I just pulled up 8 tickets together in Sec 3 Row 13 for the first Chicago show.

There appears to be a flood of tickets available. Hopefully this bodes well for $85 ticket holders being put down on the floor.

As far as I can tell, anything past the first few rows behind the tongue pit on the floor and in the stands is wide open for every show.

Nothing's changed in the past few days for the tour opener and the Toronto shows in terms of what seats you can get.

I'm pulling up massive blocks of P1's on TM for all 3 Chicago shows. Just do 8 best available and you'll get main floor. What will they do with all this unsold inventory?

SAD SAD SAD!

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I will be watching this tour on youtube, clips will be widely available I suspect

Of course, during the London shows folks were uploading videos as they played,buy a six pack,and enjoy it, without having to mortgage the house and the kids college fund...

Well, buy a ticket with goofy Macca and you will get shitty music - don't understand buying tickets to that crap.

Great seats for all Chicago shows still available....better than what I got at $622 a pop.

OUCH!

Remember the Stones don't care...they get 4 to 5 mil a show no matter what.

Bring on the warm up bands.

I got great seats!

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I got great seats!

Hope those aren't my $85 seats! ><

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I just posted this in the $85 ticket thread but figured it might go well here as well...



Forgive my bad MSPaint skills. Here is a comparison that might be a bad indicator for us common folks.. If anyone grabbed tickets for the Staples Center show, and was able to see the map before today, please shed some insight. Have those pink sections always been on the map or was the top deck all red and blue prior to the $85 tickets being released?

I don't remember what it looked like the morning I bought mine, but when I looked the other night with the release of some Staples $85's,
the grey square at the back of floor 4 was highlighted and there was a large arrow pointing to that specific area.
Don't know what it meant, but it sparked my imagination...

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Just looked at Boston show on June 12th. Row 11, floor Section C, available for just $625.75. Guess those hospitality packages just didn't sell. They're going to have to cut prices a bunch more.

AEG, or someone will be taking a bath.

The pricing was a little inhospitable.

I put this post on the Vas Vegas link on page 4 the other day. Have a look at the map near my post and check out the seats in the back. $85?

Here is where the $85 seats may be located. The last few rows behind sections 201 thru 207 do not have a price on the color chart. These are the lowest priced tickets for other acts at this venue. The lower part of section 1 is probably behind the sound board, but the rest of section 1 and all of section 2 and 3 do not seem to be available. Could these be the casino host seats?

Word got out that they are rehearsing the same old tired warhorses so the fans have decided to stay home!

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I put this post on the Vas Vegas link on page 4 the other day. Have a look at the map near my post and check out the seats in the back. $85?

Here is where the $85 seats may be located. The last few rows behind sections 201 thru 207 do not have a price on the color chart. These are the lowest priced tickets for other acts at this venue. The lower part of section 1 is probably behind the sound board, but the rest of section 1 and all of section 2 and 3 do not seem to be available. Could these be the casino host seats?

Someone needs to reach out to the folks in Vegas and see what they say about that seating chart.....

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AXS - Initial response...

Hi Drake,
The $85 tickets are spread throughout the venue, in all different sections throughout the venue!

We hope you enjoy the show!
AXS Team

My second email...

So does that mean that the tickets could also be in other areas aside from the pink spots...? I know you are not allowed to discuss all info. I am really just wondering if these lottery tickets might actually be in lower areas as well... =) Any insights you can share would be wonderful!

AXS - final response...

We've said all we can Drake :]
The tickets are spread throughout the arena!

I guess we'll know more when we get the reports after next Friday's show.

Indeed! Open poll question...

If all the $85 seats (aside from the two pairs in the pit), end up being in the 'heavens'... Will you keep your tickets?

Honestly I would have to heavily consider throwing them back and skipping this tour. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing the Stones with my wife (her first gig) but driving 5 hours to Chicago, staying in a hotel for a few days between shows, only to see a similar setlist from the same lousy seats both nights... I am not sure I want to do that. I might go to ONE show and stay the night.

And yes, I know that for $85 I am inside for less than everyone else with a full price ticket.. The problem is not the value of getting in, but the willingness to subject ourselves to horrible sound and a distant experience.

Come on man, theres not a bad seat in the house...
Oh wait.... what was it that tatters said/showed us?



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How can you 'throw them back'? Don't think TM will refund and you can't re-sell the $85 ones...? Just curious!

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Indeed! Open poll question...

If all the $85 seats (aside from the two pairs in the pit), end up being in the 'heavens'... Will you keep your tickets?

Honestly I would have to heavily consider throwing them back and skipping this tour. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing the Stones with my wife (her first gig) but driving 5 hours to Chicago, staying in a hotel for a few days between shows, only to see a similar setlist from the same lousy seats both nights... I am not sure I want to do that. I might go to ONE show and stay the night.

And yes, I know that for $85 I am inside for less than everyone else with a full price ticket.. The problem is not the value of getting in, but the willingness to subject ourselves to horrible sound and a distant experience.

I'll let you know after the 1st show...
...but if I know all the $85 seats were in outer space, I may have sprung for a more expensive ticket for one show.

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Indeed! Open poll question...

If all the $85 seats (aside from the two pairs in the pit), end up being in the 'heavens'... Will you keep your tickets?

Honestly I would have to heavily consider throwing them back and skipping this tour. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing the Stones with my wife (her first gig) but driving 5 hours to Chicago, staying in a hotel for a few days between shows, only to see a similar setlist from the same lousy seats both nights... I am not sure I want to do that. I might go to ONE show and stay the night.

And yes, I know that for $85 I am inside for less than everyone else with a full price ticket.. The problem is not the value of getting in, but the willingness to subject ourselves to horrible sound and a distant experience.

I'm in no matter what with no regrets, but I might feel different if I were in your circumstances.

Be it nosebleed, pit, somewhere in between, or even the seats posted above by Max'sKansasCity! ><
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Indeed! Open poll question...

If all the $85 seats (aside from the two pairs in the pit), end up being in the 'heavens'... Will you keep your tickets?

Honestly I would have to heavily consider throwing them back and skipping this tour. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing the Stones with my wife (her first gig) but driving 5 hours to Chicago, staying in a hotel for a few days between shows, only to see a similar setlist from the same lousy seats both nights... I am not sure I want to do that. I might go to ONE show and stay the night.

And yes, I know that for $85 I am inside for less than everyone else with a full price ticket.. The problem is not the value of getting in, but the willingness to subject ourselves to horrible sound and a distant experience.

I'm in no matter what with no regrets, but I might feel different if I were in your circumstances.

Be it nosebleed, pit, somewhere in between, or even the seats posted above by Max'sKansasCity! ><
It's Only Rock'N'Roll....

LIFE IS GOOD after a POI-Burger Breakfast!!!!!
Cheers!
We're gonna see the Stones LIVE!!!
It' good to be ANYWHERE!!

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I purchased a pair of $250 tickets in sec 210 first during the presale then just had to look at the $85 seats about 30 minutes after the general sale. They appeared and I bought them on impulse. Now I own 4 seats and only the wife and I are going. She wants to keep the $250 seats. I may end up eating the $85 seats. Bummer.. Ended up eating 2 seats for a Doobie Brothers show just a couple of weeks ago... and I keep hearing about it from her.

I'm in the same boat. Three tickets for just me for Anaheim! One $450 one, two $85. Am thinking I'll just go and sit in the best seat of the three. And since I can't re-sell the $85 and don't know if they'll be the best, I don't want to re-sell the $450 even if I could... think I'll just see if my friend who lives in Culver City, plus one of her kids, wants to go gratis.

"Just a poor girl in a rich man's house" * Rockin' in Nashville, TN!

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I purchased a pair of $250 tickets in sec 210 first during the presale then just had to look at the $85 seats about 30 minutes after the general sale. They appeared and I bought them on impulse. Now I own 4 seats and only the wife and I are going. She wants to keep the $250 seats. I may end up eating the $85 seats. Bummer.. Ended up eating 2 seats for a Doobie Brothers show just a couple of weeks ago... and I keep hearing about it from her.

Come on. There must be two people that you could invite to the show.

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I got great seats!

I love this video. I was at that show, and it was one of the loudest shows I've ever been to. Both Metallica and the stones were amazing.

I got very lucky. I had a pair of great seats for The first Staples show, but when my sister was able to purchase the $85 tickets, I immediately put them up on stub hub to sell. I priced them at the lowest price for comparable seats, and they sold immediately. I managed to actually make 200 bucks. Obviously, if I tried to sell them today I would be lucky to receive face value. Whew!

so dumb to charge that much for tickets for a band most people under the age of 20 don't know. its only adults and most of us have real life things to spend our money on.

too bad they were so greedy and stupid about this.

regardless, i will be at both boston shows, one night 85$ seats and the other $165.

Doesn't look good. Hope that shows don't get cancelled.

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Doesn't look good. Hope that shows don't get cancelled.

I don't think so and I also do not know if the sales are really that bad. The 2 cheapest categories are once again not available for San Jose and Oakland. For MGM it's only the expensive one available at this hour.

As you don't have a clear view of sold seats like when you reserve the seat directly on Ticketmaster we can not argue that sales are really bad.

Once they will announce a Show or whatever tonight CET sales will rise again. They was a really bigger demand on tickets after the first London Show and also secondary markets who dropped went up again before the Show as the media paid more Attention to the Show than to ticket Prices.

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Doesn't look good. Hope that shows don't get cancelled.

I don't think so and I also do not know if the sales are really that bad. The 2 cheapest categories are once again not available for San Jose and Oakland. For MGM it's only the expensive one available at this hour.

As you don't have a clear view of sold seats like when you reserve the seat directly on Ticketmaster we can not argue that sales are really bad.

Once they will announce a Show or whatever tonight CET sales will rise again. They was a really bigger demand on tickets after the first London Show and also secondary markets who dropped went up again before the Show as the media paid more Attention to the Show than to ticket Prices.

I was looking at the AXS site for the first show at Staples, which does show every section. Tickets are available at all price ranges $150 - $600 for May 3. I was in London for the 2nd O2 show and agree that there were very few tickets available on the secondary market as concert time rolled around. But, there are a LOT more tickets available for LA1. Anyway, one nice thing is that brokers will take a bath.

Not sure if the link will work, but this is it: [tickets.axs.com]

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Doesn't look good. Hope that shows don't get cancelled.

I don't think so and I also do not know if the sales are really that bad. The 2 cheapest categories are once again not available for San Jose and Oakland. For MGM it's only the expensive one available at this hour.

As you don't have a clear view of sold seats like when you reserve the seat directly on Ticketmaster we can not argue that sales are really bad.

Once they will announce a Show or whatever tonight CET sales will rise again. They was a really bigger demand on tickets after the first London Show and also secondary markets who dropped went up again before the Show as the media paid more Attention to the Show than to ticket Prices.

I was looking at the AXS site for the first show at Staples, which does show every section. Tickets are available at all price ranges $150 - $600 for May 3. I was in London for the 2nd O2 show and agree that there were very few tickets available on the secondary market as concert time rolled around. But, there are a LOT more tickets available for LA1. Anyway, one nice thing is that brokers will take a bath.

Not sure if the link will work, but this is it: [tickets.axs.com]

I agree with you, the situation for LA May 3 seems to be a lot worse (from the AEG point of view) than London with a week to go last year. Not only are there tickets available from $250 upwards but the $250 seats are side stage, not right at the back. Plenty of pretty decent floor seats are there and I was asking for 3 together just to make it a bit more awkward. Anyway, since I'm still annoyed at AEG's misselling of Tier 1 & 2 at Hyde Park I'm kinda pleased to think they might be making quite a loss with this.

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SAD SAD SAD!

Not sad at all. What is sad is that The Stones felt the need to screw their fans with $600+ seats. If they were to make theses prices remotely reasonable the shows would sell out in seconds.