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Ed Sheeran 2018 Stadium Tour **Discussion Only // No Ticket Sales**

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    #362
    Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Toast


    wacotaco wrote: »
    Did they bother putting the names on the tickets in-store or just throw the tickets out? I imagine it was mayhem at 9am

    The last time I bought tickets in person they asked for my name and it was printed on the tickets even though it was a regular gig with no ID restrictions so I'd imagine they did the same this morning.


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    #363
    eplady2017
    Registered Users Posts: 314 ✭✭eplady2017


    Ticketmasters queuing system is totally random despite what they tell us.. In a queue “sitting tight” on both my laptop and my hubbies laptop from 9.00 sharp.. Decided to refresh my laptop at 11.20 despite Ticketmaster saying “don’t refresh”, “you’ll lose your spot”
    10mins later I had my tickets.. My hubbies PC was still “sitting tight”..


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    #364
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    The app is still showing standing tickets for dublin on Wednesday night....


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    #365
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    Would appear from the ticketmaster website that only Wednesday in Dublin tickets are still available.


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    #366
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 85,715 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    wacotaco wrote: »
    Did they bother putting the names on the tickets in-store or just throw the tickets out? I imagine it was mayhem at 9am

    Yes surname on tickets from ticketmaster outlet in Cork, happy I queued now for 5 hours as app and site on phone kept crashing


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    #367
    eeloe
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 3,718 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeloe


    Just for ****s and giggles i said i'd leave this window open after i'd already gotten my tickets this morning, this is the first tab i opened at 9:00am.

    8hrs and 52mins later and it's still saying sit tight.


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    #368
    clairek6
    Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭clairek6


    Tried on ticketmaster website from 9-10:15 then got fed up of website crashing so gave up. Tried at 11:30 got two tickets straight away no bother.


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    #369
    Payton
    Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭Payton


    eeloe wrote: »
    Just for ****s and giggles i said i'd leave this window open after i'd already gotten my tickets this morning, this is the first tab i opened at 9:00am.

    8hrs and 52mins later and it's still saying sit tight.
    Hang in there....:-)


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    #370
    cython
    Registered Users Posts: 4,758 ✭✭✭cython


    Out of curiosity just checked again, and can get 2 standing for the Friday in Dublin still. Definitely some shenanigans going on earlier in the day, as TM have easily sold similar volumes in much less time without the issues today previously!

    EDIT: gone now after I checked could more be gotten


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    #371
    Shane732
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 4,991 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shane732


    Still Dublin tickets available


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    #372
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Still dublin tickets available standing


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    #373
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Still dublin tickets available standing
    yeah, I can still get 4 standing for the wednesday.


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    #374
    Garrydarragh
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Garrydarragh


    I purchased tickets yesterday for The concert on Wednesday 16th of may in the phoenix park. It said they were standing, GA2. So I bought them yet the email says they are "section GA2 row G30 seats 290-291" I tried to find section GA2 on the seating map but could not find it, anyone know about this?


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    #375
    Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭Toast


    Garrydarragh wrote: »
    It said they were standing, GA2. So I bought them yet the email says they are "section GA2 row G30 seats 290-291" I tried to find section GA2 on the seating map but could not find it, anyone know about this?

    They put seat numbers on standing tickets partially as it is how the inventory system calculates tickets but mostly to confuse people. You've standing tickets.


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    #376
    Garrydarragh
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭Garrydarragh


    Toast wrote: »
    They put seat numbers on standing tickets partially as it is how the inventory system calculates tickets but mostly to confuse people. You've standing tickets.


    Thanks a mil


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    #377
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Toast wrote: »
    mostly to confuse people.
    Does anybody know if they have a vested interest in confusing people. It comes up quite a bit in this forum. They must get hundreds of calls about this issue every day and have done nothing to rectify it, which would be very simple -so I wonder if they make money of it, like on phone calls.

    If it was a small company a ridiculous oversight like this might be forgiven as a pair of brainless morons who have not used their own system or got feedback on it, but for a company worth billions it smacks of being scam. I wonder if TM have an entire "confidence trick" department, certainly seems like it with recent gigs. Pixies being the last one I saw dubious trickery in action.


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    #378
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    So is Ed Sheeran quite popular then.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #379
    phonypony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭phonypony


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    So is Ed Sheeran quite popular then.

    Seemingly not as popular as he would like to think. Still plenty of tickets available.


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    #380
    SecretsOfEarth
    Registered Users Posts: 964 ✭✭✭SecretsOfEarth


    phonypony wrote: »
    Seemingly not as popular as he would like to think. Still plenty of tickets available.

    Ah come on, six shows out of seven sold out is hardly indicative of overshooting the mark. Most of the remaining tickets will be flogged within the next 10 months anyway, Christmas gifting will eat most of them up if they remain by then.


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    #381
    Zardoz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭Zardoz


    SecretsOfEarth wrote: »
    Ah come on, six shows out of seven sold out is hardly indicative of overshooting the mark. Most of the remaining tickets will be flogged within the next 10 months anyway, Christmas gifting will eat most of them up if they remain by then.

    They aren't really sold out ,you do know that ? Its just marketing guff.
    There will be plenty of extra tickets magically released between now and next May .


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    #382
    Toast
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    rubadub wrote: »
    Does anybody know if they have a vested interest in confusing people. It comes up quite a bit in this forum. They must get hundreds of calls about this issue every day and have done nothing to rectify it, which would be very simple.

    It is on their FAQ so they are aware of it. For several years they had their website misspelled on tickets as ticketmuster.ie (you can see it on this picture just about the barcode on the right http://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/3340208/original/?width=630&version=3340208 ) and only fixed it on the redesign of the tickets to white from blue so I would probably attribute this more to incompetence rather than malicious intent.


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    #383
    phonypony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭phonypony


    Toast wrote: »
    It is on their FAQ so they are aware of it. For several years they had their website misspelled on tickets as ticketmuster.ie (you can see it on this picture just about the barcode on the right http://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/3340208/original/?width=630&version=3340208 ) and only fixed it on the redesign of the tickets to white from blue so I would probably attribute this more to incompetence rather than malicious intent.

    You had me check some old tickets... ticketmuster it is!


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    #384
    phonypony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭phonypony


    SecretsOfEarth wrote: »
    Ah come on, six shows out of seven sold out is hardly indicative of overshooting the mark. Most of the remaining tickets will be flogged within the next 10 months anyway, Christmas gifting will eat most of them up if they remain by then.

    Yeah, he's doing alright, I'm probably being a little cynical. But, with the way recent sales for gigs have been going, I'd estimate about 70% of tickets are allocated for those 'sold-out' shows. I do believe they (management, promoters) have either over-estimated his popularity or, more likely, are mindful that he's probably peaked and it's the last chance to milk it to such an extent. He's not my cup of tea, but I do appreciate his style, he certainly did well in Glasto, I didn't expect his show to work so well there. I'd even call it brave to book him for Sunday-night headline.


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    #385
    ghostdancer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,539 ✭✭✭ghostdancer


    Dublin Wednesday sold out now, so that's all of them I think.


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    #386
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Toast wrote: »
    It is on their FAQ so they are aware of it. For several years they had their website misspelled on tickets as ticketmuster.ie (you can see it on this picture just about the barcode on the right http://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/3340208/original/?width=630&version=3340208 ) and only fixed it on the redesign of the tickets to white from blue so I would probably attribute this more to incompetence rather than malicious intent.
    I doubt they got 1000s of calls about the ticketmuster thing though. I never saw a single thread about it where someone was worried about it.

    I cannot see anything about the standing thing on their FAQ on the .ie site, only the .com.
    ghostdancer wrote: »
    Dublin Wednesday sold out now
    With their recent antics I think the correct term is "ticketmaster are currently withholding tickets for sale"...


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    #387
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    I wonder how the people paying 200-300 on viagogo will get into the gigs


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    #388
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    I wonder how the people paying 200-300 on viagogo will get into the gigs


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    #389
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    TiltedBrain wrote: »
    I wonder how the people paying 200-300 on viagogo will get into the gigs

    None or close to it

    Seems a lot of tickets don’t even exist and the fact that touting for this event is in the spotlight I would say they will be strict on ID

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/showbiz/concert-promoter-warns-of-touts-selling-fake-ed-sheeran-tickets-797106.html


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    #390
    Muir
    Registered Users Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Muir


    Incase anyone's interested - news on more UK dates today at 4pm, go on sale tomorrow


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    #391
    er1983
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭er1983


    Hi All
    Got tickets for ed sheeran in Phoenix park. I can't make out the seating plan at all.
    Our order says section GA1 , row G19 . Does anyone know where this is?


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