Go to Ticketmaster.com put in number of tickets, followed by $95, followed by FIELD SEATS and you're in!! Be quick though, more details over at Shidoobee

Youre right, Tickets sales are doing really bad, Hawaii shoud be next, i am not sure what the poppulation is in Hawaii but the sales were also flat.

These $99 ticket drops have NOTHING to do with overall ticket sales. These tickets are held back, regardless of the popularity of the venue, for promotional or other reasons, then released towards the show date. This also keeps them out of the hands of the brokers.

we dont have to get deffensive about it, there are some seats that are held back for every show, that is a fact, tons of seats are held back that are not used by the band. Its also a fact that ticket sales are flat for this leg of the stones tour. When the stoens tour started they had eailsy 50-60 thousand plus attenedance. This year, they are strugling to get people in, howmany times do people have $450.00 to spend on a ticket? thats the price for the LA show and they have been here 4 Times Already in the past year!

MickNSteven, you can't even spell...we are hardly going to take anything you say seriously. Get off this ticket thing...what's your problem? Ticket sales are fine.

El Paso by the Rio Grande on the border..they never played there...any news?



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Jack KNiffe, why are you so Angry, oh wait did i spell that worng too ? LOL..dude, why are you so Angry? its my job to track box office sales, and i am also a Huge Rolling Stones fan as well, why are you so Angry? I am Simply Stating the Facts. The Fact that you get Angry is pretty Funny, thanks for the Laughs!

MicknSteven

I have noticed you post regarding ticket sales several times. Do you have specific information about Austin's sales?

Thanks

Hey Texas Fan, It looks like Austin Sold Well, so far there are no Discounts for this show, not as of rigth now. Ticket sales always take off a few weeks before the show... By Show Time it should be packed. However something really interesting that i noticed, the Frist 10 Rows are $350.00 in other stadiums they are $99.00 I am not sure why they did this......

Hey MicknSteven,

Any word on Seattle tickets being discounted yet?

There was a 4-pack offered for Seattle, however I dont know the password. Maybe someone else here has it. Take a Look at the Ticket Trader forums, someone there might have it for you.

Another intresting place(apache land)It used to be any stories about this town??!!Great tour so far!!!Makes you wanna go..to those desolate places..take a well deserved rest..and see the best band around!!!

This tour is one of the best ever, i hope someone out there has Bootlegs!!!!!

MicknSteven wrïte :

"Its also a fact that ticket sales are flat for this leg of the stones tour."

Does your statement include Halifax, Louisville, Wichita, Missoula or Regina? I don't think so. I know, for Boston and NYC gigs they reduced the prices of some tickets, they had offers. And probably the Stones will do the same also for the cities they played recently, three or four times. SO WHAT? This is a logical "counterbalance" to the highest ticket prices. Why did they planned stadium shows in Boston, NY, LA, Chicago, after having played many shows in these cities- including stadium shows? Because they are fools? No. Because they knew that, even having some offers, they fill the stadiums, once again.

To be honest their method is not a fair one: the big majority of fans pay "regular" (if i can say that), high prices while some people "catch" the offers. But, from a financial point of view, their policy is smartest. First of all, they play in packed (or almost) stadiums, again. Also, selling 80% or 75% of the tickets in the "official", high prices and making cheaper the rest 20% -25% is a policy more profitable than giving much lower prices for all, from the start. I repeat, no fair, but smart policy. Personally, i don't give a shit for the grosses. But i'm very glad when they play to almost 200,000 people in NYC, during this tour. I'm very glad seeing that they remain, not only the best live rock band, but also the most popular live act in the world.

MicknSteven, i don't know what exactly do you consider as "bad" if not "terrible" sales, as you wrote on another thread. Just see the conditions and the facts.
The conditions: this tour takes place just two years after Licks. Prices are high and fans very often take their time before buying tickets. The facts: either selling slow or selling fast, on ABB tour the Stones are attracting a hugest number of people- as usual. At the end of the tour this number, as for USA- Canada, will be 2.3 million people or so. Totally. So...

...So, MicknSteven, i can't wait for the day i'll hear you saying: "The sales had been horrible, because 35,000 tickets out of 2,3000,000 were from offers" (Just kidding...)

Your First point is correct, Yes The Stones sold very well, in thoes markets you mentioned, no doubt about that, you are correct.


Now, you asked why the Stones are doing Stadiums after they have played 4 Times? here in LA, the Dodger Stadium show is going to be the 5th show if i am not mistken. The reason is the Promoters felt they could fill up the Stadiums, they feel the fans could pay $450.00 again and again and again, and most fans cannot do that, its just too expenisve.

I agree 100 percent with your second paragraph! I could not have said it better


Allow me to answer your third question, last fall I saw the Stones play at Angels Stadium, they played to 50,000 people. 4 concerts later, they are playing at Dodger Stadium and its wide open, there are Thousaands of tickets still left. When a band like the stones who in the past has sold 50,000 plus people only play to $35,000 this time around, that is considered terrible in the Industry. From a fan's not so much, but from the Promoters, it is consider really bad sales.

I would be more than happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

"Last fall I saw the Stones play at Angels Stadium, they played to 50,000 people. 4 concerts later, they are playing at Dodger Stadium and its wide open, there are Thousaands of tickets still left. When a band like the stones who in the past has sold 50,000 plus people only play to $35,000 this time around, that is considered terrible in the Industry. From a fan's not so much, but from the Promoters, it is consider really bad sales."

MicknSteven, i think you exaggerate a bit. Otherwise, my friend, these Promoters must be idiots!

First of all, i don't think the Stones will play to 35,000 at Dodger Stadium. No way. If they filled Gillette (even reducing a bit the useful sections) and Giants, i feel sure that can do the same in LA. Maybe easier. One way or another. You say "thousands of tickets still left". Logical. The concert will take place in November 18, today is October 7... The question is, how many thousands of tickets still left? And how many thousands of tickets have been sold so far, with the "official" annoying prices?

If you agree 100 percent with my second paragraph, with my conclusion that their -or Cohl's- method is smartest from a financial point of view, why on earth do you think the Promoters have reasons to be unhappy? Because the gig isn't sold out or almost 0yet? Forty days before the gig take place- the 5th gig in LA on this tour- with these prices??? I repeat: if you aren't exaggerating about Promoters, then they are fools.

OK, everybody -Promoters included- knows that the Stones is the the most popular live act in the world, but there are some limits... In these difficult days for the music industry, while nobody else play stadiums in USA anymore, or, atleast, noone gives a notable number of stadium concerts (i think only Sprigsteen could dare to do something like that), do the Promoters expect faster sales? As if this tour is the first Stones round in years and with cheap prices???

@#$%& the Promoters. On this tour our boys play in USA to more people than they attracted in 1981- and that says a lot. After all, i change a bit my last question: MicknSteven, do you believe that the Promoters at the end of the tour will say: "The sales had been horrible, because 40,000 tickets out of 2,3000,000 were from offers"???