Ticketmaster experience
Date: May 12, 2005 16:36
Call me dumb, but what is the difference between "Paid Fan Club Member with Code" and "New member presale - $100 added"?? Does it mean that if you buy tix the latter way, you pay an extra $100 or what? I tried both and was offered the same tix on both occasions and couldn't see any price difference. I didn't want tix for Fenway but wanted to see how the system works. And guess what, added to the cost of each ticket is a "convenience charge" of $29.95. What convenience would that be? All theirs, obviously. Anyway, after several attempts that produced no available tix that matched my selection, the best pair of tix I was offered using various selections were in B1 and C3. Any requests for 4 tickets were all way back. The only time I was offered an A block ticket (in A6) was when I selected one ticket only. Did anyone manage to get more than one A block ticket???
Rollingstones.com was already saying beforehand that ticket requests couldn't be honoured and don't bother joining:
PRESALE TICKET UPDATE FOR BOSTON AND EAST RUTHERFORD:
2005-05-11 21:03:14
Many members have already joined from the New England and the Tri-State Regions. Because of this there is sure to be high demand for presale tickets at Fenway in Boston and Giants Stadium in East Rutherford.
If you are primarily interested in gaining access to presale tickets for the Fenway and Giants Stadium shows and have not joined the Fan Club already we are advising you not to at this time. We will not be able to honor your ticket requests. We may be able to fulfill your ticket requests at a later time if more shows are added in these regions.