Wow! I am SO GLAD I didn't end up using Stubhub! Not the first time I've heard shady stories and happenings with buying tickets online.
My friend and I had been talking about the Mac tour since we first heard it announced but see I have extremely unpredictable health and end up hospitalized A LOT not to mention being on disability and having particularly expensive medications and treatments I can rarely make ends meet even. So we waited. A long time. And I also hated what was available on ticketmaster by that time. But we did luck out! I was stressing out so bad too because I'd never been to the venue my concert was held at either so I was so scared of getting crappy seats. Then I finally learned about disabled seating! And luckily this particular venue holds onto said seating (I think its up to the venue but after a point they do have the right to offer the accessible seating to anyone...) The best part of accessible seating? NO FEES!!! Granted if you're not in a wheelchair like my friend you're stuck on a folding chair but while I'm not exactly confined to a wheelchair myself I use one and need one for this kind of event and its downright dangerous for me to be climbing stairs and all. The funniest thing? We had the cheapest tickets possible at $49.50 and no fees. Yet we were closer to the stage than the vast majority of people. We did have a side view and I was warned about that but we were running late and accidently ended up in the wrong spit at once. We were in the $99 accessible seating area. Its dead center but waaaay back. So out cheap seats were way better! It was really awesome! I need to get my photos up on Flikr or something so I can show you exactly how good our seats were!
And get this? We ended up buying out tickets only hours before the concert! I was sick and throwing up that morning and my friend didnt think we should go but I said even if I ended up in the hospital (which I didn't!) the next day, its FLEETWOOD MAC! And so worth it. So we scored awesome seats the day of the show. It was way cheaper and probably way better than we ever could've done on stubhub anyhow.
I'm also telling this story because I've heard terrible stories where scalpers buy out the accessible seats. I actually saw tickets right next to where we were on sale on Craigslist. In fact I should check my ticket because I honestly think I saw someone on Craigslist trying to sell the very seat I had! How screwy is that? Granted it all worked out and I saw that listing days after the concert so looks like no one took them up on it. Its sad when scalpers buy the accessible seats because then someone who really needs those seats can't go to the concert. I sure couldn't have gone (especially being as sick as I was that very day) without having an accessible seat. And while I can and did stand part of the show I also really had to sit down and was so grateful that even when I sat I had no one standing in my way. Its the first concert I've been able to go to in the several years I've been very ill. So I'm really glad it all worked out.
And just wow! My friend and I repeatedly looked at Stubhub ourselves so I'm just so, so thankful we didn't end up going that route! Just wow. I can't even imagine.
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