European Tour Sales = Desaster

pdalowsky said:

On checking London has sold pretty strongly so far. Yes the upper tier across from the stage isnt great but almost all lower level is gone, and the sides are heavily taken on tier 2. Id say thats pretty solid for a stadium show, at the prices in question and with Green day already sold out at Wembley. 

The only thing I guess we don't know is whether any rows/blocks from the sides have been held back? That's usually part of the practice with variable pricing, drip feed supply against the demand to keep it high. If the picture we're seeing is accurate, they've done very well.

PJNB said:

STATEOFLOVE59 said:

drfox said:

I still can’t understand why they think they will sell out these venues at £160 when Foo Fighters, Green Day, AC/DC and the Killers are all charging around £80-95 a ticket at exactly the same time…. Green Day is playing at Wembley the same night as PJ at Spurs for half the price. Why do they need to charge this amount when others don’t. Makes absolute no sense and the lack of sales at London, Berlin and Barcelona is to be expected. I’m going to 4 shows but I can see why lots of fans are boycotting it. 

Do you really compare GreenDay to PJ?

Like them or not they have fans they love both bands and need to make a choice for the same night

If Green Day released their tickets even before Pearl Jam announced and made people aware of their tour(?), for many it wasn't even a choice to make.

Zen23 said:

pdalowsky said:

On checking London has sold pretty strongly so far. Yes the upper tier across from the stage isnt great but almost all lower level is gone, and the sides are heavily taken on tier 2. Id say thats pretty solid for a stadium show, at the prices in question and with Green day already sold out at Wembley. 

Don't be fooled by the Ticketmaster graphic. As if they had suddenly sold the entire left and right curves in the upper tier overnight. And then with a surgically precise cut along the remaining blue dots. They've taken the outer top corners completely off sale. In order to concentrate on getting the tickets to the people in other areas first. None of this was sold at all.

They did this with Fresno in 2022 as well.

Hide how bad it is selling. Make tickets appear to be more scarce. Try to squeeze as many ticket sales at the current price point as they can then lower the price even more. This will piss people off that can't sell their tickets in the future because they won't be allowed to drop the resales price. 

Do you think they would move the date to not conflict with Green Day show?  Maybe generate more ticket sales that way.  There is a gap between shows which im sure was originally planned to add extra dates.

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJNB said:

STATEOFLOVE59 said:

drfox said:

I still can’t understand why they think they will sell out these venues at £160 when Foo Fighters, Green Day, AC/DC and the Killers are all charging around £80-95 a ticket at exactly the same time…. Green Day is playing at Wembley the same night as PJ at Spurs for half the price. Why do they need to charge this amount when others don’t. Makes absolute no sense and the lack of sales at London, Berlin and Barcelona is to be expected. I’m going to 4 shows but I can see why lots of fans are boycotting it. 

Do you really compare GreenDay to PJ?

Like them or not they have fans they love both bands and need to make a choice for the same night

If Green Day released their tickets even before Pearl Jam announced and made people aware of their tour(?), for many it wasn't even a choice to make.

True, if I didn’t read the tour comments on here I wouldn’t have kept the Manchester date free and general fans would have just seen Green Day and nothing on that weekend and bought tickets. As Green Day is sold out you had to make a quick choice to buy on the on sale date, or miss out. Even if you knew PJ were “possibly” touring around that time, it wasn’t set in stone, so possibly not a risk fans of both bands would want to take

Spiritual_Chaos said:

kaw753 said:

jimjam1982 said:

Soybeans said:

willwall said:

I’m so happy that this has backfired on them. 

Things that are ok in the US, doesn’t mean it’s ok to do here. 

Manchester is 50% sold. London is easily less than 50% sold. You reap what you sow at the end of the day.

Those saying it’s not the band and that they are entirely blameless are wrong. They’ll know what’s going on. At least Springsteen had the bottle to come out and own up to the Dynamic pricing and what he was doing. 

Can see a lot of these shows being reduced or even on offer in a few weeks time.

Is already happening. The prices for Barcelona are coming down. Barcelona uppers down $30, lowers have come down by $50.

But it's too late for many. Scanning the sad comments on the socials, it's clear that our proud Spanish PJ brothers and sisters are done. Sadly,  I have to hope these arenas remain half empty at show time. 

If its half empty the show gets cancelled. Be careful what you wish for if you have tix

If they cancel a show due to poor ticket sales because the prices are too high, you don't think the fans who have booked travel and vacation time from work might be just a bit upset? 

Pearl Jam have always survived upset fans. They know what the power balance is.

The fan/customer holds the purse strings and yet...

I would love to go to either UK show, but Manchester and Tottenham are not great for me (self employed - work commitments etc),  I had tickets in the initial draw but cancelled them before the draw was done - 2 x tickets plus hotel and food etc would set me back £500 at least.  I simply couldn't justify the expense.  I am not upset about the ticket prices - I run a pub and my overheads have more than doubled in the last couple of years.  I hate to think how much a concert/tour cost to put on these days, but it safe to assume that the costs have probably doubled too.  I am surprised that they did not do Birmingham or Milton Keynes, both are easy to get to and hotels etc would be much more reasonable than London. Probably cheaper venues to book too.  Tottenham stadium is not the easiest venue to get to, parking is crap and the tube stations aren't that close.  Wembley and the Olympic stadium are all much better connected, even Hyde park is easy to get in and out of.  As a side, the London gig will probably have Tottenham Hotspur themed merch which will be tough to shift as English football fans are not going to wear anything that looks remotely spurs like unless they support spurs.  

rangers72 said:

Better to have a Glasgow show than a second Machester show.A show at the hydro would sell out no problem and after 24 years mabye its time for Scottish show.

In terms of logistics it would just be easier for them not to move the production up north to come down south again, set it up and play two nights in the same venue....winner

pdalowsky said:

rangers72 said:

Better to have a Glasgow show than a second Machester show.A show at the hydro would sell out no problem and after 24 years mabye its time for Scottish show.

In terms of logistics it would just be easier for them not to move the production up north to come down south again, set it up and play two nights in the same venue....winner

The gap between the shows in the U.K. is odd.  Not going to happen but wouldn’t it be great if they could do a 10c only show on the Wednesday or Thursday night at a smaller venue somewhere 

rangers72 said:

Better to have a Glasgow show than a second Machester show.A show at the hydro would sell out no problem and after 24 years mabye its time for Scottish show.

Aye!