Thanks for the explanation - that's surely frustrating. The problem is that pre-sale through crowdsurge doesn't give you print at home option, so I might just wait for the general sale directly with the venue. Is the area near the arena ok enough safety-wise to camp out from the night before? The GA show I did was Atlanta 2010 where the pre-sale tickets were supposed to give you an hour earlier entry - at same time as VIPs. Some camped out, I got there 4am day of the show. So it was about 12 hours in full sun and humid 100 degree weather (37 ish centigrades). At 4pm people started cutting in front of us. Some talked to security, there was jeering and pushing and people linked arms since we'd been chatting all day long. Horrendous organization! So there was no early entry for pre-sale, just a mad dash of fans down a slopping grass field to make it to the front.
nobodytoldme:
Ok, ready for that can of worms? It's very unlikely you will get any organizational issues for an event in The Netherlands, but with general admission standing, and without the tickets in hand before you go to the venue, I would never be too relaxed on it. Really, go for e-tickets, that's just the default option over here anyway. Print at home, go to the venue in all calmness, join the "queue" whenever you want for the spot you want. After this I finally found a place, at a side, it must have been at 30 rows back, crammed in between heads, the lights went off and 'Magical Mystery Tour' started. If they would have just either sent off the tickets or open the box office before the doors opened, I would have been front row. The view:
From this moment on I forgot about everything, and I must have been in heaven when he dropped 'Come And Get It' and 'The Word' on us like it was nothing. But still... I've seen countless of festivals, pub gigs, venue gigs, arena gigs, stadium gigs, sports events and what all not from Australia to Europe to North America and back, but I never was shocked in this way. And we had to PAY for this! Like said, this won't ever, ever happen in The Netherlands. But never Will Call/box office pick up for me every again (outside my own country).