Coldplay - Dublin 2024 - Update Post 1 on Toutless

How do you apply for the MCD code?

I assume the website can handle the traffic better than the app (though it really couldnt in reality)

Disagree with a lottery personally, Taylor Swift sort of did that and its rubbish. I'm quite good at getting tickets, its not fun when you aren't even able to attempt getting them.

It has been doing that for a while now on tickets that are in high demand anyway. Definitely used to be a difference in queues on the app against the web, so maybe changed to have all traffic come to same destination but doesn't seem to have helped with the website issues during these sales

Just wondering for those who don't manage to get any tickets soon , do ye know if the prices for tickets are similar elsewhere on thier tour dates?

They are in Germany, France, Italy etc before they play in Ireland and was thinking if I can't get Dublin just go abroad instead.

I just tried again for the Monday gig and got in to choose tickets after about 5 minutes but any amount of tickets I choose comes back as unavailable even though I can see the pricing etc.

The Sunday tickets went live from around 11.55 onwards, was in queue at 11.58. I didn't see it announced till a few minutes after that. If refresh too much though they kick you out for being a bot 🤦

Just last week Taylor Swift tickets were sold on both Ticketmaster and AXS (in Ireland only Ticketmaster as no one else sells tickets to that magnitude here)

All depends on how it's done.

Random distribution + personal id + traceability + open algorithm is fairer than 1 person queuing in multiple queues and purchasing multiple tickets across multiple venues ... to be resold at hijacked prices ... or to inflate demand.

Basically today you had loads of people being unproductive in some fake closed door "queuing" system. How much did that cost the economy? How many people were pretending to be "working" during this time. It's nuts. 🤣

I know of at least 6 that were 'working from 9.30 ish until they gave up at 2 ish ..... 😋

Looks like I got tickets at the back of the Lower Davin, row VV-VV. Anyone know what the view is like from here, from looking at this photo it looks like I will be under the roof of the premium level

I’d say its Livenation who are actually managing the tour, decide timings, tm does what ever they are told to do, as a service provider, but thats the way things are done in this business, be it rightly or wrongly, they get a massive interest surge, by selling multiple gigs at the same time.

Its like a broken record, each time a big event is on, promoters like MCD and tour management companies like Live Nation, are going to milk the publicity, any which way they can, thats the nature of business they are in, and they want demand to exceed supply, which they usually achieve.

I accepted years ago, this is just the way it is, and get organised, as best i can for the onsale. I have noticed, since i got fibre broadband, a few years back, this has definitely made a difference for me in getting tickets to big event gigs.

Here is an unused presale code if anyone wants it.

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Don’t know if it’s any good without the corresponding email address on the TM account though?

Yep, the other thing being that it's not really clear how many tickets are sold in presales in 2023. Today was every bit a general sale with over 200,000 in a queue at one point for one of the dates. They'll probably all be gone in a couple hours on Friday.

Reality is a lot of people don't have much experience buying tickets and don't keep that up to date with bands touring so have no idea on presales and such. There is better ways to do presales, I like how Foo Fighters and Taylor Swift did their album presales, where you pre-ordered/signed up but the tour wasn't announced yet, so it limits the amount of people getting access as nobody knows. Gigs like Coldplay are the exception to the rule where everybody and their mother wants to go.