UGH. I give up.

[RADIANCE]

Tried to get tix to NC show today. 
I logged on before noon. And it was already all double letter seats. 
I'm sorry but after seeing him on front and 4th row, I can't spend $300 for the 42nd row. 
Just not gonna do it.

Then you look at what's available and you see there's a pair of tickets on the 6th row but they are over $1000. 
I'm sorry but no one is worth that. I can take my family on a nice vacation for that amount.

Defeated.

[Annika]

All I can say is keep checking back often. I know that's the advice everyone gives, but it does work every now and then.

[jennywren]

RADIANCE wrote:

Tried to get tix to NC show today. 
I logged on before noon. And it was already all double letter seats. 
I'm sorry but after seeing him on front and 4th row, I can't spend $300 for the 42nd row. 
Just not gonna do it.

Then you look at what's available and you see there's a pair of tickets on the 6th row but they are over $1000. 
I'm sorry but no one is worth that. I can take my family on a nice vacation for that amount.

Defeated.

I feel your pain, Radiance! I was on for both pre-sales and had the same experience! I love Paul a lot, but it's getting so ridiculously expensive! Stadium shows are the worst and now we also have to contend with price gouging in the form  of the sliding scale racket that it feels its not worth the cost and aggravation.

I'll still keep checking from time to time to see if there's a ticket/price that is reasonable to me, tho. I'd hate to miss Paul. Too bad things have gotten so unfair for  the working man and woman..

[Ospreylady]

I agree with the earlier comments. In the past I paid $275 for a fourth row seat, $300 for a front row side section seat....and that won't get me anything but a nosebleed seat now . So disappointing. Platinum BS. 
so frustrating.

[sharonla]

The hot sound tickets are actually less now than they were in 2019 for California shows. But yeah, we've never been so far back for sound check before

[oobu24]

sharonla wrote:

The hot sound tickets are actually less now than they were in 2019 for California shows. But yeah, we've never been so far back for sound check before

Hpw far back with those soundcheck tickets?

[ehwalled]

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

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[janet.hjones_85511]

jennywren wrote:

RADIANCE wrote:

Tried to get tix to NC show today. 
I logged on before noon. And it was already all double letter seats. 
I'm sorry but after seeing him on front and 4th row, I can't spend $300 for the 42nd row. 
Just not gonna do it.

Then you look at what's available and you see there's a pair of tickets on the 6th row but they are over $1000. 
I'm sorry but no one is worth that. I can take my family on a nice vacation for that amount.

Defeated.

I feel your pain, Radiance! I was on for both pre-sales and had the same experience! I love Paul a lot, but it's getting so ridiculously expensive! Stadium shows are the worst and now we also have to contend with price gouging in the form  of the sliding scale racket that it feels its not worth the cost and aggravation.

I'll still keep checking from time to time to see if there's a ticket/price that is reasonable to me, tho. I'd hate to miss Paul. Too bad things have gotten so unfair for  the working man and woman..

I feel the same way.  General admission in Hollywood is $800.  I've seen the man 25+ times and have been front row and close many times. Im done.   Im not spending $800 to see him again.  

[oobu24]

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

WHOA!

[paulfan11]

oobu24 wrote:

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

WHOA!

It was just insane (and downright criminal if you ask me) the prices that were being charged during the presales today. (Tickemaster's pricing, not Paul's ticket pricing) And the prices were changing right as people were adding them into their carts to buy. Folks would see one price, add it to the cart and the price would suddenly change.

[John Mackintosh]

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

That picture is shocking and looks like what I would expect Super Bowls tickets to go for.  TM needs to be investigated by government consumer protection agencies.


[offman23]

This looks incredible to me. Never heard of this before. I'm from Italy, and as we also had problems with resellers here, we never had this kind of problems with official ticket sellers.

Prices are fixed here (e.g. with seller Ticketone, but also with others) - the first people who buy them, they got them. If you arrive later at the party, you got none. But everyone pays the same.

[Ospreylady]

John Mackintosh wrote:

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

That picture is shocking and looks like what I would expect Super Bowls tickets to go for.  TM needs to be investigated by government consumer protection agencies.


I agree that this needs to be investigated.....I guess people who got tickets were willing to pay the steep prices. Some of us just can't. Platinum prices are outrageous, and their "fees" are ridiculous. I, too, feel defeated.

[andybefc]

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k


For 20K I'd expect Paul to personally pick me up from my house, play a set list of my choosing and drop me home afterwards.

[oobu24]

andybefc wrote:

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

For 20K I'd expect Paul to personally pick me up from my house, play a set list of my choosing and drop me home afterwards.

LOL!!!!  That "setlist of my choosing" would be almost worth it!

[oobu24]

paulfan11 wrote:

oobu24 wrote:

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

WHOA!

It was just insane (and downright criminal if you ask me) the prices that were being charged during the presales today. (Tickemaster's pricing, not Paul's ticket pricing) And the prices were changing right as people were adding them into their carts to buy. Folks would see one price, add it to the cart and the price would suddenly change.

That's supply & demand to the extreme.

[love2travel]

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k


It's so sad that outright robbery is happening in front of our eyes. Paul doesn't get that money. It seems Ticketmaster is trying to steal from Paul too!!!

[thenightfish]

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k


It's TM trying to be its own scalper. It's outrageous and the worst Plat pricing I have ever seen from them.

[Yankeefan2]

oobu24 wrote:

andybefc wrote:

ehwalled wrote:

this was from today.  how does a fan be a fan when ticketmaster has the mononply, buys up tickets for fans (not scalpers, ticketmaster), flips them in minutes into "Platinum" and chrages $20,000?

Screen Shot 20k

For 20K I'd expect Paul to personally pick me up from my house, play a set list of my choosing and drop me home afterwards.

LOL!!!!  That "setlist of my choosing" would be almost worth it!

Want to place bets he would not remember how to play some of the songs you might request -lol

[TommyC909]

I saw Paul in 1976.  Row 10 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.  I still have the ticket.  Price was $10.