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Coldplay - Dublin 2024 - Update Post 1 on Toutless

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MOD EDIT: For all those using Toutless (fantastic site)

Toast12:11 am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120907178#Comment_120907178

I'm the admin on Toutless and we've seen people targeting our Coldplay topic today trying to (and succeeding in) scamming people. We've put up a new warning on the site about a current crop of fairly sophisticated scammers who've compromised old accounts so the "new account" advice is unfortunately not a guarantee. We've also locked the topic for a while as it is so far out and as far as I am aware it is not even possible to transfer tickets yet. We'll likely open it up about a month out assuming we've no other reason not to. Please be very wary regardless of what third party ticket site you are using out there. There are a lot of scammers out to exploit people right now.

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Med101007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895098#Comment_120895098

How do you apply for the MCD code?

Redo91

Has anyone received their MCD code yet? I applied but haven’t heard anything.

SweetCaliber

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895133#Comment_120895133

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

Ace2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895136#Comment_120895136

There was a link on the mirror website: Coldplay Croke Park second presale open as Irish fans rush to get tickets - Irish Mirror Online - althought it sayit's registration closed if you click on it you can still put in your email - no idea if this work or not now.

Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895072#Comment_120895072

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.

MVR2021

Anyone got mcd presale code or a link emailed yet?

RoryMac

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895133#Comment_120895133

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

lemmno

Would love to know how this queue lark actually works. How was I in the queue from 9:59 and my friend joined at 10:10 and got a better number than me and got through the whole system a lot faster. I then had two accounts on the go for the Sunday, I logged on to the first one the second the date was announced and I was in 60,000s, logged onto the second account and while the first device was at 30000s by then the second one overtook it and went straight into the 20000s, despite the first one being in the queue about 30 minutes before it. I’m not sure they understand how ‘queuing’ works!

Darksoul

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.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895123#Comment_120895123

Lots of companies produce products and sell them through various retailers.

Stocks and shares sold via various channels in microseconds continuously.

Lightscribe

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.

Ace2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895197#Comment_120895197

Care to give an example of an event?

smallgarden

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 🤦

Ace2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895189#Comment_120895189

From what' i've heard, it' s random place in the Q, and not an actually Q system, so you were given 20k, your mate joins and get 15k, like your assuming there is 20k in front of you when you got that number, there may not have been. Doesn't make a pile of sense, but from what people are saying i think that's what's happening.

Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895209#Comment_120895209

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)

Bacchus

If anyone has an MCD presale code they no longer need, I'd happily make use of it. Thanks.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895150#Comment_120895150

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. 🤣

greenspurs

for fear of being forgotten ( as i had asked earlier :) )

If anyone has an MCD code thingy, and they dont need it, I would really appreciate one off some nice (or even the not nice) person on here!!

Thanks in advance ..☺️ 🤞

greenspurs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895231#Comment_120895231

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

Beasty

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895216#Comment_120895216

I was on at 11.59 and it said the presale was starting at 12 which it duly did.

Med101007

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

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Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895231#Comment_120895231

It would also be a guaranteed way to drag ticket sales out for ages which isn’t what anybody wants

fafy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120894939#Comment_120894939

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.

smallgarden

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895277#Comment_120895277

They did pause the queue so maybe they jumped the gun by allowing people join before 12

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895150#Comment_120895150

Same here. I'm good at getting tickets generally and random lotteries are just exclusionary bullshït.

The only presales I really agree with are past purchasers presales or paid fanclub presales.

Every gig these days has a presale and it's just painful for nearly every gig these days to have an artist presale, mcd presale, 3 presale and then a general on sale. It just drags the ärse out of it all and is completely non-transparent.

What they should do when they do these types of presales is tie it to a ticketmaster account and limit requests to a single country (a large part of the problem with Taylor Swift last week was that it was the last on sale so you had a rake of fans who missed out on all their countries piling into the Irish sale as a last resort).

Ace2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895299#Comment_120895299

Live nation owned ticket master so be hard for ticketmaster to go against them

CantonasCat2

Here is an unused presale code if anyone wants it.

CIEUT3DT71Z5

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

Motivator

There’s an awful lot of panic around for 4 concerts 13 months away. We saw the same panic with U2 years ago and with Garth Brooks. Tickets will be readily available for all 4 nights of Coldplay this time next year.

I ended up getting offered 4 Garth Brooks tickets in the pub before the first night. Some fella had a row with his girlfriend and all 4 of them at the table started rowing. The two women stormed off and the two fellas were left at the table on their own and decided they weren’t going. Handed the 4 tickets to the barman and walked out of the pub about 1 hour before the gates opened. Something always comes up and tickets will become available. A lot of people will weigh up the cost of Coldplay with the cost of Electric Picnic once more acts are announced for that. If you want a ticket badly enough, you’ll get one in the end. Why anyone would put themselves through the stress of that nonsense with the ticketmaster website is beyond me.

Jaffa3000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895310#Comment_120895310

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.

The Iron Giant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120895373#Comment_120895373

To be fair, I don't think it's panic. In my opinion it's sheer exasperation with this awful process.

Previously a gig went on sale and by 10.30am it was sold out and you got on with your life.

Nowadays it's a process that takes hours if not half a day with virtual queues with frankly bonkers queue numbers, queues that take hours to find out there are no tickets, endless ticket types, dates announced after the fact etc.

Spending six hours in a "process" to find out there are no tickets left is totally unnecessary and a kick in the face to gig-goers.

I think the majority of people here who were unlucky would say feck it and move on had they found out at 10 or 11 that it was no dice on tickets. But you can't blame people for being annoyed at losing their day trying to get tickets because of a broken system.