U2 rip off of pre-sale tickets

idontknowmyname · 01-02-2005 8:27pm #1

who thinks that paying €30 extra to get pre-sale u2 tickets is a major rip-off?????? :mad:

Faddymackshyte · 01-02-2005 8:32pm

It depends on how much you like the band. Fair enough, yeah I think it's a huge rip, but some big fans are willing to pay it and you don't wanna be ripped off by much more when it sells out!

FX Meister · 01-02-2005 8:33pm

You're not paying extra to get pre sale tickets, you're paying for premium content on their website. If you are the kind of dedicated fan that wants to pay that kind of money to access that part of their site then here's your payback. If you pay just to get access to the tickets then that's your problem

peepingtom · 02-02-2005 12:18pm

i think they are a bunch of tools to start with .....and .... if they had any decency they would apply premium content to all users who are willing to give valuable marketing info ..... for gods sake they are loaded .... and anyone who comes back with a point like; "It's probably the record company who are making the money" ..... we'll even worse, as the band have obviously signed away any integrity they ever had ... if any ...... if i was a fan of the band, i'd feel cheated .... you are right in saying they get other info, but you can read that in the papers ..... the fact is, most people will join their little scheme to get preferential tickets ...... so essentially they are paying 30 euros for this alone ....... bloody rip off!

Lemming · 02-02-2005 12:21pm

Last week, in either Scotland or England (not sure which) a lot of people had paid up to get pre-sales tickets, and guess what? They didn't get them. The servers went down, and then release came and all the tickets were sold out in however many minutes it was ...

I'll bet they're all pleased little bunnies.....

Sleepy · 02-02-2005 12:30pm

Well, considering I met fans that had paid $5000 for tickets at the Slane gig, it's obviously worth the extra €30 to a lot of people. I'm a fan myself, I'll have a go at getting tickets but I won't be too gutted if I miss it, I caught Popmart, I caught Slane, both were great gigs so I can't really complain if I miss out this time.

Doctor J · 02-02-2005 12:32pm

peepingtom wrote:

if they had any decency they would apply premium content to all users who are willing to give valuable marketing info

Valuable marketing info? Are you for real?

If it was available to all users it would just be content, not premium content, no? I have no interest in U2 but if they're offering extras on their website for a fee then good luck to them. If there are people stupid enough to pay the fee purely so they can pre-buy a ticket and ignore the premium content available then they are idiots and, in my opinion, idiots are there to be exploited. More money than sense?

FX Meister · 02-02-2005 3:05pm

Sleepy wrote:

Well, considering I met fans that had paid $5000 for tickets at the Slane gig, it's obviously worth the extra €30 to a lot of people. I'm a fan myself, I'll have a go at getting tickets but I won't be too gutted if I miss it, I caught Popmart, I caught Slane, both were great gigs so I can't really complain if I miss out this time.

That's complete crap, no one would pay €5000 for a ticket for U2 in Slane no matter how big a fan they were.

FX Meister · 02-02-2005 3:10pm

peepingtom wrote:

i think they are a bunch of tools to start with .....and .... if they had any decency they would apply premium content to all users who are willing to give valuable marketing info ..... for gods sake they are loaded .... and anyone who comes back with a point like; "It's probably the record company who are making the money" ..... we'll even worse, as the band have obviously signed away any integrity they ever had ... if any ...... if i was a fan of the band, i'd feel cheated .... you are right in saying they get other info, but you can read that in the papers ..... the fact is, most people will join their little scheme to get preferential tickets ...... so essentially they are paying 30 euros for this alone ....... bloody rip off!

They are business men, what's wrong with offering premium content on their website for a price? Do you expect them to release albums for free too just because they are loaded?

Didn't U2 issue a press release last year criticizing Madonna for the price of her tickets and saying they would never charge more than €60 for a ticket to a concert of theirs in Ireland, or something along those lines.

tck · 02-02-2005 3:18pm

How come a ticket for their irish gig is min. 60 euro
the same ticket for their spanish gig is 25 euro

I wouldnt bother going to a gig anyways, but still feel angry that some fans have to pay such high prices!

MisterAnarchy · 02-02-2005 3:22pm

60 euro is reasonable m8
The Irish tickets are far cheaper than those in the UK and on the continent.

FX Meister · 02-02-2005 4:22pm

tck wrote:

How come a ticket for their irish gig is min. 60 euro
the same ticket for their spanish gig is 25 euro

I wouldnt bother going to a gig anyways, but still feel angry that some fans have to pay such high prices!

Because people will pay it. Why charge less for a ticket that people have no problem paying 60 for. More profit. At the end of the day they are still a sh1t band

peepingtom · 03-02-2005 2:12pm

MisterAnarchy wrote:

60 euro is reasonable m8
The Irish tickets are far cheaper than those in the UK and on the continent.

thats complete rubbish ..... an example can be seen with the spanish prices, plus im going to a gig next week in holland ..... 8euros .... the same band in dublin ... 25 euros

MisterAnarchy · 03-02-2005 2:50pm

Prices and demand is high here because of the media.
The media,RTE1 ,2fm ,all of the newspapers are in the back pocket of U2.
They are generating crazy hype for the shows.

Blisterman · 03-02-2005 4:33pm

Motley Crue are worse. I went into ticketmaster asking when tickets were on sale & they said they didn't know. So I checked their site regularly, but eventually found out, what they did was sell the tickets on their website as special presale tickets, but sold them all, so if you wanted a ticket, you had to pay $40 for their fanclub (all you get is a T shirt) and an additional $30 presale fee per ticket.

I eventually got tickets for the manchester show.

idontknowmyname · 03-02-2005 7:12pm

yeah suppose if you want the tickets badly enough you'll pay anything for them

idontknowmyname · 03-02-2005 7:17pm

they'd pay 5000 if they were mega loaded and it included entry to backstage and meeting then band- thats the price of a second hand car for some people.

dabhoys · 03-02-2005 10:17pm

There is a third date on the sunday. I've my ticket for each gig

Well looking forward to each one

MisterAnarchy · 03-02-2005 11:50pm

There is a third date on the sunday. I've my ticket for each gig Well looking forward to each one

No confirmation of a Sunday concert yet.
You cant have tickets for Fri and Sat .
You were only allowed buy tickets for one show in the Presale which lasted 3 days.

v10 · 04-02-2005 12:34am

I see they are offering refunds for unhappy u2.com subscribers. Surely that shows fair play ?

Dear ?????

This is not something that I would normally do, but I feel that I have
to do something to redress this situation.

There was a mess up in the way the tickets were distributed through
U2.com for the Vertigo pre-sale. Some of it was beyond our control, but
some of it wasn't.

I am now in the process of figuring out a way of distributing the
tickets for our intended return to North America in the fall. The only
fair way of doing this, is to give U2 Propaganda members, who are now
U2.com members, priority in the queue.

After that, people will be given priority in the order in which they joined.
Many people who joined U2.com and didn't get tickets are
understandably angry. They now have the option to get a full refund of
their subscription fee.

The idea that our long-time U2 fans and scalpers competed for U2
tickets through our own website is appalling to me. I want to apologise
to you who have suffered that.

If your U2.com pre-sale experience has left you disappointed, I hope
this will go some way towards reassuring you of our total commitment
to our audience.

Slainte
Larry.

By the way, a note to those so-called U2 fans who are quick to accuse
U2 of unseemly behaviour, I've only got two words for you...

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dabhoys · 04-02-2005 12:51am

I have a premium ticket in Croker that I get first priorty to buy them ticket for any other events other then Sport. The letter I got today said there was 3 gigs on.

I can't wait, I'm so looking forward to them

MisterAnarchy wrote:

No confirmation of a Sunday concert yet.
You cant have tickets for Fri and Sat .
You were only allowed buy tickets for one show in the Presale which lasted 3 days.

MisterAnarchy · 04-02-2005 2:01am

Very interesting dabhoys.

dabhoys · 04-02-2005 2:03am

Being a GAA fan has its benefits!!! I'm well up for the gigs...

MisterAnarchy · 04-02-2005 2:23am

Is the third gig on the Sunday or Monday ?

Skyuser · 04-02-2005 3:08am

I saw on some website dat had a list of all da gigs around da world and it had 3 4 Croker. It was da Sunday.

Gothic Warrior · 05-02-2005 6:39pm

dabhoys wrote:

Being a GAA fan has its benefits!!!

Free turf.

dabhoys · 05-02-2005 9:13pm

There's very little turf around my parts in dublin man

Just the M50 and loads of granite. Well looking forward to these gigs!!!

U2 rip off of pre-sale tickets

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