Dark Matter World Tour 2024

demetrios said:

Has anyone yet receive a temporary $1 authorization on your credit card after putting in your request?

I have a $2 google temporary hold on each card. But this happens when I enter them into any site. No temp charge from TM. 

Kiwigirlnz101 said:

While I get the ticket prices are high, I am more annoyed that you have pre register, and then you have wait in some sort of lottery like we are some sort of part time Taylor swift fan?  I mean lets face it most of us are in our 30, 40, 50's who are going to these shows.   WE just want to buy the ticket and know where we are sitting or standing.... its greed and madness 

The system they have where you go ahead and put in your requests ahead is way more efficient (when you get them) than having to block out part of your 30-50 year-old work day to deal with the Ticketmaster public on sale. 

Have you tried to buy tickets on Ticketmaster to shows that sell out right away?  That's greed and madness.  Get in queue 15 minutes before on sale.  Then sit in the queue for another 10+ minutes while a couple thousand people ahead of you try to buy their tickets.  Then you finally get to the select your seats screen and find seats you like.  At that point its usually crappy seats in upper level behind the stage or the marked up Platinum tickets.  Once you click on them, you find out someone else has already claimed them in his/her cart.  Repeat that 20+ times as you work your way down to less desirable seats.  Ticketmaster keeps adjusting their dynamic pricing as you're doing it.  When you finally do get seats in your cart you have to hope that the system isn't slowed down too much by the thousands of others doing the same thing, and that it doesn't time out before you can complete your purchase.  Imagine trying to do that to by a run of multiple shows that all go on sale at the same time with multiple devices/browsers all running.  No thanks.

I'll take my chances with this early lotto system any day over regular Ticketmaster.  10C tends to have better seats than Ticketmaster (unless you're looking for the Platinum-priced ones in the grayed out sections)

I was gonna go for just MSG and Philly, but those are obviously going to be tough to get. For those who have been, would you recommend Fenway/Boston? I've only been to arenas, etc. 

demetrios said:

Has anyone yet receive a temporary $1 authorization on your credit card after putting in your request?

Email yes, hold on card no……and it begins

HZ245969 said:

Clare Parsons said:

Here's my thoughts.  Don't @ me!

There's a lot of unhappy people here raging against the ticket cost.  I agree.  They are extortionate and over-priced.  It goes against the values that I thought PJ held dear - times have changed since the '90's!

However, that's where we are.  If people aren't happy the only way to communicate that to the band is to vote with your feet.  Send a message by not buying tickets - granted, that's difficult as we're all fans here.

Anyway, that's my tuppence worth; if you don't like it, don't buy the tickets.  That'd send a pretty clear message to PJ that something ain't right.

Thats the way i will handle it. Not easy, cause the shows are outstanding. But for me they have strayed from the right path 

Good for you!

Imagine if everyone voted with their feet... they'd surely sit up & take notice then.  

Jim Tressel said:

Maybe the tickets went up so much is because the band really really likes money like most of us? There is nothing wrong with it. Some people seems to bend over backwards coming up with other reasons why prices are so high. Inflation and others reasons play a role, but if they can charge it, they might as well maximize revenue. 

Stop justify them, please! I'll go to Barcelona (I hope both nights), but tickets prices are totally out of this world for Europe.
Why one day ticket for Mad Cool costs 100 € and for the same band we have to spent 166 € to see them in an another venue??
And this not depends by the capacity of the venue..

runstaples said:

I was gonna go for just MSG and Philly, but those are obviously going to be tough to get. For those who have been, would you recommend Fenway/Boston? I've only been to arenas, etc. 

It's a different animal altogether. In Fenway, unless you can get GA (and right near the front), you are likely looking at a screen most of time. Still a good time. Nothing wrong with overlooking a beautiful ballpark while listening to your favorite band. But nothing beats the "intimacy" of an arena show. Especially MSG and Philly.  

Intimacy in quotes because it's obviously nothing like a theater or a small club show. But after having seen 4 ballpark shows in a row, returning to an arena was heavenly. 

JackD. said:

Gravey1975 said:

CornishMan said:

I've read everything over and over and I'm still a bit confused about when seniority kicks in if you selected a ticket option that could be standing OR seated such as London & Manchester.

Obviously it is a lottery just to get into the building.  But.... assuming you win that lottery does it mean that members with the lowest 10C numbers will be automatically allocated standing, while the higher 10C numbers will be seated?

OR, is it totally random whether you get allocated seated or standing? (With your 10C number then determining how good your seats are if you're given seats).

That my friend is definitely not clear. And I don't think anybody really knows. My guess would be that it'll only kick in for seat allocation. But that's just a guess.

I had the same confusion but tried to explain it to myself with sense:

Senority doesn‘t play a role in the lottery. You win or lose depending on availability not senority.

If you won and chose „GA or Seating“ they would start giving away GA. Why? Cause it would be implausible to give away Seating if others chose only that and GA is still available. If GA is gone, people who chose „GA or Seating“ or „Only Seating“ are in the same ballot and get seats by senority once they won.

So: Draw for „GA or Seating“ > give all the winners GA > Put losers in the ballot with „Only Seating“ > draw again > give winners seats by senority

I doubt they would do two draws. If you’re selected they will give u what’s available based on your selection. Pretty simple. After that they send it over to the ten club that determine where your seats will be.

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Clare Parsons said:

Here's my thoughts.  Don't @ me!

There's a lot of unhappy people here raging against the ticket cost.  I agree.  They are extortionate and over-priced.  It goes against the values that I thought PJ held dear - times have changed since the '90's!

However, that's where we are.  If people aren't happy the only way to communicate that to the band is to vote with your feet.  Send a message by not buying tickets - granted, that's difficult as we're all fans here.

Anyway, that's my tuppence worth; if you don't like it, don't buy the tickets.  That'd send a pretty clear message to PJ that something ain't right.

I @ you

This kind of market economy-logic in relations to being a fan, and fan-to-artist relations I consider eye-rollingly narrow. Whenever it pops up.

And empirically, what made Pearl Jam one year have to record a video assuring people to do things better was not because people in some "the invisible hand" way stopped supporting them, but people openly complaining about it - and it reached a breaking point. 

The same when their former manager came on here and had to answer to their failures. Even though he didn't answer much in the end to my recollection.

One person here and one person there considering this way to expensive and "vote with their wallet" will make Pearl Jam make up that money from the rest who are still stuck with wallets big enough. This is a monopoly, and the power balance is Pearl jam above us and us fans below. And to our graces we hope that they acknowledge that, and do no exploit it (too much). There aren't two Pearl Jams to choose from and we can't pick the cheaper option - and Pearl Jam will raise the price of their album from $45 to $55 if enough people do not buy it, not lower it to 35.

Fair point.  I wholeheartedly agree.  

I guess - go to the gig if you can afford it.  don't go to the gig if you can't afford it.  

You're right, they'd make up the money from the rest who have big wallets.  I only wish I was one of them!

p.s. thanks for @'ing me!!