I bought and paid for 2 A1 row A seats on the understanding that they were FRONT ROW. THEY STILL SHOW AS FRONT ROW ON TICKETEK SEATMAP.

IF THEY ARE NOT, well my wife works in law.



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Check your tickets.
Mine say

Section: SA3-A
Row: A

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Deathgod
Check your tickets.
Mine say

Section: SA3-A
Row: A

They dont release the tickets until February but this is what I mean. You must have VIP tickets - $1300 to $1500. There is no SA3-A on the seating map, just SA3. So you will be in front of me I suspect.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-11-29 04:15 by lioness.

It's a cock up.
As usual.
I see some guys are getting Sec A3-B

Yeah, I think people will be annoyed when they arrive and see they are further back than they expect.

For me, I wouldn't spend $1600 or $1300 anyway when I want to go to Sydney too and am happy with the spot.

I have sent this to ticketek this morning:

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I live in Perth. I purchased, BASED ON THE VENUE MAP STILL ON YOUR WEBSITE, 2 tickets which are in A1, Row A. I purchased because these are front row seats.

I understand from others now posting on fansites that their appear to be BLOCKS of seats in front of A1-A4. THESE blocks eg, SA1-B which I am reading about, are NOT on your venue maps.

IS this correct? As I do not think BLOCKS of seats in front of what is clearly front of stage per your venue maps could possibly count as seats handed back from promoters as no longer being needed for promotional purposes.

WILL I FIND BLOCKS OF PEOPLE SITTING IN FRONT OF ME? WILL I NOT BE AT FRONT OF STAGE AS I PURCHASED?

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I am promised a response NEXT business day.

Please keep us posted- I have SA3- row H and paid $510 assuming that it was 8 rows back with a slim chance of being 11-12 rows at worst if they went AA-DD.

I will be furious if I'm actually closer to 30 rows back!

FWIW my ticket guy looked at map and seemed to think the A and B was an entry point only.

Why do people have to go through this crap with every damn show??

I have really fallen on good luck with this Asia leg of the tour. I finish my job in South Korea at the end of February and was always planning to have the month of March to do a bit of travelling. Unbelievable that that Stones are coming this way at that exact period of time! Think I will do my best to get Singapore tickets if possible. Have heard they are doing 2 nights in Macau 8th and 9th of march. Could check that out but last time I was there it felt a bit soulless!

Cannot believe this ticket story is happening AGAIN after all that Hyde Park fiasco. Different day, same shite. There is a veeeery long thread about the Hyde Park nonsense on here somewhere. They should not be able to get away with this stuff. It looks like it's another case of misrepresentation and that's ILLEGAL!

Did anyone actually challenge them legally about the Hyde park fiasco ? A lot of people intended to , but probably lost the will to live with it all


SC UK

Hyde Park actually ended up really well. It seemed they took notice of our complaints.

same old story same old song and dance. so much for those $500.00 tickets .

Ticketek's response will be interesting.

The fact is the map clearly doesn't show these SA2-A extra lettered sections and surely they will be in front of my $510 seat when these people are paying $1300 and $1500 a pop.

I'm also pretty confident that the VIP tickets were not listed during the pre-sale. Can anyone reject that? I noticed the dinner packages and thought they may be in front of me but when I tested it on the arvo of the presale they seated you out in SA1 which I thought was rough for the price, even if you get the feed. I only saw the VIP tickets later that night on the pricing list because naturally that seating plan makes you think you are front row when Row A came up on my screen (I use a trick with the Ticketek website I think many people are growing aware of as Frontier Touring were telling them during Springsteen sales to use the mobile site on a desktop and it lets you enter the password and load your basket up and press just one button - buy - when the clock ticks over, not five clicks and screens loading).

Of course, not really too worried personally as Id rather be 15 metres back in some ways. But some people will be feral if this is correct as we suspect.



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My first ticket drop was Row N

Then later in night I saw VIP tix drop

Thew back G and H, then the A dropped. Grabbed it, for top $$.

My guy seems to think the A and B on tix is for door entry....I'm not convinced yet.

I might head into an outlet and ask the ticketing people to show me a map.

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Did anyone actually challenge them legally about the Hyde park fiasco ? A lot of people intended to , but probably lost the will to live with it all


SC UK

Yes, with success.

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Did anyone actually challenge them legally about the Hyde park fiasco ? A lot of people intended to , but probably lost the will to live with it all


SC UK

At Hyde Park they ended up changing the seating layout in response to complaints from the fans who bought the tier 1 and tier 2 packages (and were initially placed waayyyyy over to one side. At the end of the day, they came up with a very satisfactory solution.

Yes, can't see how they could have done it better at HP honestly (T1 was a tad closer to the stage than T3 as we found out on the SSS video), and it was very similar to what was suggested by forum member marquee (except sides reversed) and I'd updated the dedicated topic here : [www.iorr.org] - having a stage splitting the front was a good idea too to help with crowd control and to give some "breathing" room.

The VIP "seats" for Adelaide seems even more confusing at this point...

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lioness
Ticketek's response will be interesting.

The fact is the map clearly doesn't show these SA2-A extra lettered sections and surely they will be in front of my $510 seat when these people are paying $1300 and $1500 a pop.

I'm also pretty confident that the VIP tickets were not listed during the pre-sale. Can anyone reject that? I noticed the dinner packages and thought they may be in front of me but when I tested it on the arvo of the presale they seated you out in SA1 which I thought was rough for the price, even if you get the feed. I only saw the VIP tickets later that night on the pricing list because naturally that seating plan makes you think you are front row when Row A came up on my screen (I use a trick with the Ticketek website I think many people are growing aware of as Frontier Touring were telling them during Springsteen sales to use the mobile site on a desktop and it lets you enter the password and load your basket up and press just one button - buy - when the clock ticks over, not five clicks and screens loading).

Of course, not really too worried personally as Id rather be 15 metres back in some ways. But some people will be feral if this is correct as we suspect.

i would not trust the seating charts (i.e. hyde park , and i wonder if the seating charts will reflect a V.I.P. seating )

Thanks Bv for your hard work to inform us of the info. I'd love to see them in Aus but can't but if I change my mind I have 2 ladies in NSW I can stay with. Now isnt that a tempting thought.

I am not dutch but it would be' nice 10 concerts in Amsterdam . Nice city, nice people, in the Middle of europe.. It won't happen but i like it

Hi guys,

I was lucky enough to benefit from the Hyde Park fiasco getting to stay 15m from the stage (sorry for everyone who was disappointed tho). I've first seen them in Bucharest in 2005 - to this day the best concert I ever attended - was so amazed by a Bigger Band that I jumped on a plane when they announced the London O2 gigs and then Hyde Park this summer.

I live in Romania and have decided to take a trip to Australia on my own (first time out of Europe) and hopefully follow the tour if possible and while discovering the big Oz with gigs spicing up the travel adventure. Conveniently enough my route will be thru the Emirates so if the dates match conveniently I might get to see the Stones on several continents.

So far I secured 2 general admission tickets for Adelaide and hoping to do the same for the rest of the tour once this is announced.
Just thought I'd drop a quick word hoping to rock with some of you guys next Spring

Cheers and good luck with your ticket wishes everyone!

Welcome to the board zgubi. I hope you will have a great time

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The Stones owe us nothing but I still would not rule out a few MSG shows before it's all said and done (for this 2014 tour anyway). It is good that the Stones are doing live concerts for fans in other country's besides the USA, Canada & England (even though I won't get to see them unless I win the lottery). I am just glad they are still touring and bringing happiness to people all over the world.

They MUST do the USA esp M S Garden (their home!)

I think Hyde park is a great example of how to use the power of hard working fans in order to fix a problem. They fixed it and the story is all told here in a separate thread about Hyde Park.

Bjornulf

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M S Garden (their home!)

Give it up!


Do we actually know WHY they changed the Hyde Park tier arrangements? I mean, WAS it because of all the complaints, etc.? A lot of the people I was surrounded by in tier 1 didn't even know there had been any issue regarding where it would be, for instance. In any case, it certainly did work out well in the end (especially as tier 1 turned out to be on Keith's side), so it would be a good idea for all the Adelaide peeps to be as vocal as possible for as long as possible, if it does turn out that your suspicions are correct.

Have the Stones ever played in Mainland China? Saw some dates listed for Hong Kong on one of the previous tours...and saw Beijing and Shanghai were cancelled.

Just wondering...