Re: Tour complaints -- brokers, scalping, etc. (merged)
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Originally Posted by Peanut's Parents
The problem with online brokers, I have, is that they use this program, like a virus, to suck up all the newly sold tickets to all and any concert and/or event the second they go on sale. Not allowing the fans to buy the good seats at the time they are put on sale. Same as the Hannan Monanta shit that spread the headline news.
I got tickets for TOOL in Tulsa, Floor Seat, SEC A, Row S, for face value, and some online broker is selling the same tickets for 250 each, that's fucking stupid. TOOL get only a percentage of what the face value sold. They get nothing from online broker sales. That all profit to them.
I was online the second they went on sale and still had to wait in an online waiting room. That was when the broker was sucking up tickets. When i got on, the best available was row 17.
I say give the fans a chance to buy good seats at face value. I don't want to pay 350 for front row seat to any show if i could have gotten them cheaper if it were fair.
Right on man! My buddy and I got on right when they went on sale as well and he pulled up a ticket in sec A I can not remember the row but it wasnt by any means close to front row. I pulled up sec D Row A seat 1 so I took it. Oh what was up with not knowing the sec. when we bought the tickets it just said "floor"? When I pulled up Sec Floor Row A Seat 1 I just about shit my pants thinking I got front row seats haha. Then later to find out i'm in D which I'm fine with, however, your right the brokers have the inside track...bullshit
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Originally Posted by Kody27
You are all fools. Brokers and scalpers aren't what make the tickets so expensive. As a matter of fact, without a good number of scalpers and brokers, it would be much MUCH harder to even come across tickets to TOOL at a reasonable price. Think about it, the more scalpers there are, the more SUPPLIERS. The price doesn't raise because there are more suppliers, the price raises because of the DEMAND. Thanks to scalpers, they have to compete with one another to sell them for the cheapest, as opposed to there being only one ticket supplier with a monopoly over the entire ticket sales industry, almost i.e. Ticket Master. Does no one see this? If there were no scalpers or brokers, all the tickets would immediately sell out anyway to all the loving fans, and then the other fans would be left out with no way of getting tickets except through someone they know, therefore decreasing the supply and the chances of going to the greatest show on Earth.
This may be the dumbest thing I've ever read. Finish reading Economics for Dummies before you post.
"Think about it, the more scalpers there are, the more SUPPLIERS. The price doesn't raise because there are more suppliers, the price raises because of the DEMAND."
Duh. The only real market for the tickets is people who want to attend the show. There's a finite amount of the commodity from the get-go, and scalpers and brokers enhance that by increasing scarcity, and reducing supply in the general market. Then they inflate the prices without contributing any new value whatsoever to meet the artificially enhanced demand.
Scalpers create artificial scarcity by hoarding the commodity, thereby artificially increasing demand. Just because their hoarding of the commodity enables them to then supply the commodity to meet the artificial, secondary demand (at inflated prices, without having added value), it does not follow that they're doing anyone any favors.
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anyone know of any other cancellations on the current tour??
it seems as if missoula was cancelled, then the next few shows would postponed also?
maybe this question, should go in general tour questions?
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Re: Tour complaints -- brokers, scalping, etc. (merged)
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Originally Posted by Sprry75
This may be the dumbest thing I've ever read. Finish reading Economics for Dummies before you post.
"Think about it, the more scalpers there are, the more SUPPLIERS. The price doesn't raise because there are more suppliers, the price raises because of the DEMAND."
Duh. The only real market for the tickets is people who want to attend the show. There's a finite amount of the commodity from the get-go, and scalpers and brokers enhance that by increasing scarcity, and reducing supply in the general market. Then they inflate the prices without contributing any new value whatsoever to meet the artificially enhanced demand.
Scalpers create artificial scarcity by hoarding the commodity, thereby artificially increasing demand. Just because their hoarding of the commodity enables them to then supply the commodity to meet the artificial, secondary demand (at inflated prices, without having added value), it does not follow that they're doing anyone any favors.
I totally I agree with you. The ONLY thing a Scalper is good for is getting really good seats. It is more possible to get great seats from a scalper than it is in the general market. I say that because in the general market the person who was lucky enough to get the great seats are not going to sell those seats while the scalper will.
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hey everyone. it's my first post here but i am a very long time tool fan. and after reading some threads this seems like a cool environment in which to discuss tool.
i have thought long and hard over the way in which tickets sales are handled these days. specifically with tool, as tool tickets constitute nearly all of my highest costing concert tickets ever purchased. i have come up with an idea that keeps all interested parties of ticket sales in the picture other than some of the the scalpers for the better seats at concerts. i am not sure if there are any legal sanctions i may not know of but i think it is realistic with enough effort by the bands. the bands need to literally take control of chunks of good seats themselves. the bands that generally have the biggest scalping issues in terms of price are the more popular, usually extremely wealthy bands. bands of this nature could literally become one these online brokers and as a gesture of thanks to the fans could sell chunks of tickets they purchase to the fans at a price that has little or no additional fees added to the bands overall cost of those tickets.
i am curious to see what everyone thinks of this and whether there is some unforseen obstacle that i am missing that would prohibit this idea or one similar to it working in at least some small way.
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personally i think that would be a great idea.i was fortunate enough to get my ticks for van show in august 06 from ticketmaster $80 each.when they came back around on mini tour i was too late and had to get ticks on ebay,two ticks=$400,was glad to see them again but im far from wealthy and cant really afford that for a night out.your idea would let fans like me who need to TRAVEL in order to see more shows spend more on the travel part instead of the ticket part.
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i ended up getting tickets from stubhub...costed me around 430...plus i am bussing it from NYC to OH two people that is an extra 300 and a hotel for the night....the amount of money i am spending will not be wasted. Introducing the love of your life to her favorite band is indeed priceless.
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Originally Posted by hbynoe
i ended up getting tickets from stubhub...costed me around 430...plus i am bussing it from NYC to OH two people that is an extra 300 and a hotel for the night....the amount of money i am spending will not be wasted. Introducing the love of your life to her favorite band is indeed priceless.
That sucks really bad that you had to fork over money to scalpers. Hopefully you get a real good show enjoy it!
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Originally Posted by Ganjalf
That sucks really bad that you had to fork over money to scalpers. Hopefully you get a real good show enjoy it!
especially since now that a lot of people are being disappointed in the shows and there seems to be a really large drop in price on ebay,at least for the shows I've looked at.There seems to be way less people bidding,and for much less.I'm watching a few shows auctions though to see what the final price is gonna be,might be more than I think,but I hope not,as I will maybe be able to afford to go to Charlotte too.
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Originally Posted by Ganjalf
That sucks really bad that you had to fork over money to scalpers. Hopefully you get a real good show enjoy it!
yeah the scalping part sucks but i aint complaining since I really thought they were going to do a show closer that wasn't a festival. I held out for to long alas i really dont care about the set list issues, I saw them 6 times on the 10,000 days tour and it was just so beautiful that i cant wait to relive and experience it with such a significant person in my life.
Not sure about other venues, but two venues I can think of locally, the Hollywood Bowl and the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, have subscription seats where the buyer gets tickets or at least rights to purchase tickets for ALL events. There is a good chance that the broker in question either a) owns the subscription to the seats and then re-sells at a premium, or b) purchases the seats from the subscriber through a third party and then re-sells them. I used to work for a ticket broker making deliveries and that's how it was explained to me.
I agree with this post. As far as i understand it local brokers have accounts with the venues and recieve pre-sale offers in bulk. chances are that they havent been purchased yet by the broker, but they know they will have them eventually so they are able put them online in advance. then "we" are forced to pay much more for the better seats. so either pout and pony up the coin or fight the power and sit in sec 480 row 30. argh. dbags.
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Before I go writing or calling Ticketmaster and the ATT center in San Antonio I thought I'd see if any of you guys had any thoughts on this.....
Tickets for recent Tool show in San Antonio went on sale exactly at 10am several weeks ago (I don't remember the exact date and it's not important). I logged into the venue's website exactly at 10am the first day of sale. I put in the required info for the site to find 6 tickets best seats available. It generated seats at half court mid way up. I thought what the hell??? I am on at the exact moment these tickets are going on sale and these are the best available??? Bought them anyway. A friend of mine needed 4 tickets but had no internet connection at the time. So, at 10:15 am I went through the same routine on the venue's website look for 4 best available seats. It found some way up in the balcony near the last row.
So, this would make one would assume that in 15 minutes the venue nearly sold out to the point that only cheap nose bleed seats were available.
Was there a pre-sale? Surely, they don't block off that many tickets for the online ticket brokers do they? Anyone else have this experience or an explanation? Thanks....
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Originally Posted by hooker
Before I go writing or calling Ticketmaster and the ATT center in San Antonio I thought I'd see if any of you guys had any thoughts on this.....
Tickets for recent Tool show in San Antonio went on sale exactly at 10am several weeks ago (I don't remember the exact date and it's not important). I logged into the venue's website exactly at 10am the first day of sale. I put in the required info for the site to find 6 tickets best seats available. It generated seats at half court mid way up. I thought what the hell??? I am on at the exact moment these tickets are going on sale and these are the best available??? Bought them anyway. A friend of mine needed 4 tickets but had no internet connection at the time. So, at 10:15 am I went through the same routine on the venue's website look for 4 best available seats. It found some way up in the balcony near the last row.
So, this would make one would assume that in 15 minutes the venue nearly sold out to the point that only cheap nose bleed seats were available.
Was there a pre-sale? Surely, they don't block off that many tickets for the online ticket brokers do they? Anyone else have this experience or an explanation? Thanks....
i know they do that and another thing is tickets sell fast at smaller venues since anyone in the world with internet access can buy tickets from ticketmaster no matter what. so imagine a million tool fans trying to buy tickets for just one show, its gonna be havok trying to get a pair where you wish to sit..and brokers suck, they ruin alot of the shows in dallas, but good thing i got presale access to anyone show in the country(usa). i hope tmaster and livenation merge, that way they do what they did when ac.dc rolled around dallas, electronic ticketing, meaning you had to come up to the door with the id and cc used to purchase the tickets, therefore that made no tickets available to those scruny scalpers. hahahah
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Originally Posted by manny214
i know they do that and another thing is tickets sell fast at smaller venues since anyone in the world with internet access can buy tickets from ticketmaster no matter what. so imagine a million tool fans trying to buy tickets for just one show, its gonna be havok trying to get a pair where you wish to sit..and brokers suck, they ruin alot of the shows in dallas, but good thing i got presale access to anyone show in the country(usa). i hope tmaster and livenation merge, that way they do what they did when ac.dc rolled around dallas, electronic ticketing, meaning you had to come up to the door with the id and cc used to purchase the tickets, therefore that made no tickets available to those scruny scalpers. hahahah
presale??? how did you get access to presale tickets for this tour?
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Originally Posted by hooker
presale??? how did you get access to presale tickets for this tour?
are you serious? the tour is half over.... anyways, presales are a thing of the past...blair led us to believe there would be some for this tour but we got nothing.... and pomona doesnt count cuz that was through a radio station not the band... but if there are ever presales again, you will have to be a member of toolarmy
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Dude on the radio here in Tampa just said "Should have some new Tool for you in October" after they played Ænema. Why must they bullshit me like this? :(
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Not sure where to find an answer to my question, and this place can be very labyrinthine, but any word on if this is all for the summer? Any talk of a second leg?
I am guessing most of us are in the "know," as in we're Tool fans and don't know shit about what they're up to! :-)
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I tried to get tickets for the NOLA show on Ticketmaster and they were gone in 45 min. I was so pissed. Immediately searched other sites and found tickets that were just $75 going for $125 to over $200! There was NO way I was going to miss this show so, I ended up paying the $200 per ticket for floor row 10 seats. I don’t regret it at all but, it sucks that all of those sites are making a killing off of the real fans.
Dr. Dobbs: how in the hell did you get you tickets? I would like some advice for next tour. You must have been online right when they went on sale. I know some people who were online when they went on sale and still couldn’t get one though. You are so lucky!
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Originally Posted by CaSandra251
I tried to get tickets for the NOLA show on Ticketmaster and they were gone in 45 min. I was so pissed. Immediately searched other sites and found tickets that were just $75 going for $125 to over $200! There was NO way I was going to miss this show so, I ended up paying the $200 per ticket for floor row 10 seats. I don’t regret it at all but, it sucks that all of those sites are making a killing off of the real fans.
Dr. Dobbs: how in the hell did you get you tickets? I would like some advice for next tour. You must have been online right when they went on sale. I know some people who were online when they went on sale and still couldn’t get one though. You are so lucky!
yeah, ticketbasturd was no less of an asshole this year. i went to buy my houston ticket 30 MINUETS after they went on sale, and they kept trying to give me the shittiest seats in the venue. i went through seven shitty tickets before it gave me a decent seat. the same day one of my friends got tickets for her and 3 others and could only get the back section on the side. and of course, the scalper websites were loaded with primo seats. fast forward to the day of the concert. i convinced that there was no way in hell i was going to let him miss that show, so he went on the interweb ticket searching. minuets later, he pulls up seats better than mine on the ticket website!! they hold the best tickets and release them as the concert gets closer, causing the people who planned ahead and woke up to get shitty tickets, while the people who heard about it on the radio the day before get awesome seats.
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Hopefully the mods won't think this is too off-topic, but enugh of us have gotten smacked up by TicketMaster over the years, especially for three, four, five or more Tool tours. Hopefully that will all end soon, today I received notice of a class action against TM for rape^H^H^H^Hcharging excessive fees.
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Originally Posted by voltaic
Hopefully the mods won't think this is too off-topic, but enugh of us have gotten smacked up by TicketMaster over the years, especially for three, four, five or more Tool tours. Hopefully that will all end soon, today I received notice of a class action against TM for rape^H^H^H^Hcharging excessive fees.
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I neeeeeeeed a Reno ticket. Please let me know if you can hook it up!
Also, why the fuck are they doing a tour right now anyway? Did the banks turn Down their production finance application?
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This will be my 11th and 12th Tool show fuckers. I Have bought tickets in advance 3 times (1 was Coachella 06). Chill the fuck out. It has been 5 years since they put out an album. The casual radio fan won't be attending this time around. Have some faith in your fellow Tool fans, and karma will take care of you.
Thanks, interesting site, never heard of it til now..... anyone use this before, looks handy? Those ticket sites I always felt weary about ordering off of, well, except StubHub, and I notice Gruvr uses 4 ticket sites as their source and wonder why Stub Hub isn't one of them? I only heard of 1 of those 4 sites (TicketsNow)
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My biggest TOOL tour complaint is that California didn't even get a fucking spring 2012 tour date when they're finally throwing in some fucking songs that I would like to hear fucking live again...HWAP, Pushit, Parabola...
But we get fucking Puscifer dates...
Thanks a heap TOOL. And anyone that criticizes me for complaining about this that did get a spring 2012 tour date can go fuck their moms.
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Originally Posted by whoremoans
My biggest TOOL tour complaint is that California didn't even get a fucking spring 2012 tour date when they're finally throwing in some fucking songs that I would like to hear fucking live again...HWAP, Pushit, Parabola...
But we get fucking Puscifer dates...
Thanks a heap TOOL. And anyone that criticizes me for complaining about this that did get a spring 2012 tour date can go fuck their moms.