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drbryant
Well, China has the death penalty for theft, but only for repeat offenders or embezzlement from state owned enterprises. If it's your first offense, then probably just a few years in prison.
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kahoosier
Seats in the pit?? I am sure the government will ban certain songs like they did last time , I just wonder if they will be the same songs. This may turn out to be one of the strangest shows of the tour if nothing else.
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glshanghai
my tickets show row 8 - seat 24 - 28
looks like the seats are at the side - easier to the front from there
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kahoosier
Oh I would be MEGA pissed to pay a small fortune for a PIT ticket, especially if it was package price, then get there and find out I was in row 8! If there are seats in the pit, there will not be much room for jockeying around, it is not a huge area! And then bugger, when the guys are walking the tongue , it will not be an easy case of just turning around! Unreal.
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frenki09
Got my 2880 yuan tic today in Beijing. But I'm seriously considering selling it... I have a bad conscience about spending a small fortune on a ticket that is so overpriced. And I already got a tic for Macau... I'll sleep on it... I'm a huge Stones fan, but...
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frenki09
Got my 2880 yuan tic today in Beijing. But I'm seriously considering selling it... I have a bad conscience about spending a small fortune on a ticket that is so overpriced. And I already got a tic for Macau... I'll sleep on it... I'm a huge Stones fan, but...
Well you should have tried buying a Shanghai pit ticket if you want to feel REALLY bad, that's the single most expensive RS ticket I've bought in my life to date. Bloody outrageous, 8880 RMB ..... or a cool £GBP 880 !!
YOWCH !!
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a bigger nut
NY show Tongue Pit VIP ticket was 1800USD in 2012.
It was not a seat ticket tho.
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a bigger nut
Yep. I got it from ticketmaster.com. Then Japanese Yen was historically strong.
VIP ticket includes early entry to the pit and some cheap merchandise items.
I am not sure but London show at O2 Arena in 2012 might be almost same value.
In Japan, last year's Paul Mcartney Tokyo Dome show hits record high 90000JPY(approx 900USD).
Most expensive ticket of "14 On Fire" at Tokyo Dome is 80000JPY(800USD).
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frenki09
Hey, paulywaul! How many Stones concerts have you seen? Just wondering if the Shanghai pit tickets are the most expensive ever. (Prices by scalpers excluded.) Anybody else? Is the 8880 ticket the most expensive ever for a Stones concert?
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Stonesfan2146
You don't now if 1% or 10% or 99% of the other tickets are sold. You just can see that there are still some available.
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Stonesfan2146
yeah, I was looking on the Macau tickets a few times and was pretty amazed that this concert is nearly sold out. The prices are just too high in Shanghai. They will have to drop them dramatically if they want to play to a sold-out crowd...
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Beast
Can't help but agree with this comment from Time Out Shanghai:
"My god, look at those Stones ticket prices, staggering. Are there enough rich Chinese or foreign expats to buy the 3,000 tickets priced between RMB2,880 and 8,880? Have these tickets been guaranteed by faceless corporate people who have no knowledge of the Stones but want to flash the cash? According to the seating chart provided by the ticket agency only the RMB480 and RMB1,280 ticket ranges have sold out and they only account for 1,000 tickets. Will the show sell-out?"
[www.timeoutshanghai.com]
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drbryant
Macau was very reasonably priced, and online ticketing was a breeze. Pit tickets were less than $400 and they were available for a while during the presale as I recall. I am not surprised it's sold out.
Shanghai, in addition to being impossible to figure out how to buy tickets from overseas, is terribly overpriced. At the end of the day, I'm sure they'll figure out how to fill the place, but it appears to be the poorest selling show I can recall. I suspect they'll need to drop those prices somehow.
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Beast
Can't help but agree with this comment from Time Out Shanghai:
"My god, look at those Stones ticket prices, staggering. Are there enough rich Chinese or foreign expats to buy the 3,000 tickets priced between RMB2,880 and 8,880? Have these tickets been guaranteed by faceless corporate people who have no knowledge of the Stones but want to flash the cash? According to the seating chart provided by the ticket agency only the RMB480 and RMB1,280 ticket ranges have sold out and they only account for 1,000 tickets. Will the show sell-out?"
[www.timeoutshanghai.com]
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kahoosier
OK now I can tell you what I had to delete before when people panicked. The pisser is that like last time, tickets for Shanghai actually went on sale tow days before the OFFICIAL date. Some people have known they had a confirmed pit ticket two days ahead of the sale I posted that and was asked/begged/cajoled into removing the info before scalpers descended. The cheap seats are gone, but I have a feeling the Shanghai show will be an easy score IF you can get there. I am surprised at the prices though.