London, Birmingham, Liverpool Pre-sale thread
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Kate bush and her team seem to beat the touts or so I'm told
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I got a great ticket on the presale but then it disappeared from my cart as I was checking out. There was no clock that I could see... I think I have the worst luck concert ticket wise, except when a member of some musicians "club" has a decent presale!! Am very tired, finally got a ticket on the floor! Still feeling sad that I somehow lost the good ticket... Didin't see any A1 A2 A3 tickets ever offered for the second show in London. How does this happen? Yet they are being offered on the Ticketmaster reseller site... so much higher in price!!
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I just got a ticket for the 2nd O2 night! A2, Row H!
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Put me right on this guys , but, doesn,t this second concert somewhat devalue the resale potential of tickets yet unsold for the first O2 concert that are hitherrto held by the touts ? If so, ha ha ha ha!!! Haaaah
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love2travel:
I really like the idea of showing ID to get into a gig with a matching name. The best instance of this was for Kate Bush.... Your name was on the ticket and they were very very strict about letting you in if it didn't match, such as an email in your name connecting you to the named person on the ticket with info from them.
That is a great way to foil the touts, but you can't do it at arena or stadium shows, too many doors for entry and too many people to check; it would take hours, I think. Kate Bush played the Apollo - smaller audience and only a few doors to check. Cat Stevens did a small US tour last fall and he insisted on having paperless tickets - no name needed to be checked, just the credit card swipes. He was only playing theaters. New York State does not allow paperless ticketing for concerts, so when he found that out, he cancelled his NY show rather than have paper tickets available for that concert. Paul could at least offer paperless tickets for at least the better seats, as Springsteen has done, but apparently chooses not to.
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I want to add another thing: Sale for these UK gigs were able through TicketBastard, SeeTickets, AXS, the local venues itself... All different systems with different chances: none of these mentioned on the McCartney web site. Fans start 1-0 behind in the run to obtain tickets.
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We were asked for ID at his 100 Club gig. Some touts still got away with it as they sold one of the tickets and brought the buyer for the other ticket in with them. I was asked for ID and credit card etc at a Radiohead gig in 2012 (tickets were not sent out either and they had to be collected), again at a Damon Albarn gig and George Ezra gig. So it is possible. I think the problem is that once you buy the tickets you can't get a refund if you genuinely can't go and I guess people found out that way too about how much some tickets can be worth on the resale market.
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I regreat to have lost so much time on Saturday. It was easier this morning. 3 tickets for the 23rd gig at 10.10 ! May I say that the Saturday presale was quite useless ?
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french let it be:
I regreat to have lost so much time on Saturday. It was easier this morning. 3 tickets for the 23rd gig at 10.10 ! May I say that the Saturday presale was quite useless ?
Totally agree, i had a rubbish stress filled weekend and yet this morning i got all the tickets i wanted and good ones as well, will no stress!
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The beeb:
Put me right on this guys , but, doesn,t this second concert somewhat devalue the resale potential of tickets yet unsold for the first O2 concert that are hitherrto held by the touts ? If so, ha ha ha ha!!! Haaaah
No not really, because fans that coulodnt get tickets for first night will buy a tout ticket, because it is first night of UK Tour, because they want to go to all the shows or because they can only go that date, so doesnt really affect the touts that much
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Hi everyone We got tickets for London from Saturday's presale, is there anyone having an idea, when the tickets could be sent? Some people say that the tickets are usually delivered about a month before a gig, it sound horrible to me