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8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
edited February 2013 in The Porch
i've been to quite a few concerts/sporting events over the years and can not think of worse experience. from the 10c lotto to the tickets.com golden wrapper extravaganza, this was by far the worst ever.
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    Beg ForgivenessBeg Forgiveness Posts: 119
    Apparently you didn't try for PJ20?
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    8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Beg Forgiveness wrote:
    Apparently you didn't try for PJ20?

    scored 10c tix to that.....that was was pretty rough, but you still had some control. this was the blind leading the blind.
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    AggAgg Posts: 462
    81 wrote:
    i've been to quite a few concerts/sporting events over the years and can not think of worse experience. from the 10c lotto to the tickets.com golden wrapper extravaganza, this was by far the worst ever.

    Same. This is actually the first time I tried for tickets to any event and didn't get them. :(

    I know Ticketmaster sucks and whatever, but I've never gotten shut out before. As long as you make sure you're on the site at 10am, your chances at getting tickets are really good. Tickets.com is a joke.
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    dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,158
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    Beg ForgivenessBeg Forgiveness Posts: 119
    81 wrote:
    Beg Forgiveness wrote:
    Apparently you didn't try for PJ20?

    scored 10c tix to that.....that was was pretty rough, but you still had some control. this was the blind leading the blind.

    I felt helpless for days trying to PJ20 tickets.
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    Blood Red MosquitoBlood Red Mosquito Posts: 1,609
    Yeah, this was brutal. Oh well, plenty of time to get tickets. People will change their minds as the date gets closer. There are so many tickets on the scalper sites. Hopefully some members will be helpful to those of us who got shut out
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    8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Agg wrote:
    81 wrote:
    i've been to quite a few concerts/sporting events over the years and can not think of worse experience. from the 10c lotto to the tickets.com golden wrapper extravaganza, this was by far the worst ever.

    Same. This is actually the first time I tried for tickets to any event and didn't get them. :(

    I know Ticketmaster sucks and whatever, but I've never gotten shut out before. As long as you make sure you're on the site at 10am, your chances at getting tickets are really good. Tickets.com is a joke.

    i don't think ticketmaster is that bad. at least you know it's sold out in 5 minutes and not an hour. :fp:
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    8181 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Blood Red Mosquito wrote:
    Yeah, this was brutal. Oh well, plenty of time to get tickets. People will change their minds as the date gets closer. There are so many tickets on the scalper sites. Hopefully some members will be helpful to those of us who got shut out

    i agree for the most part. this one worries me a bit more tho. wrigley attracts alot of people that just want to be there. it's different than say the united center.

    we'll see.
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    push me and i will resistpush me and i will resist Posts: 958
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Canada 11

    Fuck no. Canada in 2011 was a pain but nowhere near as bad an experience as this whole process. Canada 2011 the fan had control, until the crash but then had control again.

    At what point in his process did you feel you had control?? Seriously
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    pureocpureoc Posts: 2,383
    PJ20 was way worse.
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    AggAgg Posts: 462
    81 wrote:

    i don't think ticketmaster is that bad. at least you know it's sold out in 5 minutes and not an hour. :fp:

    Exactly. This show sold out in record time, yet I was still on the site 2 hours later trying to get tickets. Ridiculous.
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    En La ClandestinidadEn La Clandestinidad Telford, PA by way of Kansas City, MO and Milwaukee, WI, Phoenix, AZ and East Greenbush, NY Posts: 3,625
    PJ 20 was 7 hours of stupidity and stress. No thanks to ever doing that again even if today did suck as well
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    peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    81 wrote:

    i don't think ticketmaster is that bad. at least you know it's sold out in 5 minutes and not an hour. :fp:

    Yep. Never had a problem with ticketmaster.... tickets are there or they aren't. Boom boom.
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    dcd6575dcd6575 Posts: 7
    Absolutely a waste of time. Have not seen Pearl Jam live for almost 5 years. Lottery turned up empty handed. Then this tickets.com -- Nice to know that others are scalping or putting tickets up already on various sites for 3 to 4 times the face price when real fans are shut out again. I will not be going through this crap again.
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    BronyBrony Posts: 628
    all of the useless threads that are started just because one person didn't score tickets. such a waste of space :fp:
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    xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,075
    I personally think the MSG ticketing buying experience is way worse. Of course I got the tickets for this show for the price I wanted.
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    PJ-CubsPJ-Cubs Posts: 3,293
    Brew Crew Tix wrote:
    PJ 20 was 7 hours of stupidity and stress. No thanks to ever doing that again...
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    EdsonNascimentoEdsonNascimento Posts: 5,506
    Biggest problem? Prices too low. I didn't want them, but the price of these tickets were basically begging scalpers to gobble up even more than usual. Even if the sell for a c note, they are going to make a killing.

    I know it sounds weird but raising ticket prices would actually slow this. It does 2 things:

    1) leaves less profit potential for scalpers
    2) stops the casual buyer or at least makes them think.


    When you sell something out that fast, you've WAY under priced your market. This is why I find the they hate their fans thread it's about the money hilarious.
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    PJ-CubsPJ-Cubs Posts: 3,293
    EdsonNascimento wrote:
    Biggest problem? Prices too low. I didn't want them, but the price of these tickets were basically begging scalpers to gobble up even more than usual. Even if the sell for a c note, they are going to make a killing.

    I know it sounds weird but raising ticket prices would actually slow this. It does 2 things:

    1) leaves less profit potential for scalpers
    2) stops the casual buyer or at least makes them think.


    When you sell something out that fast, you've WAY under priced your market. This is why I find the they hate their fans thread it's about the money hilarious.

    Lots of goods point here.

    When supply is as low as it was for the Wrigley show, prices need to go up or scalpers/brokers will make them go up in the secondary market.
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    Snoopy Died For Our SinsSnoopy Died For Our Sins Posts: 2,608
    I wholeheartedly agree

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    McNairnMcNairn Posts: 284
    That's actually a good point.
    I would pay $125 per ticket - still way better that scalpers prices.
    Everyone jumps on Neil Young for selling tickets at such a high prices but I think he is just diverting money away from scalpers and real fans actually buy the tickets.
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    dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,158
    PJ-Cubs wrote:
    EdsonNascimento wrote:
    Biggest problem? Prices too low. I didn't want them, but the price of these tickets were basically begging scalpers to gobble up even more than usual. Even if the sell for a c note, they are going to make a killing.

    I know it sounds weird but raising ticket prices would actually slow this. It does 2 things:

    1) leaves less profit potential for scalpers
    2) stops the casual buyer or at least makes them think.


    When you sell something out that fast, you've WAY under priced your market. This is why I find the they hate their fans thread it's about the money hilarious.

    Lots of goods point here.

    When supply is as low as it was for the Wrigley show, prices need to go up or scalpers/brokers will make them go up in the secondary market.
    yep..seems that way..very intresting post Edson
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    DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    PJ20 was a catastrophe. This was smooth by comparison.
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    EdsonNascimentoEdsonNascimento Posts: 5,506
    McNairn wrote:
    That's actually a good point.
    I would pay $125 per ticket - still way better that scalpers prices.
    Everyone jumps on Neil Young for selling tickets at such a high prices but I think he is just diverting money away from scalpers and real fans actually buy the tickets.

    It would also stop folks from going to 15 shows and preventing others from getting tickets.

    PJ may want to take a simple Econ 101 class to learn that raising prices is the best way to control what they've been trying to control via artificial lotteries, seniority and other stupid shit.

    It's ok if folks only see 2 shows on a tour. It's also ok if folks pay extra for front row seats, so they can LOWER prices even further in the rest of the arena. Though I guess if you're going to make scalpers...errrr..i mean fans pay only $50 as the cost of entry (into the business), it doesn't really matter. :lol:
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    AggAgg Posts: 462
    EdsonNascimento wrote:
    Biggest problem? Prices too low. I didn't want them, but the price of these tickets were basically begging scalpers to gobble up even more than usual. Even if the sell for a c note, they are going to make a killing.

    I know it sounds weird but raising ticket prices would actually slow this. It does 2 things:

    1) leaves less profit potential for scalpers
    2) stops the casual buyer or at least makes them think.


    When you sell something out that fast, you've WAY under priced your market. This is why I find the they hate their fans thread it's about the money hilarious.

    I agree. I was shocked at how low prices were. I would have easily paid $150 face value.

    Pisses me off that I got shut out, while people who are just going because it's summer in Wrigley got the tickets they wanted. Raising the prices would have made people think twice about buying tickets.
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    PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,542
    It was totally fine for me. I don't have tix, but only because I declined all the tickets I got on tickets.com. I could have bought 10 crappy tix if I'd wanted to though. With a smartphone. It was totally smooth for me, aside from the fact that I'm being picky. I really don't understand why soany others seemed to have so much trouble. Something strange about that.
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    shortstackshortstack Posts: 2,339
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Canada 11


    i had no problem at all getting tix for hamilton.
    did you see me? i saw you.
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    Red Sox fans are accustomed to the dreaded virtual waiting room, usually spending a whole Saturday in December in that thing trying to score Sox Pax.
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    Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,746
    DocChicago wrote:
    PJ20 was a catastrophe. This was smooth by comparison.


    Yep. And I scored tix for PJ20 and struck out for Wrigley. Tickets.com is obviously a piece of shit website, but still not as bad as the PJ20 debacle.
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    dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,158
    shortstack wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Canada 11


    i had no problem at all getting tix for hamilton.
    which day?
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