I have some extra tickets to a big-name event happening tonight. I’ve listed them on the secondary market, and have been watching the sales over the past few hours. DESPITE listing my SEATS (which are located in the middle of the covered pavillion) at a price that is LOWER than the lawn seats (which are far beyond the “nose bleed” section, in fact, they’re OUTSIDE the amphitheater, these morons keep buying lawn seats!!! What the fock? If you want to go out and sit on the lawn, leaving your nice, confirmed, COVERED, seats empty, go for it, you morons. Damn, people are stupid.:smack:
Covered isn’t inherently better. Is it supposed to be a nice night? Besides, I like lawn seats. The lawn is a party.
Yes, but my tickets are CHEAPER than the lawn seats, and ANYONE with a ticket can sit on the lawn!
Ah. In that case, they are indeed idiots. Carry on.
Maybe they’re weary about buying from a crazy person.
I picked up tickets at will-call once. They were from a friend with the record company and were three rows back from the stage. I was supposed to get two tickets, but there were 4 in the envelope.
I walked over to the line where people were waiting to buy tickets and looked for a couple who I wouldn’t mind having seated next to me. I walked up and asked if they wanted two tickets. They looked at the tickets and their eyes lit up. Then they asked how much. I told them they were free. They looked at each other and became uneasy, thinking they were gonna get cheated.
I eventually convinced them there was no scam, but it wasn’t easy. Made me wish I had just thrown out the tickets.
perhaps. Except the tickets all pass through a third-party, are available for immediate download, and are guaranteed or they get 150% of their money back .
no, these are just morons.
Well if we’re just griping about concert ticket annoyances, allow me.
A few months ago I bought tickets online for Steely Dan who will be here in less than a month.
I was on the site literally the moment the tickets went on sale and naturally chose the ‘Best available’ option for the seats I wanted.
So what might they be?
Right center, about half-way back.
Couldn’t even get seats in the center section.
And I’m sorry, I can’t imagine there were that many Steely Dan fans logged in at the same time to scoop up all of those seats.
I thought measures had been put in place to reduce the role of the second-hand ticket sleaze-meisters but to that end, I call bullshit.
Oh well, still looking forward to the show.
Cool. If you can find out the name of the great jazz instrumental that they open the show with, please come back and post it here, okay?
Wait. Are you going to be attending the “Aja” concert, or the “Everybody’s Favorite Hits” concert? The one I’m talking about is the “Aja” concert.
That’s a sad feature of human nature - a year ago, perhaps, I got tickets to Monticello (ETA - that’s not a band, it’s Thomas Jeffferson’s house) a day before we went. Four of them. Then my aunt and cousin didn’t go, so I had two tickets, AIRC $35 apiece - not chump change. I tried to give them away and nobody would take them.. Seriously! Finally, FINALLY I give them to somebody who just wants an earlier slot and she insists on paying me! So I ostentatiously, where she can see me (since I told her I would) put the cash in the donation slot.
And just last month we had “tickets”, by which I mean a free timeslot, at the Holocaust Museum in DC. We saw the side exhibits but didn’t have the time to wait until our time for the main one, so we tried to give them away to people waiting in line. What the hell is the possible scam? How fast is your waterslide to hell if you’re offering some kind of tainted tickets to the Holocaust Museum?
I learned long ago to not waste time with craigslist or StubHub or any of the other secondary markets.
If the event is sold out or expected to be, just sell them at the venue. As long as you’re a specific distance away from the gate the venue doesn’t care IME, and as soon as the gates open there will be buyers everywhere.
I had a couple of extra Tom Petty tickets a couple years back and went the craigslist route. A guy emailed me and we agreed on a price and traded info so we could meet up at the venue and complete our transaction. I waited for the guy for 30 minutes after the opening act went on stage, all the while fielding his calls that he was “right around the corner” and “in the parking lot now,” meanwhile I was continually watching a stream of people walking around holding fingers up indicating they were in the market for tickets. I would have just dumped my tickets on some of these people but I gave this guy my word and he did eventually show up, but lesson learned: just sell them at the venue. Probably get a better price, too.
Sorry about the hi-jack.
We saw them last November at DAR Constitution Hall (Washington DC) and they did the Aja set which was great.
This one isn’t designated so the set list should be wide open.
Can’t remember the name of the jazz number but I remember Fagen giving the name. I think it he might have said it was by Basie. It wasn’t East St. Louis Toodle-oo which they used one year to open after intermission.
O.K. sorry about the hi-jack and I won’t Do It Again.
You just don’t get it. There are usually pre-sales for big shows for fan club members or American Express card holders or members of the VIP club of the venue and a few other things. I go to a lot of concerts and know my way around these things as do a lot of savvy concert goers. All you really need to know though is the date and time of the pre-sale and the secret password. This had little to do with scalpers.
Well, darn, you folks are talking about odd behavior without lots of crazy. Sadly, I can’t help with the crazy. Sometimes our biker club gets a job doing security for concerts. We all look at as a moment to wear cool t-shirts and fondle our pepperspray.
While there is some crazy at younger concerts, the ones we “protect” never have as much as someone lighting a cigarette inside. According to the 50+ guys, us kids don’t know how to have fun.
Huh?
You know, if it’s about information that I want, hijacking doesn’t enter into it.
It is/was a common thing at a Dead show. While there was a lot of scalping and face-value selling going on, scads of extras were just given away. I’ve Miracled lots of happy Deadheads (a few times with some pretty choice tickets) and been Miracled myself a handful of times. Both are a great feeling.
(I Need a Miraclewith Bransford Marsalis and Bruce Hornsby)
It wasn’t at Wolftrap, was it?
Alright dude, if you say so. I don’t go to that many concerts so it’s far from my area of expertise.
I don’t recall seeing anything on the group’s site about a pre-sale when the tour was announced. I didn’t go to the venue’s web page and I guess I should have. For what it’s worth, the concert site does not go through Ticket Master.
BUT, I still somewhat doubt that there remain that many devoted Steely Dan fans who came in and scooped up all of the good seats during the pre-sale.
Then a quick internet search revealed that sites like Vivid and bargainseatsonline, have lots and lots of tickets to sell many of which appear better than the ones I have. “fan club members” my ass.
I think that this is it. People generally have a hard time accepting that other people might just be kind or generous. They want to know what your “angle” is.
I had that at a Nats game recently. A proper double header, and our seats were awesome, but we could only go to the first game. So on the way out, there was this guy who was taking his young sun to the game going back up towards the nosebleeds, and I tried to give him our tickets so he could sit in our seats for the second game. He looked at me as if I was insane.