A friend of mine had heard an advertisement on the radio for a website that allowed it’s patrons to get tickets to a sold out concert. At the time he thought that would have been a pretty cool thing to keep handy, but of course, as if following the book of Murphy, failed to copy down the web address.
We are now scampering to try and get tickets to the sold out RUSH show that is occurring at Jone’s Beach in Long Island, NY, on Mon., July 15. We tried E-Bay, but all of the tix available there were being auctioned for exorbanantly high prices.
Does anybody have any information regarding such a website as the one described above? Or, does anyone have any idea what other mediums I could go through to get some tickets to this sold out RUSH show???
Thanks again! I think I’ll insert the “deer in the headlights guy here”…:eek:
It was probably ticketmagic.com. They’re the ones I usually hear advertising in this area. But they’re not cheap, because they’re scalpers.
It sounds like you want tickets to a sold-out show, and don’t want to pay a lot of money, which is just not quite logical. And I don’t really think those ebay prices are exorbitant, especially compared to what a real scalper charges. You can do “Buy it Now” and get 2 tickets for $135 in this auction for instance. Ticketmagic wants $129 each for those seats.
There are lots of online ticket agencies (basically scalpers) that can get you tickets to just about any show on earth, for a price. Do a search on yahoo or google and lots of stuff will show up. If you look at their seat selection pages you’ll find out that some of them use the same backend database and are all just differing front ends.
I bought some tickets for “The Producers” on Broadway earlier this year. Even though the shows were sold out for 8 months in advance, you could get seats at every show, provided you were willing to pay up to 10x the face value.
Don’t know about the other agencies, but the one I used had a mailing address in Canada, presumable to avoid any local scalping laws.
Get a press pass.
Not as hard as you might think.
Just find a sympathetic editor at any ol’ rag, or put forth an honest proposal for a concert review to your local paper.
Once you get the credentials, you call the place (Jones Beach) and ask who is in charge of press.
Granted, this won’t get you and 5 buddies into the concert, but you might be able to sneak in a friend as a photographer - and who knows, get to meet the group.
(Note: This does not always work, but when you are desperate…and make sure your “photgrapher” friend does not bring a Kodak throw-away camera…)
Another way to get in is to get to know the people in Production…lighting, sets, sound, mgmt. - whatever. A little late for that now, but might be a good idea to start making friends in that area, so next time you can go into the venue to “research” or assist in production.
Last, but not least, go the night of the concert with a sign that offers $100 ticket (or “I’ll pay double what you paid!”).
A lot of people show up who find they have extra ticket(s) due to friends illness or whatever, and some people need the 100 bucks and don’t really want to see the concert that badly anyway. When you do this, stand FAR from the entry gate, so there is no danger of someone else getting to that person first. As far as I know, there is nothing illegal about OFFERING more money for the tickets. You might even get lucky and get the extra ticket(s) free, or at cost, by and honest fan. (It happens, really!)
Yeah something like that. One time I went to a baseball game & there were guys walking around
the parking lot asking me if I wanted to sell my tickets. THey were going to resell them near the gate.