Red Mosquito

Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

Moline might be a lost cause at this point.

broken iris wrote:Moline might be a lost cause at this point.

How big is that arena? Sold out in 45 minutes?

Monkey_Driven wrote:

broken iris wrote:Moline might be a lost cause at this point.

How big is that arena? Sold out in 45 minutes?

Thought I read it holds 9000? And it probably sold out quicker than that, considering it kept me in line til 10:25 when it finally said "no matches."

I'm getting sold out now, which is more clear than "approximate wait time is.."

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

tix by mail was 4.50 on my order (moline). i don't remember it ever costing money to do that.

Had 10 people going after Moline. One got 4 in the 300's. What a mess.

AndySlash wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

tix by mail was 4.50 on my order (moline). i don't remember it ever costing money to do that.

It has been like that the past few times I've ordered concert tickets. It makes no sense. Our utility bill also charges a $5.00 charge for online payments. It is madness!

delanoche wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

broken iris wrote:Moline might be a lost cause at this point.

How big is that arena? Sold out in 45 minutes?

Thought I read it holds 9000? And it probably sold out quicker than that, considering it kept me in line til 10:25 when it finally said "no matches."

It's tiny as far as arenas go. Pearl Jam have never played in the Quad Cities and aren't playing Chicago. It's not a surprise to me at all that it sold out really fast.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:for anyone interested, i sent an email to the ten club yesterday asking about the system they are using, here is the replay i got




Tickets (Tenclub)

May 29 10:46 PM

Names are drawn first for the option that has more entries. For Lincoln GA was filled first in this case. So when GA names were pulled there were less #1 entires than tickets available, so the system automatically starts pulling #2 and so on until all tickets are sold. We hope that helps explain.

-10c

Interesting. But I still think they fill GA first regardless. They sell unfilled 10C reserved seats through TM. They don't sell unfilled 10C GA through TM.

matt reeder wrote:

delanoche wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

broken iris wrote:Moline might be a lost cause at this point.

How big is that arena? Sold out in 45 minutes?

Thought I read it holds 9000? And it probably sold out quicker than that, considering it kept me in line til 10:25 when it finally said "no matches."

It's tiny as far as arenas go. Pearl Jam have never played in the Quad Cities and aren't playing Chicago. It's not a surprise to me at all that it sold out really fast.

I would have guessed 10 minutes.

I bet that Moline show is going to be a real treat for those who got tickets.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

when did they start doing that? that used to be free (i haven't bought tix through TM in a while)

Fuck You Jobu wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

For Denver public sale, will call and mail delivery is $25.

bond wrote:

Fuck You Jobu wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

For Denver public sale, will call and mail delivery is $25.

Oh my god.

CopperTom wrote:

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:for anyone interested, i sent an email to the ten club yesterday asking about the system they are using, here is the replay i got




Tickets (Tenclub)

May 29 10:46 PM

Names are drawn first for the option that has more entries. For Lincoln GA was filled first in this case. So when GA names were pulled there were less #1 entires than tickets available, so the system automatically starts pulling #2 and so on until all tickets are sold. We hope that helps explain.

-10c

Interesting. But I still think they fill GA first regardless. They sell unfilled 10C reserved seats through TM. They don't sell unfilled 10C GA through TM.

Regardless of 10C's explanation, I have no doubt that the way I've described the drawing is how it works in practice.

Seriously: it's not guesswork and it's no conspiracy. It's not too difficult to determine how their system works if you look at what people entered for and what they ended up receiving, we went over it a great deal last year when the system was first introduced.

Unless they've changed the system this year, and I haven't seen any results yet that would suggest they have, I'm reasonably confident I'm right and 10C are not.

Needed 4 for St. Louis. I used two browsers from work, my buddy did the same from home. My wait time jumped all over the place; his let him in pretty quick. He scored me 4 in section 114, while the best I could do was 311...so I went with his. Not great, but we'll get to take the kids to their first PJ show, and all sit together.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

bond wrote:

Fuck You Jobu wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Am I the only one who thinks it is ridiculous print at home tickets have a $2.50 charge while tickets delivered standard mail are free?

For Denver public sale, will call and mail delivery is $25.

Oh my god.

I think I know why they do this. They have a thing called Flash Seats, which is free. Basically you bring your credit card/ID and they scan it at the door and the ticket prints as you go in, then you can't leave the venue and you have to enter the venue once scanned. I think it's an anti-scalping method. That way if you really want to scalp tickets, you have to pay $25 to get physical tickets (there's no print at home option). It makes sense for things like NBA/NHL games, but if you can make hundreds of dollars off concert tickets, that $25 only really serves to give the ticketing company extra money without really deterring anything.

bond wrote:I think I know why they do this. They have a thing called Flash Seats, which is free. Basically you bring your credit card/ID and they scan it at the door and the ticket prints as you go in, then you can't leave the venue and you have to enter the venue once scanned. I think it's an anti-scalping method. That way if you really want to scalp tickets, you have to pay $25 to get physical tickets (there's no print at home option). It makes sense for things like NBA/NHL games, but if you can make hundreds of dollars off concert tickets, that $25 only really serves to give the ticketing company extra money without really deterring anything.

I think there's a fallacy in the idea that the venues/bands/TM/anyone besides fans at this point really thinks scalpers are a problem. Everybody set to make money off of a ticket being sold to a fan is still making the exact same amount of money off of a scalper buying them. It sucks, but it's also the truth. I (rather cynically, I'll admit) think that most things that are interpreted by us to be deterrents to scalping are in the end just ways to make more money. Don't a significant portion of tickets go directly to "official" secondary market sites before they even go on-sale to the public as it is?