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Tongue pit at $600 or $1500? I don't think I've read about anyone getting a pit at the $600 face value so far? Having had a blast in the pit at the O2 on the 25th, if I was in the US I don't think I'd have a problem buying a pit ticket for $600...

A pity Ticketmaster doesn't have the same functionality as Eventim, where you actually can see how many and which tickets are sold.

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A pity Ticketmaster doesn't have the same functionality as Eventim, where you actually can see how many and which tickets are sold.

They do.
They call it their "INTERACTIVE SEAT MAP"
It's only used for certain events and certain performers.
So far I haven't been able to figure out when, or why, it's used...
Anyone else have any insight on this one?

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sales are strong

as is love

you know what i am talking about

yes indeed!

you go girl! (or boy!)

While it would be disappointing for the Stones to play to empty seats, I hope they assign the $85 seats before they discount some of the expensive seats.

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While it would be disappointing for the Stones to play to empty seats, I hope they assign the $85 seats before they discount some of the expensive seats.

They won't. Its very clear that they aren't saying what the $85 seats are until you get to the venue. Thats literally the entire gimmick of those tickets. If they assign seats, scalpers can get them or you can sell them for way more than you paid for them.

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Boston tongue pit available 2 minutes ago.

Tongue pit at $600 or $1500? I don't think I've read about anyone getting a pit at the $600 face value so far? Having had a blast in the pit at the O2 on the 25th, if I was in the US I don't think I'd have a problem buying a pit ticket for $600...

As far as I know, no one has picked up a tongue pit ticket for 600.00 for any show in the US in 2013. Floor and lower tier Las Vegas seats are 780.00 or so with charges.

~"Love is Strong"~

The tour starts next week and not one North American date is sold out. Surely that is a first for the Stones and a very telling sign they overpriced the tickets?

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The tour starts next week and not one North American date is sold out. Surely that is a first for the Stones and a very telling sign they overpriced the tickets?

Not that I cared that much, but why did Jagger make jokes about it at every one of the shows last year. It was very clear they were overpriced and then he rubbed it in everyone's face. I thought it was funny, but I also didn't shell out the money. If I had, it kind of made him sound like a dick. "Concert tickets cost... well I don't want to go there. But you paid it!"

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The tour starts next week and not one North American date is sold out.

I'm sure they'll think of some way to fill the empty seats.





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The tour starts next week and not one North American date is sold out. Surely that is a first for the Stones and a very telling sign they overpriced the tickets?

Not that I cared that much, but why did Jagger make jokes about it at every one of the shows last year. It was very clear they were overpriced and then he rubbed it in everyone's face. I thought it was funny, but I also didn't shell out the money. If I had, it kind of made him sound like a dick. "Concert tickets cost... well I don't want to go there. But you paid it!"

On all of the bootlegs there is a collective groan when he made those comments. A groan among the audience of 'yes, we know you are killing us, and we're still taking it'. They are laughing to the bank with these prices. The first performance will tell us everything we need to know about the lottery seats. If the majority of these seats end up at the rear of the arena, people will likely think twice about taking the risk. If they end up all over the arena, the party will continue.

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The tour starts next week and not one North American date is sold out. Surely that is a first for the Stones and a very telling sign they overpriced the tickets?

Not that I cared that much, but why did Jagger make jokes about it at every one of the shows last year. It was very clear they were overpriced and then he rubbed it in everyone's face. I thought it was funny, but I also didn't shell out the money. If I had, it kind of made him sound like a dick. "Concert tickets cost... well I don't want to go there. But you paid it!"

On all of the bootlegs there is a collective groan when he made those comments. A groan among the audience of 'yes, we know you are killing us, and we're still taking it'. They are laughing to the bank with these prices. The first performance will tell us everything we need to know about the lottery seats. If the majority of these seats end up at the rear of the arena, people will likely think twice about taking the risk. If they end up all over the arena, the party will continue.

i always figured that part of being a rolling stones fan included coming to terms with the fact that these are not nice people, and not letting that preclude one from enjoying their music.

Traditionally in the entertainment business making top dollar is a goal to reach for...it says "I...We are the BEST."

I remember as a young girl seeing Frank Sinatra...Elvis Presley etc. in Las Vegas.
Hundreds of people creating a long, long line through the casinos waving multi-hundred dollar bills at the Maitre D' who would pocket their money and find them space when he could. This was and continues to be success at the top!

Tom Cruise...and numerous films greats through the past thirty years...have been paid ludicrous amounts of money to sign up to star in a film.

The Rolling Stones have been amazingly successful in the entertainment BUSINESS...
If you had the talent and public appeal, would you really do it differently?

I wouldn't pay $600 for a ticket if I had more pressing needs. And I do.
But for those of you who managed to get the $85 tickets you got a real deal!
I don't begrudge the Stones and I don't begrudge the fans who have great tickets.
I look forward to hearing about the gigs from those who are there.

It's all about choices and budget realities. It always has been.

16th row center floor seats still available for San Jose

16th row isn't quite 16th row with the pit there, but that's still a pretty good seat. They've clearly misjudged the Northern CA market.

So just to compare with last years figures. The amount of tickets on the secondary market are more or less the same. I checked "only" Pit prices and except for HP Pavillion San Jose they are all above the $1'500 Vip thing.
Unlike in London where ticket sales are strongly surveyed on front of 02 I do not know how that works in the US. I could imagine that the last tickets will be sold on the day of the event for a handful of bucks.
But do not forget that this was already the case in 1982 at least in Europe. I got a ticket for free in Basel in 1982, unfortunately I had one.
And in 2005 you could score good seats at a regular or little less face value in front of all Westcoast Shows I have been to.

I do agree I wouldn't call it a successful sell-out tour. But what the heck. They are here they are on and deliver a great set of music.
Perhaps I am low profile in that matter. But I do not need more and I am thankful for being able to share concert history since the seventies and still there's is one more shot today

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Boston tongue pit available 2 minutes ago.

Tongue pit at $600 or $1500? I don't think I've read about anyone getting a pit at the $600 face value so far? Having had a blast in the pit at the O2 on the 25th, if I was in the US I don't think I'd have a problem buying a pit ticket for $600...

As far as I know, no one has picked up a tongue pit ticket for 600.00 for any show in the US in 2013. Floor and lower tier Las Vegas seats are 780.00 or so with charges.

Thanks, so in 2013 the "tongue pit tickets" are really "VIP Tickets"...not very nice of them is it! In these conditions I can't imagine that there will be too many $85 tickets in there...I wonder if the fans who have access to Shelley Lazar's "band tickets" were able to get pit tickets at $600 or if they had to pay the full face value as they normally do.



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Boston tongue pit available 2 minutes ago.

Tongue pit at $600 or $1500? I don't think I've read about anyone getting a pit at the $600 face value so far? Having had a blast in the pit at the O2 on the 25th, if I was in the US I don't think I'd have a problem buying a pit ticket for $600...

As far as I know, no one has picked up a tongue pit ticket for 600.00 for any show in the US in 2013. Floor and lower tier Las Vegas seats are 780.00 or so with charges.

Thanks, so in 2013 the "tongue pit tickets" are really "VIP Tickets"...not very nice of them is it! In these conditions I can't imagine that there will be too many $85 tickets in there...I wonder if the fans who have access to Shelley Lazar's "band tickets" were able to get pit tickets at $600 or if they had to pay the full face value as they normally do.

Full face value.

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Boston tongue pit available 2 minutes ago.

Tongue pit at $600 or $1500? I don't think I've read about anyone getting a pit at the $600 face value so far? Having had a blast in the pit at the O2 on the 25th, if I was in the US I don't think I'd have a problem buying a pit ticket for $600...

As far as I know, no one has picked up a tongue pit ticket for 600.00 for any show in the US in 2013. Floor and lower tier Las Vegas seats are 780.00 or so with charges.

Thanks, so in 2013 the "tongue pit tickets" are really "VIP Tickets"...not very nice of them is it! In these conditions I can't imagine that there will be too many $85 tickets in there...I wonder if the fans who have access to Shelley Lazar's "band tickets" were able to get pit tickets at $600 or if they had to pay the full face value as they normally do.

Full face value.

Wow, that's rough, so I guess it confirms that the face value of the "pit tickets" is in fact $1500 and that they just added some useless stuff that I won't even bother looking up to try to turn them into "VIP Packages". There were several "super fans" in the front of the pit at the O2 (and at most of the other 2012 shows I believe) who had gotten their tickets via Shelley Lazar, asking them to pay $1500 per show, wow...Adding insult to injury there's no "reward" in having access to these "band tickets" since I believe all the shows still have pit packages available. In effect the Stones are fleecing their most dedicated fans or pricing them out of the best seats, shameful...

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....since I believe all the shows still have pit packages available. In effect the Stones are fleecing their most dedicated fans or pricing them out of the best seats, shameful...

Check it our the VIP Tongue Thing is only available in small numbers in 2nd Boston and Anaheim. Rest is sold or via secondary markets. I do not always know what is shameful. Creating the Chance with the 85$ to gambole for a Pit or back in the Roof or to pay and be first. The times are over that I am willing to wait outside the night before the gates open. But I do respect the ones who like that. Still it might be a Justin Bieber Thing (sorry or what ever..) but there are many People who also would dare to see the Stones upfront, but perhaps have Walking disabilities or what ever. They might scratch all the bucks together just to get that once in a life time Chance. And they have it now. Experienced such at 02 myself. It's all the Point of view. And mind you if the Rolling Stones would Charge less, you wouldn't be able to grap a cheap ticket either or only a very Little amount of fans and the rest would go via agencies again.

Yeah but why not charge $600 for the "Tongue Pit" like they did in 2012? What's changed since to justify an x2.5 bump? It seems most people who were in the pit got the VIP deal (three course dinner, nothing like it this time), got "band tickets" via Shelley Lazar or bought on the secondary market at prices ranging from £350 to...£1000+, but there were people like me who got lucky with FV tickets. Glad I was in the Bay Area two weeks too early and didn't have to agonize over going or not and what tickets to get.

I agree that the $85 "lottery" is not great either and so far people are hoping they will get good seats, even the pit, not sure how that will play out...could the other way very quickly if there are more "horror stories" than "happy stories", honestly I can't see too many "pit tickets" being given out with everyone else in there at $1500 a pop...5 like at the O2 on the 25th with the monkey upgrade...or 10 since they are sold in pairs, more I'd be surprised.

Fleecing the biggest fans, dunno, kinda leaves a bad taste...

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I agree that the $85 "lottery" is not great either and so far people are hoping they will get good seats, even the pit, not sure how that will play out...

I don't know about that...most people I know are just thankful to be in the house at 1/2 the price of the lowest priced regular ticket, myself included.
Sure there are hopes of getting a great seat (or even in the pit), but I'm being realistic by expecting the worst with the slim possibility of being gifted a great seat.
At $85 you can't really go wrong with these expectations.

Even if I was hell bent on getting a pit ticket, I would have to pass on the official/over-priced tickets (non-$85's) due to the ridiculous prices they're asking.
Then again, I've been there and done that with the Stones several times (at much more lower prices), so the urgency to get up close isn't as strong as it may have been in the past.
I'm just happy to be there for $85, and as Keith would say: "it's good to be here...it's good to be anywhere"....even if it's in the basement!

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$85 just to get in is fine. You can't go wrong there. the rest of it....pffft.

I also opted for the lowest price tickets. I have seen them on every tour since 1975 usually several times per tour. I have been front row at least five times by just working my way up the through the crowd (which is almost impossible these days). I paid $1000 face to see them at The Hard Rock in Vegas last time and front row at the San Diego Sports Arena for their slide/blues heavy show and my hearing in my left ear paid the price.

I guess I just don't have the urgency as well to be upfront now and pay the price but I am looking forward to just being there. But they are way overcharging for tickets and it bothers me.



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Yeah if I'd been able to attend these shows I would probably have gone for the $85 tix too, because the pricing to be in the pit is ridiculous and because I've been there before...actually much to my "shame" it didn't even feel really special being second row in the pit at the 02 after seeing them from the second row at the Trabendo a month before. I think that any seat in an arena would probably be ok, just not a seat in a stadium.

Tickets in all price ranges are available for both shows in LA as of 11:00 a.m. PST. Floor sections 1 and 3, GREAT side stand section seats are available for $600 (many of these seem to be seats that had been set aside for "VIP packages" that did not sell. $150 and $250 are also available.

Just picked up one in Floor 3 row 3. Thanks for the heads up!

Traditionally, Stones tickets sold off increased radio play in LA...where many drivers still listen to radio.

I haven't heard a mention of the Stones gigs at the Staples Center on K-ERTH, the oldies station here.,,a station many Stones fans enjoy.

I mention this only because I have a feeling that someone surely will put AEG in the loop to start some radio commercials if they want to sell all these tickets.

Meanwhile K-ERTH is having a fine time plugging Rod Stewart's club gig at The Troubadour.

$85 tix for Staples, May 3, are available. I just scored a pair.

Edit: the link is [tickets.axs.com]



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