No credit crunch problems here
Posted by Chimney Singing Crow on 20 August 2008 - 4:59pm.
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Where do we start?
Firstly, it didn't sell out within an hour, given that I bought a ticket for Liverpool for myself mid-afternoon and one for Sheffield for a colleague at lunch time. In fact, the Liverpool confirmation didn't come through until 2:45pm - which isn't an hour in anyone's book. Mind you, that's probably because the web sites were down for most of the morning.
There's now 1,700 auctions (count 'em) on Ebay. The promoters can keep telling us that it's not time for legislation, but it feels like it to me. Especially as Ticketmaster are now linking people to their own scummy secondary market site, where tickets are changing hands for more than £150 a pop.
Indeed - what credit crisis?
You did well...
...on my computer Liverpool was being shown by See as sold out by 11:00.
What threw me was seeing Aberdeen tickets going for over £300 on eBay at a time when the official site was still showing general availability - what's that all about?
There's your mistake
Given that See's server is apparently housed in someone's garden shed and goes down if a hundred people so much as look at it askance.
Got my ticket from the arena's own website, who weren't sold out until much, much later. Same with Sheffield - got standing tickets at around half twelve, long after it was "sold out".
Hear what you say
but I was lucky(?) enough to get me and the boy sorted via See at 9:08 via constant use of the F5 key and a bit of luck.
Pity my mate's friend who actually queued up outside the venue to no avail...
Mind you, my mate's boyfriend managed to fall sufficiently foul of the See system (which appeared to keep crashing on him) to pick up 8 pairs of tickets for Liverpool by accident - which whilst having an immediate hit to his credit card, will no doubt earn eBay a bit of commission...
They'll cancel them
Given that it's a maximum of 4, they'll just cancel the last 6 pairs!
I tried See for the better part of an hour only for it to crash during the payment part. Ticketmaster, for all their faults, never seems to have this problem, but promoters still seem to use them.
I wonder
how many of these tickets have gone to corporate customers? A fair few, I suspect, given my recent gig going experiences. So whichever show you are going to, be prepared to have it ruined by hundreds of champers swigging twats in suits spending the whole show talking flipcharts and outsourcing whilst not having a fucking clue who is onstage.
Don't get me started
Don't get me started on VIP packages and the kind of wankers who inhabit them, or we'll be here all night. Especially as I try to pick off the excellent tickets they can't sell in a bundle when they give up and put them on general sale, then get sat with them. :(
When did this craze for corporate package
tickets actually start? It's the same at the footie, the absolute farce with Wembley's corporate "ring" and the swathe of empty seats at the beginning of each second half as the tossers finish off the Champers.
Surely there must be some sort of official guideline to stop the venues and agencies farming out tickets to touts and dodgy dealers and to limit the amount snapped up by corporates.
A prime example is the South Bank Centre - have you ever tried to get tickets for the Meltdown Festival for example!
It would be great if bands themselves could sell their own tickets directly via their own official web-sites.
In regards to the original post
yes I did cast doubt on whether Oasis could still sell out large venues and I have been proven wrong.
I shall go stand in the corner.