I have to figure out who I'm gonna rob.




    im a bit confused...i thought 2nd row tickets were part of the lottery for 10c? How would they be on EBay??
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