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24FPS
Hey Mister DDDD, I told you not to feel sorry for me. It was more of a warning for others who might be pulled into this. And there was no mention of opening previously unsold sections. If they'd wanted to sell those for $85, and let everyone know they were crap seats, they should have. I'm doing this as a public service to others. Talk about ungrateful.
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24FPS
I hope enough people get to see this before it's incorporated into another thread. I got seats day of the LA show with high hopes that maybe my $85 dollar ticket wouldn't be in the PIT, or on the floor, but at least it would be a decent seat and would have to be better than those crappy $150 seats. WRONG.
We snaked along in a Disney type line for well over an hour just to get the tickets. And the line was a hell of a lot longer behind me than when we got in it. We got into a little inside info talk with one of the people working there and they told us these tickets went on sale because 2,500 had gone un-sold and that they just blasted out these tickets. We even asked her why they printed GA5 PIT on every ticket, giving some people the impression they were getting PIT tickets. She said that's just something they print on them.
We FINALLY got our tickets. They were letting everyone with $85 ducats in on the lower level, which got me more excited. We got past security and I couldn't stand it any longer. I opened our envelope and my heart sank. Section 322, row 10......LIMITED VIEW. Thankfully the person with me had agreed to the adventure and the gamble and so my fast approaching headache wasn't that bad. But it got worse when we got up to our seats. They were, and I have been going to concerts since 1966, the absolute worst seats I have ever seen for a concert.
Not only were they limited view of the stage (We could only see Chuck Leavell, a little bit of Ronnie, and Mick when he moved around). There was a screen on the stage, and get this, our view was so bad we couldn't even see the screen. I got to talking to a lot of disappointed people in that section, thinking some of them had paid $150, but that was not true. Everyone I spoke to had bought an $85 ticket. It became apparent that these laughably bad seats were the result of them opening up a previously not put on the market section for the suckers rushing in to buy $85 seats.
I always try to make a situation better. There was an unsold section next to us behind the stage. We went over there so we could at least see the screen, even though the image was reversed, with Ronnie on the right, etc. We were though only a couple numbers before the cruel bastard ushers made us move! They wouldn't even let us sit in even crappier seats! And you can't imagine how bad the sound was back there.
Look, I don't expect anyone to feel sorry for me. Believe me, we got up after a while and carved a place to watch the show, finally finding good open seats for the magnificent encore. And the concert was fantastic. But if you take anything from this, don't think an $85 ticket could anything more than an $85 ticket, the worst seat in the house. Don't gamble on impressing a date. You could get screwed. I'm a big boy, but I felt really bad for a people who ended up being nothing but suckers for AEG.
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flacnvinyl
I appreciate you bringing this up. The promotion did not state that they were going to open up new terrible seats. This makes me heavily reconsider the Chicago shows I am planning on attending..
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24FPS
Hey Mister DDDD, I told you not to feel sorry for me. It was more of a warning for others who might be pulled into this. And there was no mention of opening previously unsold sections. If they'd wanted to sell those for $85, and let everyone know they were crap seats, they should have. I'm doing this as a public service to others. Talk about ungrateful.
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24FPS
Hey Mister DDDD, I told you not to feel sorry for me. It was more of a warning for others who might be pulled into this. And there was no mention of opening previously unsold sections. If they'd wanted to sell those for $85, and let everyone know they were crap seats, they should have. I'm doing this as a public service to others. Talk about ungrateful.
Not "feeling sorry" for you at all. Quite the opposite.
The only potential legitimate complaint (I say potential because I don't find anywhere near a "rip off" was the "pit designation on your ticket.
Of course, with the slightest bit of effort, you would have been aware
that most all $85 tix were given that designation.
The seats next to you cost $150 + fees. You got in the bldg for half that.
I think hat you really should be saying to the Stones and the Promoters is.. "Thank You".
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NoCode0680
There's a guy over on the Pearl Jam message board who says his friend got the $85 tickets and was sitting in the $600 seat section.
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oldschool
How can anyone complain about $ 85 tickets ? We all knew the risks when we bought them yes?
Anybody who expected better then the worst nosebleeds when they bought the $85 tickets should not have bought them to begin with as there was no guarantee you would get anything better.
I have $85 tix to both Boston shows and if I get good seats great but if not then I will do as MKC suggested and go hunting.
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Dan
I can sympathize for sure. Having been in the upper deck at Staples, they are not worth $85. Or even $50 for that matter. I have never paid more than $22 for an upper deck ticket and even that seems like a ripoff.
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Dan
I can sympathize for sure. Having been in the upper deck at Staples, they are not worth $85. Or even $50 for that matter. I have never paid more than $22 for an upper deck ticket and even that seems like a ripoff.
Which begs the question.... why the hell did they ever even build those seats? Has anyone, ever, attending any event, sitting in those shitty seats, ever been happy one time? Has anyone ever honestly "just been happy to be there?"