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Gazza
I've no experience of LD's and as I havent been at a Stones show since 2014 I'm a bit out of the loop with these, so correct me if I'm wrong with these scenarios
1) You and a friend buy a pair of Lucky Dips each. Ie, four tickets. You agree to take which ever LD is best. Your friend's LD is for Golden Circle. Yours is for an OK seat or GA. Youre obviously going with the Golden Circle - rather than just dump the extra pair, couldnt you just give them to the person behind you in the queue whose LD ended up as nosebleeds?
2) Similar scenario. There isnt any way you could just resell your extras for a knockdown price to some random person outside?
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hockenheim95
I really miss the days when I was queueing up at 6 ' clock in the morning
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hockenheim95
I really miss the days when I was queueing up at 6 ' clock in the morning
Me too.
"Camping" outside ticket offices.
Then "camping" outside the venue when it was all GA .
The only thing that governed whether you got a ticket and then a good FOS position was how much effort and waiting you were prepared to put in.
Wasn't life simple in the old days
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Gazza
I've no experience of LD's and as I havent been at a Stones show since 2014 I'm a bit out of the loop with these, so correct me if I'm wrong with these scenarios
1) You and a friend buy a pair of Lucky Dips each. Ie, four tickets. You agree to take which ever LD is best. Your friend's LD is for Golden Circle. Yours is for an OK seat or GA. Youre obviously going with the Golden Circle - rather than just dump the extra pair, couldnt you just give them to the person behind you in the queue whose LD ended up as nosebleeds?
2) Similar scenario. There isnt any way you could just resell your extras for a knockdown price to some random person outside?
Gazza, officially you can't sell them/give them away (they are non transferrable). It practice, it depends on the venue. At some places (my experience was Berlin 14), you queue up for the tickets right next to a gate and you have to go straight into the venue, so no chance of redistributing. At some other places (Munich and Dusseldorf 2017), the LD collection was miles away from the entrance gates and so you'd be able to do what you wanted with the tickets. My sense is that there was more of the latter in 2017, but I don't think it can be guaranteed.
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schwonek
I assume the timeline is: today at 10 am (BERLIN) the Eventim Pre Sale and then at noon the Lucky Dip News from the Rolling Stones. Or tomorrow. Then sale on friday as part of the general sale.
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schwonek
I assume the timeline is: today at 10 am (BERLIN) the Eventim Pre Sale and then at noon the Lucky Dip News from the Rolling Stones. Or tomorrow. Then sale on friday as part of the general sale.
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year, if yoou can swing that it's likely a 50 quid ticket which is a bargain. I almost plumped for a spare lucky dip with another brit who had a pair for Dusseldorf last year, but someone beat me to it :-)
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year, if yoou can swing that it's likely a 50 quid ticket which is a bargain. I almost plumped for a spare lucky dip with another brit who had a pair for Dusseldorf last year, but someone beat me to it :-)
That was probably me (with the pair) - it ended up in the pit too!
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year, if yoou can swing that it's likely a 50 quid ticket which is a bargain. I almost plumped for a spare lucky dip with another brit who had a pair for Dusseldorf last year, but someone beat me to it :-)
It’s 100 Euro/quid for two (they come as two) but my point was flog a spare one to someone on here (or pick up a spare one on here) for face valueQuote
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year, if yoou can swing that it's likely a 50 quid ticket which is a bargain. I almost plumped for a spare lucky dip with another brit who had a pair for Dusseldorf last year, but someone beat me to it :-)
Oh, is it two for the price of one? I was thinking you had to buy two.
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year, if yoou can swing that it's likely a 50 quid ticket which is a bargain. I almost plumped for a spare lucky dip with another brit who had a pair for Dusseldorf last year, but someone beat me to it :-)
That was probably me (with the pair) - it ended up in the pit too!
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schwonek
I assume the timeline is: today at 10 am (BERLIN) the Eventim Pre Sale and then at noon the Lucky Dip News from the Rolling Stones. Or tomorrow. Then sale on friday as part of the general sale.
I hope you are right.. I am not going to pay those ridiculous prices for a pit ticket (799 euro's!)
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bernard90mike
Sometime they'll give a concert and nobody will come.
Last time for me was 2017. I'm not going to pay some hundred euros again for the same songs, same stage-design, same mistakes... The Stones are the band of my life, but they are old and start to become ridiculous - it's time to stop now. Of course that's just my personal opinion.
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nobodyimportant
There's nothing to be gained if you're likely to be going by yourself, is there?
there were a few people looking for 'lucky dip partners' on here last year,
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yorkshirestone
It’s 100 Euro/quid for two (they come as two) but my point was flog a spare one to someone on here (or pick up a spare one on here) for face value
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peoplewitheyes
Can i get LD tickets as I have smallish kids and they dont seem to be allowed in the Pit or GA areas? What happens if the LD ends up being there?
Also, when will the LDs for Twickenham go on sale? Is there some kind of presale for those?
Thank you!
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Gazza
Thanks for the advice, everyone. So, basically, going in with a group of other 'Lucky Dippers' who have bought a pair each and agreeing in advance to redistribute your extras improves the chances of everyone getting an upgrade. Cheers.