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Does scarcity of Safeco and Fenway tix mean scalpers were largely undermined?
I'm watching how scarce tix to Fenway are, and how hard a lot of people worked for Safeco tix (although there were like 10,000 more of those so not as hard to find as Fenway) and it makes me wonder, even given Safeco 1 tix disappearing for some and this forum going down the day/night of Wrigley 2, is that scarcity of tix a good sign that PJ and the 10Club's efforts to avoid scalpers were largely successful?
I know tix still ended up on Stubhub almost right away with the general onsale, and maybe even the 10Club sale (although we all know they didn't know where their tix were at first), but seems like overall that goal may have been reached better than ever before? I'd love to know what the 10Club's experience was, or if it was similar/different to other tours/shows in terms of their perception of scalper activity.
Didn't see many scalpers for Safeco, but I know for Radiohead in 2 cities (they also did non-transferable mobile tix, but you could buy 1 with them), I know the scalpers looked very frustrated and didn't have much to offer (I asked out of curiosity).
What do you think, what was your experience as compared to past years if you got shut out or didn't try for tix until after the 10Club lottery?
I know tix still ended up on Stubhub almost right away with the general onsale, and maybe even the 10Club sale (although we all know they didn't know where their tix were at first), but seems like overall that goal may have been reached better than ever before? I'd love to know what the 10Club's experience was, or if it was similar/different to other tours/shows in terms of their perception of scalper activity.
Didn't see many scalpers for Safeco, but I know for Radiohead in 2 cities (they also did non-transferable mobile tix, but you could buy 1 with them), I know the scalpers looked very frustrated and didn't have much to offer (I asked out of curiosity).
What do you think, what was your experience as compared to past years if you got shut out or didn't try for tix until after the 10Club lottery?
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I never checked other sites but it was definitely nice to see that the scalpers were held at bay.
I believe that Pearl Jam is ahead of the curve on making sure their true fans are taken care of. Only allowing 1 ticket to be transferred is a step in the right direction and I hope more artists look at this as a way of getting tickets into the hands of those that are truly passionate about their favourite band/artist.
There will always be scalpers but the best seats(at face value) should go to the fans.
Just because they're 10Club doesn't mean fans aren't going to scalp them, sadly. So the limited transferability of some and the lack of transferability of others is definitely a deterrent.
No, like, seriously... go on!!
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What's released days before a show is always something else, but seems like overall there were nowwhere near as many tix available on the secondary market for Seattle or Boston. Isn't that still true right now of Fenway? With as many people posting ISO on Given to Fly here, it seems like Fenway is even much harder to come by than Seattle even here among 10Club members.
And I'm starting to believe
But yes, the band did a great job on these shows. Whatever headaches there were (like my ticket disappeared before Seattle 1) were worth it in the long run.
I’m still needing a pair for Boston 1, but confident it’ll happen, likely day of. Coming all the way from Alaska. So it just has to work out.
Numerous Fenway tickets on StubHub, until recently, the cheapest were $350 +
Not sure what their ticketing system accomplishes, other than getting the same fans close to the stage for below market value show after show year after year
"Numerous" does not mean "Same level as past years". Even for Fenway 2016 there were FAR more tickets in circulation on the secondary market well before the show, not just in the week before the show.
No one is saying that no scalpers got their hands on tickets, but there is no question that the numbers of tickets in circulation is way way down.
Your grumpiness about the same fans being close is heard loud and clear though... And I can say that as someone who used to have a stellar # but lapsed and is now nowhere near close. But I'm not really grumpy about it either.
And I LOVE that the 1st 2 rows are lottery! I hope that continues forever!