Shut out once again. Ten Club, I would like an explanation

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moses-i
moses-i Posts: 138
edited January 2020 in The Porch
As the title says. I'm a loyal Ten Club member who once again didn't get Ten Club tickets to any shows (specifically in my town Toronto). I would like someone from the Ten Club to explain how this happened when other ppl got all four shows (and will probably get even more US dates) with a third choice Toronto pick. And it appears I'm not the only one. I'm sorry but this is ridiculous and needs be addressed! Thank you.

To the good ppl in the Ten Club. If anyone by chance got two extra tickets for Toronto and/or Hamilton, I will be happy to take them off your hands. Thanks!


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  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,412
    What was your pick for the show? 
    "Well, I think this band is incapable of sucking."
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  • Reads11
    Reads11 Indiana Posts: 101
    Probably GA only...
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,458
    edited January 2020
    I've never heard of the lottery system being broken or unjust. 

    The ones getting several tickets are going for tickets that are 99% (100%) chance to get.

    All the ones having the Toronto show at number 1 get a shot first. So if you put Toronto at number 1, there is zero chance someone having it at spot number 4 could get that exact same ticket. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Weston1283
    Weston1283 Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 5,015
    3 of the shows had 99% for best available, so tickets were basically guaranteed if you weren’t in for GA only

    Send us a list of your picks and what price levels you chose (GA only or best available) and we will try to make some sense of it to you
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  • Joostone
    Joostone Posts: 241
    Im not great with statistics but....

    member A entered the lottery for 6 shows. Didn't get any tickets.
    member B entered the lottery for 5 shows. Got in for all 5 shows.

    You keep reading things like this. Who here is good with chances and statistics? But something tells me that something like this can only happen when the 10C has like a million members. Or the lottery is not fully fair...
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,458
    edited January 2020
    Joostone said:
    Im not great with statistics but....

    member A entered the lottery for 6 shows. Didn't get any tickets.
    member B entered the lottery for 5 shows. Got in for all 5 shows.

    You keep reading things like this. Who here is good with chances and statistics? But something tells me that something like this can only happen when the 10C has like a million members. Or the lottery is not fully fair...
    Member A enters 6 GA picks with a chance of 15-25% of getting a ticket. Loosing all.

    Member B enters the lottery for seated ticks with 99 % (as in 100%) chance of tickets. gets all.

    This sounds like the talk on here when the lottery started YEARS AGO. Why haven't people been paying attention. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Sarava
    Sarava Naperville, IL Posts: 2,061
    I mean, if you picked GA only for all shows. And Toronto was your #1 pick. Odds are probably more likely of getting shut out across the board than anything else. I'm hoping you didn't pick this way?
  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    I empathize with the dread of being shutout, but to the bigger point, were these selections GA or bust?  

    I know in the past I have scratched my head on how I could win with my third or fourth priority pick (pretty consistently too, I did not get my first, second or third pick in either 2016 or 2018, and in 2013 was shutout for fall).

    But this year could not have been more clear that the odds were ever more in favor with best available.  Even so for me 2 shows were a priority so I put them one and two, even if that meant the others with risky risky odds were put 3 and 4.   Gamble, but I felt like I could either find a ticket in verified, through asks, or fan to fan on those if worst comes to worst. 

    That all being said, I hope that this is not a situation where somehow a best available got completely shutout, that seems wrong, and also impossible. 
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,214
    and here we go .... 


  • moses-i said:
    As the title says. I'm a loyal Ten Club member who once again didn't get Ten Club tickets to any shows (specifically in my town Toronto). I would like someone from the Ten Club to explain how this happened when other ppl got all four shows (and will probably get even more US dates) with a third choice Toronto pick. And it appears I'm not the only one. I'm sorry but this is ridiculous and needs be addressed! Thank you.

    To the good ppl in the Ten Club. If anyone by chance got two extra tickets for Toronto and/or Hamilton, I will be happy to take them off your hands. Thanks!


    Email tenclubsupport@ticketmaster.com with your receipt # from your entry and ask what happened
  • jefft
    jefft Posts: 678
    Did you get confirmation emails that you had put into the lottery?
  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    You obviously went GA or Bust.  You busted.  It happens every year.  The 10C doesn't owe you an explanation.  It's obvious what happened here.
  • CopperTom
    CopperTom Posts: 3,149
    Joostone said:
    Im not great with statistics but....

    member A entered the lottery for 6 shows. Didn't get any tickets.
    member B entered the lottery for 5 shows. Got in for all 5 shows.

    You keep reading things like this. Who here is good with chances and statistics? But something tells me that something like this can only happen when the 10C has like a million members. Or the lottery is not fully fair...
    Member A enters 6 GA picks with a chance of 15-25% of getting a ticket. Loosing all.

    Member B enters the lottery for seated ticks with 99 % (as in 100%) chance of tickets. gets all.

    This sounds like the talk on here when the lottery started YEARS AGO. Why haven't people been paying attention. 
    I look forward to reading a similar version of this question and a similar version of this answer over and over and over in the coming days.  The lottery is fair.  
  • buck502000
    buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    Get a burner phone.  Make a call to 10C headquarters, they will never know it was you....
  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,597
    You were only willing to accept GA tickets, yes?
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  • 1st choice Toronto BA
    2nd Choice Hamilton BA

    Shut out
  • moses-i
    moses-i Posts: 138
    edited January 2020

    Post edited by moses-i on
    if jah is the ship, we smile at the storm.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,458
    edited January 2020
    SHUT OUT AGAIN
    THANKS TENCLUB!

    SHUT OUT AGAIN
    THANKS TENCLUB!

    I WOULD LIKE
    AN EXPLANATIOOOOON!


    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • Sarava
    Sarava Naperville, IL Posts: 2,061
    1st choice Toronto BA
    2nd Choice Hamilton BA

    Shut out
    Hmm, both are 99%. Did you get the email confirming your choices? Or are you sure your CC is good? this doesn't add up. Either way, that sucks and I'm sorry :(
  • Sarava said:
    1st choice Toronto BA
    2nd Choice Hamilton BA

    Shut out
    Hmm, both are 99%. Did you get the email confirming your choices? Or are you sure your CC is good? this doesn't add up. Either way, that sucks and I'm sorry :(
    Got the confirmation email for both, read the email this morning that told me I was not selected.

    I'll still be at the shows somehow, just annoying that's all