30th Anniversary Shows

@silkbandanas wrote:

Disappointing that the Toronto shows involve pre-sales (Amex holders then North American resident Livenation subscribers) before the fans get a chance at the “good” seats. Making the trip from Scotland for these ones to celebrate our own 30th anniversary (wedding).

I see the scalpers are already doing business on Ebay and only 4 times the face value!

I agree. Generally speaking, I think pre-sales suck. Many of the tickets seem to ultimately end up in the hands of scalpers as opposed to actual fans. The only “legit” pre-sale, IMHO, is one that is open to fans only; how to regulate that is the challenge, however.

Tom

With the addition of a 9/18 show in Mpls

Any idea where the show is in Mpls? Or when tickets might be available? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In regards to the Chicago shows, my brother lives in the area, and his thoughts on the Park West venue are:

“The Park West is a great venue. Really not a bad seat in the place. Has more of a supper club layout, meaning the floor terraces up, and is wider rather than longer. It is in Lincoln Park, which is a nice area.”

In regards to the Chicago shows, my brother lives in the area, and his thoughts on the Park West venue are:

“The Park West is a great venue. Really not a bad seat in the place. Has more of a supper club layout, meaning the floor terraces up, and is wider rather than longer. It is in Lincoln Park, which is a nice area.”

Are there seats there? I was under the impression it was GA.

I can’t decide which one I’d prefer for the Lu shows. Normally I would say GA all the way, but since I have to work and then drive 2.5 hours to get there, reserved seats would give me a better chance to get close…

Well, I just (finally) got my tickets to all three NYC shows, but I must say,

LIVE NATION SUCKS!!!!!

Tickets went on sale at 10:00 AM EDT. Sure enough, at 10:00 AM on the dot, the links for each of the individual shows, as well as the “3 Day Discount” option, at Live Nation went “live”. However, each time I selected the “3 Day Discount”, I received a “Sorry! A System Error Has Occurred!” message. I tried repeatedly for 10 minutes, getting the error message over and over. Finally, in frustration & desperation, I purchased each of the three individual nights separately out of fear that the shows would sell out before Live Nation would fix the problem.

Then, when selecting the individual nights, I (luckily) noticed that, two different times, Live Nation changed the nights on me!!! 👿 👿 That is, for example, I’d select the link for the Sunday night show (after having already purchased Saturday night – completing the transaction totally), but the Web site would place 2 tickets for Saturday night’s show in my cart. The same thing happened when I tried to buy Monday tickets – it gave me Sunday instead. Each time I had to reject the tickets and try it again. Luckily, in both cases, the second time worked, and I finally had all my tickets – 2 each for each of the three nights – after, however, paying a total of $75 IN FEES!

So, did anyone get the “3 Day Discount”? How much did I get screwed out of?

Tom

@paul_from_losangeles wrote:

So far, I have not purchased any NYC tickets (I may prefer Chicago), but to answer tntracy, I did get the 3-day discount screen to work. The price is 99.99 + 17 = 116.99. However, the 3-day discount delivery specifies as Will Call only. This compares to individual tickets as 3 x (39.50+12.50) = 156, with the individual tix allowing “Print at Home” and “US Mail” for free.

Perhaps, the 3-day “Will Call” is to discourage resales. I wonder what happens if a 3-day person skips the first show, and arrives at “Will Call” for the second show.

Note that Live Nation supposedly offers ‘No Service Fee Wednesday’, but by Wednesday, the shows might sell-out.

Thanks, Paul. Yeah, I just tried it, and now it works. So, I spent a total of $312 for the individual shows, vs. $234 (what I would have paid for two 3 day passes). 👿 👿 👿

Interesting about the 3 day passes being limited to will call. There is a definite benefit to me to get the hard tickets mailed to me (e.g., if anything should come up preventing our traveling to NYC, at least I call sell them on eBay) as opposed to being limited to will call, but I’m not sure it is worth $78… 😯

Tom

@LWjetta wrote:

couldn’t get decent seats on -line so I took 1/2 hour off work and went to the Ticketmaster/Live Nation outlet.
I now have two tickets for both nights in Row B Left orchestra ( 2nd row from the stage ) Yahoo!

Well, that is pretty crappy, too, IMHO. One would think that both online sales & physical outlet sales would be able to pull from the same database – after all, we live in a uber-connected world, correct? So, why couldn’t you have gotten those second row seats online? Makes me wonder about the times I have gotten tickets online for reserved seat shows before – could I have gotten better seats by going to a physical outlet? ❓

Tom