Re: Last minute advice - fan club tickets sydney
Date: March 1, 2006 13:06
I repeat from a previous thread:
IF - in this 70,000 seat stadium they've got floor/pitch seating and they're following the same format as they've done in US shows and all 5 UK shows, then ...
(a) if there are THREE ticket price categories for the gig, I'd select the LOWEST when you make your selection to search for tickets
(b) if there are FOUR ticket price categories for the gig, I'd select the second LOWEST when you make your selection to search for tickets
The "format" I'm referring to is this business of pricing an indeterminate number of front/frontish rows cheaper than rows further back.
I should point out that so doing enabled me to get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd row tickets for all 5 UK shows. I should however also point out that I took an educated guess that because this format had been adopted in the US come ticket sales time; then there was a distinct possibility that they'd also employ it for the UK shows. I was right, but I'm aware that I could just as well all too easily have been wrong.
So if I were you, I should ask some questions, do some research, solicit other folks' opinions, and then make your best guess and take a stab. There's one thing you CANNOT afford to do though, and that is NOT to be there the VERY moment that site selling the tickets goes live. BE THERE !! Those front rows, however they're priced, will move fast. If you ARE there the moment they stazrt selling, and you notice though that you NEVER get offered any FRONTISH rows at all, then another reasonably educated guess would be that they haven't as yet released those rows in any particular block. That being the case, put the coffee on, get the popcorn out, and be prepared to devote the entire day to refreshing the page and searching again and again, because they do indeed DO this. They will hold an entire front block for some reason, and maybe only release it many hours into the presale/sale. This is what happened to me when I was trying to buy tickets for Cardiff. I got 1st row Wembley at about 10 nanoseconds past 09:00 when the sale started, and yet I got 3rd row Cardiff at about 16:00 hrs in the afternoon, having spent EIGHT full hours in front of my laptop.
Perseverance my friend. I should take the day off work !!