It's something that needs to happen. If Tsurt can't provide this option then it's time to find a new vendor who can. Watching long lines of people reach your merch stands only to be turned away because what they want is sold out is not maximizing profits.
That dude has made PJ a mint. He isn't going anywhere. As long as people are still lining up for stuff and making the band money it isn't going to change.
Last few tours I did not sit in the merch lines outside, used to love it too.
And they could/should/would be making more. That's the point. Maximize your profits AND get your aging fanbase out of the streets and the elements. It's win/win.
Aging fanbase also reminds me I twisted my ankle in Pittsburgh walking along the merch line. That wasn't fun.
On the other hand, apropos aging, I ordered lunch from doordash when I was sitting in the GA line. My eyesight is obviously shit because I clicked twice on something and got delivered two lunches. So my poor eyesight ended up benefitting other people in the line with the extra lunch.
It's something that needs to happen. If Tsurt can't provide this option then it's time to find a new vendor who can. Watching long lines of people reach your merch stands only to be turned away because what they want is sold out is not maximizing profits.
That dude has made PJ a mint. He isn't going anywhere. As long as people are still lining up for stuff and making the band money it isn't going to change.
Last few tours I did not sit in the merch lines outside, used to love it too.
And they could/should/would be making more. That's the point. Maximize your profits AND get your aging fanbase out of the streets and the elements. It's win/win.
Aging fanbase also reminds me I twisted my ankle in Pittsburgh walking along the merch line. That wasn't fun.
On the other hand, apropos aging, I ordered lunch from doordash when I was sitting in the GA line. My eyesight is obviously shit because I clicked twice on something and got delivered two lunches. So my poor eyesight ended up benefitting other people in the line with the extra lunch.
Thanks for that, btw. It was delicious 😁
It was super filling. No need to eat for the rest of the day. I think the restaurant is called Moodz, for the Pitts locals.
Things could be reordered, reprinted, restocked. Presales could gauge needed inventory. Limited items needn't be limited.
The Pearl Jam secondary market is a goldmine for flippers because of the scarcity of certain items and the time it takes to acquire them. It doesn't need to be that way. Pearl Jam could be selling more and making more.
I wonder if folks would drop out of collecting if there wasn’t any scarcity to some of it. Flippers obviously would scale back. Maybe not since already an ingrained behavior.
They can clear out thousands of posters, shirts, stickers, buttons, tokens, dog leashes, skateboards, whatever else they decide in a couple hours - no picking, packing, shipping, lost packages, damaged posters. It’s just easier this way. Any leftovers get dumped in mystery boxes. Rinse and repeat every few years. It’s an efficient operation
We don’t get seniority, we don’t get a single, we don’t get a t-shirt. I think the occasional tour merch preorder or priority seems like a reasonable trade off. I used to get better tickets with postcards. Now we have less shows and more bot competition. Throw us a bone. I’d pay $45 a year for the ability to not burn a personal day at work to gamble my time in a merch line a half day’s drive away.
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And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Talk about a double kick to the nutsack. Getting shut out on tickets means you get no merch either. Haha
Fuck
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Talk about a double kick to the nutsack. Getting shut out on tickets means you get no merch either. Haha
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Talk about a double kick to the nutsack. Getting shut out on tickets means you get no merch either. Haha
Fuck
Could someone please order me one token?
Hahaha
Take me piece by piece..... Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Being a 10C member should be enough.
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And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Talk about a double kick to the nutsack. Getting shut out on tickets means you get no merch either. Haha
Fuck
Could someone please order me one token?
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And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Being a 10C member should be enough.
Which brings us back to flippers & bots....
Yeah it is often discussed as if it's some external issue but baby it's the guys standing next to you at the show
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Being a 10C member should be enough.
Which brings us back to flippers & bots....
Yeah it is often discussed as if it's some external issue but baby it's the guys standing next to you at the show
Yup.
No matter what system they implement, there will always be people scamming. It's inevitable. Same w/ the tickets.
I'd probably have a stronger opinion on this if they went back to playing TD Garden or Mansfield and I had to deal with merch at those places. The Fenway early merch days have been so clutch.
And the limited items would sell out in .001 seconds to the fastest bots. No thank you.
Only open to ten club ticket holders, problem easily solved
It would need to be much easier to get Ten Club tickets for me to endorse. Double whammy if you get shut out in the lottery, know you have to scrap for tickets, then watch everyone else having merch shipped to their door, too.
Being a 10C member should be enough.
Which brings us back to flippers & bots....
Yeah it is often discussed as if it's some external issue but baby it's the guys standing next to you at the show
And the guys here in the forum who ask "does anybody know when the (fill in the blank) poster goes on sale in the shop?".
We don’t get seniority, we don’t get a single, we don’t get a t-shirt. I think the occasional tour merch preorder or priority seems like a reasonable trade off. I used to get better tickets with postcards. Now we have less shows and more bot competition. Throw us a bone. I’d pay $45 a year for the ability to not burn a personal day at work to gamble my time in a merch line a half day’s drive away.
We do get the occasional Tshirt (not free of course) that isn't available to the non 10C crowd.
The shirt that Jeff designed, the black Tshirt with the security camera, Easy Street records shirt, etc.
I wasn't a huge fan of the Pitt shirts or posters so nothing for me this year. I wouldn't mind a token and sticker but I'll get them from ebay if I feel the need.
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We don’t get seniority, we don’t get a single, we don’t get a t-shirt. I think the occasional tour merch preorder or priority seems like a reasonable trade off. I used to get better tickets with postcards. Now we have less shows and more bot competition. Throw us a bone. I’d pay $45 a year for the ability to not burn a personal day at work to gamble my time in a merch line a half day’s drive away.
We do get the occasional Tshirt (not free of course) that isn't available to the non 10C crowd.
The shirt that Jeff designed, the black Tshirt with the security camera, Easy Street records shirt, etc.
I wasn't a huge fan of the Pitt shirts or posters so nothing for me this year. I wouldn't mind a token and sticker but I'll get them from ebay if I feel the need.
Agreed on the PIT shirts... ez-pass... I really thought we were going to get a PJ themed terrible towel. I did like the 2025 Dark Matter Tour pull over hoodie. Thankfully they had an abundance of those. After N2 I was able to walk right up to a merch stand on the 100 level and get one ez-pz.
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Question for the folks who are more knowledgeable about this than I am: Couldn't you double or triple the amount of tour posters, and if they don't sell out, continue to offer them on the pearl jam site like they do now? If they're worried about left over stock from increased production, just do a yearly xmas mystery poster bundle sale (or whatever)? That way the flippers would be pissed about their returns diminishing since the product is readily available, and everyone could get the posters they want for their collection.
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I don't think there's nearly enough motivation for the band to change things up from this current model.
Expanding the 10C operation & adding to the warehouse staff probably isn't something they're looking to do at this point in their existence.
I don't think they would need to Expand their 10c Operation unless they decide to do it from there. I think a Company in Australia handled all the Operating of the Website and Supplying the Merchandise even thought the Tees were branded Paul McCartney. I wish McCartney's Merch Crew would get together with Pearl Jams Merch Crew. It must make more money for everyone except for us as were are spending more. lol
Things could be reordered, reprinted, restocked. Presales could gauge needed inventory. Limited items needn't be limited.
The Pearl Jam secondary market is a goldmine for flippers because of the scarcity of certain items and the time it takes to acquire them. It doesn't need to be that way. Pearl Jam could be selling more and making more.
Exactly! You would expect it eventually run out but whilst it was there it would continue to turn over, Fans are always wishing that they got this or that. It would be so good. I know how good it could be.
I wonder if folks would drop out of collecting if there wasn’t any scarcity to some of it. Flippers obviously would scale back. Maybe not since already an ingrained behavior.
I wonder if folks would drop out of collecting if there wasn’t any scarcity to some of it. Flippers obviously would scale back. Maybe not since already an ingrained behavior.
I don't reckon. Fans always want everything. Although I guess some want to have items that others don't but for Tour Merch you probably wouldn't be expected limited stuff even though that's what seems to happen more often than not these Days.
They can clear out thousands of posters, shirts, stickers, buttons, tokens, dog leashes, skateboards, whatever else they decide in a couple hours - no picking, packing, shipping, lost packages, damaged posters. It’s just easier this way. Any leftovers get dumped in mystery boxes. Rinse and repeat every few years. It’s an efficient operation
Yeah but they could be selling more and they would. People that are handling and shipping merch to the venues would now be shipping also to Fans directly. It would be like a pop up shop online for the Tour Period. Believe me it would be great!
We don’t get seniority, we don’t get a single, we don’t get a t-shirt. I think the occasional tour merch preorder or priority seems like a reasonable trade off. I used to get better tickets with postcards. Now we have less shows and more bot competition. Throw us a bone. I’d pay $45 a year for the ability to not burn a personal day at work to gamble my time in a merch line a half day’s drive away.
The Seniority and the Single was a good thing. This would be a great Bonus for Everyone.
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Expanding the 10C operation & adding to the warehouse staff probably isn't something they're looking to do at this point in their existence.
The Pearl Jam secondary market is a goldmine for flippers because of the scarcity of certain items and the time it takes to acquire them. It doesn't need to be that way. Pearl Jam could be selling more and making more.
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Getting shut out on tickets means you get no merch either. Haha
Fuck
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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No matter what system they implement, there will always be people scamming. It's inevitable. Same w/ the tickets.
The shirt that Jeff designed, the black Tshirt with the security camera, Easy Street records shirt, etc.
I wasn't a huge fan of the Pitt shirts or posters so nothing for me this year. I wouldn't mind a token and sticker but I'll get them from ebay if I feel the need.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
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2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
I did like the 2025 Dark Matter Tour pull over hoodie. Thankfully they had an abundance of those. After N2 I was able to walk right up to a merch stand on the 100 level and get one ez-pz.
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I think a Company in Australia handled all the Operating of the Website and Supplying the Merchandise even thought the Tees were branded Paul McCartney.
I wish McCartney's Merch Crew would get together with Pearl Jams Merch Crew.
It must make more money for everyone except for us as were are spending more. lol
You would expect it eventually run out but whilst it was there it would continue to turn over,
Fans are always wishing that they got this or that.
It would be so good.
I know how good it could be.
Fans always want everything.
Although I guess some want to have items that others don't but for Tour Merch you probably wouldn't be expected limited stuff even though that's what seems to happen more often than not these Days.
People that are handling and shipping merch to the venues would now be shipping also to Fans directly.
It would be like a pop up shop online for the Tour Period.
Believe me it would be great!