Anyone getting good seats for public sale?

Lauren · #1 01-26-2009, 12:42 PM

I am so frustrated. I checked the Denver presales and best I found was 18th row so I waited until today for public. I've been online for 45 min and best was 17th row that popped up once. Grrr...sorry but for $150 a ticket (not including taxes and such) I want a better seat. Should I keep trying or just give up at this point? I just want ONE ticket! It was never this hard in past years.

EveryHour · #2 01-26-2009, 02:20 PM

I'm in the exact same boat this morning. Presales sucked, and I never pulled up anything better for the regular onsale than Row 16. I eventually broke down and bought one around there on the aisle, hoping that will at least give me better chances of weasling my way up. This was after a solid hour of both me and a friend trying for tickets from the second they went onsale. Then, you check the Ticketmaster Marketplace.........I like how Ticketmaster has now basically created a their own store for legal scalping. Checking there and Ebay, anything 8th Row and closer is going for around $1,000 apiece. I am trying really hard to just focus on the show, but I am really turned off by the corporate-ness of it all right now. I know we all get sick of venting about this, since it is out of our control, and I know this issue has always been a part of the music business. I just think it's shocking how much worse it's gotten in the past few years.........meaning it wasn't like this for me with the SYW Tour. I went to four shows and had 6th, 7th or 8th Row seats every time and I simply bought them online at the onsale.

Villavic · #3 01-26-2009, 03:08 PM

I finally got a row A in sector 16 (according to a picture I found, it's like row 40 on floor section, Dallas AA Center), after looking for presales the whole week. So frustrating cause they only accepted credit cards with US billing address

But on friday they opened in ticketmaster through Livenation and they accepted my credit card, getting the seat I mentioned.

Just in case I checked this morning the public sales and the best available sucks. Just middle seats far up in the right or left sides.

Lauren · #4 01-26-2009, 03:48 PM

hey guys (Hi Villavic!)

ok, glad it's not me. I guess am spoiled cause like you said, for the SYW tour I got 6th row by getting in quickly when they went onsale and for the 2nd leg of that I got 2nd row thru the fan club or a presale- can't recall. That 2nd row turned into 1st row and was my BEST show yet. I just feel for the cost of the ticket I just want a good seat. I'd be totally ok (well not ok but feel better) sitting in the 17th row if tix were half the price.

I'll keep checking in case a good seat pops up and yes, I saw that ticketmaster Marketplace- the prices are NUTS?????

My husband said he'd get me a ticket for Mother's Day (the show here is on Mother's Day) but unless something in row 10 or above comes up I will be sitting this one out.

I just wonder where all the good seats are? even for Lindsey's solo tour this last round I did presale and public and best I got was 7th row and I got on right away. Last time he toured I got 2nd and 1st row (sold my 2nd)- again am spoiled but it seems HARDER to get the good seats now.

estranged4life · #5 01-26-2009, 03:56 PM

I've been messing around to see what is available for the May 3rd Tulsa show through the public sale, nothing spectacular has showed up so I am happy with the seat I bought through the pre-sale last Friday.

carol7lynn · #6 01-26-2009, 07:14 PM

Why, oh why, do they persist in having general ticket sales during the work week when every scalper in America is on-line snapping up all the best seats right out from under us.

I refuse to take the day off anymore and/or risk losing my job trying to sneak on-line only to be jammed up by professional ticket brokers. I bet if you check their inventory in the next day or so you will see where the good seats went.

Me, I'm waiting on ticket drops. We will see in late February if the MAC is going to drop tickets like they did for their last tour. I suggest that you monitor ticket sales for the first leg of the tour right up until close of sale for each of the shows like I'm going to do to see if there is a pattern or not. Stay tuned!

Carol-Lynn
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