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gtrplyr
My wife occasionally works for a venue that uses Ticketmaster so she's familiar with their ticketing software. Basically, she said this situation seems as follows...
Let's say they have 1,000 tickets for the $85 price. What they do is place a hold on that amount of tickets and create a completely separate "show" in the system for that block of tickets. This is also why they were on their own page and not part of the dropdown menu on the general on-sale.
That being said, for the separate "show" that has been created, all the TM system knows is how many tickets are available, not where the seats are. As far as its concerned, its a block of GA tickets (and by GA I dont mean PIT).
Therefore, the section/row/seat that is showing for your tickets really is just a placeholder and does not correspond with any particular section of seating.
There are a few different ways they can determine the seats. It could be completely random, it could be first-com, first-serve for the "best" seats. Most likely, it will be completely random.
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Cliff notes:
The seat locations showing on our receipts are absolutely nothing more than placeholders.
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
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flacnvinyl
....Honestly I wish they had this policy for the whole dang show......
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
Then buy regular priced tickets, problem solved.
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
Then buy regular priced tickets, problem solved.
LOL Max, I really love your easy solutions
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
Then buy regular priced tickets, problem solved.
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
Then buy regular priced tickets, problem solved.
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R
So, are we to assume that since the links to the $85 specials remain open that the gods will release some more from time to time? I keep checking for Chicago.
Hope springs eternal.
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rockdoc8885
I apologize if someone already posted this info earlier. Here is my question: For the Citibank presale, are all price ranges available? Or, is the $85 price saved for the general sale?
I understand why the $85 tickets should be saved for the general sale. I plan to try for the presale through Citibank. I guess if I am fortunate to score tickets I can always try to score two more on the general sale and sell the others. Curious to see if anyone who purchased tickets to the other shows had an opportunity to buythe cheap seats during the Citibank presale/
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So, are we to assume that since the links to the $85 specials remain open that the gods will release some more from time to time? I keep checking for Chicago.
Hope springs eternal.
Actually I just got a refund for my two tickets to June 3rd.. So yes, you will find tickets trickle out. I'd keep checking if I were you. Pure luck at this point, but who knows... They might release another wave of seats if all the $600 seats do not sell out.
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GumbootCloggeroo
That is the dumbest ticketing policy I have ever heard. A strict two ticket per household? So, if you're a father and both of your sons are hardcore Stones fans, you have to pick only one of them to go with you? Absolutely ridiculous. I don't believe it for a second.
Then buy regular priced tickets, problem solved.
Then again, some people can not be made happy no matter what.
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Grison
Once you have the tickets in hand, you will be escorted into the arena.
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Grison
Once you have the tickets in hand, you will be escorted into the arena.
Wow, so nowadays, "scoring" a normally priced ticket means jumping right into the middle of a James Bond movie. I am sure Al-Kaida will be happy once they get to know that the CIA will be busy taikng care of the secret maneuvres around The Rolling Stones shows this summer.
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dcba
"Always complain, never rejoice" the new board motto?
If I were located in the US I'd jump at the opp. to see them one last time for 85 bucks. Just sayin'...
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sjs12
Sad to say that they have to take these measures. Cheap tickets meant to say thank you to loyal fans would otherwise be bought up by scalpers and sold for thousands.
I wonder if the first few rows will all be $85?