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josepi
It appears some gold, silver, and sapphire vip's are being re-allocated. Nice find. You're one fast weinerdog!
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weinerdog
A bunch of $199/149 seats have been released on AXS - go get 'em! Scored 4 in 139!!!
I just scored 209, row 6. Considering all of the scalpers are selling rows 29-32 in that section, I feel pretty good about waiting a few days until the better seats went on sale.
I hope I can still see the whole stage from that perspective; it's a little side-stage, but I'd rather be close on the side than far away with a straight-on view.
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LetsWork
How do you know that?
And thanks!
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LetsWork
How's the sound from side stage? I'm hoping the sound and view are ok because they are "VIP LEVEL" seats.
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weinerdog
This is is just so fundamentally dishonest. Create false demand and gouge fans, many of whom have no idea of the morally suspect crap they're pulling behind the scenes and buy VIP packages thinking that's all that is left.
How long until they just get it over with and put up every single seat for auction? Soaking everyone for the maximum is their goal, and that's the easiest way.
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josepi
It also doesn't hurt to know the descriptions of each vip package:
[www.ticketmaster.com]
For example, if they are still selling sapphire vip's in row 20 in sec C or D, and you start seeing regular priced tickets in row 25 (which is exactly what happened earlier in the day for Columbus), then you know that their sophisticated money algorithm is telling them that the probability of selling row 25 as a sapphire vip is pretty low. So they drop it to regular price. That's probably why there was a 2-week delay of the announcement - they needed to tweak the money algorithm.
Extrapolating the sapphire vip scenerio using Columbus as the test..., I just looked at the diamonds. Currently, they are offering pairs in Sec E row 3 seats 15/16. Singles in E row 2 seat 20. Sapphires start in row 15 and end in row 25. That means roughly half the sapphires were sold. Diamonds are rows 1-5, so roughly half of those must be sold already, too. Since it is a bigger loss to drop diamonds and since there are fewer total rows available, they will wait it out somewhat longer. In my guessimation the odds of a diamond drop for the soft shows are.... DAMN GOOD. Just a guess, of course.
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josepi
It also doesn't hurt to know the descriptions of each vip package:
[www.ticketmaster.com]
For example, if they are still selling sapphire vip's in row 20 in sec C or D, and you start seeing regular priced tickets in row 25 (which is exactly what happened earlier in the day for Columbus), then you know that their sophisticated money algorithm is telling them that the probability of selling row 25 as a sapphire vip is pretty low. So they drop it to regular price. That's probably why there was a 2-week delay of the announcement - they needed to tweak the money algorithm.
Extrapolating the sapphire vip scenerio using Columbus as the test..., I just looked at the diamonds. Currently, they are offering pairs in Sec E row 3 seats 15/16. Singles in E row 2 seat 20. Sapphires start in row 15 and end in row 25. That means roughly half the sapphires were sold. Diamonds are rows 1-5, so roughly half of those must be sold already, too. Since it is a bigger loss to drop diamonds and since there are fewer total rows available, they will wait it out somewhat longer. In my guessimation the odds of a diamond drop for the soft shows are.... DAMN GOOD. Just a guess, of course.
I agree. Minneapolis is custom tailored to be a soft selling show - huge venue, small market, middle of the week.
I was shocked that "Diamond" seats were in Sections B and E. How can they ask for $1800 and not put you in the center sections? The Stones aren't the only ones doing "flex pricing". For U2 shows in New York, as they added additional shows, sections that were $300 were dropped to $100, without any announcement whatsoever. People who bought for the first shows paid a huge premium for identical seats. They even sold mid-week shows before weekend shows. I feel bad for people who bought packages early. Well, on the bright side, you do it once and you learn, so I doubt people will fall for the same scheme twice.
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Snoopy
Anyone know how seat #s work on floor (ie lower towards center or edge?) Called ticketing for Minnie twice and neither phone person knew the answer.
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mighty stork
Did they announce a guest for the Minn. show yet? Buddy Guy will be with them at Milwaukee's Summerfest.