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I saw A2, A9, A10, A11 but no A3-A7.

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If I'm going to pay top dollar (and in Canadian funds too - Ouch!), I will only accept A3 - A6.

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Kellie40
STICKY got me some restricted views, 2nd deck, 118 & 120. Threw those all back.....and kept trying. Finally got A7, Row 15.

Happy with that!! Was surprised I was able to pull that. First A section I pulled over the last 3 pre-sales!!

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Kellie40
STICKY got me some restricted views, 2nd deck, 118 & 120. Threw those all back.....and kept trying. Finally got A7, Row 15.

Happy with that!! Was surprised I was able to pull that. First A section I pulled over the last 3 pre-sales!!

Dang - nice find!!

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Kellie40
STICKY got me some restricted views, 2nd deck, 118 & 120. Threw those all back.....and kept trying. Finally got A7, Row 15.

Happy with that!! Was surprised I was able to pull that. First A section I pulled over the last 3 pre-sales!!

Dang - nice find!!

I know, got lucky! I keep reading my confirmation email to make sure it says A7.

I'm from over on Shidoobee (RubyKel), and we are planning to all meet up beforehand. I can post info here when we decide. Would love to meet some of you all! I used to be RubyKel here....but forgot my passcode, and the email associated with it is long gone!

Good luck to all!!

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Gfmsoccer
Hi,

as I've mentioned before, all the Pre-Sales are only about 10 - 20% of the tickets. It's a sampling of all sections. So obviously sells out fast. They hold back about 10% of the tickets for special promos, and then sell about 75% of the seats in the General Sale. It's a common formula.

The Pre-Sales are dominated by us crazies who'll pay any price, and all the ticket brokers, who immediately post those tickets on websites at huge markups.

If you wait until the General Sale, you'll be fine. Open a few browser windows at 10am and one will open up with ticket options at regular price. My friend always buys 2 sets of tickets, and resells the 2nd set at a huge markup, which pays for the first set. He sees the Stones for free!

Your friend is a scalper scumbag.

If people will pay it, I don't see what the problem is. This also has much potential to backfire.

That's funny. He's actually Doctor Scumbag! A good supply & demand capitalist. He made the effort to buy the tickets that others didn't. So he has a right to sell them for whatever he can get. Nobody has to pay crazy prices. You can make the effort to get face value, like we all did, or you can wait to show day, and buy surplus tickets that get marked down at the last minute.

Remember the old days when you couldn't get any tickets to a "sold-out" show, and then you saw empty seats on the local news that night? This is much better.

He's probably exaggerating a bit. If he is like most of the individuals who try to scalp tickets, he probably has a pretty hard time "going free", and he's probably lost money many times - ask him. But like folks who invest in stocks, they tend to talk about the times they have done well. I've been to 500-600 live shows all over the world - from experience there are simply too many seats at Stones stadium shows and too many people selling to make double on any Stones show unless either you like cheap seats or (and this is a huge "unless") you manage to get within the first 10 rows from the stage. Simple math = a decent ticket is $400. To "go free" you need get $800 from the ticket, but with markups and fees you need to find a buyer willing to pay 130% more than what you paid, so you would have to sell your $400 ticket for $1050. That's very difficult (again unless you happen to get within the first 10 rows or so without paying "premium" prices to begin with).

There is the occasional "hot show" where demand for tickets simply outstrips supply, but those are arena shows (Las Vegas in 2006, the second O2 show in 2012 come to mind). I've never seen that happen with stadiums. The stones' face price is too high and there are too many people with the same idea. Check Stubhub for any Stones Show - there are probably already thousands of tickets available even though the general onsale has not yet started.

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Naturalust
You rock TE! Wish there were more like you around.

peace

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2014Slayer
Still no dings on my credit card for the Start Me Up Experience tickets yet. Driving us crazy, I hope these seats are good. We were told they would be processing them this next week, but they have to hand input the name and credit card info. Our friend got 2 seats in the 111 section which looks good, but we really want to be on the floor near the stages. Hope we are rewarded for signing up early. Anyone else had their credit card dinged yet?

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2014Slayer
Still no dings on my credit card for the Start Me Up Experience tickets yet. Driving us crazy, I hope these seats are good. We were told they would be processing them this next week, but they have to hand input the name and credit card info. Our friend got 2 seats in the 111 section which looks good, but we really want to be on the floor near the stages. Hope we are rewarded for signing up early. Anyone else had their credit card dinged yet?

Not dinged yet.

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Hi,

as I've mentioned before, all the Pre-Sales are only about 10 - 20% of the tickets. It's a sampling of all sections. So obviously sells out fast. They hold back about 10% of the tickets for special promos, and then sell about 75% of the seats in the General Sale. It's a common formula.

The Pre-Sales are dominated by us crazies who'll pay any price, and all the ticket brokers, who immediately post those tickets on websites at huge markups.

If you wait until the General Sale, you'll be fine. Open a few browser windows at 10am and one will open up with ticket options at regular price. My friend always buys 2 sets of tickets, and resells the 2nd set at a huge markup, which pays for the first set. He sees the Stones for free!

Your friend is a scalper scumbag.

If people will pay it, I don't see what the problem is. This also has much potential to backfire.

That's funny. He's actually Doctor Scumbag! A good supply & demand capitalist. He made the effort to buy the tickets that others didn't. So he has a right to sell them for whatever he can get. Nobody has to pay crazy prices. You can make the effort to get face value, like we all did, or you can wait to show day, and buy surplus tickets that get marked down at the last minute.

Remember the old days when you couldn't get any tickets to a "sold-out" show, and then you saw empty seats on the local news that night? This is much better.

He's probably exaggerating a bit. If he is like most of the individuals who try to scalp tickets, he probably has a pretty hard time "going free", and he's probably lost money many times - ask him. But like folks who invest in stocks, they tend to talk about the times they have done well. I've been to 500-600 live shows all over the world - from experience there are simply too many seats at Stones stadium shows and too many people selling to make double on any Stones show unless either you like cheap seats or (and this is a huge "unless") you manage to get within the first 10 rows from the stage. Simple math = a decent ticket is $400. To "go free" you need get $800 from the ticket, but with markups and fees you need to find a buyer willing to pay 130% more than what you paid, so you would have to sell your $400 ticket for $1050. That's very difficult (again unless you happen to get within the first 10 rows or so without paying "premium" prices to begin with).

There is the occasional "hot show" where demand for tickets simply outstrips supply, but those are arena shows (Las Vegas in 2006, the second O2 show in 2012 come to mind). I've never seen that happen with stadiums. The stones' face price is too high and there are too many people with the same idea. Check Stubhub for any Stones Show - there are probably already thousands of tickets available even though the general onsale has not yet started.

Still think that Scumbag is a W*nker.
My 3 best moments... Had an extra one for opening night Boston 2005, 2nd row Ronnie. Sold it at cost. Waldbuhne, sold two at cost in the pit. You know what those two shows went for... And LOL, gave away a ticket to a fan in Dublin at the end of the ABB. Stupid or just that fan to fan feeling? Felt so good!!!

Got that extra ticket? Make a fan happy and sell it here tru the ticket page.
Some might afford to go then. After being unlucky with the ticket lottery.

TE
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2014Slayer
Still no dings on my credit card for the Start Me Up Experience tickets yet. Driving us crazy, I hope these seats are good. We were told they would be processing them this next week, but they have to hand input the name and credit card info. Our friend got 2 seats in the 111 section which looks good, but we really want to be on the floor near the stages. Hope we are rewarded for signing up early. Anyone else had their credit card dinged yet?

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kate2
VIP Start Me Up.. I called late Friday and long story short...they are not going to process our tixs until late nxt week or the week after...they have many, many they sold. i had a rude person, as I did not want Isemena again...after nagging her. I found out our info has been sent to the Events depart...They might be in today...Someone brave should call there...I bought good seats, on stub hub, in a close field section because, they are selling more VIP packages with rooms etc and I am afraid of getting P2 or the rear of P1..i think i will try and cancel my start me up. I feel better having decent seats in my hand. Another prob with the VIP, is that the tixs are not avail to print and I do not want them mailed on May 17. Someone is supposed to email us after they process our order...UMMM So the depart we bought them from, is not who to call...call the events depart. and pls post..thank you

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Naturalust
You rock TE! Wish there were more like you around.

peace