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BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 03:15 AM
Well knock me down with a feather! I just bought two front row tickets through the fan club presale.

Except, erm, where is the second Earls Court date?

Laura.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 04:45 AM
All dates are there now. What night did you get front row for?

Pip
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 06:26 AM
I got Newcastle, and the second Earls Court date after quite a bit of reselecting... Lindsey's side for Earls Court, which I am quite pleased about, of course. ;)

Laura.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 06:28 AM
I wonder why the US pre-sales weren't handled in the same way. It seems these seats were secured before the general sale and I'm hearing a lot of people got the first couple of rows and quite a few front rows.

Pip
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 07:56 AM
Perhaps because Ticketmaster UK as a whole has always been less crooked than Ticketmaster US? ;)

When I have bought tickets for other shows through Ticketmaster UK, most of the front row tickets actually have gone on sale right at the start... I'm thinking the reason there were so few good tickets in the beginning was because the fan club stuck by its promises and reserved some good seats for us. As much as I hate JT, I can't fault the UK presale at all... unless anyone has any horror stories they would like to share? I feel there's not enough cynicism in this thread, considering it's about the fan club. :laugh:

Laura.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 07:58 AM
LOL! I'm hearing this pre-sale has been a huge success with many people getting in the first couple of rows. And I know of quite a few front row purchases. I'm sure Todd will be patting himself on the back over this one

Pip
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 09:25 AM
Oh, I would be pleased to give him a pat on the back... just let me go and conceal a small knife in my hand first, so I can stab him in the back as he has stabbed others.

I think it's been a success because Ticketmaster UK isn't as crooked and therefore wouldn't go along with his evil plans for world domination (ha) like Ticketmaster US did. You know how us Brits get if we think we've been cheated... ;)

Laura.
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 09:47 AM
Front row for Newcastle is still there on the fan club presale.

Laura.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 10:39 AM
Originally posted by BellaDonnaGypsy
Front row for Newcastle is still there on the fan club presale.

Laura.

Looks like Saturday night at Earls Court is all sold. Still rows 2 and 3 for both the NEC shows available.

Pip
gldstwmn
08-20-2003, 11:00 AM
Congratulations to you guys. After waiting all of this time for the band to come over there and play for you, you deserve it.
glitter_fades
08-20-2003, 01:00 PM
I'm glad the fan club complaints are helping fans somewhere. A lot of you supported the screwed US fans, so you deserve it. I was just wondering...how did European fan club seats get sold? I guess I missed something after being kicked off the fan club site and being out of the club. I thought overseas fans couldn't join the fan club? When did that change? I might be wrong about that. It's been a while. If that's a recent change since adding the European tour leg, I was just wondering, who in their right mind joined after knowing what happened over here? Just curious how that all came about.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 01:06 PM
Originally posted by glitter_fades
I'm glad the fan club complaints are helping fans somewhere. A lot of you supported the screwed US fans, so you deserve it. I was just wondering...how did European fan club seats get sold? I guess I missed something after being kicked off the fan club site and being out of the club. I thought overseas fans couldn't join the fan club? When did that change? I might be wrong about that. It's been a while. If that's a recent change since adding the European tour leg, I was just wondering, who in their right mind joined after knowing what happened over here? Just curious how that all came about.
Overseas people have always been able and encouraged to join. Even before we knew that FM would come over here it was encouraged tho it was questioned what would be the point in joining. We were told that we would see behind the scenes stuff and all that most connected tour ****.

As for how the tickets were sold... the general sale started a few weeks ago now and fan club members were told that the fan club had secured 100 seats for each show. Another email then went out saying at least 15 seats were front row and the the remaining 75 were within the next 5 rows. This does seem to have been the case. And the tickets have mostly been the centre block from what I can tell. These tickets had obviously been secured before the general sale. I don't know why the same couldn't have been guranteed for the US pre-sale. I suppose there is less demand for fan club tickets in Europe so that's why so many people got lucky.

So I don't think anyone joined after what happened... these are people who joined when it all started up before all the **** started to hit the fan.

Pip
glitter_fades
08-20-2003, 01:40 PM
That makes sense, Pip. I didn't remember if you guys could join or not. Ahh ya, I'm sure they wanted you to join even if no shows were going there! Glad to hear they are trying to get Euro fans what they deserve. Now lets hope the tour goes on as scheduled.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 01:42 PM
Originally posted by glitter_fades
That makes sense, Pip. I didn't remember if you guys could join or not. Ahh ya, I'm sure they wanted you to join even if no shows were going there! Glad to hear they are trying to get Euro fans what they deserve. Now lets hope the tour goes on as scheduled.
I hear ya. My fear is it will be cancelled before it even makes it over here!

Pip
nodmod
08-20-2003, 01:49 PM
I got front row center block (AA) for the 29th as well.

and well done Pip and Laura!

:cool: :cool:
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 01:54 PM
Originally posted by nodmod
I got front row center block (AA) for the 29th as well.

and well done Pip and Laura!

:cool: :cool:

Well done Neil!

Pip
glitter_fades
08-20-2003, 02:22 PM
This proves a lot to me. See...now we're getting the correct picture you'd expect to see from a fan club with club seats for the actual members. We know all you guys even though you're in another country. You all seem to be getting tickets from this small pot of great seats. This is as it should be.

How is it...that in US cities...both large and small...hardly anyone knows the identities of fans with the best seats? Who are these great US fans always parting with their coveted front rows on eBay? With few exceptions, I've never heard of any of these fans before. None come to any Stevie or FM boards I've seen, but I must admit I'm not on many. Still, how is it I recognize the names of all the Brits sitting front row? Guess Euro fans love the band more than their PayPal accounts. You're actually sitting in the seats you bought from the club! How refreshing to hear!
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-20-2003, 03:01 PM
Originally posted by glitter_fades
This proves a lot to me. See...now we're getting the correct picture you'd expect to see from a fan club with club seats for the actual members. We know all you guys even though you're in another country. You all seem to be getting tickets from this small pot of great seats. This is as it should be.

How is it...that in US cities...both large and small...hardly anyone knows the identities of fans with the best seats? Who are these great US fans always parting with their coveted front rows on eBay? With few exceptions, I've never heard of any of these fans before. None come to any Stevie or FM boards I've seen, but I must admit I'm not on many. Still, how is it I recognize the names of all the Brits sitting front row? Guess Euro fans love the band more than their PayPal accounts. You're actually sitting in the seats you bought from the club! How refreshing to hear!
I feel really bad that this didn't happen for the US pre-sales. All I have seen is posts about the problems people have had... it has sickened me. This is why so many UK fans have already been buying tickets from ebay because there was no faith that the fan club would deliver this time. Rather shocking that it has


Pip
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-20-2003, 03:47 PM
It is wrong, isn't it? It's obvious that it's not just that the fan club have sorted out their presales... because presales in the US continue to either bring up bad tickets or just go wrong in general! I have to ask... can the blame be laid on other organisations as well as the fan club? Do Ticketmaster have a hand in it too? Or even the promoter? It's more than a little strange.

But congrats to everyone who did well in the fan club presale! The fan club has far to go in order to redeem itself... if it ever does... but this is a start, I guess. How about making it up to the fans in the US in some form or fashion, JT?

Pip is right though. It's pathetic that we were all driven straight to eBay instead of being able to trust in the knowledge that the fan club would come up with the goods. I bought quite a few of my tickets through eBay, and might have waited (and saved some cash) if I had been able to trust in one word that fan club said in the first place. I'm beginning to doubt the moron ever went to business school, otherwise he would know that having your customer's trust is one of the most important things... otherwise it ain't gonna sell.

Laura.
Livia
08-20-2003, 05:29 PM
Glitter-Fades - I believe you were thinking of the SYW pre-order CD's, that's what overseas fans couldn't get -they wouldn't ship it out of the US.

The other thing about the UK fan club is that you first had to go to Insider News on fleetwoodmac.com (using your user name & password), which then linked you to Clear Channel's UK website, where you had to register and create a user name & another password - then finally, you'd get linked to UK Ticketmaster, where you'd enter your fan club presale password. A LOT more secure then what we all know happened in the US, despite our concerns BEFORE the first pre-sale.

:wavey:
seteca
08-20-2003, 07:11 PM
Well done to all my fellow UK fans for getting such great seats!!:nod::)

Christy, Madformac and I are pretty much happy with the seats we've got from the general sale so we didn't participate in the Fan Club sale, but I'm REALLY impressed with the results you all got!! A big thumbs up to Jonathon Todd for getting his act together for the UK fans......Like everyone said, he's still got a looooooong way to go to redeem himself, but this is a very good start!

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
glitter_fades
08-20-2003, 09:04 PM
Originally posted by Livia
Glitter-Fades - I believe you were thinking of the SYW pre-order CD's, that's what overseas fans couldn't get -they wouldn't ship it out of the US.

The other thing about the UK fan club is that you first had to go to Insider News on fleetwoodmac.com (using your user name & password), which then linked you to Clear Channel's UK website, where you had to register and create a user name & another password - then finally, you'd get linked to UK Ticketmaster, where you'd enter your fan club presale password. A LOT more secure then what we all know happened in the US, despite our concerns BEFORE the first pre-sale.

:wavey:

My bad. You're right on all counts.
golddust
08-20-2003, 11:21 PM
~~~I too was very impressed with the UK fan club presale. I managed to get great seats for both London concerts. I also noticed that unlike the US there was no word you had to write before getting to buy the seats. That made it a little faster. Anyhow, I'm very excited!~~~
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-21-2003, 03:17 AM
Originally posted by Livia
Glitter-Fades - I believe you were thinking of the SYW pre-order CD's, that's what overseas fans couldn't get -they wouldn't ship it out of the US.

The other thing about the UK fan club is that you first had to go to Insider News on fleetwoodmac.com (using your user name & password), which then linked you to Clear Channel's UK website, where you had to register and create a user name & another password - then finally, you'd get linked to UK Ticketmaster, where you'd enter your fan club presale password. A LOT more secure then what we all know happened in the US, despite our concerns BEFORE the first pre-sale.

:wavey:

We could pre order SYW but we would have been charged a ridiculous $80 for shipping!!

Pip
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-21-2003, 03:18 AM
Originally posted by golddust
~~~I too was very impressed with the UK fan club presale. I managed to get great seats for both London concerts. I also noticed that unlike the US there was no word you had to write before getting to buy the seats. That made it a little faster. Anyhow, I'm very excited!~~~
Glad to hear you are coming over! Let me know if you want to meet up with the rest of us!

Pip
BellaDonnaGypsy
08-21-2003, 06:21 AM
Originally posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon
We could pre order SYW but we would have been charged a ridiculous $80 for shipping!!

No way... that's just... oh, the man is out of his mind. Wow, if it really cost $80 to post a CD I wouldn't be trading anymore.

Laura.
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-21-2003, 06:36 AM
Originally posted by BellaDonnaGypsy
No way... that's just... oh, the man is out of his mind. Wow, if it really cost $80 to post a CD I wouldn't be trading anymore.

Laura.

I know.... utterly pathetic

Pip
golddust
08-21-2003, 10:29 AM
~~~Hi Pip, My friend and I would love to meet up with you and the other die hard fans - very much looking forward to it. Thanks!!!
Gypsy-Rhiannon
08-21-2003, 10:46 AM
Originally posted by golddust
~~~Hi Pip, My friend and I would love to meet up with you and the other die hard fans - very much looking forward to it. Thanks!!!


Yay!!! Will be great to meet up with you!!!

Pip
marc402
08-22-2003, 10:38 AM
i also managed to get a ticket for the newcastle show
double exiting for me cause i have never been to the UK before :)
I'm going on my own as i can't get anyone crazy enough to join me
2 of my friends and my mom are also fans
but let's just say not such die hards as i am myself ;)

greetings marc